67RModel

That is somebody’s dream ride. A long hood R model with mechanical cat power. Has to be a pretty rare mut….

I'm going to start lubing my camel's hump like everyone is saying to do by jacking it up first. I'm just curious does the Mack lubrication literature say to do it this way? Or is this one of those lessons learned through the school of hard knocks?

Somebody might have to start a new thread towards the end of the year for the 2024 election. I bet there will be a mountain of good content over the course of the next campaign. Who are you taking this time around? Trump or DeSantis? 

It says it is government owned. Which makes sense as to why it has an Allison auto. Usually government trucks of this era were left over parts bin Fords and GMCs or International (if you were lucky) specd' out under piggyback contracts so you didn't have to go through a formal bidding process to get a truck. Somebody went all out with on this baby. Doesn't look like its seen much use outside of the sunny South. Them frame rails look new and somebody kept her shined up.

And everyone please take note of that fine-as-wine DM in the background of the first picture. Still earning its keep.....😍

And hopefully Johnny law didn't write you up for illegal steer tires when he did his investigation. That sucker looks mighty thin.....

I'm sure this thread will get many responses and many different answers. Just from what I'm seeing in the pictures no way whatsoever did that collision cause those tranny bolts to shear or come loose. I think they would have broke / come loose whether you got in that accident or not. Just going by what the pictures tell me.

HaHa yea it definitely wasn't you. I think he bought a KB from somewhere and somehow found out it had also been listed here on the for sale section. He made an account then got really mad at me and dissappeared right after. I have never seen his name pop up since. 

Is your KB a "regular" distributer with breaker points and a coil for the ignition? I can't imagine a1948 would have a magneto. 

This makes me think back a year or two ago there was some guy on here asking about switching a 6V system over two 12V and I told it wasn't necessary unless he was after a bunch of modern 12V accessories. I offered up a good deal of objective information and he wanted to kill me. I got the impression he was really mad that I suggested keeping it 6V. I actually think it was a International KB too. 

On 3/5/2023 at 10:48 AM, jsa180 said:

Are these still available 

Yea I still have them.

There is an international forum called “binder planet” I think. Have you been there? A lot of KB builds there. Maybe an old international guy would know.

17 minutes ago, mechohaulic said:

tubes of GOOD grease so much cheaper. rarely see people jack up the trunnion to grease center bushings. even the greasing process is an "work of art" .

Am I to understand the proper way to grease a camelback is to jack up on the frame so the suspension and axles are "hanging" off the frame with no weight bearing on them, and grease that way? Or are you saying to place the jack on the A frame tube just inboard of the U bolts and jack from there until the wheels are off the ground? I truly don't know. I have always just greased with the truck sitting on the ground normally. 

48 minutes ago, skydawg said:

Does that ring a bell to anyone?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/leviton

I'm guessing its these people......

No affiliation just saw it listed in an auction advertisement located in Knox, Indiana. Nice looking long hood R700. It states 676 engine but it has V8 emblems on the hood? Also I have never seen that style of fuel tank before. Would be a real nice truck to clean up or restore. 

https://www.auctionzip.com/Listings/3775854.html?kwd=mack&zip=15108&category=0

Could you get a FL model with a 1693 cat or 3406A? Or maybe a KT Cummins?

Mack made a slew of different T3XX series transmissions. A lot of them have creeper low hole and reverse gears. Generally speaking mack transmissions are generally geared slightly lower than their Eaton equivalent.

it’s been covered a bunch of times on here but switching to an Eaton transmission is a pretty involved process. It’s not just a simple as pulling one and replacing it with the other.

An Eaton 13 speed would be "worse" ratio wise compared to the T310 for woods work. See The ratios for the first 5 gears listed below for each transmission.

T310

1st: 13.81

2nd: 10.05

3rd: 7.18

4th: 5.17

5th: 3.75

Eaton 13:

Low: 12.31

1st: 8.64

2nd: 6.11

3rd: 4.43

4th: 3.23

An Eaton 13 speed is more of a road transmission better suited for maintianing highway speeds in hilly terrain hence why you can split all the high range gears. You need a vocational transmission with several low hole gears. 

What are the specs on it? If my math is correct its a 1972? Looks like it may have been a road tractor first in life. Really short WB. I love the weed burner exhaust. 

Edit: I see the title says 1971. I clearly can't read titles.

I assume that is had painted lettering? If so who did you have do it?

Here is a real brain twister: what is worse? Biden going abroad and flapping his gums or Kamala going abroad and flapping her gums? Maybe is not a brain twister I. I don't know. It seems they are both pretty weak at conveying a coherent message just in different ways.

It is lost on me why this continues to happen on a regular basis. Not even a year ago in May of 2022, 17 cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed in the Harmar Twp neighborhood of Pittsburgh spilling petroleum distillates into the Allegheny River. Before that in 2018 a Norfolk Southern train derailed in the Station Square area of Pittsburgh spilling 8 train cars full of Listerine mouthwash. I mean maybe the consequences for having a train derail are not great enough? I can almost guarantee the root cause of most of these derailments are some level of negligence. Although probably not criminal, just that the standards, regulations, and penalties are not at all high enough. How is it that airplanes basically never fall out of the sky even with a complete engine failure or other major defect arises midflight?  There is already surveillance video of this train that derailed in Ohio that shows an axle assembly completely on fire 15 miles before it derailed. How is that possible? These freight trains and rail operators seem to have skirted major scrutiny for far too long. If your going to be carrying tens of thousands of gallons of hazardous chemicals and toxins through peoples backyards and across potable drinking watersheds then you better have a much more robust set of standards and penalties in place. The minimum fine for something like this should be $50,000,000 and say $5,000,000/day until the site and affected area is completely cleaned up and remediated to pre crash status. If these rail operators had something to loose maybe they wouldn't allow their trains to derail. I think where the government really has failed its citizens is not being proactive enough and allowing this kind of disaster to happen in the first place. Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, and Nixon administrations and congresses.....all the way back to the Conrail days when the federal government bailed these clowns out from Bankruptcy, made them profitable, and then turned them back into private sector hands again.

New Jersey says no more new gas burners after 2035. I wonder if that means commercial vehicles too? The memo linked below from the governor's office is not clear on that point. It just says "cars". It goes on to say 100% of all electricity sold in the sate to come from clean sources by 2035. @tjc transport whats the word over there in Jersey on this?

https://nj.gov/governor/news/news/562023/approved/20230215b.shtml

The pickup location was Los Angeles.....I wonder if that MH is clean idle certified? 🤣