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Randy is right. That's just a standard issue NYPD wrecker unit in the city.

That truck makes me home sick.

Grew up on the jersey shore

Looking for information to swap my 1990 RW 713 from Hendrickson spring ride to a air ride.

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

Ive been working on a peterbilt that i have, for over a year now. In fact, the reason why im a mack owner as well, is because my peterbilt project has taken me quite some time, and i had to keep my customers happy. Anyway i airbagged my steer axle with a home built setup. Unfortunately, i haven't gotten it on the road yet. A bunch of my buddies have done it with alot of success, although there are a few varying opinions on the way to do it. Ive driven a few, as well as a factory setup on a kenworth 660. The kenworth has four bags with a leveling valve, where as mine is pressure controlled by me from inside the cab. (Probably similar to the setup you are looking at). In my experience, they ride well and smooth out the bridge joints. All setups that I am talking about have the bags mounted over the axle as a helper bag. A lot of guys use the airbag from the kenworth 8 bag suspension.

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

When I worked on school busses back in the the day I always liked the Ford engine better than the Cummins or the Cat 3116. These engine were much more peppy than the others. You can do some pump work to the and really make the turbocharger sing. We had one driver I turned the pump up on that the old school bus would fly, well for a school bus. He told me it was to doggie going up hills in the country loaded. Next time I seen him he was gripping about having to clean off the soot the tail lights.

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 headlights had to go in the bumper to comply with DOT or highway something, could only be a certain height off the ground, and yes Ken, pics were taken at MEC. herd of a couple around but no leeds, Like to have one, maybe I could modify my MH

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.

I am in the process of swapping steer axles on my F 600 and I am curious to hear any opinions about wheel bearing lubrication. Do I retain the grease packed bearings or switch to oil lube? IMHO grease provides superior lubrication (except maybe in extreme cold) so then why did the entire industry switch over to oil hubs? Easier maintenance is the only advantage I can see.

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.

I forgot to post this one,thought this was a neat picture!.......................Mark

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.

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

yes I cant wait ! I have too much stuff that don't fit into the 24x36 lean to style shop I have now .......gotta step out side just to my mind

I am in the same boat.

The county says I can go up to 2400 sf.

I think it's more of a joke. A lot.of cowboys and douche bags up here are doing the big stacks in a pickup thing. I joked and said I'm gonna put a cement brick chimney in my pickup box. There's also a farmer running around here that used two old 18" culverts for his straight pipes just to mock the cowboys.

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.