Mack Technician

Old trucker told me...”what dem young whipper snappers lack in da rod stroke dey make up for wit noise!”. Maybe he was on to something?

Truck we were looking at. Retired from County Concrete Madison. Check out the handy work on the fenders. Not bad for a couple sliced open steel culverts!!

Maybe this is popular with show trucks? I'd never seen it done. Whoever hand built it did nice work, tight and square as an Amish dresser.   

1 hour ago, mowerman said:

Man I thing is really sharp thanks for the post great looking rig . Bob


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Enjoy Bob, I went up and played with it a bit and took some pics. When I get around my lack of data I'll upload a cool pic of the wet tank blank-out box he built. Very clever.

On ‎10‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 7:56 PM, Nobody454 said:

H J Mohr was a big redimix co back in the day here in chicago. They shut the doors last year. Wonder if that's a relative, or something like that. Same paint scheme as the company trucks

Owners name was Steve Mohr. He was indeed from Chicago. Got the truck, as built, from a truck auction in California. He kept it up here as a play toy at his Minocqua resort, retired and turned it over to Scott to sell.

Yes to everything but the straight pipes. I live in the country by a 45 MPH curve. 

And now for a civil discourse.....ahem...here’s my retort and the list system we now have to use........?

point 1

Keith, they wouldn't allow you to be hall monitor in school (for a reason) any more than we need conversation police on Odds and Ends. Please go back to bossing around your wife.

Point 2

Trumps antics can’t be defended, don’t ask people to try. 

Point 3

Politicians are suppose to manually raise money for a campaign then secure an office. After that it’s time to go to work. They’re not doing it. They get money for the campaign, win, then steal our tax dollars fighting in office to screw over rivals while they are suppose to be working. They literally have millions of tax dollars, they didn’t acquire through campaigning, to work out their campaign on “company time”. It’s BS. It’s happening on both sides. Right now the Dems are perfecting the technique of screwing away my money to campaign for 2020 while in office. Any guesses how much work won’t get done and how much money they’ll blow on the next impeachment debacle? 

Not much.

Do one side at a time so you stay in control.

Use some wood blocks and a bottle jack on the tail of trans or a port-a-power at the foot of the wing mount. 

A typical drop-out occurs in lower RPM scale. Usually as you hit around 1,000-1,200 it would get weak and fade. I debated after reading the complaint....possibly...if things get really sloppy....could you lose oil in the upper range too when you also need higher volume for high demand then get Jake brakes in a short window, a “sweet spot”, where consumption and supply align for a moment? Agree with Wilbur, but I don’t dismiss the possibilities.

a very quick check would be to run a little break-in wire to the cab or monitor the Jake relay while driving. 

This is a master sheet for updates and issues, make note of the columns with service bullletins. Those bulletins can be downloaded on Mack E-media, they will give better details about issues or product improvements. The bottom of page 2 addresses the drop out and external supply kit repair Joe is referring to. 

sb266017.pdf

That's a sharp interior!

17 hours ago, Bullheaded said:

Can you guys and Trump please take over Canada and get rid of this idiot Trudeau that all the lazy trans gender millennial's just voted back in.

 

it defies logic how stupid people in my country are to vote that piece of crap back in. 

The only countries the average Joe American would unanimously vote to annex is Canada and Australia.

I don't see whats stopping a North American super-nation from forming? Drop the north border, continue to build the south wall. Pile up the queens cash and light it, all Canadians get a one-to-one replacement with American Dollars with no exchange penalty ($ cha ching $) as the indirect payment for land acquisition. Trump now buys Greenland and exiles Trudeau and Berny there to live out their days eating air-dried cod jerky. 

OR.......

If Rob Ford was still alive Trump would have pushed him past Trudeau. Back in the day Rob could be skunk drunk and still win Mayor by a 40 point margin. 

On 11/1/2019 at 10:00 AM, david wild said:

Did you try to close the doors yet.

You can’t mistake the FLD closure rattle Lol.

When I worked for the fleet.....guys up here often complained, during the zero-subs, about the wind blowing through one door seal of our FLD’s and out the other door during a cross-wind. In sunny ☀️ Florida it will feel refreshing! 

7 hours ago, Deere Mack said:

I know but why does it have to be an underground world.  I don't think they could do anything about it if someone developed their own interface.  

