Hans Remmers

I need to ask my parts guy from Peterbilt about them. He works a half mile from this yard, he worked at Albany Mack through the 90's and early 2000's. The MB and a couple U's up front haven't moved in 20+ years. My step-grandfather was always looking for parts and trucks for us and nothing was ever for sale here. For years I thought the MB had a for sale sign in it, not a keep out sign. They are still in business and have some CH's and Visions hauling freight.

Here are some pics from today's trip up there. There are 3 AC's with Universal Cranes on them, crane models are not all the same. One is missing the boom, another truck engine, and third the house engine. Trees and vines make good pics impossible. Some more pics of the beautiful Rail-Ex International KB-5. I also pulled the altered wood framing away on the bus to access the vin plate better although I still can't read number in pic.

Had some time to kill on a Sunday so I got some pics of Albany's U model graveyard. The trucking business still seems to be operational but most of these U's haven't moved in years. With an MB-400 for storage out front with its Keep Out signs there appears to be 13 U's out back which is more than I even expected. This place looks basically the same as it did 25 years ago, just the vines are bigger.

Posting some random pics I took at this junkyard a couple weeks ago. I believe everything shown is available for sale. I'm going to try to head up later and get some better ones. Contact Skwak for more info.

I've seen one rot and fall completely off the engine. On a truck with minimal rust.

PVC caps are the simplest charge air testing tool. Just install a tr572 or similar valve stem in one. Install the caps in your hoses on the CAC pipes and fill with a tire chuck carefully. Check the cold start valves too to ensure are staying open and closed as req. Air cylinder springs will break. Those systems double the amount of places for boost leaks.

Replaced main suction line, isolated each tank, replaced filter housing(complete), transfer pump and overflow valve. Basically everything external with the exception of the stupid euro swage lock banjo lines. It will lose prime shut off and when you accelerate hard, but not always, sometimes runs perfect. If you back out early enough and let it idle it will recover on its own, but if you try to just drive through it, it will lose prime and quit. Always refires with just hand priming. Low fuel pressure code when acts up and had #5 injector fault prior to harness replacement. Was about to pull it apart and found bare injector wires touching near connector. Has since thrown a #4 injector mechanical not responding once. I've never gotten any further into this engine since we got it 4 years ago. Are injector cups the next best step forward? Anyways, back on topic of this thread, for a little morphodite bastard pup, prior to this issue its been a great truck. It struggled with its stock 365hp backed by the mutant extended range 10 speed with its NY legal 24 ton. Poor truck was built for tonnage, have 3 Cat powered 550hp dumps that can't get the tonnage this does. I put in a TS performance module 3 years ago and it helped quite a bit and it still gets great mileage. Almost double that of the 18 speed backed Acert Paystar.

I have one of these engines in an 07 Ctp713. EGR only, nothing else. I've been chasing an issue with it losing prime under a load and its driving me nuts. Its very unpredictable and sometimes runs perfect. I've gone through the entire fuel system outside of the engine and replaced the engine harness because of bare injector wiring under the valve cover. Are injector cups my best next step? I almost started pulling injectors until I saw the harness. It fixed an intermittent injector code and seemed ok but then the problem came back.

Does anybody know the story on Mahan's black Superliner lettered as Nuss Truck Group? The description I've seen at shows claims it is a 650 Maxidyne "Hagerstown Special". Doesn't it have an E7?

St Louis Macks page 5. Couldn't figure out how to link it to this topic. I've seen it for sale in the past as well in the red white and blue colors.

I don't think they all had cross braces. The one on my 89 looks to be homemade. I don't think my family's 88 sleeper had them mounted behind the bunk, but one always shook and eventually broke the mount. There is also the option of running a single tie rod between the brackets as my MH has.

Wish I could squeeze a c15 in that rd, just lost a truck yesterday. I saw the craigslist ad last night and figured somebody better have a post on here for them. Joseph Equip does come up with some surprising things. Hard telling what will come of the newer gliders with pre-emission engines in the future. 1989 Macks are another story. Although I still don't really want to know what the regulations are now in that backwards broken cesspool of a state called California.

Average on any 4 bag tandem suspension is 60-70psi with legal axle load weight shouldn't be more than 20psi empty. If it just reads 100 all the time something is wrong. A gauge that will read in load weight requires calibration and is no more accurate than learning what the truck weighs based on bag pressure. If the sensor is tied in at a bag fitting then it should be in the right place.

Yes, those great plexiglass barriers that you have to struggle to sign an invoice around. Maybe soon they'll be gone. Just a week ago there was discussion about the new covid guidelines for masking and social distancing in the event of a nuclear attack. Then suddenly ahead of President Dementia's State of the Union address covid was eradicated.

It just always leaves the thrifty prick with an option for a write up. I haven't had any issues with this yet, but I've had such crap as them measuring the reflective tape on the mudflaps and writing it up as well as 1/2" thick oem legal length dump trailer mudflaps blowing too high. I also remember the first dot cop around that starting writing dump trucks up for body-up lights before most knew it was a law. The rest caught on pretty quick. Steer axle slacks can be tricky especially on a Mack with rotochambers and the offset arms.

Off the top of my head 44 rears on camelback would be a haldex 10144 and aftermarket uses the same numbers

According to law I was told at a bendix foundation class they must be the same brand across an axle. So even a haldex against a reproduction haldex can get you written up.

Also as for yoke removal, 95% of my 2 jaw puller usage has been for yoke removal with no jaws in it.

I had to put some thought into this. I don't think there is any good solution to dealing with road salt but one instance where the dirt seal would be beneficial is a truck that does asphalt paving. That crap gets on and sticks to everything under a truck. You wouldn't want a chunk of blacktop stuck on the yoke against the seal. At least the rubber seal on a mack yoke allows dirt to throw out more so than the pressed on steel slinger on an Eaton or junk Rockwell rear. Growing up with mack rears I learned how crucial vent maintenance is but other brands, especially with u-tube breathers are almost zero maintenance.

I recently had the throwout bearing inner bushing come apart and nest inside itself holding the clutch disengaged and the pedal itself would return just fine. Taking that into consideration I would say the problem is likely an external linkage problem. Possibly an issue with the air assist valving.

I just searched through dex and other places that I thought might have them listed and found nothing. You're probably better off searching for used right now especially if they are National brand seats. I just got the bottom cushion and cover for an oe peterbilt seat after 4 months on backorder and it showed up with the totally wrong cover. The Mack accessories catalogs used to have seats listed but the only pdf catalog I found is too old.

I've seen worse looking undercarriages on fire trucks around here from the mid 80's. Look at the rear springs, there's absolutely no rust jacking in the stack. Definitely looks like it can be saved. Is most of the stuff still in this junkyard that can be seen on google satellite images? I'm less than an hour away but never heard of the salvage yard before you started this post. I'd like to take a look at what else is there one of these days if thats alright.

I'm not positive but I'm leaning to agree that the high mount turbo was truck model specific. My superliner that I just converted from a robert bosch to an ambac has a high mount. I don't think e6 and e7's were the same and a quick look at the pai book reinforces this, but I don't know if they can be made to work together. Pai would be the first place I'd look for one, but who knows about availability anymore.

Back row at Englishtown along where the air strip is??? I miss that show, place and time when so many trucks looked that way.