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  1. 20 hours ago, ws721 said:

    Mine has a bad engine.  I'm the 2nd owner. I bought it from the son who told me they took a family vacation to Texas. While down there they toured the Marmon plant when this truck was started.  For a 74 i'd say it was loaded. Has a 350 S.C. Cummins, RTO 12513, Factory Air ride, air slide 5th wheel, A.C., power window. The son told me that his father had the engine rebuilt. His mother told him that the truck came home on a hook 2 weeks later. #4 rod is sticking out of the block.  I have a 350 B.C. for it but im toying with putting my 8V92 in it.

    Hard to beat the reliability of these Cummins,ive got one of those mad scientist MVT 475HP Big Cams in my Superliner Dumptruck.2 turbos and adjustable injection timing.Its getting harder to find parts for but ive been wanting one of these VT90s the V8 cummins with 500hp,the real challenge finding motors is the E9 500 Mack,which is really what i want to have to replace the motor in my F,

  2. 51 minutes ago, ws721 said:

    Have a 74 Marmon.  Rugged truck. Not much for styleing

    They were rugged,tough trucks,hand built by people who took pride in their product.They had a style all their own and people valued them for getting the job done.My dream truck is one of these with a "Buzzin Dozen" with around 700hp and a super 10 or 13 roadranger

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  3. 6 hours ago, Vladislav said:

    As I said in my previouse post - unbelivable and interesting! Currently I'm on my very first steps on Farsi. Seems to me of not much worth of a trip in those lands with no local speaking skills.

    The young adult males also speak english pretty well,but Farsi will be helpful when you get way out there in the mtns,and to be able to hear that they are going to rob you hahahaha,

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  4. Vlad,you might actually find one there,one evening I was coming back from Kabul and going through deep search at the entrance of the base was an old road tractor very similar to these dump trucks and it had my total attention and I stopped and got out to take a closer look,the tractor was pulling a lowboy and it appeared to have a triplex transmission with a V8 which barely fit under the hood even with the side skirts removed,Imagine driving this on the Lahore to Mazar I sharif route? 1,193.3 km of beautiful scenery,treacherous bad lands and some of the most dangerous roads on the planet? We have found the old T 52 and earlier tanks there with perfectly working guns that still ran,the locals told us stories of how they were told to hide the tank so they built a house around them,once we even found an original Renault tank from 1917 there complete and in working order.So its quite possible to find one of these there,however,If it can make money? the Afghans will literally run it into the ground wringing out of it every last dime till its useless,Parts are hard to find there unless they come off another truck,ive seen some of the best engineering there in duplicating parts or even utilizing components unrelated to them to make something work.During the Soviet occupation,troops sowed alot of seed there with the local population and the end product turned out exceptionally well,tall men with green eyes,built like Russians with broad shoulders,so if you can learn to speak Farsi or Dari,you would be able to spend some time there in your search my friend,

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  5. On 3/15/2021 at 3:29 PM, Vladislav said:

    Unbelivable and very interesting. I'm on a slow hunt for an old Soviet YaAZ-210 truck which was produced in 50's and looked very close to a L-model Mack. Actually it was designed using Mack chassis as a prototype. 20 thousand were produced and only one survivor is known at the moment here in Russia. I know a few were exported to Afghanistan and some other countries and keep a hope to find something in that part of the world. Seems like not the safest place on the planet to travel and the virus made the most of borders closed at the time.

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  6. Whats obvious is Bidens not in the white house,nor is harris in the Blair house,however the other nite they were escorting children out of the white house from the underground tunnels where they were being held in cages,this explains the hologram or Ocasio Cortez on the white house lawn the other nite flailing her arms and crying,copied from video of her down at the border making a scene about children kept in Obamas cages,

  7. Ive even seen photos of older trucks than this rolling around there Vlad,When I was working in Afghanistan just north of Kabul it was a real treat seeing the older Soviet trucks from the late 30s lumbering down the road still making their owners money,The old road tractors with safari front windows,long hoods with bullet headlights,the older Kamaz,Star dumptrucks that could be cranked with a handle,In Iran,the F model Macks with the flat roofs,actually built there.In Australia,they fondly refer to the F models as pizza ovens.

  8. Been a while since ive checked in on this thread, Iran the numbers the other day and the 84 superliner dumptruck i bought for 11 grand made me over 400,000 before i had to spend money on the motor,and the springs,but i wouldnt have the new stuff,drove a Granite with the automatic trans while mine was down and could see how much the technology had progressed,and that id fall asleep driving it because it was too quiet,

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  9. I know someone here has seen this set up before,ive got a Kysor roof A/C and the Kysor evap unit in the hump,when i got the truck,only the roof was hooked up, im wanting to hook up both and am seeking information as to tie both together,the only condenser is in the roof unit,no room for a condenser on the radiator as its fitted with the shutters, common sense says to tie the low side from the roof unit to the high side of the in cab unit,then finish the circuit back to the low side of compressor,any help would be appreciated,

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