Mack Technician

Should sound like the first break stroke of a pool game.

First one is 20 miles SW of my pad. If anybody was serious I’d give them my opinion. Bout time for a Menards run to Antigo anyway, need to build a new duck coup.

Salute M.man!

http://www.autorepairmanuals.biz/product/5106 Looks like $42......

Cake walk. Mack Publishes a great manual and the etech is nice to work on. Sometimes you have to pull the compressor oil pan(plate) to get torque wrench on buttress bolt.

Get the final revision manual and buy the proper tools. In chassis or out? what HP? What mileage? What failure?

Good you guys had rain. Tigerton wi broke 30” in two days, pretty funny. Snow apocalypse. Don’t remember many like this.

Hold the phone...... we just got nailed with 21” of snow this weekend and your out raising Cain with the summer ride? In Dakota NORTH!!!!

What’s your level of self motivation, mechanical competence and willingness to learn procedure? If you pop the rear trans inspection covers are you going to be able to point out the synchro? Do you have a book? Manual on trans? General firmiliarity with trans? If your range is grinding it is almost always synchro.

We're going to be burning liquefied dinosaur brains well into your retirement.

To get the torque they would have to be able to add fuel to the cylinders, when the valves are closed, to shape the cylinder pressure when the crank and rod are at 90 degrees. Doesn't look like they have done anything but make a heavy engine. Clever idea though.

3-4K. Depends on what updates have been done. I just did one for under $500, guy stopped driving immediately and did not ruin anything. Need only one specialty tool. Trans can stay in chassis and just pull down rear case.

Convert it to neoprene.

I wouldn't disrespect any hard working truck, but the instructor at the Mack Engine training advised the same........to stick close, whenever possible, to the MP8 platform. His opinion seems to echo's yours.

Can’t imagine them reaching the torque per pound ratio.

Whadja get?

One thing I've learned from living in Michigan for 49 years- you can never have too much cold-weather cranking power. . Michigan starters dream big........ just like any chubby Yuper....... All-You-Can-Eat buffet. Alternator will keep buying the groceries.

Not the same year.......

There are far more classic truck savy dudes on here than me.......but this is what I remember.... Tigerton lumber had one they used as a woods forwarder and we had one concrete form truck that enjoyed the all wheel drive. Beast.

Leave rubber booted posts alone, the third blade style connector to the right (as viewing from rear) is the field monitor connection. Leave it alone unless you are going to condemn it. Did you test (alternator) with a fluke meter or some reliable source beside the dash? Certificate of death requires a second opinion. Go right to the alternator and check it directly at the main terminal out. Batteries are dead, that is a first indication of something potentially wrong. Most battery shops will have a smart tester you can use. Fully charge, let them stabilize and test them. Check the battery for water. If the water is low only add distilled water which will have no mineral/metal content. You can get that alternator at NAPA or many other sources beside OEM. Your old alternator will likely have the Amps listed/engraved on it somewhere, otherwise go with the 150 or 145, that is more than sufficient unless you are running a fridge in your truck. Remember one customer cutting a massive hole in his sleeper back and shoving a full size refrigerator freezer into his truck. Riveted and goo-patched some tin over the hole, pretty wild. That brother needed a 220 alternator and a fire extinguisher to spray it with.

Good job man..... and I’d like to “go where the climate suits my clothes” (Appropriate theme).

Cheers Vlad!!

Question of priority.... Mack 400 will make more money. cummins 500 will gitcha the girls and spare your clutch foot.

If the parts guys are 1/2 as involved as MPro you’ve got quite a team! Sounds like a good organization. Build a parts portfolio on the units your dedicated to maintaining. If you walk into a dealership with a brick of printer paper and say “please” most will accommodate. Also helps to bring pizzas and pepsi for the parts guy. Do it with the night shift guys since they are typically slower work flow and generally underappreciated. If you buy parts from them they will love you for it....much better to receive a caller with solid part numbers than rack their own brain trying to figure out what your describing over the phone. That’s what I did and it works out well for everybody. Not sure how Mack “Impact” is these days, but I have a free Volvo log-in for “prosis” and a free “lidos” program. Parts is no trade secret, they give that stuff up freely and willingly to get it into your hand. Does anybody have a customer Impact log-in? Are they giving it out? If Volvo does I would think Mack would?