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h67st

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  1. I found these photos on the interwebs, says this truck was hauling a 331,000 lb. press and the trailer failed. They weren't sure how they were going to move the thing out of the way. Nashville, Michigan Sep. 6th.
  2. You could check with the Mack Museum (610-351-8999); they have a lot of information. If they help, make sure you donate some money to the museum. You could also watch ebay; a lot of Mack manuals show up on there.
  3. I worked at a shoe company in the 80's and we were still running trailers with no maxis. We had a few roll away from the dock because the spotter got lazy and didn't chock the wheels (air leak = no brakes).
  4. You're right...your hubs are 24" in diameter, 24.5" tubeless are 22" diameter. The tires are 24.5" inner diameter but they have a flange on the rim that reduces them to 22" hubs.
  5. I've seen a bunch of trucks with u-bolt mounting that had blocks of steel welded to the frame rail flange to keep the thing from moving back and forth. Of course, they shouldn't be welding on that flange.
  6. It's funny...the cab doesn't look that bad in the "before" photo but I know you had to cut out a lot of rust and damage to rebuild it. Same way with my truck, bondo covered many sins.
  7. So they don't want the fifth wheel sitting directly on the frame rail? I wonder why that is.
  8. I finally got the fifth wheel mounting figured out, I took videos of some of the work.
  9. The guys at Rome are top shelf...they hooked me up with everything I needed for my truck at very good prices.
  10. When they make pipe fittings, they don't size the hex to a certain wrench...they figure you will use a pipe wrench or crescent anyway.
  11. Those are definitely rare, but that one's pretty rusty for $18,000. I've never seen a fifth wheel that has ears that rest on the frame rails like that.
  12. Judging by the photos, it looks like a nice truck. Too bad it's not a twin screw.
  13. You hit the motherlode of NOS parts! It's really looking good.
  14. A guy named "Cam" on the ATHS forum says that the NHRS6B is a supercharged 743 cid engine, but supposedly they quit putting them in trucks in the '60s so maybe not the right engine code for this truck. If it's a '79 it should have an 855 Cummins.
  15. I started looking things over to see if it will run and found the intake pipe missing a clamp, allowed rain water to go into the turbo. Fortunately the shaft still spins free, but I want to pull the housing off to see what is lurking inside. A great example of something simple like a clamp causing bigger problems. The engine tag says it's a 335.
  16. I can't even remember the last time I saw a truck that old running up and down the road making money. I wish I saw more of them!
  17. I was back up there and snapped a couple of engine photos.
  18. Well, it's home now. We loaded it Saturday and brought it down.
  19. To find my wheel seals, I went online and you can look at an SKF (CR) wheel seal catalog, they have dimensions in there so you can measure your old seal and match it up. Once you get the SKF number you can cross it over to whatever brand you want.
  20. h67st

    1941 NJU

    Wikipedia says, "In 1940 the US Army ordered 700 Mack 4 x 4 truck tractors, intended to tow pontoon-carrying semi-trailers. 694 were delivered in 1941 and the last 6 in 1942. An Autocar design was standardized by the US Army and only 700 NJUs were built." Since this is a '41, it could be ex-WWII Army truck.
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