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willy, I am restoring a BM with rubber spring mounting pads similar to the front ones on your truck. I would like to know a source for these mounting pads if you were able to find any new ones. Thank you in advance

good work, I am sure you will enjoy the finished product

Looks great, and it is yours so polish away. Which engine are you using, 377, 401, or 402? If my memory is correct the 377 used an oil cooler and the double fan belts?

We in California at least got to have an F model for a short time. This truck was posted on the WOT classified site on the Friday after Thanksgiving and when I called on sat. evening the seller told me he had a full price offer and two backup offers. I think the amazing original condition is the result of having the cable operated backhoe attachment with no out riggers. Imagine putting on the emergency brake and trying to dig while bouncing around on the tires. This attachment most likely municipalities saved a the FG's life.

Trying to get contact info on a gentlemen named Randy Sully that has posted information he collects on 1930's BM BQ and BX model Mack's on this site.

J Hancock is probably right as my old eyes couldn't read the hood logo even with a mag glass. On closer examination the tool and battery boxes mounted on the frame look just like the ones on my 1937 BM.

The radiator and shutters look Mack but the trim on the doors and spoke wheels are absent, so my best guess is a Moreland. Moreland had a dark egg shaped logo on the radiator. They were manufactured in Los Angles from 1915 to 1940 with dealerships only in the west. My second guess would be a Kleiber which was manufactured in San Francisco and used a very similar cab to the Moreland. Scratch the Kleiber, they had an upward sloping cursive logo on the radiator. I'll stick with Moreland.

J Hancock, which green would have been the correct correct original green

I need the paint code number for the original Mack green on my 37 Mack , Thank You in advance

great looking LT with the east coast pin stripping. I was old enough to remember when the LT was introduced making an L J cab into the best looking truck ever made. The LT was the most popular truck where I grew up in the mountains of Ca. in the early 50's. I didn't have the clout at 12 years old to save the family 50 LT. This truck with the levered hood is the second one I have ever seen, and the other one had a louvered hood and Hall-Scott power also. While the Hall-Scott was the big power of the day, the1091 cub engine was called the Model 400 and [produced 318 hp on propane and about 330 on gas. There was a 370 H.P. model produced in later years with dual carburetor's. While they were the big power of the day with advanced engineering such as dual overhead cam shafts they couldn't pass up a gas pump. I drove a West coaster International with Hall-Scott power one winter hauling wheat from the Sacramento area to the San Francisco bay area a 140 mile round trip and it used 75 gallons of Butane per trip--1.87 mpg with a 100 foot high summit to cross.

Why no 900 cube Mack 6 cyl is probably a complicated question which involved sales, marketing, engineering, production and the board of directors which must balance the desires of all these bursaries. In hind sight it appears that a big cub Maxidyne would have successful given the big cube success of Cat and 60 series Detroit's. For what ever reason it appears to me that Mack went from top of the industry 80 plus years ago to being owned by Volvo. Mack had the big off road dump market virtually to it's self but quit around the time Cat started so Mack doesn't have any 5 million trucks to sell. Mack sold lots of trucks in the west when they were in Hayward and had a lock on the ready mix truck chassis business but they lost virtually all their business following the closure of the Hayward plant and the closer of dealerships. There are 6 or 7 Mack truck dealerships in California, and a dozen Volvo dealerships with a Mack sign on the corner of the building, And, California being the 6th largest economy in the world and having the busiest ports in the US, and my local Peterbilt store having a small Mack and Volvo sign on the corner of the building, maybe there won't be a Mack Truck in our future.

We started 12-15 years ago using a Shaffer's moly grease that is a para synthetic?? It is about 4$ per tube by the case. changing from the Standard sticky Red stuff cut the pin and bushing wear by 75% and you grease consumption by 50% on our excavators. It works great on U joints and tie rod ends as well.

There was a b71 advertised on this web site recently. It had a noticeable longer hood and a 220 Cummins diesel which was the natural aspirated version of the supercharged engine. These engines were popular here in the west. It made a huge difference on grades like E. bound Donner summit with 7000 feet of adverse grade with 275 hp. and 300 hp. vs. 170 + for a Mack in the late 40's and early 50's. Cummins engine were spec. in B models mostly with the L cabs and were used almost exclusive by the LT models with a few using a Hall Scott in the early years.

I am working on a 37 BM with an old 5 speed over and a dealer-installed 3 speed brownie. It has a 1-1/2" 10 spline input shaft and approx. 18" bolt circle on the bell housing with a pull clutch. At a 7.5 ratio I need a double over, any suggestions??

Too bad there isn't two of them so more folks could have one

doesn't get any better than this. I have seen a picture on this we b site of a sister truck with MARTIN 1932 on the name board above the cab painted with thesamecollersceam.

The I.C.C. issued permits for companies to operate across state lines along certain routes. When this was done away with during the Reagan administration many companies went away. Here in the west I can remember CF,( Consolidated Freightways) P.I.E., (PACIFIC intermountain express) Delta freight Lines, LASME, (L.A. Seattle Motor express), all gone a long time ago.

The only L model cab with a wooden frame was the LJ with an integral sleeper. One wonders what would have been had Mack improved the L cab instead of going to the small B cab. Prior to the deregulation of the trucking industry fleet buyers were conducted by purchasing agents that had little regard for the driver comfort and appearance. With the advent of the over the road owner operator and small fleets of non union companies driver comfort and appearance became good selling points. Last summer I traveled through Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Carolina, Virginia, W. Virginia, Oklahoma, and Texas. I wasn't looking for Mack dealerships but did notice three small ones and lots of Peterbilt dealerships with large inventories. Our local Peterbilt dealership has small Mack and Volvo signs on the building but no Mack inventory, I don't know what is up with this. Corporate success starts with management and engineering of industrial products and sometimes old bureaucracies go in the wrong direction and can't save themselves by changing direction later, Studebaker comes to mind. Everyone knows of the success of Paccar with Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks while Mack is now a Volvo stepchild.

Probably some ex-Studebaker employees in management.

Great work you have a real talent, I especially liked my old friend's 931 Diamond T

I just completed a complete rebuild of the CF flathead for my 37 BM using two engines to make one, lots of machine work and dollars. There are some left over parts, so if you need anything I would be willing to share

A40--EN377 engine oil filters, there were some advertised on EBAY recently at decent prices

My father bought one new in 1950 and I wore it out twice by 1975 and liked it very much. I looked at a nice A40 in Ca. recently but the owner must have changed the steering box as the wheel was a lot closer to the seat back than I remembered

They don't seem to be real popular, partially because us old guy's are cashing in Notice all the "Antique" 70"s and 80's Peterbuilts and Kenwourth's at the shows. I really like the A models so keep me posted.