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Thought I has the only "dumb ass" still on AOL. I don't care about any of the crap they flash or headline, I just need email and am to old to change even with a bad thing. Just sayin... still am married for 25 years now, to late to change.... and it still works...
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Kind of depends of if you are buying or selling. Selling value way more than it is worth. Buying way less and it is a Deal. In reality it is the history and condition it is in. The value is only as much as someone is willing to pay. There are very few Magnum's still working these days so the value is in the collector market. Without inspecting the truck the range I have seen is between $15,000 to $95,000. One was listed recently for $95K on a Mack resell site. Needless to say that truck was on there for months, don't know if it sold or was taken off for no interest at that price. If this truck is nice and needs no real work $40-50K would be a fare price only because it is a Magnum. That is without adding the emotional attachment value that can add zero to $$$. If the engine needs rebuilt or has transmission/rears, problem that can be a $10-20K or more repair alone. Nice looking and desirable Mack from the photo!! So what is the price? Are there more photos and information?
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Mack emblems, V8 & Valve Cover Dog
AZB755V8 replied to AZB755V8's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Thanks for the info. Sorry for asking but what is a "mob"? Is it man or guy here in the US? That chromed badge price is almost right on for what I was thinking, converts to $112 USD. So I will not be doing the V-8's as they are already available in AU and fairly priced. I will be concentrating on the Bulldog. -
Mack emblems, V8 & Valve Cover Dog
AZB755V8 replied to AZB755V8's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
I understand that there are different ways of doing things but every time I go and change it up, it comes back to bite me. It is not the fastest, cheapest or non-original way. It is just the way it was done and I respect that. If I was doing this to make as much money as possible I would not approach it like this. If silver is what is wanted, just pay for it, the difference is about $75 between hollow and solid silver, hollow is not going to happen with me. In perspective there will be approx $125 in a chrome plated bronze one. To do the bulldog in Solid Silver (6.25 ounces) the price is $250 each, double that of chromed, and there will not be any like it again. If done it will be one run only. Finish weight will be a bit lower due to gating and finishing. I am simply offering to do a small run and not get Mack/Volvo to worry about trademark stuff no more to it than that. Embroidery we are doing, $60 a shirt, reflective piping, plus flat rate box cost. You can figure which ones are Guys and Ladies -
Mack emblems, V8 & Valve Cover Dog
AZB755V8 replied to AZB755V8's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Yep, Thats the stuff. We make it here in the USA. Real American designs and production. Small but we hope to grow it into something. We are also doing embroidered mechanics shirts (full back & shirt pocket). Factory direct on the shirts to our design and we embroider here in Arizona starting now as well. -
Kenny, Things move slow around here but you are responding to an almost 5 year old tread..... Anthony has not been on this site since March of 2016. Safe to say the truck has GONE into different hands.
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Mack emblems, V8 & Valve Cover Dog
AZB755V8 replied to AZB755V8's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
I can have that weight in a few days. Silver is about $23-25 an ounce now It'll be a few days for an exact weight from the CAD program. Silver is $23-25 an ounce now. I'll get exact but figure 6-7 ounces. It would be a way cool belt buckle by mounting to a back plate like rodeo buckles. We don't do that but.... -
Mack emblems, V8 & Valve Cover Dog
AZB755V8 replied to AZB755V8's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Shrinkage is figured in a % of finish size. Normally a single % is good enough but in complex parts a dual %% is calculated for lateral and longitudinal shrink as in jet turbine blades. This is no issue and they will be as good a originals or better. I was a moldmaker and QC manager for jet turbine molds in my past and now make sterling silver jewelry for a business. Our 3D wax printer is a high end $50K unit specific for high detail parts. These emblems are really quit simple to produce. The issue is that I have to send patterns out for casting. Bronze is a dirty metal and our silver & gold casting machine would be contaminated melting anything but silver and gold. Idea anyone what these in real silver... gold would be $$$ just because of gold price not labor it would be the same. Check out the jewelry at: www.rebelroselife.com Yes the site is female focused. -
Mack emblems, V8 & Valve Cover Dog
AZB755V8 replied to AZB755V8's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
The price that I am quoted is for the Bronze casting that will be polished. The Bulldog came that way and not chromed. The V-8 came chrome and gold plated. Prices from Mack when I got some of the last V-8 NOS over 20 years ago was $65 chrome, $95 gold. I don't know what the Bulldog was priced as it only came on the chrome valve covers and does not have a part number on it. By the way I have seen the V-8 emblems go on Ebay for far more than $100 each. Even triple chroming should not add more than $25-30 each. The casting originals will be 3D wax printed to correct for shrink and investment cast. Just seeing if there is any interest so I know how many to make for myself and maybe a few other guys. -
I have a need for a few of each of these very hard to find Emblems. Even harder is to find them in new condition. I am seriously considering having some cast out of bronze. The E9 valve cover Dog was bronze originally and just polished. These were produced one year only from what I can tell around 1993 for the black engine with chrome valve covers in CL700's. The V8 came be chrome plated and they did come gold plated but not solid bronze. These were used from 1963-1979 but I can be corrected. They will be made in the USA and not cheap but affordable. Thinking around $85-95 a piece. Would any of you have an interest in them and maybe the price will come down with a larger order. I am working on the patterns now and finished cost with a foundry. If I used these actual parts for patterns the castings will be about 2-3% smaller due to casting shrinkage. That is not a lot smaller but will be noticeable compared to an original.
