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If you get the build sheet from Mack Museum it will say if it was built that way or someone changed it thru the years. Are they 55,000 lb. rears? Most but not all B-81'S were built with 55,000'S.or larger. Joe D.

yes they are 55k

Sorry about that!

Couldn't see well through the rim in the first picture to see whether the front was tube or tubeless.

Also figured that the truck was built with the same size wheels all they way around.

I think it's odd that it has 22" wheels on the rear and 24" wheels on the front.

Ron

I asked that question on here a wile back but no one really said there was a reason for the different hub size

The rears are 11:00x22 tube type.

The fronts are 1124.5 tubeless. look at the rims they're different.

The dayton wheels are 22" inch diameter.

11:00x22 tube type change over to 1124.5 for tubeless tires but will both fit on the 22" dayton wheels.

Same goes for 10:00x20 tube type, they change over to 1122.5 tubeless but will both fit on 20" dayton wheels.

Ron

my front tires are definitely 11.00 24 tube type I quick measured the hubs and there's a 2 inch difference

So here is a good question for some of you. I pulled of the 11-22 tires off the back off my truck and rolled one up to the front witch are 11-24 and they appear to have the same overall hight. Now the 24 is bald but I thought there was supposed to be a big difference ?????

8'6....dammit.....too high for my garage by 3"........Plenty of length though. That's exactly what I would be looking for if I had some extra money- a simple single screw MB, R, or U with a 237 and a 5-speed, but under 8'3"....LOL. Have fun with it, sounds like you got a nice new toy!!! You need to bring that and the superdog to Macungie!

we have a 10 foot door on our fire house and our mb fits by 3/4 of a inch to the light bar and my b81 fits in my garage by 6 inches and I have a 9 foot door

Eastern industries here in Lehigh valley had all macks, I used to see them all the time but not so much anymore. There also is a small concrete company here called rockhill, they ran mostly macks until those new stye Oshkosh trucks took over but on the bright side they turned a few of them old trucks into dumps rather than get rid of them.

someone just told me I can change the rims and tires to 24.5 without changing the hubs! is this true? that would be awesome.

I was doing research on this and you will need to find new hubs my b81 is set up the same way for some reason. Find the member kcam on here he had some 24 inch rubber for sale

I thought mid 80's. It could be a original 89 model or 89 is when it was rebuilt and retitled

I believe the cf stopped in 91 or 92 and I was told the last few years they were being made by kme at there plant but I'm not a 100% sure.

Jerry (jettertrucks) has a ex overnight mb in Roanoke

I think I called him last year on it, nice truck but no title pa is vary picky about that need a title or no dice.

5 for sale on L.I. @ Gus Ringlers Towing. All Ex Town of Riverhead sander/ plow trucks.

is that a website or just some small towing company

There were so many MB 400 an 600 Mack's in Jersey back in the 70's all the garbage guys an APA an hell everyone who had a truck seemed to own one!! But now a days ya can't find one??BULLHUSK

I know this angers me.

Sorry if my comment sounded cheap I guess since it's a cab over you could just paint it and put it on then you would have a nice truck.

Is that a horn button in there?? worth almost as much as the cab??? not really but i think 125 at watts??

I would like to get 40 for them both.

Seems a little steep for a cab for the reason that I can't find a mb with a good chassie.

my bulldog had the eyes drilled out and a light bulb in it when we got the truck, unfortunately my grandfather, the hoarder, has since lost the original bulldog....

I seen those on eBay already with the seller claiming them to be rare, they looked a little cheesy.

I likey

The radiator is leak free? How much do you won't for it?

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So that mill is still runnin I ve been in us steel in Gary I bet back in the day it was goin nuts there its runnin but not like it was I bet

if you mean mill as rolling mill thats long long gone. The only industry left on that bethlehem steel site it's forging and machining.

I can remember seeing that DM when we did work in that plant.I think they used to park it alot right next to the building that the war department still has.That was where most of the gun barrels for all of the ships came from.As far as i know that building is still open.

you are correct that building was #8 machine shop, that is the building I work in and it is still a machine shop with some of the biggest machine tools in the world.

The DM800 is interesting with the short wheel base and the DM6xx is a rare bird with the steel nose conversion.. Thanks for the pics. Paul

that Orange dm is exactly what I would like to get except a short wheel base Tandom tractor.

Yeah ive seen it. Crawled all over it at Gerharts and I was in love. Just don't have the money. I need a job.

when we were looking at it at gerharts didn't they want 10k for it.

To add to MackMB's story, in 1967 I was working at my company's Buffalo operation and we were a supplier to Beth Steels Lackawanna plant. Huge facility. first time I went in there I could not believe all the relatively new big iron running around the facility-and most of these trucks in spite of their relatively new age, did NOT have piece of sheet metal that was not banged up! My memory says the truck of choice at that plant was GMC--JH's?? In any case rough environment.

a friend of mine his dad ran doubles out of the buffalo plant for years he said, he told me many stories about that place.

Awesome! I think I speak for many others when I say if there are more trucks hanging around the plant please share them!

sadly there isn't any other macks in the plant ,the only other truck is a fraight shaker from the mid 90's. When the Bethlehem plant was divided up and the city made public streets between the shop's we have they couldn't run that dm 800 no more down to the other machine shop so that's why the other truck was bought. I seen that dm loaded one time leaving the shop taking a load of rolls to heat treat with that lowboy loaded down, let me tell ya that dm didn't look like it was working too hard and the guy driving was going way to fast to be safe , I wish I could of got it on camera.

Great pics! Love that dm800.

I would love to have that dm800, besides the frame rails running away from each other the truck is in good shape.

Some real workhorses there. Thanks for going out back and grabbing some pics.

no problem I wanted to do it awile ago just never got around to it.