Mark T

Try that.  This dude'll school ya on two sticks.    

Probably my fault Bob.  I'm not too familiar with sending links.

Pretty sure he's the real thing , and not 70 years old.

How about this guy ????

Watch _The GREATest 2 sticks shifting video of all time!_ on YouTube.eml

Not much chance of it not running.  Not much else that hasn't been replaced or serviced .  You're going to be surprised at how smooth that will run. 

On 6/8/2023 at 5:34 PM, mattb73lt said:

Man, I got a LOT put back together today. It was faster mostly because I wasn’t fabricating every little piece and kept it pretty well organized as it came apart.

Looks like it's ready to start.  Did you have it running yet ?

That's a very popular show OD. Lots of nice trucks there.  I don't make it as often as I'd like to, but I'm sure you'd see a familiar face or ten there.

They look to be old Rockwells.   Maybe even from the Timken era ???  Not sure what model.   Still seems like it should work, especially if you freshen it all up like you said.

Half inch... isn't it ?

55 minutes ago, Vladislav said:

An axle off a tandem bogie can be used as a single drive if attached properly. At least I see no reason it couldn't transfer the torque. It shouldn't have an interaxle diff for sure so preferrably a RR axle.

Another reasonable single drive option on my mind is a half of Neway setup. You just take one axle with Neway brackets and equalizers etc and mount it to your chassis. Not a correctly looking design for a B-model. But correctly looking for a classic Mack truck in general.

There's one more interesting point in that story. Usually axle housings used with Neway have brackets (ears) welded to the housing at the bottom side. So those are not axles which ride on Camelback. But one set of Neway's I could locate locally had axles of the style used with Camelback. There were adapting brackets (actually thick plates with ears welded onto) which were bolted right to where elephant pads use to be. So Camelback style axles were mounted to Neway equalizers and all seemed as factory parts.

I  might be wrong, but I think the adaptor  you're describing for the Nuway is the same as the one for a Hendrickson.  He's talking about using an Airliner. That seems like an easy one to use as a single axle. See them all the time. Might be a challenge to get the drive line down to the level of the pinion though as compared to Mack top load double reductions.  Fairly large drop compared to wheel base.

Rol loc makes short work of cleaning it off. Didn't have them back then either. 

Pictures are always good.   I'm sure someone could make a suggestion.

I just wanna know if the chassis is gonna venture down to Macungie   (I'm pretty  sure it's gonna run)

I actually burst out laughing at that one.  And just think, the (manshed) sticker probably has some meaning we're not aware of.

3 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

Oh My Sufferin' Christ !!!!!  too much to comment on..  

I know..... she's hot     right ????

21 hours ago, davehummell said:

Mark you referring to Charley at Dunmore Injection? I had a Mack pump adjusted out in Williamsport and a friend called out this spring and they are gone. Enzo used to do Cummins but I can't remember if he screwed around with Mack pumps He was at the Kingston Franconi shop quite a few years ago. Cooky's sold the Mack dealer up in Scranton and they don't sell Mack parts anymore !!! Back in the early 80's had a Mack pump rebuilt at a shop out in Hazleton.

Charley's gone.  Dick Laing up in Binghamton got absorbed by D & W .  I don't think the old Allentown Mack does it anymore.  The others ??? IDK. 

Yes.....  not his first .  We don't have a pump guy here anymore.  The go to guy in my area here passed away a little while back, and I don't think the Mack dealer in Allentown has the pump shop anymore. 

7 hours ago, tjc transport said:

They dont care Bob.

Smash this one, I'll just get another one from insurance company.

And taking their foot off the gas peddle is NOT an option.

No goats 🦌 were harmed in the making of the videos (lol)   I think Fred may have played us all a little here (in a good way)  Seems like this wasn't the first time he's had a governor  apart.   Great stuff no matter.  Like I said before, fewer and fewer people are capable of making such repairs.   Thanks for sharing and explaining.

Never know. Us guys in the dump trucks .....

1 hour ago, mowerman said:

California has mandatory helmets for minors on bicycles not sure, growing up as a kid I have never seen anybody get a head injury on a bicycle 

Yes Bob....they believe the head should be in pristine condition for when the hormone therapy or anti depressant meds come into the picture.  There's a brief overlap between a kid on a bike and the meds in that state.

I'm grasp'n at straws here (lol)   Just sometimes easy stuff gets overlooked .  I've seen trucks with the puff limiter disconnected do this. Maybe it's because of some other underlying issue in the governor, but it'll do it. Then once it starts, and you get bounced around  because of it, it amplifies it all.  These things are old, who knows what could be worn by now, and guys familiar with them to make a repair are becoming a scarcity .