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I just checked the wheel on our 78 mb and its a 22 also.

Our local Menards (home improvement chain) use to sell what they called "Handy Sand".It was washed and sized silica.But it had a warning label on it "Not For Sandblasting".Probably to escape the MSDS paperwork bullsh!t. Now the only sell "Black Blast" a more larger and more effective blasting material,made from steel mill slag.Either one,you need a mask for anyway.But yes, silicosis is a bad deal for you and your lungs.I agree.

A place that i used to work made vary large fab pieces and they put the job on top of a flat railroad car roll it outside to be blasted with that "black blast" or they called it "black beauty" vary nasty stuff by the time they were done with the job you could of filled 4 or 5 tri axle dumps with what was on the ground.

So I'm guessing Mack never released any power numbers for the turbo charged 711 ?I haven't seen but 3 of them so I guess they number very few ? !Mike

Rudy

I got one awhile back on Ebay,cheap too.

Rudy

Dose anyone know if there's full gasket kits still available for these engines,I was told napa can still get gaskets but I thought I would ask you guys first. Thanks

Rudy

Oh man all this b81 talk,truck looks 1,000 times better then mine.

It is with much pleasure that I see younger people who appreciate something that has been a passion of mine for many years. The respect for these great trucks is quite evident in many of the posts I have reviewed on BMT and the fact that people are so passionate about older Mack Trucks.The important role that Mack played in the building of not only our own country but many others around the world is largely forgotten by most people. THANKFULLY..... NOT SO FOR US MACK (nuts )or as the noun some of the more educated prefer ( aficionado's)

Rudy

Well guys the way I'm looking at it is if I pull up a picture on my smart phone and hold my finger on the screen and it let's me save the image that's there own problem,I did try to save some and my phone wouldn't let me do it so no big deal. For those of you that have these phones know that now most of them you can take a screen shot of anything that's on your screen,they should not blame us they should blame technology lol .

Thank you Barry your response was perfect like the other guys said. Since I'm not a truck driver and I'm a younger guy I wouldn't be able to really get into this hobby without the support of this form and its members and the pictures they post.

Rudy

My b81 has both 11.0024 up front 11.0022 in the rear. No idea why though.

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When my parents both died a few years ago, my sister and I inherited their house.It's always been in what was a nice area. Oleg Cassini's daughter across the street, a horse farm that has been there since 1930 and two nosy neighbors. about 100 feet away..both retired FDNY. My retired sister lives there with the deal that she pays the bills and we split the taxes and insurance and I get the garage for my use. It's a poured concrete 25 x 30 building with a 50's heavy garage door and no windows. It's also alarmed as is the house.My sister calls me to say the lock was cut out of the door and the garage as robbed. They had to take time to remove 2 M-21 4 speeds, a pair 426 Max Wedge engines from C class racing fire truck and a fully disassembled 392 Hemi with Aires pistons and aluminum rods, a single and a dual intake both with Holley 1050 carbs, 2 sets of heads, all the tin, headers and adapters to run it in a '50 Ford F5 truck.The thieves left 2 Chevy big blocks and a warmed over 302. Aside from the missing engines and the lock cut out you would never know they were there. And nobody saw or heard a thing!! Think I surprised the NCPD when I handed them serial numbers for the engines and carbs, copies of the bills for the parts and photos of the engines and parts. How quickly it changed from someone taking them for scrap (?) to a much more serious crime wothy of finger prints and a detective. Paul

Rudy

How is that mb looking,do you have some pictures.Thanks

Rudy

Looking for a good set of B model mack glove box hinges -------. also looking for the lock cylinder------- also looking for the cardboard insert ------- i have the door !

Thanks

I think i have a extra set, I would not be able to check until tomorrow.

Rudy

Lol that makes mine look pristine! lol

Tom

dumb question but do you have a video on you tube of you starting your truck

And i thought my B was rough wow

Hey everyone. I am still in need of a few parts for my b81. I can pay with paypal or money order

Driver side inner fender ( I can't fix mine because it is missing )

Front Bumper

Passenger vent widow frame (restorable)

One set of nice out side door handles

Driver side fuel tank with cap and brakets

B81 or b813 hood emblems

Rudy

I drove an MB flatbed when I was YOUNG. Steering wasn't too bad...as long as you could get up on the wheel and run around it like a squirrel in a cage!

Our mb pumper steers quite well, it dose have one heck of a tight steering radious though.

looks grate, good job

One keeps poping up on ebay in jersey, its red with a v8 in it not a bad looking truck.

Rudy

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i used to see a mb tractor sitting off rt 15 in rochester ny looked pretty good at a glance seemed like the windshield was cracked now its been moved out back if youd like i could stop and ask about it for you send me an email @ cfto30570@frontier.com or give a call some time 585 356 6481 charlie hackett

thanks for dropping a line about that truck ill send you a email soon.

Rudy

Never seen that brake setup before. Is that just an early s cam?

When did the allentown plant come about. I worked for a company that had a building that was part of Mack at one time and I seen a picture of it from the 40s judging by the cars sitting around now this company I was working for was the former GATX fuller company and the Mack machine shop was next to it. I was told this little building was bought by fuller in the late 60s or early 70s and that the first Mack trucks that were built in allentown came out of there. I was also told.that at the time of fuller buying the building Mack had some small musieum there.

Rudy

you wouldn't if you was fat as me Vinny

too bad for that mb being automatic

I seen a black dodge like that in that old movie deadhead mile , (jacknifing is serious business son) lol