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Something else I learned about working with the vent window rubbers, make sure they're warm. I tried to work with one when it was cold and it cracked. I pointed a heater at the other one while working with it and no crack. Also put a coat of olive oil on them and let sit overnight, they will be more pliable and soft. It's supposed to make rubber last longer.

The F models had some serious rust problems, so most of them went to the scrap. My dad had some that had big chunks of metal rusted off of them. Yours looks fine!

Looking great! I put a pogo stick on my H also, I was afraid if I hung a spring on the cab it would scratch the paint.

I don't have any answers for you, but we'd sure like to see photos of that truck! Not that many F models around any more.

In the blizzard of '78 the water lines in our high school froze and flooded the building, we had to have split sessions in the junior high until they fixed it. Our house was all electric and we didn't have any alternate heat so we stayed with the neighbors for a few days until the power came back on. We didn't have school for a couple of weeks I think. A farmer friend had to use his loader to clear out our driveway--I think the drift was several feet high.

Chaching is right, my local radiator shop told me $900 to cut the tank open and clean and weld it back up again. And that's not a complete belly replacement like 1961H67 did.

Aren't you worried that the gas company will be upset with you?

The tank on my Brockway has a little rust in the bottom, and I've seen companies like POR15 that sell treatment for that. Has anyone used these treatments, and how did you like them? I'll steam it out real well before I use anything.

I'm hoping to have the house built while I build the barn, I don't want to live miles away from where I keep my tools & trucks!

The Hendrickson suspension has rails on the trunion, there's rust jacking between these and the frame. We did that when we built this house, ended up living in the barn for 4 years! A shouse sounds like slang for an outhouse.

Got some bad news on the truck...I pulled it into the shop today to do some work on it, and I made the mistake of looking at the frame rails. I'll probably end up splicing in some new rear sections since the truck has already been stretched. I can't tear it down yet; we will be moving at some point because they are "industrializing" our area and we bought property a little farther out. We have to build a house and shop so that will take a while, I don't want to tear down the truck until we move.

Freight Train put a 675 in his B model, maybe he can tell you where to find the thread--he put lots of important details in his posts.

I like how the ad says "The truck has been well-maintained and is in excellent shape, ready to hit the road". The front tires are sunk in the ground, hole in the windshield, and no batteries. It also says gas engine; the hood says diesel. I'd want to hear it run before I paid $8k for it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/375136825027?hash=item5757e5aec3:g:swcAAOSw2fJlhOat&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4DpY%2F1U6d7slHlNNW6e%2FFlwbAmLnIfcMlBZTS%2FSSA%2B5lldU2g1%2FNIoCs6Tb6NsNZet04%2FCSEkFJNc1RB3SePTS%2B6GzUUDyuuuPfmeX6tVfectkvL%2F4pU3%2Bo8URhtWH28B1uA9oo9x%2BQ%2FhkFglPqn6ioFyVLaP78xnELrgqbHYbAXxeMAEORcimdY%2FoX3BXb9rM%2Bz9siR2rYtoBkUgnTR1xHCOuLh%2FvUrn9jdDhXUquKZ0F8V9wmeCDAo1xjlHfyZmnnWhdv8EUF6IEopWX4V%2B2jg0dpQBrCj9w2PnpApchwQ|tkp%3ABk9SR6bf_oSTYw

You can contact the Mack Historical Museum and ask. https://www.macktruckshistoricalmuseum.org/about/historical-research/

If Paul Harvey saw the state of our country today, he'd be disgusted.

Is the 6NZ a 3406 or a C-15? I left Cat in 1999, they hadn't come out with C-15s yet.

That's a fine looking Pete parked behind the MH!

It probably came without steer brakes, I've seen trucks as new as 1975 without factory installed brakes.

They were used on ashtrays, among other things.

On the older Macks, the manual steer trucks usually had 22" wheels and the power steer trucks had 20".

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but Mack has a website with some pretty nice shirts, hats, die cast, etc. https://mackshop.com/retailstore/

I've talked to guys at the truck shows who had a custom headliner made at an upholstery shop. Prolly lots of green pieces of paper.

Great work! If that truck had a million miles on it, you can imagine the vibration that needle experienced. I've seen a lot of them broken off.

I've never seen brakes hooked up without QR valves, I don't know what negatives there would be. I achieved anti-compounding by using a QR-1C valve (not very expensive, very easy to plumb).

It's a real shame, those trucks were probably scrapped. I imagine they led hard lives.