BJsDad

Just a small correction, the EN414 engine is the Chrysler 413. Shame there isn't much left of the truck, it's VIN number makes it a 69, in fact it's only 3 behind mine. They built 201 of the 410P's between 1965 and 1970 so it's not one of the rarest R410's but there aren't many of the 350 or so 410's built still lying around. Personally, I'd love to find a 410S model twin screw.

You could have at least given her my phone number Doug And don't tell me you lost it....

Yup, pretty sure 325 V8 is right, don't know what they had behind it though. They also had 2 tractors pulling tankers back and forth to the tanker farm in Fairfax pulling fuel and gas to the truck stop identical to the wrecker. Might know someone who can give me the a little more info on the specs, I think they bought them from a local Mack dealer a buddy of mine worked for. I'm not sure, but I think the tractors may have had 375's. Or maybe I'm thinking of the trucks that replaced these, he always had them with the same specs. Toms Brook is one exit north of me, had a chance to apply for a job driving one of the fuel trucks once, but had no desire to pull a tanker or fuel.

Looks like an old Preston trailer, IIRC they used the orange and black lettering.

Since gas is a bit cheaper than diesel, wanna trade for an R model Doug?

Looks good to me even if it did need a little "assistance" in the end. Now that you have "bookend" early F model single axles, what's going in the middle? I've looked at the pics of the blue one on Old Mack's, later cab and it looks like even the doghouse has been welded on the passengers side was what turned me off of that one. Now, that RL763 he brought back from the Hitching's auction is another story.....

Jakebrake, on an older unit like yours I wouldn't be as worried about it, the newer units have Lippert frames that have been put together on a mass assembly line and very often the problems have been because of shoddy welds. The new trailers with their longer more aero nose caps have necessitated the use of longer extended pin boxes which which will cause problems on their own, let alone taking the twist of using the regular fifth wheel. Another option would be to replace the pin box with an air ride gooseneck hitch, you'll get no twisting stress on the trailer frame and you will lower the stresses put on the trailer frame without the extended pin box. Air Safe and a couple others sell air ride gooseneck hitches that will bolt on in place of the fifth wheel pin box. All you'd have to do is mount a plate across behind your fifth wheel plate for the gooseneck hitch, I've seen a few that mount it inside the frame rails so it can stay in place and is not as noticeable.

6 people having a birthday today... and Rob's the oldest... And I'm second Happy birthday from one old fart to another.... Not going into the debate about the forum.. it could be better, but it used to be a lot worse.

Cliff, I was wondering if you still had yours or not when I saw this post. Met you at Macungie and looked yours over in 09. Think I still have a couple pics of it somewhere.....yup, found em.

Last I knew, Walker's in Ferrum. VA still had some OEM cab sides sitting in a trailer. They were the whole side panel from door post to back of cab for a sleeper model. Whether they still have them or not is a good question. I heard they still have a couple trailers sitting there with brand new OEM sheetmetal, but I'd bet it will go quickly since the word got out on the net that they had these parts.

You'll probably be better off if you look for some 85 series tires in 16 inch, something like a 235/85/16 will work with dual wheels with little problem of being too wide and they are almost 32 (31.7 to be exact) tall. I've been running Goodyear Silent Armor's on my 2500 Ram and love them, great on wet roads and snow and aren't noisy except on concrete. Even with the Cummins turned up I can hardly break the back end loose on a wet road. So far have over 50K on them and still have half tread all the way around.

I kinda figured you'd have to come in that way, probably still not much fun backing in that place while trying not to get run over by the idiots flying up and down 11. It used to be bad enough backing in the Chevy dealership at the top of the hill just south of there, no one wanted to slow down for just a couple minutes even if you had the whole road blocked to back in. Oh, and if they said that UTV is around 15K, I suspect you can probably buy it for 13.5 somewhere else. Their prices are way out of line there, always have been, always will be till someone puts them out of business. My Dad tried to buy a lawn tractor there back in the 90's, cash deal, he ended up borrowing my pickup to take to NY on vacation and came home with the same tractor for 1800 less.

I heard there was a wild man driving a Peterbuilt thru Woodstock the other day.. guess I know who it was now.... Lucky for me I was on the other end of town safe in my bed then eh?

You can pick up the electronic ignition from Summit Racing, they have Mopar brand as well as aftermarket to choose from for the RB engines. Luckily I checked my distributor before I put in an order from Summit, someone had already put an aftermarket electronic in mine.

Other Dog, if you want to see the Sightliner, Jim Moore (JEM out of Harrisonburg) always has it at Winchester. I'm waiting for his next toy he has to make it's debut, a factory gas powered Emeryville from what I've heard.

Glad to hear it wasn't a wash out like last year. Wish I coulda been there, but I didn't think it would be much fun walking the grounds on crutches and Doug wouldn't volunteer to wheel me around in my wheelchair...

Nice to see I'm not the only one that likes the Mopar powered Macks... I've often thought it would be neat to have one of each of the EN 414 powered Macks in one collection. One of these days I wouldn't mind adding an MB to my driveway. I remember riding to Syracuse NY in one with my Dad back in the early 70's sitting on a wooden box, roughest ride I ever took in a truck.

I'm totally in shock you found something at WalMart that wasn't made in China, or was the girl Oriental that cut your hair?

Here's a couple underhood shots of my R410P, these were taken not long after it was delivered, there's been a lot of parts and pieces replaced since. All of the hoses have been replaced including rad hoses, all the oil lines, gas line, and the vacuum lines on the vacuum pump for the brakes (yup, it's got juice brakes). Biggest thing I've done is to replace the 9:00x20's with new Goodyear tubeless 10x22.5's all the way around on new rims.

I've got the brochures for the R410P, R410S, R410T and the DM model that used the 413. There's one other 410 model (X) that I can't find a brochure for. When I get a chance I'll get them scanned and post them. I don't have any info on the B's that used either the 413 or the early Hemi's.

I work right down the street from the plant where they were built in Front Royal, VA and I have to admit I know almost nothing about Bering or the trucks they built... There are still quite a few running around locally, most if not the majority of them are mixers.

Personally I think with kids like that, they need to put them in a cell with their parents, so the parents can see the errors of their breeding... and throw the dog in just to keep them company. If the left wingers in this country would stop making them a problem of society and make the parents as responsible for their minor children as they should be, we wouldn't have so many kids running the streets. If your dog bites someone, you are held responsible, but yet, if your 14 year old goes out and commits murder, the kid needs therapy while you get off scott free. Just ain't right.....

I'll be there Thursday afternoon till Sunday morning with my RV, unfortunately the R is going to have to stay home this year

I've got an 02 2500 with the 5.9 HO motor and 6 speed and I plan on keeping it a few more years till they get all the bugs sorted on the new DPF systems etc... Everyone I've talked to with the new 6.7 love the power, but hate the lower MPG's they are getting. More than one person I've talked to has said they are lucky to get 15-18 MPG when not towing, while mine gets anywhere from 11-14 towing a 10K+ LB fifth wheel RV and 21+ commuting to work. The one thing I like about the newer common rail engines is how quiet they are compared to mine. I've had mine next to a newer one and with both trucks idling you can't hear the new motor over the noise from mine. We had an Ottawa at work with a small Cat motor with the new emission control garbage on it and the exhaust fumes were so bad if you followed it across the lot it made your eyes water. You might want to wait till this fall and see what the new body style is going to be like on the HD models, if I'm reading the reports right, they may actually do a true crew cab with a long bed finally.

Looks a little like the one your Dad and I were using for shade at Bridgewater.... The F provided a little more shade though.