JerryB

You suck , what a great find FireMack. I agree, the B cab is way to small unless your into 4 1/2 feet tall filipina women.

wives looking over you 2 guys shoulders huh?????? I'm 6'1" and am here to testify all things are possible.

Hey Guys, take it easy on Hammond!!!! LOL I live over off Kennedy just north of 80, in the nice quiet area!! If you guys ever have trouble around here, You can call me anytime. Im more than happy to help a fellow Bulldogger anytime I can!! If anyone would like my number send me a message and Ill hook ya up!. And yes there are areas around here I wont even drift into!!!

You better watch out making an offer like that with this gang you might not get caught up on road calls

I go to Hammond a couple of times a month. It's not so bad since they finished the I-80 construction.

I'm glad you got it worked out Logger. I just went through the same problem so I feel your pain.

For some reason my comment didn't attach so I'll try again. I thought we have the same size? Mine is a 63" I think or maybe 68"

hey mackpro just a reminder, im headed for sd now, buying ice for my cooler,leaking water and such..............

be careful bigen silicone will melt your styrofoam. I better hurry if I'm gonna beat you to MackPro's place for the fridge. :tease: :tease: :tease: :tease:

Thanks Barry you're doing fine.

I'm not too good at going forward...much worse going backwards. They had to cut down a bank twice and still had to tow me so I could get around the curve at the bottom of this hill. Then I had to back all the way back down to turn around in the grass by the big oak tree, between the trailer and the brush pile.

I once delivered some equipment to a mine in W. Va that ended up sending a tow truck and D-9 Cat to sit my trailer around curves. I could pull the grades okay but the curves were to sharp.

I hear ya! anybody that knows me knows my loyalty in trucks is mack,and i have driven several other make trucks,including my dads 275" wheelbase pete largecar,and all kidding aside,my CX is absolutely the best riding/handling truck i have ever driven! I get some grief frome other make owners/drivers..ask me why a mack? i always tell them the same thing,show me a better built truck,with 100 years plus engineering experience,and macks reputation and i'll buy one!....mark

I'm with you. I pull a tank and it's unbelievable how much more easy the Vision is to maneuver in the chemical plants. Often times I have to wait 10-20 minutes for a pretty boy to get out of my way in the plants because they have so many blind spots they can't get around without a ground guide. When the yappers get on me about owning a "bulldog" I tell them the Bulldogs have fed and raised 5 kiddoes, put 3 through college and paid for 2 homes so I'll just stay at the pound.

I found this today on my way to look for a trailer. Figured yall might want to see it. -

Thanks for posting the pic. Before my son had to stop riding with me to start school he rode all over the midwest and east coast holding the shifters in one of those saying "now daddy now? ". He got doggone good shifting a duplex and triplex but nowadays my grandsons are with me operating an air-shift 18sp. Thanks for the memories. Jerry

GEEEZZ did,nt mean to stir up a whole shit storm! you guys primarirly do vocational work, me on the other hand am on pavement 99.9% of the time,spend upwards of 3 weeks at a time in my truck, cover 26-3000+ miles per week, mountains,snow, desert etc.i have been in a truck longer than some of the people i know have been alive, and after 30 years you come to appreacieate a good riding truck when your back, knees, and everything else is sore and does'nt work so good anymore! no truck rides like a cadillac,my point was my CX rides better than a similarly equipped volvo thats all.....mark

Amen and preach on brother me too, I started OTR in 1968. I've had large car pete, KW, and a Binder Eagle and none compare to the comfort of my beloved Vision. I had a Western Star once that was almost as smooth riding but the cab was too small.

have you got any connections around pueblo,Co.?????????

i can't find anything but no payin hay.

i allways get suckered into going out here for $2.20 a mile thinking i gota get lucky once in a while, as useual here i set fueled and showered with no place to go.........

bigen I sent a PM.

glad to hear all is fine, how many miles on your truck.

the added mpg could be from water injection, from the leaking egr cooler, (just a brain fart)

how many miles since your last egr cooler.

how low do you let rpm's go, before downshifting.

my 04,would ussually have problems in the 55mph states, jerryb has a lot less trouble since they raised speed limit in ill. maybe just a fluke,maybe have to run egr motors above 1,300 rpm's

we have to try to share as much info as posible on these egr motors, because we are a bad dream they want to forget, so any new idea's have to come from mechanic's(not tech's)who care and dumass truckdrivers, scarry thought.

mine is out of warrenty now, one deal like that once a year, i would be trucking for repairs........

That's right bigen since the speed limit went up I don't have as much truck trouble plus I get better fuel mileage.

