Lmackattack

I will never forget the time a buddy was building a sand base for his above ground pool. He went to home depot to rent a pickup dump truck. Then came by the yard for some sand. I loaded him up and he kept asking for a little more sand. I said your already on the heavy side but he wanted to do this in 2 trips. so we put a good humped load on and then tarped to try and hide it....truck was sitting on the overload springs with a bend in them looking like camelbacks. To leave the yard you have to turn onto a 55mph 4 lane hwy. he had the wheels full lock trying to get out into the slow lane and the truck would not move. He had to back up and make a wide turn to get her rolling. He said 40mph was about as fast as it wanted to go as it did not want to pull in over drive. He did comment that it rode like a caddy!

That's one of the nicest b model /modern resto I have seen. It's still 100% classic with modern touches that would make it so much nicer to drive full time than if it was 100% stock.

Im sure if they put those rims on with a big impact that's why they were stuck. They forced them too far back with the gun...

Yea both are kinda the same. I have been in a lot of industrial yards lately, oil refinery,rail yards, scrap yards, up and down the sag cal canal....every time I was thinking I had a good camera...

Yep heard it was burned up a few years ago... Saw it a few times running thru Chicago...nice old dog it was...

Yea i saw the lonestar 2 times today? I have been going into some pretty deep parts of chicago lately and have missed some great pics of trucks and misc old stuff that is hidded....i think I'm buying a good camera this weekend so I can catch up with this thread.

Oh look.....an international with cat logo on the hood.....everyone get your old school black and yellow cat hats...

Very intresting....looks like it would get around pretty good in tight spots...never seen dual wheels for a steer acel.....but If it feels and drives anything like a rubber tire loader at speed ....no thanks!

Yep I look both ways when driveing over RR tracks...just to be sure that 11,000 tons of steel forgot to trip the crossing gate circuits. To me it's no different than crossing a street on foot...I hate the crossings that have buildings to block the view...always fear a train could be coming and I can't see it...

Those sneaky locomotives...they just jump out from behind trees ya know.

As one of the guys at work calls a day cab CH......"two story clown house".... Lol

Most likely.or some version of Mack / Hendrickson ..in the 80's it was a popular spec for cement trucks they still use an updated walking beam on them today.

730hp and limited to about 55mph in Europe .bet it gets there quick but .such a shame

The 285 and 300+ used a tip turbine so the 2nd tube feeds clean air to the turbine.

Love it!

I really like the Rmodel cab..however to bring it to todays standards it needs more leg room and rear wall needs another 5" or so....quiet it down raise it up off the frame rails like the superliner cab sits and you would have a damm good truck again...

I should be more specific....I was not talking about the tip turbine engines...There were also twin pipe air cleaners used to draw under hood air into the filter housing, air entered a pipe under the hood...then that air was filtered in the housing and then sucked thru the turbo and into the engine. Canadian mack trucks often had these.. A lot of dm Mack's that see a lot of dusty job sites often had the tall air cleaner with the inlet near the roof line..

I will agree that trucks should hug/ stay right in a single turn lane to avoid cars sneaking past on the blind side... but when you have a double turn lane common sence tells me use the lane that I can swing wider in...also around here most of these double turn lanes have solid white lines thru the start of the turn between the lanes. Crossing a white line and you and a car collode who is at fault now? I also think the rules of the road were written when trailers were 40' or 45'. Pull a 3 or 4 axle lowboy with the wheels all they way at the rear of the triler or oversize and the rules change. Even that 53' feather lite I pulled for the race team was a bitch with the axels all they way to the rear. Needed 2 lanes to make a hard right where a standard 53' only needed a little of the left lane make a turn.. Today I was driving the standard 2 axle lowboy and I felt like a go cart around town...night and day swing radius needed vs the long 3 axle..

Is the chn or vision cab based off the ch cab...was it mayflower who builds them still?

Volvo may have bought and kept the Mack name alive but in doing so they have not truely Let mack and its team bring up the brand to the top where it was once and could be again...IMO they have just intagrated brands then put the leash on to hold back the full growth potential. If Volvo wanted Mack to grow there would be close examples of Mack trucks that matched and surpassed paccar products....I'm perfectly fine with integrated use of truck parts but to keep a brand down in a vocational sector that it's known to raise the bar clearly shows the intent of the parent company. Then you have the failed us market heavy haul sector. Build a truck to haul big loads but offer it only as a day cab?...How will this help compete with all the paccar otr heavy haul trucks already out there? The leash is on tight. Yes Volvo has done some good things but they have also limited the product offerings.

What is different in the rf cowl. I assume the recess for the air cleaner pipe?

5 o clock wake up call?

I have wondered as well it looks like it could be .if not some trimming of the hood may make it work...

Square tanks were standard untill the late 70's with round as an option . Then around 76'-78' round tanks was standard not sure when square were discontinued?... From what i have seen Air cleaners of all years could be speced for standard short breather or option for a offroad tall breather. There was also an option for twin inlet / under hood air intake.