gicknordon

Were you thinking about putting air ride on the truck in the future?

Its an option for the future. Dont know if its worth the extra few grand just to make it look cool when its parked though.

Nice work so far. Good lord at least you didn't do an LS swap!!!! Geezus that would make ol Henry roll! Heck an ol roller cam 302 and T5 would make that thing scoot and be very light weight on the nose compared to that locomotive sized Lima!! LOL!!

I looked at a '51 back in the very early 80's. I wanted it BAD!!! It was all stock, all original and came from the south so it was rust free. I just got my license and had no money so it was a moot point.

The expected 525 hp and 525 ft lbs of torque should get it moving pretty good. Aluminum heads and intake will take some weight out of it as well.

Thanks guys! Yeah i always hate seeing a chevy in a ford, although the t56 im using is technically out of a camaro. I justified it because its not technically a chevy transmission since mustangs and vipers and other performance cars also used the same transmission.

here's a 49 f6 that was on ebay a few weeks ago.

The new trucks with dual stacks have a y pipe under/at the back of the cab like what guys do on their pickups. No advantage over single.

nice. the one Granite has the outside double arched trunion on it. thought they did away with that with the early R models......

there were a fair amount of trucks with that reunion. Mostly exports. All the trucks in the pictures that have the Dayton spoke wheels were exports with 65,000 lb axles with the larger trunion.

They are mostly gas but there was an order that started when I was leaving of diesel tractors. They were Cummins engines though.

Amazing photos. Keep up the good work. That LE sure has a unique frame. Doesn't seem like there are a lot of CH axle forwards(large cars) too bad.

There were a fair amount of CH tractors. There just werent many that wer noteworthy to take pictures of other than that tri drive one.

The outer flanges are huck bolted to the frame but the cross beam is riveted to the bracket They replaced the whole assembly and it got rid of 90% of the rear end sway. Now they are waiting for parts to rebuild the whole rear suspension (twin Y) to see if that will help with the front end wandering.

Forgot about that sorry. You would be surprised how many trucks sitting right outside of the plant waiting to be shipped alreay have some rust coming from between framerails and crossmembers and other places the paint doesnt reach.

Interesting point. I just did my weekly crawl thru and noticed that the crossmember just behind the transmission is showing signs of rust between where the gussets are riveted to the crossmember. Can't turn the rivets with a vise-grip, but they could be tight and just wandering around in slightly oversize holes. Along with all the other issues on this p.o.s. I think it's time to have a little discussion with the dealer. Best place for this truck is parked against their fence, far away from a public road!

Mack doesnt use rivets on their chassis. They use what are called huck bolts. The frames are also painted after being assembled so its not uncommon to see rust between crssmembers.

Just an update on this. It looks like some of the issues we were having were from a clutch going bad. We had another shop take a look and it looks like high gear was worn which was causing the main problem. They are gonna rebuild it.

A lot of new york state plow trucks are granite tractors. When my internship is done here at macungie ill post up some pictures of unique trucks that have been built.

Other than the new york state trucks, ive seen a handfull of granite tractors come off the line this summer

So a 2070 would definitely fit?

Any body atleast have the spec sheets for these transmissions?

My dad has a 1987 mack tandem dump truck. The t- 2060 transmission was run low on oil and either needs replaced or rebuilt. The guy he usually take his transmissions to says it might be worth it to get a reman or rebuilt since running it low on oil might have changed the temper on the smaller gears. My question is is there any other make transmissions that will fit the same as the 2060. I read somewhere that the 2070 would fit, but i want to make sure of this first since a local truck parts place has a few 2070's but no 2060's.