CaptainCrutch

I was talking to my dad who had messed with that stuff a long time ago, he told me you basically have to open up the distributors and adjust their linkages, and make sure they’re both exactly the same, in order to adjust the timing. Hope that helps a little more than earlier...

Still I’d get your manuals from the Mack Museum to tell you exactly how to adjust yours...

I know on my iphone there's an option to change how big the image is, usually I can set it to the biggest size available and it trims off all the useless info like dates and times and locations when uploading to cut down the size down from a few Megabytes to a few hundred kilobytes (about 10x smaller)...

6 minutes ago, FireMech307 said:

CaptainCrutch, thank you for the response.  I did reach out to the museum so hopefully in a month or two I'll have some good information.  Does that 707B have dual distributors?  The issue we're having is that the distributors don't want to turn to be adjusted.  Maybe that's not the way to adjust the timing?

Correct, dual distributors, and I don’t think they twist to adjust like on a normal car...

I'd surely contact the museum. They'll be able to provide to you manuals that will tell you everything you need to know when working on the engine. I'd send you the info from my engine but mine is a 707B which one of the things they changed is the timing to make it a little more fuel efficient.

8 minutes ago, Ditchdiggerjcf said:

An MH or cruiseliner with camelback and heavy fronts sure would make a good lowboy tractor. An F would be better.

I’m getting ready to try to convince a guy I know to let me piece back together his MH that used to be owned and operated by Mack.

I saw a fresh Argosy glider not too long ago for sale, I don’t remember what the price was exactly but I think it was just shy of $100,000...

Freightliner still makes cabovers as gliders. I saw a brand new one not all that long ago.

I see them at just about every time I go to a truck show, but a ton more conventionals than any cabover...

4 minutes ago, alex g said:

I saw that F model at Lititz a couple years ago. It sure is nice

I took that picture at the Gerhart's show in 2018 on the second day I believe.

33 minutes ago, mowerman said:

Too weird for me but it is very interesting and yes I would guess fire apparatus.. bob

As far as I know these 4 doors were all tractors, I believe for farm work. Could be wrong about that but I was under the impression none of these versions of the 4 door B cab were used on firetrucks. The firetruck 4 doors have a big space in the middle of the doors for the fire pump and an extra window above it. Like this...

The black and red F in the background of these pics is for sale if that interests you, granted it’s been for sale for a really long time so my guess is $40,000 is way too much for it...

There were almost 60,000 F-series trucks built... if that answers your question at all...

I believe that NASA at one time owned atleast one Mack F model. I saw a picture a while ago of a blue(?) Mack F hauling the Enterprise (I believe) in a desert setting. Can't find the image anymore. I'm pretty sure it was being pulled off of the runway it landed on for one of the early glide tests of the shuttle, one of the tests where it was piggy backing on a 747 before being released to glide on it's own towards a run way. Just a hunch that this would've happened at White Sands New Mexico. Don't know if that info will help anyone find anything out about that truck.

That one has a 707 gas motor in it! It's a wonder these cabs weren't used on a few firetrucks. There were 4 door B cabs for firetrucks but they had a big space in the middle for the water pump. Now this truck has sparked my interest even more. I wonder if any L cabs were built like this instead of the fire 3 and 4 doors...

I think it looks pretty cool, like something some hunter would find a dead hippie in...

Another vehicle that I feel like I’d just get it working mechanically, clear coat it, and then run it around the way it is now...

14 minutes ago, yarnall said:

The green truck was built as a two door with the back seat being entered through and aisle in the hose bed.  

I always thought those style trucks were interesting but never wanted one for anything but a nice truck to maybe turn into an easy camper firetruck. A CF rescue would also work for that with much more room though...

4 minutes ago, Freightrain said:

Does look odd, could be homemade with the suicide doors.  Though i do remember him having a real 4 dr cab at one time.

Any pictures of the real 4 door? I think the giveaway that one is homemade is the roof and rear of the cab looking so stuck on and out of place, in my opinion atleast...

3 minutes ago, Freightrain said:

I thought at one time Dennis Meehan had a 4 dr cab for sale?  Been quite awhile ago.  He has one turned into a pickup truck. 

I didn’t think that one was a factory 4 door, the picture I have is supposedly a factory 4 door.

Was talking to a guy recently who told me I should convince my dad to get a long nose Mack... if only he knew how many For Sale ads I send to my dad a week to see if he finds one he likes enough to bite on it. I'm still looking for a truck for myself...

Anyone know anything about this truck or it's twins (triplets)? This is another I found and wished I had a hope of ever owning it...

Anyone know anything else about this truck? I can't even make out the model number on the hood. It looks like it's a diesel, due to that air cleaner, but I guess anything's possible. Honestly I feel like this is how the B models should have come, it'd certainly help with the space issues with the standard cab.

2 minutes ago, mowerman said:

By the way that new block looks to be in pretty good shape.. bob

I was lucky enough to have a few options in blocks. I think I might actually like the new block better than the old one for a few reasons. Everyone though the new block was seized and wouldn't ever run again but once it started being torn apart it turned out there was nothing wrong with the low end just something in the top end, which is perfect because we planned on swapping the top ends anyways to make sure stuff fit better.

17 hours ago, mowerman said:

amazing what a little sandpaper and paint will do,,,looks real good...bob

It's really amazing how quickly an angle grinder and a drill with sanding pads will get the job done. We thought it was going to take us days but we were able to do it in a few hours. Still needs another coat or two of paint but combined with the engine being painted red, minus the chrome head covers, like it was from the factory, it's going to look really nice, and be a nice contrast to the rusty chrome and flaky paint on the exterior of the truck. Hope to have it at pump primers along the river this year, and I think if it's there we have to put the hood up to let everyone admire the truck getting some extra cooling  

I wish you luck! I’d take the stuff off mine for you if I could, but mine are different and don’t work anyways.

I’d suggest if somebody ever finds out who did it they get lined up and shot with paint ball guns and then sent to volunteer at a museum under a very watchful eye to understand why what they did was wrong. And hey since they’re not too far to make it too inconvenient for anyone, why not send them to volunteer at the Mack museum for a while... ungrateful, entitled, stuck up little pricks...