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This is one the trailers the this Mack used to pull. It is now in storage at a friends house. This is also the first time the little ford has pulled a trailer since changing the rear from 4.88 to 3.90 and it did fine 

now I am looking for some 6 lug 15” wheels 

Is the rubber around the vent widow available?

if it is what is the source and part number 

The black powder was on the dirty side of the air cleaner. The place that this truck came from supplied the foundary industry and that back dust is all over the site.

the clean side of the air filter element looked new. The pipe was also clean inside 

I have been working on this truck slowly due to other commitments. 
 

yesterday it got new batteries 

today I took apart the air filter and air intake and did not find any surprises. I dumped out lots of fine black powder from the air cleaner element which supports it being used in the yard since 1993.
 

In the Farr air cleaner do you clean the outer screen? 

I also checked the emergency stop and it works fine and now I see how to reset it, pictures are a little dark but in one it is open and in the other it is closed 

I also got to use my long 1/2 inch snapon flex ratchet to bar the motor over two turns 

On 10/22/2022 at 6:44 AM, mowerman said:

Twin drive vehicle I’m sure it would’ve been a lot cheaper to bump up the top and with  just a single drive … bob

The issue with changing the gears is not the rear axles, it’s the front axle. In order to remove the differential you have to disassemble the entire axle and the current ratio is the fastest ratio that that carrier can use. So I would need a complete center assembly and I could only go from 4.92 to 4.25.

if I really decide to do it the current best solution is to replace the Allison with a 13 speed 

6 hours ago, mowerman said:

The green truck is gorgeous thanks for sharing that and getting back to the  batteries I Heard 2 12 volt batteries have more cranking power than 4 6 volts … bob

Thanks the green truck gets a lot of attention everyplace we go. At the UTI show the teachers were more interested than the students probably because they saw how much work went into getting the truck to this point and I still have a lot to do.

right now the truck cruises at 58mph at 2500 rpm. I would like to drop the rpm and increase the cruise speed but with only 210 hp 7.8 ford I don’t have the power I want. Every option I have come up with costs a lot of money and quite frankly I get there, just slowly. So I may just insulate the cab better and turn up the fuel a little and call it good 

the wife wants stairs, more water capacity.

I want to delete the spare tire, or modify the mount to carry a BBQ and close the gap between the bottom of the camper and the bed

Not yet

working on getting the parts to replace the passenger side glass

i charged a spare set of batteries for it and will soon try to start it 

washed it on Tuesday, as well as two other trucks. I took the green truck to a car show at Universal Technical Institute today 

and this red truck showed up making lots of smoke here in Southern California 

75 miles in LA traffic is so much fun but the green truck has an Allison so it was bearable 

This is the reply that I got from the Mack museum about this truck

@The number you provided is a Glider Kit. We have no information on this unit. The Mack Trucks Historical Museum has very little information on Glider Kits.”

it is not helpful 

I would have expected they could have told me what was in the glider and who it was delivered to

I gave that truck a bath today 

2 hours ago, mowerman said:

OK this is what I have the gauge panel it’s brand new with the tag still on it and the 2 steal surrounding pieces but only for one truck and yes I don’t know what you would call them… bob 

Are you offering to sell it?

On 10/9/2022 at 3:35 PM, mowerman said:

I would also oil all the cylinders and the turbo bearing..: bob 

I can’t locate the turbo

i also can’t find the spark plugs to oil the cylinders 

Same here, fine this morning and now at lunch I have to deal with this. I think I need to start drinking early because of this 

Another grumpy old man here and I am only in my mid 50’s 

On 10/7/2022 at 8:08 PM, Swishy said:

RE: Glamour shot

Yes duz l@@k good

the only udder glamour shot me like

looks simular to this

 

WotSezU?

LOL

cya

Deflate the bumper and send her to the chiropractor to fix the curved spine and poor posture 

6 hours ago, mechohaulic said:

all in favor of the vise grip idea; one concern for me is starting it with valve covers off:::  unless i pressure washed it first  there's an awful lot of yrs worth of  dust, grit the fan will blow around that will end up in oil galley on heads. as in many cases on these forms , sure would like to be there when it fires up. must be like a heart surgeon when he opens some one up ;;LOL the thrill to hear / see something come "alive" again.

I think I will start by getting the glass replaced and then finish cleaning the rat crap from the blue Mack and then pressure wash both of them 

13 hours ago, 1965 said:

If 1 has been sitting for awhile (DD 2 stroke), I pull valve covers & use my hand primer (that you have to make up) & put it in the in side of secondary fuel filter & pump power service through fuel system & barring engine over, so fuel gets through injectors good. That engine probably has the solid rack, if so it only takes 1 injector to stick & all will hang. It could have a spring loaded rack & they are individual, but have seen several injectors hang with spring loaded racks & governor can’t over come.

make sure emergency kill works, I usually take air intake hose off & get me & good stiff piece of cardboard or a bunch of towels just in case. 

How do you make the hand primer?

what is the best way to bar one of these over 

11 hours ago, mowerman said:

I have never seen one of those plastic gauge plates I have the steel parts somewhere if you need them I’m not sure if I can find them amongst all my shit .. Bob

I need the visor or what ever you call the part that goes between the dash and the instrument panel for both R700’s and for this truck I need the speedometer and dash panel, or a good tracing so I can mak my own panel that will only hold the tach, speedometer, air pressure gauge and a warning light 

2 hours ago, h67st said:

Only one thing better than a yard with a Mack in it...a yard with two Macks in it!

We past that mark in 2018

As with all old trucks it has a few issues.
 

The passenger side widows are smashed and need to be replaced, is r model glass readily available?

The plastic dash panel with the tach is busted. I was thinking about putting in a standard speedometer and removing the tachograph. 

2 hours ago, mechohaulic said:

 

remove the valve covers , work the fuel  linkage top of eng. the rack control rods = coming from governor to injector rack front of head Inside should move back and forth. the rack connecting each injector will move. as each injector goes to full fuel , the injector arm will rotate very slightly. I would remove truck fuel linkage from governor making sure engine linkage is free.  enlarging the picture the emergency shut off might not be connected. most of the time , steel cable cuts through the flip lever. MAKE SURE THE EMERGENCY STOP WORKS . sounds like a technical deal ;; it's not;; very  simple preventative maintenance. 

The cable is not connected to the flip lever, it looks like it was just bent over the lever. That seems like a weak way to attach it, how much force would be in the flip lever?
 

The lever moves freely, do I need to check it further?

how many batteries should I put in the truck? Here in Southern California i have only run 2 batteries in my other trucks. Will 2 work or do I need 4?

19 hours ago, mechohaulic said:

must have been parked for some time based on the cob webs. a real great barn find.  see the sangangomo (wrong spelling) speedo /clock on the dash; haven't seen one of those since the '70's. I still have quite a few DD tools in my toolbox. just a suggestion, I would clean off the top half of engine and remove  the valve covers to make sure the rack and injector plungers move freely. a runaway DD is a scary and costly  situation. you would be sick if I told you all the brand new DD parts I threw over the bank yrs ago. turbo's, new complete piston kits , and the list goes on. got tired  of moving them around my garage. 

Last registered in 1993, used as a yard mule until 8 years ago. No brakes on the front axle and only spring brakes on the rear most axle, the disconnected air can probably leaks much worse than the one that is still connected. 
 

once it is running I will replace, or rebuild, all the air cans and see if that starts to correct the air loss issue
 

tell me more about checking the rack and injector plungers 

Yes Detroit 

Can anyone identify this 4 spring suspension?

it is on a 1972 RS700 that I believe is a glider