Nope Jerry yours is on the money if you push it on a cold day you can hit 38 with a 460.that turbo will put out far more air than your engine can use but with out more fuel more air is useless!I have personaly pluged the by pass valve ,It will bang the boost gauge off the end of the gauge.ya don't want to go there.

The waste gated turbo is designed to put no more than 33 psi into that year, FOR WHAT ever reason, These engineer types put a derate in there at 33 psi, As if more air would hurt the engine

WHAT EVER!

Okay thanks I was worried about it. I like to keep everything as well maintained as possible.

I love my old mess again after you guys talked me through the coolant headaches. I've been running around 3500 miles per week with only the fan hub going out since the coolant debacle. I wish it had a grease zert instead of the prepacked bearings.

We have had problems with the waste gated turbo before the waste gate Maybe stuck open or not sealing properly!As 68 mentioned 33 psi boost is max before derate on those engines!

Thanks fjh I didn't snap onto what MackPro is saying til you said that. Does the high boost pressure mean I need a new boost relief valve? It seems to have plenty of power and the fuel mileage is good. Maybe my gage is wrong?

Woe is me. I'm a worrier so I better check this out.

I found a picture of the pressure tester made by fjh. By capping off both ends of the turbo and airing it up you can test the entire charge air system at once and it's quick

At 33-34 boost it runs around 450-500 then at 35-37 boost it runs up to about 700-750. If I lug down it eases up to around 800-900 sometimes but seldom that high. MackPro will line it out for you. He and fjh have done more to fix my truck with their experienced advice than the local Mack dealership did for me after several shop visits.

I've had coolant pushing problems, blown turbo problems, EUP problems, and charge air problems they talked me through.

So what sort of exhaust temp do you get from your 460

At 33-34 boost it runs around 450-500 then at 35-37 boost it runs up to about 700-750. If I lug down it eases up to around 800-900 sometimes but seldom taht high.

That sounds low to me too My o4 460 runs around 33-34 in normal running but it sneaks up to 36-37 when I pull it down hard.

any bigger i won't have to worry about it cause i won't fit in the cab..............

I've worried so much over my mess I've lost about 15 pounds. Is your new truck as comfortable as the Vision?

Jeezus...did you end up with any bullet holes anywhere? That is THE LAST place I'd want to be broke down. Back a few years ago I was pulling a pneumatic tanker up to Chicago then bouncing down the skyway to whatever steel mill is over there at the top end of Cline Ave...sometimes when I-80 was jammed up I'd take (shit, forgot the road number) across from IN-312 over to I-57 in Dolton....couldn't drive fast enough.

lol--I was between the police station and the fire house on US41 North/Calumet Ave. I think that's about 2 miles or so south of 312, I was headed to Cline from 80. There's a vacant alley on the west side of the street across from a whiskey store so I backed in and went to work. I didn't get any bullet holes but I did grow an extra set of eyes in the back of my head. I don't like being circled around by that kind of clientele

I'm gonna haft to find out where MackPro is and get my rust bucket by there for a check up. bigen you better watch out with a new fridge you night turn to a bigger bigen. I still use an ice cooler for ice water and lunch meat but I gotta have the microwave for popcorn when I watch Palidin or Hoss Cartwright on fancast.com

MackPro or bigen if you see this message would you PM me the location so I can see how bad out of route to go by for a MackPro check up? bigen I don't want you getting one up on me keeping a truck in shape. My old mess is doing so fine since we cured the water problem it scares me. I cratered the fan hub last week but it didn't hurt the radiator. I'm getting better on roadside repairs it was only about a 3 hour repair including the taxi ride across Hammond to Pozzo Mack in Gary.

The first 335 was a 743 engine. Not many around any more but it was in the years of the B models. The way to tell is if it has lines on the out side of the head to the injectors like the 220 and 262 then it will be a 5 1/8 bore engine with piston oil coolers. glenn

That's right the first 335 was a souped up 743 but most folks either don't know that or have forgot it. I've had the 743 block up to 365hp.

The 335 in the 855 block was a good engine but the crankshaft wouldn't stand up to cowboys.

as for how they get the guiny pigs, when you dont know about the 04's and you get stuck with one, you instantlly become a guiny pig, like reaching for a life ring when your drowning......

That's right bigen. Like you I didn't ask to be a test rat but once the name was signed on the bottom line I was turned into one. The main problem I've had is people in the local Mack shop who don't know how to troubleshoot or complete a repair, they do fully understand how to work the labor rate book tho. I'm sure if I had known fjr and MackPro when I started having troubles it would have gone better and been more economical. There's no telling how many $$$ those 2 guys have saved me as I've had to re-repair the butcher work done by Houston Mack.

I never knew exactly why they came out with some longer but the longer one got rid of a lot of intake noise in the cab so I liked it better.

Welcome in Mackie. I like your home.