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I don’t think I ever saw them located where they are on your DM , that must have been a popular handle back in the day.

Thank You Brocky , I’ll tell him in the morning that you approved! I’ve had him helping on a Monte Carlo SS project in the basement on cold evenings.

I always used the door handle, probably why all I ever saw was floppy . So our after school project today , take the inside pull handle off a parts truck 359 we have ,( same handle as on the side cowl of the Superliner) . Clean them up, take a trip to Ace Hardware, purchase 8 one inch counter sunk screws, ( they won’t hit anything in the window mechanism) . Swing through McDs for chicken nuggets for my helper, back to the shop, measure armrests and position handles where they don’t hit your elbow, screw in place, Done! Dawson said to show Brocky his idea.

It did get warm enough to get the Superliner out and wash the dust off. Here’s a question my Grandson asked, we took it for a ride and when he closed the door from inside he asked what you pulled it closed with,,, the door handle? I said yes. He then asked why our 359 Pete has a pull handle and a Mack does not? Any suggestions on how to answer a curious 10 year old,lol .

Any updates on the Freedom project?

I went to work at Ryder in 85 , we had 2 Cruiseliners left that were leased by a local shoe company, they were the only ones I ever worked on .

Great, hopefully you can adapt something in there. Your welcome!

Hopefully all will work out, You can get all the information of how your truck came from the factory from the Mack Museum, also the original paint codes , there are a few people on here that know more about the Freedom Edition than I do so hopefully they will be able to help you also. Yes mine is a Freedom, I bought it and used it for about 7 years, but I’m going to retire it and hopefully restore it to its original color, it has the red Freedom Edition Interior. , keep us posted!

Hopefully we can get both done, I’m wanting to start on ours when it warms up in a month or so,, Keep us posted and take a lot of pictures and post them. My Grandson has got this one pretty clean, our first project is to remove the aluminum frame and change it to air ride. ( My back surgeon said the X-ray of my back looks like 10 miles of bad dirt road,,, I blame it on Mack Camelback Suspension! )

It was 15 here this morning,, and as I get older it hurts more, when I was in my 20s I’ve ran that LJ picking up trucks on I40 in the Pigeon River Gorge in Zero degree weather and hurt less than 25 does today! I used Zephyr polish on the final finish, but I also have used a couple other aluminum polish and I can’t tell a lot of difference.

A cold winter day here in the mountains,, a friend of mine came over and we’re trying to finish up all the polishing, we have definitely transferred the black from the fenders to us !

I put a TRW Box on my H Model, it came off a S Series IHC , I just cut the section out of the frame that the box bolted to, removed my original manual box, bolted the frame section to the Mack frame and mounted the PS Box , modified the drag link and steering shaft,, Mounted a belt drive pump on the right side top of the 673 , runs off the fan belt. Like driving a different truck! I have a parts LJ with an air assist unit if anyone is interested.

Yes ,, I don’t believe I ever remember getting ready for school and my Dad was there, he always went to work. I worked for Ryder Transportation for 32 years, for the first 10 years I never missed a day. Then only a day or so a year if I was really sick with the flu or something. Now the young generation will call off if their dog is sick. The workforce of the United States is very soft , But that’s what you get when you pay people to stay home!

I’m glad you did,, Good memories!

Fortunately My Mom & Dad took a lot of pictures as I was growing up, and it seems like I inherited that same trait,, if I take a picture of a truck or vehicle I try to put someone in the picture like they did,, it means so much more years later. ,, Top left is My Dad and Me in front of a old Plymouth he had in the mid 60s , notice trucking hat & cast on his arm, he broke his wrist helping my Grandfather put a clutch in a car ,, he did some trimming on it because he never missed a day of work,, he still drove a B Model and shifted a duplex with it . The color picture to the right is him and the B Model,, I had it colorized and blown up, the other with 3 black and white small pictures are Dad and Me, old Hennis Freight pictures from the early 60s . The other color picture is Dad and Kyle at the National Truck Show in Greensboro in 1999 in front of a ( unknown owner) LJ . Thanks for the interest,, I have blown up so many and framed them I ran out of room to hang them.

Dog Pound !

Yes Jamison (37) was killed when a forklift fell on him, I don’t know the exact situation,, I know some guys that were there but I haven’t asked, just tragic anyway it happened. I went to his funeral , it was overwhelming with trucks , he was a great hardworking person! Sad thing I talked to him and Greg Bifile for a while at Harris Speedway in November, 2 weeks before he was killed, We went to Greg’s Ranch for his race ( Brad was also there) . The brought Jamison’s truck to race it , his wife and son were there. A week later Greg was killed along with his family and friends. Tough times for sure.

Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas,, as 2025 comes to a close it’s been a up and down year,, The year started finishing up the LJ as we were still digging out from the flood damage, as the summer went on we were fortunate to take the LJ to several shows, including Mack’s 125th birthday celebration! We were blessed to have a lot of fun. But as the year came to a close a couple weeks ago tragedy struck with 2 really great people I knew , Jamson Gibson a local big rig race driver , friend , really great guy , and Greg Biffle ( former nascar driver ) and his family who helped us a lot during the flood, delivered supplies to our Church very early after the storm with his personal helicopter . He was involved in a lot local charity work with kids. I had just talked to him a few weeks ago at a charity event at his farm. Very Sad, Hopefully 2026 will be better for all of us.

Merry Christmas to All! Hopefully I can make some progress on the Freedom next year now that this one is pretty much behind me, I’ll try to post a picture when I get it to working!

Merry Christmas to everyone ! Thanks for all the input and information on this post!

I told my Son to drive it up the road and let me know how it handles, he put a couple hundred thousand miles on it so I wanted his opinion since I replaced the steering axle. He gave it a thumbs up! I wasn’t fast enough to get a good video.

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I grew up on old dumps with 2 metal levers coming up through the floor, or a cable pull under the dash for the pto ,,, And never had a problem with them,, the air and some electric is nice and clean,,, but sooner or later it’s more prone to failure than the direct mechanical.

Yes the lens is missing,,, My next rainy day project,, . I got both strobes working yesterday. A lot of small things that’s a good time to repair while it’s still in the shop,,, Unfortunately if it goes out and gets hooked to a trailer stuff will get put on the back burner.