ThaddeusW

My drive tires have cracks in them on the side wall. I assume these tires are shot and need to be replaced or am I wrong? And has anyone ever looked into used tires? I imagine truck owners will run them till nearly bald so used would be a tough find. The tires on the lift axle are also cracked but are 9R20's and I believe these tires are obsolete. They are almost the same size as the 22.5's but are about a inch or so smaller in diameter. Is there a modern replacement for the 9R20?

Used to see that gent advertise plenty. Set a whole new standard for exhorbitant pricing too.

Rob

I saw that truck at the long island equipment show. He wanted 12 grand for that bad boy. In person it appears to be in great shape. I would like a tandem B80 next.

So far so good, its not too bad. I headed off to bed at 10:30 and woke up 2am as the wind picked up. I didn't go back to bed yet, keeping an eye out. I don't like sleeping through something like this. Still have power, cable and internet.

Winds are around 40 and since my room is top floor, I keep hearing bits of my neighbors roof hitting mine. He hired a shoddy crew to do his roof just 3 or 4 years ago. Since then I have been finding bits of his roof all over the street after storms and windy days.

My only beef is I didn't get in a nice full day or two of working on the truck. I want to make Gerharts!

It is a bit worrisome. I have been running around all day after work yesterday preparing for the storm. Its a bit scary what you keep hearing in the news. The rain is one thing, the wind is another. I have family in both Zone a and B evac zones. Thankfully we are higher up where I live but still I am worried. Thankfully the cities water supply is gravity fed from the reservoirs but we have two coolers of water ready to go along with some canned food just in case. Flashlights have been working, don't know why people wait to the last minute to buy batteries. We also have one of our generators and 12 gallons of gas at the ready. I also bought a cheaper sump pump along with a long hose in case of basement flooding but I doubt that will happen.

I am ready but at the same time a bit worried about damage. But in the end what are you going to do? I am not scared, bring it!

Hey Thad,

Here is another one for you to take home. Should not hurt the pocketbook as bad.

Looks good

mike

Yea, I am barely along with my B and I already fell the itch to save up for another. I like the color.

I keep hearing its an addiction, now I know why. I bet heroine is cheaper.

Hey there, I have space on my landoll for it. I could pick it up Monday, Aug 15 and deliver it Monday afternoon or early evening. If interested give me a call. Keith 804-640-8425

Keith,

I was going to call you but I realized I would be sending you on a suicide mission. Their roads are winding and narrow, sharp turns and short yet steep hills. They are on a long cul-de-sac with a sharp right angle and on a hill. I had fun trying to back a 16 foot equipment trailer hooked to a 20 foot long 3500 van. You would have to have somehow made a u turn at the bottom of the hill at the round dead end, its big but I don't think semi truck big. Then come back up and try to back in which would mean you would run over their grass, garden and bushes. I was getting yelled at for going over a little grass.

I really appreciate your offer. Too bad they live in such a secluded area, an equipment roll back would be the best truck to get in there.

Sounds like something is loose. Check all of the wiring connectors behind the dash and under the hood. While parked and the truck is running, get someone to sit in the cab while you shake the wiring and see if it happens.

Its good to still see the logos there, I hope the owners appreciate the history behind the building.

How about the Atlantic ave plant (its still there!):

guess i missunderstood his question,thats really wierd,,,woulda thought pete would have one like this one...bob

They don't last long enough for anyone to actually care.

Go to truckpaper.com and click on a truck make, then limit the search to the year 1980. How many useful 30+ year old trucks are around?

Freightliner: 5 (lol)

IH - 149

Ford - 203

Peterbilt - 60

Kenworth - 225

Mack - 224

GM (GMC + Chevy) - 155

Now this isn't a scientific test but I would assume the majority of Ford and GM trucks are medium duty so we can knock them out. Next up is IH and I bet the same goes for them, mostly medium duty.

So that leaves us with a few true heavy truck makers, FL (before the 80's they had no medium duty), Mack, Kenworth and Peterbilt. You can see only 5 yes 5 freightliners from before 1980 are for sale. It looks like they cant last past 30 years (surprise surprise!). Limit the year to 1970 and you will see that Mack is in the lead with 44 trucks, Peterbilt with 13 and KW with 10. Most of the Mack's are B's and R's, a testament to their ruggedness and collector value.

An even better metric would be to see the number of truck produced and sold to those two years. Bottom line is no other maker has the respect Mack does. Even though Volvo looks to be unable to properly manage it, the drivers and owners will never forget the years upon years those Macks worked hard as hell for them and asked for more.

what size and weight of the forklift?

I am going to say 8000. It may be as little as 7000 but the rule of thumb for smaller lifts is double the lifting capacity to get its weight (its a 4000 pound lift).

It needs to go asap. I may get an extension to the end of September, but that is only if I am guaranteed someone WILL move it. I am pushing to get my truck ready for Litiz but no guarantees. If anyone has any idea, let me know.

So last year I bought an old Clark forklift for next to nothing. Its still sitting by my friends house in Md with me just spending (and still spending) all my money on the B. I know its an oldie but I had a neat idea to make a theme with the truck, an old rigging company with the forklift painted to match the truck with a logo. Its been there long enough and he is getting a load of gravel and new shed delivered in the next two weeks and the lift has to go. Even though its old, I am willing to pay, its an antique as well.

IT DOES NOT RUN so that is a problem, would have to push it or winch it on. If my rig was on the road it would be a no brainer.

