ranchhopper

I just pulled the wire harness out of the superliner cab that I'm taking off the truck to be replaced and like every other wire harness I took out of a mack its completely oil soaked. I hate wiring but I tagged all the connectors so I know where its going to looks like I will have to go wire by wire and cut new ones for the new cab. All the other wires not soaked with oil are real dried out I wish there were an alternative but looks like I will be busy on this for a while.

Most pallets will work put 1/2 or 3/4 inch plywood over the top of it.

1 hour ago, fxfymn said:

If you have a way to get it to a Fastenal store and the receiver can pick it up, Fastenal is pretty cheap to use as a shipper. And even a regular LTL shipper is not that expensive. I sent the engine from my AB to IL for less than $300.00 using SIAI.

It all depends on freight class I use a shipping broker just type in the class , weight, origin, destination and get quotes from five or six different companies.

https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitsrh/?sl=91QSCI17039611    Looks like it may be pretty old being s short as it is with the rounded bulk head.

Just now, Freightrain said:

I keep trying to pawn off my ol 673, but you are quite a trip away.

Drain all the oil and antifreeze out of it and put it on a pallet and ship it to him. I do it all the time biggest thing is not to have anything dripping out of it.

I have a set of spiders off a 73 R model sitting in the shed.

German.

30 miles west of Chicago.

These came off my superliner they were on eaton axles but fit others too takes a 580 outer bearing have some studs missing easily replaced.two hundred or best offer for set of four I can ship these if needed.

Good pair of stainless quarter fenders has a couple dings can be made like new price fifty dollars is for the pair can ship if needed.

Spring cleaning some of this stuff has to go fifty bucks for this wheel takes an 11R24.5 tire I can ship if needed for some reason the last for some reason over the last couple weeks this site does not allow me to post pics says they are to big if you want pics email me and I will send one..

Never knew Plote had Hanks in his fleet its an old picture the phone number is a palatine number ours was FL-8 too.

I have a set of rods, oil pan, heads, crankshaft, turbo, bell housing and other misc. parts from a 1973 running 237 engine make offer on what you need I can ship them if needed.

I would like to get one of the old ones it would never haul anything even those old sunrise aluminum dumps but I think the torch got most of the older dumps sitting in the back corners of the parking lots.

I would like to find one of those old Celli dumps to pull behind my super doing parades I would probably repaint the name back on it if you ever find an old one going cheap Al let me know.

I certainly remember those trucks passed them numerous times a big guy with a big beard was always behind the wheel. He was never in a hurry always kept a slow steady pace you can always tell an old school guy who owned the truck he drove by the way they treated it. These guys who own their trucks nowdays beat on it like it was somebody elses a totally different mind set from the old school guys kind of sad really.

That yellow RL looks like the one Mike drug off to iowa.

I will get the measurements to you today I believe they are longer than a standard R model box.

Having a problem too says the pics are too big.

I have a decent set of battery box covers from one of my Hayward macks they are pretty dent free one has a repair under the hold down but good for a working truck make offer I can ship these if needed. For some reason it wont let me attach more than one picture I will try to load the pics of the other side later today I also have a pretty much perfect set of these from my parade truck too I made a couple sets of them from polished aluminum diamond plate for the trucks so these are no longer needed.

5 minutes ago, Hobert62 said:

I'm just glad we don't get snow like some parts of the country.   

I put in nine hours pushing snow sunday night and seven hours last night doing the same thing I'm walking around in a stupor from lack of sleep.

The old stuff is always the best I had signal stands too they worked like the ones you see at the grade crossings they made some great stuff when we were kids I feel sorry for the plastic generation their stuff will be long gone in the landfill way before they have kids.

Isnt it funny how when you get deep into a hobby it turns into a money pit I'm going to start making battery box covers for my macks out of polished aluminum diamond plate and I'm going to make enough of them to sell some trying to help pay for my hobby. I have a nice new sheet metal finger brake to bend them up and I am going to practice my aluminum MIG welding to make them look nice. I should be able to sell them for half what they get for a polished aluminum battery box cover and mine will be polished diamond plate I'm going to make them for western and regular R models.

15 minutes ago, Freightrain said:

My dad purchased a "DD40" for his HO layout.  I remember them being a very large engine(even in HO) and you had to have a large radius layout to run them. I still have all his engines, including a cab forward(another very cool piece I always liked).

That's cool I had one large lionel steam train set as a kid three rail system wish I had it now the transformer was half as big as a bus to run it.

Its a real shame they couldn't have saved the B unit of the silver pilot it was scrapped before anyone cared to preserve it. 9911A is the only one left I think the silver pilot was built in 1939 would have been nice to have the B unit still hooked to it.