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That’s a really nice touch. Great work!

I just stuck it there for the photo. It’s my wife’s and she had it on the back porch. I stole it while she was at work and hung it there. It would interfere with the shutters anyway.

Decorating the yard this year was easy with Christmas colored trucks!

I’d have to look, I think those might be hard lines. I may be thinking of my original installation on the 673 where I added an oil cooler to it.

Nice work!! That'll look great when painted and assembled!!

If you have an oil cooler, it'll sit just below the left side of your intake manifold and to the left of the oil filter pad. It'll be round, about 3-4" in diameter. It should have two large flex lines running into it and back to the filter pad. If you look at my photo of the spin-ons you'll see it.

237's are transplants. I did some research into converting my END-673 to spin-ons, but had to replace it before that with the 237. It was pretty straight forward with the filter housing bolting directly to the oil filter pad. Port alignment was not an issue and there are several gaskets available to line it up. I was looking to do it because the filter elements were getting harder to find. Another plus is that there are no external oil lines to route or worry about. Filters can also be had that are shorter in length to get you around clearance issues.

My concern with that last photo would be flow volume through it to supply the block/turbo. Additionally, getting replacement filters for that unit. It might be worth it to scrounge around and find a triple filter arrangement off an ENDT-675 with the spin-on filters. It would make servicing the engine a lot easier. This is the arrangement on my 675(237) that’s in my B42.

Interesting valve for the front brakes. I've seen those before, but didn't realize they had settings. I thought it was like the front axle limiting valve you mentioned, just ON/OFF. My B73 had the limiting valve and a trolley valve on the column. I removed all of that and the trailer connections to simplify my system as none of that is needed now that it's a straight truck.

I have a friend that has an early production B42 that is very original and is 6V Pos ground. It is possible the early gas powered trucks with small displacement gas engines were that way, too. But my ‘63 B42 was 12V Pos ground when I got it. Most big manufacturers switched to 12 volts around the mid-50’s.

This story is far from over and it's been a wild transformation. Now to finish it up and start enjoying the fruits of all my labors!!

And same to you. Welcome Home!!

No, I don't plan on letting that happen. Still some stuff to finish, but the future goal is to get out there with it and drive it. Plus, using it to haul my cars to antique car tours for which the other truck was built and this was to be it's follow on.

It is a shame. But these trucks had a hard life and most were used up and discarded when they could no longer be economically repaired. It would be nice if some of the more “exotic” factory builds had survived. Looking at that list, there’s a lot of low volume numbers showing specific builds for a customer.

Great comeback. That truck has had quite the life! Awesome to see it back at work, again. Good job!!

I sourced mine from a local hydraulic shop. I like to use the take-apart Aeroquip style fittings, because I can make my own lines. The crimped ones are fine, but you can’t reuse the fittings. I would find a shop and once you determine the size hose you have, order it and have them ship it to you. I’ve had to do that when I was constrained for time. I built all my oil lines for the NH220 when I converted it to spin-on filters.

Mechohaulic, here’s the axle set upon that Granite Tri-axle. It’s set up to carry some serious weight because it was spec’d out by a rigging company. For some reason they declined delivery so my friend grabbed it. Way too heavy for my needs, too many tires, too(ie; $$$$!)

Mehohaulic, the balance of the truck is pretty good. The deck has 13' forward and 11' aft. If you look at the landing gear, there's not much room to move the axle back maybe another foot. But that's about it.

I was over at my friend's yard today, the one that very graciously sent me several lifts to assembly my truck. He just took delivery of a 2024 Mack Granite Tri-axle Roll Back with a Century body. I couldn't help but park mine next to it to compare. Not even registered yet, with all the stickers still on it!. I almost passed out when he said it was over $300,000, DAMN!!!!! 64 years between the two.

I don't know him, but I'll ask. If he's there I'll pass that along.

Yup that works!! I wonder what's going on with me posting pictures and videos. Pics won't post when i submit my post, but if I go back in and post them after they go in. It has been since I got a newer phone, though.

Quite the load. Looks like a home made trailer with military surplus tires on it under that locomotive.

The one with the wipers did. The driving one from yesterday wouldn’t.

Let’s see if this’ll load up. IMG_0664.mov

It's definitely a different generation of public out there. I certainly get some thumbs up and waves when I'm out and about, even people snapping pictures. But most people/drivers are oblivious to what's around them. I did have the truck out today in the rain. I almost didn't take it, but at the last second did. We had a ATCA Chapter luncheon today up at Matt Pfahl's place. I decided to take it for three reasons. One was that a bunch of people wanted to see it and for me, I wanted to see if the windshields leaked and to test out my home built wiper system. Both sides proved to be dry in pretty heavy rain and the wipers worked as expected. I used every speed but high. The intermittent modes are great and really do a good job in drizzle to light rain. The truck needed a good cleaning after all the deck work and dust from the last week efforts. I'm also glad I pushed to get that done as it seems were losing the weather to colder temps, now.