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I would go back to the basics. Take the two heater wires from the mirrors and put 12V to them and feel if there is heat. If not the elements ate burnt out. On the right mirror motor take the two wire to it and see if it moves them reverse the wires and see if it moves the other way. As for switches get the volt meter out and start checking if the correct terminals have power, for switch position. If all that checks then it is the wiring between the mirrors and switch or your wires are on the wrong terminals.
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Some others things old guys send the new ones to find or do. A Pussyfor the wait for them to ask what's a pussy for. Always a good laugh. They never ask again. An adjustable socket wench. Kitty Litter, They alway ask what for and where is the cat. It's for soaking up oil, dumb ass. Worked with a guy (real name) Dick Head. Tell the new guy to go meet Dick Head and make sure to say "are you a real dick head". We would be fired or socially unacceptable now for all the stuff we did to the young ones in the shop but that is how they learn. It was all good fun. We are all doomed with how everything is now anyway.
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Just think these same Millennial will be running the country soon enough. It is a truly sorry truth of the mentality of generations to come. If it is not on a video or cell phone screen it is not important. If effort or thought is involved it is to much stress for Millennials. I have two of them still at home and can one up the stamp thing, " Dad we don't have toilet paper" I say go get some. " Dad there is non under the bathroom sink" I say then go get some. "Where?". I say at the store at the corner of the street. They used paper towels for a week before I ran out myself and got some. The point is: If it is to hard to wipe your ass what can you do anyway!! VOTE, asked my Millennials, they said no, it was to much time to find out what were the issues to vote on let alone figure were a STAMP comes from!
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Cost To Refurbish A Truck
AZB755V8 replied to sodly's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
A Superliner is a good one to start with. Buy the best one you can afford. EVERYTHING is expensive to replace and parts are harder to find as the age of the truck gets older. I have had trucks done by professionals, done my own and purchased one that just needed a little work and had all the right stuff. Going down the line: Wheels cost $275-300 new. Repolish is approx $125-175 a wheel. I have bought repolished wheels for $175. An old or scrap wheel is worth about $50-70. Scrap the old ones and get new, there is nothing like new wheels and tires. Danny's truck wash by me in Phoenix, AZ does polishing all the other polishing you asked about. Call them and they should be able to give you a ball park price. The more you can polish the more you can spend in other areas. Frame restoration is going to be what you are willing to accept. A perfect frame with no rust pocks, holes welded, painted in and out will be expensive $20-50k. Just to grind down, sandblast and repaint like you stated will be at least $10,000. A nice Superliner went for $15000 with aluminum frame, E9, and nicely painted in the past a member here had it. They were out there, maybe still. Air lines and hoses are things that you should be able to do. Having a hobby truck is having something to tinker with and work on. There are things the go wrong, break and just need replaces. You will go broke if a truck shop is going to maintain your vintage truck. DOT Hoses, lines and fittings, $1500 should cover it for parts. American Big rubber tires: $3500-$4500 for a set of 10 Hope that give you an idea of what you could be looking at. Buy the best condition truck you can to start with and you will be money, time and work ahead. Then go out an have fun with it. -
Mack Interior Green
AZB755V8 replied to h67st's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Look like you did some homework. I know the Kirker # is correct, I still have a gallon. If you want it I will pull it out and see if it is still liquid. Just pay shipping. All those # could be correct. -
Time is short on all these, only two days to bid!! There maybe good buys for some of you that have been looking. Get one or two and store them for a few years and make some money.... just a thought.