Its in Ellicott City, Maryland and I need it hauled to Ozone Park, NY; roughly a 210 mile drive.

Any takers?

Wow! That truck is in amazing shape. That is an excellent restoration piece right there.

At least its not fully gutted. The old rail substations in the city were ransacked because they were chock full of copper.

I bet there is still some really neat stuff in there. Id like a look at the waveguides and klystrons.

What the heck happened to the forums? The old high contrast themes are gone

Why don't you follow me back from Lititz this year and I'll help you get started? Couple of weeks of instruction and you will be able to stand on your own to finish the project. I have a spare bedroom in the house, (with both heat, AND air conditioning) you could use, and the bushes are right outside the door for the morning drain.

Rob

LOL thanks for the offer Rob. I just may have to pass.

I have ideas on how to do the body work, i just don't own a body shop. I am thinking of getting a decent used mig welder for the sheet stuff, tig sounds better but its a new skill to learn on top of the body work. As of now i have a crap Lincoln buzz box that does nothing but burn holes in thin stuff because its low amp settings cant hold a decent arc.

Also a nice small press brake would do some good, I already have a big old foot sheer.

Iwill advise the county to scrap their water truck. When the poor peoples houses burn from lake of water we can just blame it on Bush

Or Obama, pick you punching bag.

Everyone has excellent points. But like you said you have to be Macgyver sometimes. I just hope no one gets hurt.

If it does have a 672, then it has its original Mack-Lanova diesel engine. A very rare find! Very nice truck.

The seller is prolly a member here but I don't recognize the name. Sure is sad to not finish a project when this far along in the acquistion process.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...VehicleQ5fParts

Rob

That sure is allot of scratch to put into parts and then walk away.

The customer knows better what he or she needs than any Volvo engineer!

There are more than a few customers who need a heavy haulage rig for 100 ton loads with a big sleeper for when they get stuck on a job 50 miles from a motel room in the Dakotahs. And how about Canada where you need the MP10 engine for there 62.5 ton metric weight limits but need something short enough with a comfy sleeper to pull a 20 meter B train in their 25 meter length limits? Mack needs a Pinnacle length BBC Titan for that market. And how about the 80k GVW hauler who just wants a prestigious high hp truck? Heck, he's a paying customer, so Volvo needs to quit sneering at him and let him have a Titan with a big sleeper and lots of chrome. Heck, build him a Titan with an MP8 if he wants one... There were plenty of Superliners built with sixes instead of the mighty Mack V8, and it didn't hurt Mack's bottom line a bit!

The Titan is a great model but I don't see how they thought it was a great fit for the lineup. They have the pinnacle, Terrapro and Granite; all medium power trucks. Then jump right to a massive vocational beast, the Titan but it has no sleeper. There is a huge gap in my opinion. Where is the in-betweener?

The Vison.... oops Pinnacle axle forward is a great truck, what is stopping them from adding a few inches to the hood and dropping an MP10 into it? Volvo's VN has a D16 option and its only a few inches longer than the Vision (PAF...whatever). Why are the Pinnacles cubby-holed into highway duty? 14.6k front max and 46k rear max. Bullshit if you ask me, you used to be able to spec a CH with heavy axles.

And how are the CH sales doing (PAB)? Why not take the CH and turn it into the Superliner. The CH replaced the Superliner much to everyones disappointment. Its a nice looking truck but it to me, Mack dropped the ball. Why would you take such an iconic truck and turn it into a plastic cookie cutter fleet truck? Plenty of superliners were shipped with E6's and some wanted the big power and ran E9's, CAT's and Cummins along with heavy spec options. That was a perfect truck, not too much and not too little. It was just right and had sleeper options.

The Mack lineup has a hole in it, there is no big power for over the road and no heavy spec options for over the road either. Go to Kenworth, Peterbilt and Westernstar, hell even Freightliner and you can get a heavy spec with a sleeper. Pathetic.

I was wondering if anyone here knows who owns a brown/green B model and pulls a tandem drop frame van trailer. I almost missed it but there it was in the opposite lane on the LIE. It was a bit of inspiration to get cracking on mine.

I have to say the Titan makes one hell of a pretty wrecker!

They frequently build and sell wreckers after a few years of service.

Is there a reason for that? Seems awfully wasteful.

Parkour is actually a sport. More popular in Europe but is here in the US too. Its very disciplined as the athletes must be in tip top shape and think quickly to overcome the obstacle. I believe there are competitions where the athletes win prize money. Another similar sport is free running which uses parkour but adds more fancy stunts and moves. Its pretty wild to watch.

So it rains a bunch today and I needed to move the truck around. Get in the cab only to see two small puddles of water. Look up and see its coming from a large-ish rust hole. I knew about the rust , the question is how do I repair it properly?

I don't like the idea of using a band-aid like bondo, I like the idea of cutting out the bad and welding in a replacement. Something that is permanent. I have a few other holes rotted through but they are pretty minor.

I don't have a MIG or TIG welder nor the experience but if I must, I will buy one and learn.

Anyone got any helpful hints and tips for repairing rust holes? I dont want to dive in head first and ruin an irreplaceable cab.

Rust hole inside cab. I dug around in the hole and have a big pile of rust chips on the floor. I don't know where it all came from and that has me worried.

Outside shot, this is where the water entered the cab.

That is one nice truck. Now all I need is a bigger piece of property and a low boy.

Rob,

I have never seen plastic on the drive axles. Not even on my B which had about half of its lines updated to plastic, rubber to all the axles.