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That truck makes me home sick. Grew up on the jersey shore

What type of Hendrickson suspension do you have on the truck now.

I want more details. Do you use the stock factory springs or do you remove a couple of leaves? Are all the air bags tied to a single leveling valve or do you use a valve on each side? I want to do this to my two axle tractor that has real stiff front springs.

In my truck Max requires gloves

The poor equipment

What did you do to the pumps? My get a little slow climbing the hills and mountain passes on the freeways here in Southern California. Both of mine have Allison's in them which is probably part of the issue and they are better when I manually shift the allison.

They are a good engine, I have two of them. They are a little heavy for the HP they produce. They will get you there but if it is a race you may not win. Both of my engines are the 210 HP spec. You really need to read the tags on the engine. They were available up to 285 HP in the LN series.

A company called radios for less here in Southern California can add the auxiliary input to any radio. It is not the antenna wire tap and works great. The classic car guys door all the time.

I do like a real allison, I did drive the eaton auto shift for a few days and hated the stupid thing.

It looks a lot like the green they used inside armored vehicles. The color is called sea foam green and there is a federal standard for it 24552.

The center of the headlights have to be 54" or less so that is not the reason.Nice custom frame jog. This does not look like the typical plates. You could have Tulsa equipment build one for you

I remember in the late 80's running into a pair of twins driving matching mack dump trucks with twin sticks in them just like the rest of us.

This is a long standing debate. Grease is only better if you are going to submerge the bearings . Oil actually provides better lubrication.

That trailer is a turntable trailer. The "dolly" is bolted to the trailer. If you consider doing a conversion you need to measure the frame height above the turntable to see if it would work.

Love it It should have this caption "I bought a Mack and it came with its own garage"

This is going to interesting with all the new carb regulations that were put into force or are these truck exempt

Is that what they call an articulated truck?

I have found that the air ride seats are firmer than the fixed base seats. I am referring to the padding of the seats. I try to find the sweat spot for the air ride so it does not bottom out. I do agree that if it bottoms out it is quite a jolt. I wonder it you could put second air bag in there so it did not bottom out hard? Now for the summer we used to use beach towels as seat covers. This eliminated the vinyl issue and they were washable. I hate the hot vinyl on my legs when I wear shorts. For that issue leather is just as bad. We used to modify one end so they stayed on the seat back. On low back seats we sewed the end to form a pocket. On the Toyota seat we added grommets in which the headrest posts went through

The two sticks were fun to drive. To start off the line I used to make sure the compound was in neutral, put the main box in first and then you could put the compound in low and hit the throttle. Up shift and down shift without ever using the clutch. It used to freak people out when I ran through the gears in reverse.

Works with this one

Most of the year I wear shorts weather at work, the shop or home. It is actually cold enough here to wear long pants and a jacket, sweat shirt for you guys living were it snows. This is the first night this week we do not have a fire in the fireplace

I am in the same boat. The county says I can go up to 2400 sf.

Love it Are the culverts metal or concrete?

So I can put 22.5 rims on the hubs that my 20's are currently on

What did you have to change to go from 22 to 24.5? I was always told that the spider was specific to the rim size. Am I wrong? I have a trailer that has 20's on it and I would like to switch it over to 22.5 or 24.5 after the tractor is done and I decide on a tire size. Yes I know I might have to change the fifth wheel risers, but that is already planned due to a change in the suspension requiring us to do some work to the angles.