Mark from OZ

That's it. Been a good ride though. Enjoyed playing around with it

Not long ago. No more. Maybee I will walk away at the end of this year.

Finaly after 30 years of work the old flintstone cab succmmed to old age. New cab. So after starting life as basic Flintstone in 1967 It has worked all of its life except for a few weeks for refurbishment. Still working in 2009. Buggered if i know why i did it.

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Well about 8 years ago i finaly found a power steering kit to fit the early R model chassis. It came with shepherd 392 SJC6 steering box ... pitman arm... drag link... pump... and spacer plates to fit the early chassis. You can fit and remove the box without removing the radiator. I only had to drill 2 extra 1/2" holes It has worked without any problems whatsoever since. I have seen some awfull bodge setups over the years. Boxes fitted outside the chassis ect, but this one looks factory. Only took 1/2 a day to fit..

Gordon if the bell housing don't have the top holes it will still work but the lever will pull fowards. you will just have to play around with it. As for an air clutch you got to get it right or you will punish the clutch brake. Seems like you have done a lot of work already so why not find a proper nodal mount bell housing and keep the clutch arrangement simple. Just my thoughts Mark

You just have to put a 90 degree fitting on top and buy a grease gun hose. they come in many lengths an tuck it behind the clutch shaft. and run it down to the usual place on the inspection plate. Ever tried to do that with it still all bolted together? Not a fun Job.

Gordon. Assemble clutch shaft in top hole with fork as if you going to mate it with the engine and put lever on work it back and fowards you will get the picture of how it will work.

Things going well. Replaced front axle with the bigger 538 and put a 32" sleeper with the fancy bull dog trim. Firday the 13 " never believed in them till then" then some turd runs into it. Uninsured. The ins company wanted to write it off i sez no it aint going to happen. so i had to get another front axle fuel tank air cleaner ect. The aircleaner was hard agains the door . Snapped the main leaf at the front eye and bent the rear spring hanger. Old mack did not want to die as i drove it home

Ok Gordon A road ranger bell housing should have 2 holes for the clutch shaft 1 bottom hole forks facing up operating lever pull back ward you have a push clutch 2 Top hole forks facing down turn throw out bearing 180 pull operating lever back you have a pull clutch 3 The pedal through floor you only have a certain amount of travel. 4 The pedal box on the chasis you should see 2 holes on the operating lever.Use the back one 5 You wil have to play around with the clutch shaft lever to make it short enough to give maximum pull as you are governed by the set travel length of the pedal. 6 You have to work out the lengths of the operating levers. Shortest gives maximum travel for set distance. You should have a operating rod about 12" to 15" long. I had to put a curve in mine to clear the bottom of the pedal box. it never flexed or bent. I use a bar of bright mild steel 12mm dia threaded at both ends for the clevise. SEE clear as MUD Mark

Gordon It's hard to explain You have to cut away the bracket that holds the pedal assembly on the chassis To get the operating rod down on more of a angle. A R/R bell housing usualy has two sets of holes for the shaft. You have to turn the fork upside down as the clutch rod can only work in one direction. wheni figured it out it was not that hard of a job. worked well for a long time Mark

Mike. You just slip it on it don't have to be timed. They call it a " celeron" coupling. Oh and don't forget the the little oil tube. Easy to forget if you are in a hurry. The older you get the heavier they get. Mark.

Yep Monty it was a good idea at the time. Only filled it up the once...... spilled half on the floor Left it alone after that

Monty No i never painted the cab inside it was always in good nic. The closest colour i could find was The colour they painted the 8V 71's it was close .

Monty. That green, The top 2 pics must be the sun or the photo it came off it don't look quite right. The colour is supposed to be 62 or 64 B model green I got the colour number out of a realy old Dulux paint code book. Checked it on a few old Macks and it's pretty close. Mark

had to do a bulldog

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Ok It all started when i swapped the Quad box ( glad to get rid of the thing) for a fibreglass bonnet. Got me thinking ! Found a aircleaner... fuel tank.. and another A radiator ect. Years before i swapped the 34 lightweight rear end for a set of 44's. Replaced the Quad box with a RTO 915 roadranger. Truck actually went 20% better . Started work Bought a 320 and a RTO 12515 road ranger and 5 weeks later, new truck, changed the diff ratio too. After 9 or ten years if hard work. A new truck.... Me happy but still not quite finished.......

Grant. Now why did you remind me of all that "crap .. red tape ect" i was having a nice day.. Mark.

Rob stay tuned as this topic is realy about the Flintstone..... well kinda sorta i still have it to this day one more of the econodyne in Brisbane.I made them piggyback the other down to Sydney thinking it might run it in a bit. It didn't do it any good as one of the BIG problems was excess oil consumption. They would always say that was acceptable. I'll post the consumption figures up one day. Any way i was lucky enough to be in Brisbane to see the econodyne on the assembly line.

Rob i have always been a bit inventive and as we had to wait 13 months for Mack to build the thing as they had to build a fleet of garbage trucks, all the same spec's, they put a lot of orders back. I wanted to do something different, so with a couple of friends we designed the guards they came out pretty good. I never got round to make another set as it was a lot of work. I only had the Econodyne for 26 months.It had a lot of waranty problems that Mack didn't want to do properly. It was a 1985 model and it was in the wrecking yard 4 years ago. I think it had only 3 owners. Mark

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I had a go at making some drive guards. a lot of work .