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Yep, There is a lot of Superliners back in Ohio and PA still. Sort of glad I moved out west, I would have a fleet of B's and RW's down by the barn and more than likely be divorced by now because of the Mack addition... 👍 Think these trucks will be nice buys for a few guys. Look like complete running trucks. Hope none take boat rides....
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Just stumbled on this, surfing the web, A LOT of SUPERLINERS with E9's and nice B model sheet metal. ONLY 3 days to bid!! https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=148842 Good Luck,
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Saw that to, it was dated (sold) on that site before it went on Ebay. He made a few K on the deal.
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Me, you and a dozen other Guys are looking for one, Good luck hunting!! Been looking for years for a a good one, hens teeth are easier to find. I even called Denver Truck in PA, years back, to see how much it would be to have one built like the one they did for Willard's E9-LTL. Priceless!!
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1950's Mack LTL aluminum rear spring stanchions
AZB755V8 replied to MackLTH's topic in Parts for Sale
See you have some LTL frame parts. My stanchions are good but would you have a front engine mount for a 275? Mine has a crack, second one in the truck, and I would rather fine a good one than try and weld this one. Also would you have the rear aluminum cab mount? I have an aluminum rear cab mount that was damaged the first time the front engine mount broke, and the engine dropped, tearing it up with the universal joint when the trans pivoted up and front of engine went down. -
PSA...trains are wider than the rails they travel on
AZB755V8 replied to Lmackattack's topic in Odds and Ends
Sad that someone lost there life just being stupid for a split second, well a few seconds anyway. But come on how can a person be so caught in the moment to "Not See the Train Coming" let alone feel the vibration under his feet. Maybe the best, that is the person that is so focused on the cell phone screen that they would probably kill someone else a day later driving a car and videoing or texting. Think people are getting dumber and dumber with each generation, case in point. Life is not a video game, can't just press reset and start over. Feel Bad, No, he could have avoided the Train, the Train could not have avoid him. Had a guy jackknife my rig by nailing me behind the cab when I was moving in a left hand turn in the left hand lane last year. My big ass trailer is mirror stainless on the back with all LED lights, really hard to not see it even if the sun is not shining. 4 lane Hwy, He came up the left berm at 55 MPH, no one in the right lane for a mile. His cell phone was laying on the car floor when they pulled him out, Dumb Ass was discharged that night, truck was in the shop for 2 months. Can't Fix Stupid!! -
B model mack power steering
AZB755V8 replied to darkkar's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Just trying to help with PS for those how need or wanted it. You are correct there were more truck produced into the mid 60's without power steer than with. That is when you could tell a trucker by the size of his forearm. Got a B with and an LT without. Choosing I'll drive the B over the LT any day. 👍 -
It can be as simple as the fuel return restrictor valve, back to the tank on side of pump, leaking down. This will drain the fuel from the pump galley. Easy way to tell is put a galley pressure gage in to a port or tee into supply line from charge pump, I have the gage in my dash now. After mine sits it will pop-off easily with 6 cyl then when galley pressure is above 5psi the others cylinders chime in. In the transfer pump there are 2 disk return check plates, usually a fiber disk with small spring, that can be worn and can leak fuel back to the tank that way too. Last thing if you have a hand primer on your transfer pump the shaft seal can be leaking air back in to system when truck sits a lot. It will leak air in as it is the highest point in the fuel system and not fuel out. I replaced the return valve and primer so last is the transfer pump. Once it takes more than a second for the engine to fire up and other cylinders to catch in 5-10 seconds.
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S400 Turbo too big for 1991 E7-350????
AZB755V8 replied to BucketTrucker688's topic in Engine and Transmission
If that is the price that turbo can be purchased new from a speed shop for that. Chances are the exhaust housing will need changed to work on a diesel. Checking on Jegs Speed Shops the housing are about $170. The reason for a change will be when you want to start making boost. The smaller the A/R number the lower the RPM's to spool the turbo. Other thing is the amount of boost, these turbos will make 50PSI Plus with no issues. Injectors and pump need to be worked on for flow and timing to balance the increase in air going though the engine. If you have emissions testing I would not do it. With added PSI everything else need to be looked at. It is not as simple as bolting a big PSI turbo on and go like hell. Head bolts, couplings and gaskets seem to snap or fail at elevated boost pressures.
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