Agreed. In our case your dealing with outdated software/hardware that even Volvo would rather not have to maintain support for. 

2 hours ago, Keith S said:

What concerns me is not what you're saying, it's that you believe it.

• "Same money-spoiled children of privilege blew $25,000,000.00 taxpayer dollars on that unfounded Mueller investigation to play politics”

Elaboration please, what part of that isn’t believable Keith?

I fact checked again, it’s now estimated those horses @?$’s spent between $32-$35 million of our tax dollars on an unfounded investigation...... Believe it. 

Not good. Knuckleheads didn’t save your customer data before they uploaded the new program. More gray engine amnesia.

If you had the level 9 throttle issue you’ll know if it’s still there? Is your engine power fluctuating? 

6 minutes ago, j hancock said:

That's SAD!

Yup.

this week Monday I called my old dealership with a vin for a Granite we were buying. All I wanted was the software level. No answer by Wednesday. I dropped the vin on Mackpro and he had it in 3 hours. Dealership has still not called back.

Yup

I drilled two broken studs out on this thread truck. I’ll agree, it’s no fun. Lawson supplies some outstanding bits and worked my way up from 1/8” till I was on the edge of touching threads. Inserted a ball burr down to bottom and made a small 🍭 lollipop at the base of stud at inner threads with the die grinder. Tapped and drove the threads forward into the void and picked/blew them out. Worked OK, you need to be cautious. Mess up you still have heli-coil options. 

Sounds like you need to start a how-to thread for the benefit of Mack posterity. 

It seems like a lot of work to get basic “read only” information? Be curious to see if you could navigate deep enough to do something interactive.....perimeter adjustment. 

Real crap shoot party, love it!

Time to get it on a dyno and stand inside the hood as it's doing it under load with all gauges present...…...Chassis twist opening up a blow hole?...….Wiggle test harness wires while it's freaking to see if it corrects?...……. live read each EUP's with a fluke meter?......….Exhaust sound changing because a baffle collapsed?....... etc. See and hear a lot, in real time, on a dyno. 

Make sure you list the solution to this one.  

Nuke,

We pay between $1,000 - $2,000 per annual software subscription for each of our OEM's. Intellectual property isn't free, I wouldn't buy into it.   

Lot of similar logging trucks in the woods up here. It may be OK. Few things to consider....

1. You have a light frame. If you satellite a good logger with good landings you will benefit. If you have a bad logger with poor landings your going to be twisting hard. A long chassis like this one can twist like licorice and return, only issue with these are the crossmembers will want to crack or loosen if you are constantly doing it on uneven terrain loaded. 

2. If you do a lot of rough terrain on that chassis your OK if you DONT have Mack axles with unweldwd spring seats. Mack axles with Z spring air ride tend to crack axles on uneven terrain. Check the spring pedestals if it’s a Mack axle, if they are welded on your OK. Joes right about camels because they float the spring ends in rubber, they like twisting over uneven terrain, but ride like a stone boat. 

3. Your axle ratio number is low, which means you have a highway hole shot, but you have an M-Shift so your golden. 

4. That’s a long wheel base. Shorter wheel base with coffin sleeper does better for sneaking around on ATV woods trails loggers like to use for access. It’s also lower than yours so a 5" thick oak branch can pass over you better without truck decapitation. Don’t know how you operate, but most guys here use the sleeper for tools, chains, chainsaws and a 10 minute nap waiting for the mill gate to open. Wood haul is a “short haul” industry, no money in hauling logs long, you don’t make money on long hauls and overnighters. Up here 90-95% day cab logging trucks. 

5. Whatever that plastic fairing is under the bumper will be torn off the first week, take it off and store it for resale. 

6. Depending on which suspension, don’t buy it if any transversing member sits lower than pumpkin. Those will also get ripped off. When you "sink up to your axle", you want to be sitting on axle not air bag member.

7. Looks like you have forward hooks? Need good lanyards. Assume a dozer is taking you out of the woods or up a woods trail with chains. See some pretty ugly scenes out in the woods when things go soft. It really comes back to good landings or bad landings.

Personally, I’d be hauling wood in a Granite day-cab tractor with a 190” wheelbase, short, broad single 10MM frame, air ride and an 18 spd, High pros, highway gears, 14/44 axles, full lockers, Short and fat survives in the woods, ask the Badger. 400HP or better.

Good Luck!!!!🍀 

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