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Superliners and Automatic/automated transmission
BOBWhite replied to qaaya's topic in Engine and Transmission
I know someone on here was telling about an 80s Mack with an automatic, there rare for sure! I know that the UPS truck's had some weird transmission trickery but Im not sure if it was an automatic or not. -
I guess its running good...
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Cat Dog
BOBWhite replied to Bullheaded's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Im a big Cat guy so this is awesome! I have a couple of questions though: Could you get a Mack transmission with any engine or only with Mack engines? Also Ive never seen a Cat engine in an Ultraliner. Ive seen some cummins and a couple of Detroits but never a Cat, are they rare or did they just never put them in em? -
More gears is typically better but here are some links to the ratio charts so you can compare: https://thompsonmachinery.com/content/uploads/2017/04/10speed-Eaton.pdf xhttps://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/products/transmissions/vehicle-transmissions/8ll/eaton-fuller-on-off-highway-transmissions-brochure-trsl0116-en-us.pdf Id say you can't go wrong with a ten speed but they both look like they have about a 34% slope per gear.
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One of the coolest sounding Diesel engines in my opinion!
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Pictures can tell a thousand words but they hide about half of them. Full inspection would be necessary for that kind of money but at the same time why would anyone pay that much? recently a guy on here payed 10grand for one (I can't remember the poster) and if you dump another 20-30 into a resto you'd have pretty much the same thing. It just doesn't paper out in my head.
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It's seems I have the opposite happen here, people use a gun to take the plug on and off, you can definitely tell who changes their own oil by who doesn't have wet spots on there driveway from a stripped out plug
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Mack T2090 9 Speed Transmission Questions
BOBWhite replied to BOBWhite's question in Mack Truck Q & A
Ok I really don't mean to beat a dead horse here but I found this thread here: https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28092-t2090/ specifically this part: I know it's probably up to the whoever's paying for the transmission rebuild but it still makes me wonder which pattern is better for the transmission in the long run. If the old pattern transmission and the new pattern transmission are mechanically and internally the same than I'd say shift it in the new pattern If it goes smoother, 4th low always sucked to get into anyways.
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Weld and brace the frame back up and keep going, that's what my neighbor did and his pickup split in half. If its done right it'll be better than new.
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I thought you couldn't order a real Mack truck since December 18th of 2000. Jokes aside no I haven't heard anything but maybe there some shortage that's causing it. I also heard somewhere that def was being phased out by 2024, anyone know anything about that?
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Whats sucks is now that cash for clunkers ran its course a whole generation of cars is now gone and some models almost went extinct. Cheep 80s and 90s cars are not as common as they used to be. Its sad that I never got to experience some of these cars that are now gone from the roads
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https://www.boekeandsons.com/Inventory/?/listing/for-sale/214992953/1985-mack-mh613-cabover-trucks-w-slash-sleeper-heavy-duty-trucks?accountcrmid=10904325&settingscrmid=10904325&dlr=1 I think it's a fair price if the truck looks as good as the pictures show, same sight has a 1980 Freightliner cabover with a Detroit for 20 grand more (who in there right mind would buy that). How did these ride with the taper leaf suspension? Is it hard to convert them to air ride?
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Those newer carbs that Kohler uses are POS in my opinion. I couldn't ever get them to run very good but they are very cheep, $12 on amazon for a new one. I don't have very good luck with carbs anyways.
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I tell ya if I got a hold of one of those new Volvo engines I'd take great pleasure blowing it to bits.
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Is that picture in the Mack museum? I wonder how it escaped and why they didn't keep it and use it for an advertising campaign. Its just odd And I didn't realize that Mack had made so few trucks in 86 years, Henry ford build a million in 2 or 3 years
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I wonder what "The One Millionth Mack" means
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Does it have a Bendix? Ours always pukes oil into the tanks but we haven't had much problems with it building air
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Yep the code talkers could never be broken. My mom taught her first years as a teacher down on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, she took classes from one of the original WW2 code talkers. But Navajo isn't taught to kids much down there anymore so it's likely the language will disappear soon.
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I'd work for ya If I lived closer Joey. You learn to be a good grease monkey having to grease at least 100 grease zerks a day cutting in the summer and fall.
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They're in just about the same boat as us with China taking all of their industry away and regulation taking the rest. After the bubble burst in the 1990s Japan has never really gone back to their former glory.
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Looks like it doesn't have a Mack rear end, wonder what transmission it has. Can you tell by the vin?
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Why they put calcium in such a small garden tractor for weight is beyond me. Anyways Its probably a 5 lug rim on the back isn't it? those are probably easier to find than the front. The front might require some fabrication of a good rim or maybe another brand used the same rim or you could put on steels if you could find a small set
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Heres the other Mack, both the same green
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Yeah it has a big chain driven winch, another first for me. Here is the link to the other mack if anyones interested: https://www.bigiron.com/Lots/1945MackEG2TonCabChassisTruck Both look like good projects if anyone needs one! also I was wondering, when did Mack come out with top down diffs? both of these don't have them so do they have a different manufactured rear axle or did Mack come out with the top down rear axles later?
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https://www.bigiron.com/Lots/1945MackEFU3DoorCrewCabChassisTruck I found this Mack for sale and was wondering what exactly it is, and what it was used for. I'm guessing it has something to do with the oil field or maybe telephone company work. Military maybe? This guy has a lot of old cars and car parts for sale including a 1945 Mack EG. Ive never seen anything like it...
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