Vladislav

This was the best candidate for what you'd like to see of a Rubber Duck replica. But the engine option would ruine the idea of driving it for work.

If I could grab that truck I'd catch it with both of my hands. But I already have more toys than my resourses allow me to bring in order.

A Superliner convertion could be done too. But that's a shame on my mind to ruine a Superliner converting it into anything else. You might sell the hood of it to compensate some expences though.

Too sorry to hear Paul.

I'm not a dog guy myself but I'm pretty sure there's nothing nice of feeling loosing a friend.

Rest in piace Miss Molly.

...and worth to try on a fence first than on a certain old body panel. Than when you're of feel of paint viscosity (the amount of solvent in the paint) and thickness of the 1st and the next layer there's time to get to the object of your desire.

I was told by a very respectful person that in early years (1953 or so) B-models had the chassis stamping somewhere in the rear portion of the frame. I have never re-checked that info but I'm not a B-model guy.

RH rocker panel is similar between R, U and DM-models. It's of straight shape and can be fabricated of sheet metal with reasonable efforts if no options for purchasing a new part. LH is another and more complicated story since U and DM have the curve for a leg to acces the step. Look at the photo above Bob posted. R-model has straight rocker panel at the left since the cab doesn't have any offset.

6 or 7 years back I was lucky catching a pair of new rockers for my R at E-bay for $100 apiece. And a couple years earlier (8-10 years back) they were avalible from Mack for about that cost. But than later I saw them for nearly $300 and not sure if they're avalible now at all.

The 1st thing I would do is checking out Watts Mack on those parts. If no luck e-bay search or custom fab would be the options. It may also worth effort putting request in the "parts wanted" section of the site.

On 8/18/2025 at 11:01 PM, davehummell said:

they are right under the handle if you look closely you can see the plate plus, I just gave them a coat of black paint

Thank you for the answer.

I guess it's also possible to rework the door skin a bit in the mounting area to fit Chevy handles if you do that before painting the doors. Not the best approach to modify parts the way you wouldn't be able to install the original ones in place in the future. But could be done.

2 hours ago, davehummell said:

Hi, I made a different mounting plate to center the shaft that operates the mechanisms inside the door it's been long enough now I don't remember much else other then it wasn't too hard to do if I did it anyone with some tools could do it so far, they work just like the originals sometimes I can be a cheap bastard and I figured these would be good enough for my beat-up truck

So those mounting plates you made are unseen from the outside?

Of what I noted people are usually look for LH stack mount to arrange dual exhaust. This way I wouldn't surprize if there's really low interest on the basic RH mount since no much persons need it. Just a guess, not sure exactly. Also if I'm not wrong RW1 and RW2 stack mounts are different.

Shipping options/possibilities influence success of a sell either.

T2050, T2060, T2060A "compact" 6-speed, T2070, T2070B 7-speed multy-speed reverse, T2080, T2080B, T2090, T2100, T2110, T2110B, T2130, N2130B, T2180, T2180B - those which are known to me in T200 series. Each would have to have its special sticker. 

Speaking that older T100 series you mentioned both 6-speed and 12-speed had similar main box (of 5 speed). So that's the reason for similar sound they produced. 

Nice! Keep on moving!

Great reading Paul!

Keep on going!

44 minutes ago, mechohaulic said:

enlarging the pictures : 1- there is some light pinstriping.2- couldn't tell if wheels on steer are polished or chrome covers . polished budds shouldn't have the white ring on outer .unless the polished budds got the white painted on to look '70's ??? either way the truck is class. also didn't notice it's a single axle with tag till read entire description.

Those steer wheels are tube type and steel lock rings are painted white. You can see a gap at the split point on the photo. Cool job done to them and cool looking truck.

Looking the under the hood picture its frame rail more tells that's a RS not RL. Probably RS600L with just some alu attachments.

On 7/30/2025 at 6:09 PM, harrybarbon said:

Vlad, with your experience and knowledge do you think some of the mid 1990's and later gearboxes be suitable to retro-fit to the Mack E6 - 2 and 4 valve motors? I know that the 10 and 12 spd preferably overdrive are the natural gearboxes for these motors, but I am thinking of possibilities for a potential Mack project I have in mind.

It seems to me such the swap would be easy. E6 were both equipped with T100 series and T200 series trannies. At least I have one 2V E6-350 with T1078 5-speed and one 4V EM6-300 with T1070 (or so) 6-speed. And two 4V E6-300 and 350 with T2070 and T2090 respectively. Ok, one more sample - 2V EM6-285 (with tip turbine) and T2060 6-speed. As I could figure E6 crank shafts were similar. IDK if there were mods over their front ends for possible PTO attachments but rear fit of the flywheel is similar in the most (all?) cases. Of trucks I have T100 trannies were arranged with 14" clutch (and a flywheel for it) and T200 mated to 15'5" clutch  (with specific to it flywheel). I have no idea could the clutches (with flywheels) be interchanged between T100 and T200 trannies but it may be even possible since both tranny families had 2" input shaft. T300 series looks very similar to T200 but I didn't investigate actual differences. There was one interesting unit for sale locally but before I arranged the deal it had gone to scrap. So no experience was achived.

One mote point to check out is the flywheel housing. Basically all must fit every E6 engine block and have similar (SAE #1?) transmission fit. But of what I noted there were multiple styles cast both of iron or alu with different rear crank seal housing (separate or unified) and some could have rear mounted PTO fittment. But overall it looks to me the most variants should serve regarding their positioning on engine, fitting every Mack tranny of the years and accepting 14" or 14,5" clutch.

Those older single countershaft transmissions had different fittment to the flywheel housing. Not all probably but many had two big bolts (or studs) over the top of the mounting circle to the engine. And I wouldn't be surprized if even those old motors could be coupled with T200 series trannies if needed flywheel housing is installed.

Sure worth to point out clutch drive and prop shaft fittment must be kept in mind. TRD67/72 were push type clutches for example. But all T100, T200 and T300 were used with the pull type.

Wicked but cool picture. That bulldog might fight an avarage hog. Is that his artwork?

15 hours ago, Truckcrazy said:

I believe I saw the L models for sale on Facebook recently. 

Upps... Looks like the life goes on. Or goes by?

On 7/23/2025 at 7:01 PM, Freightrain said:

Chassis looks fantastic Vlad!

I love restorations like this.  I will never have anything that nice.

Thanks Larry! But you have a road ready classic truck. And I still tinker, tinker, tinker...

On 7/21/2025 at 11:05 AM, cruiseliner64 said:

Thanks Vlad.I'll check if there is any in GB...There is none that I know of here in Ireland....

Paul

There was a member on here who was restoring a AC in GB. His name was also Paul if I'm not wrong. But he didn't show up on the forum for a while. He also was taking care of two LFSW sleeper cab trucks which were previousely stored at a certain estate in Schotland (and became a really poor shape there).

That red truck on the pictures looks really nice and too probably will find a new owner if that's the plan. Of the value a few Bulldogs showed up for sale during the last 10 or so years I kept my attention to the subject. Complete units were priced in a range of 10-25K. But that's a very avarage figure and some more passed years could do correction to it also. 

7 hours ago, cruiseliner64 said:

Wow,what a beautiful Mack AC... I'd love to see one.There is none over here that I know of....

Paul

There are a few in Europe, mostly (or all?) former WW1 trucks supplied to France. One nice restored example is in Jisk Automobile Museum in Danrmark. Another one in about the original condition was stored in Normandy, France. But if I'm not wrong it got a go to another location. There also might be a few in GB.

There were two kinds of those dash panels along the years. One style was plastic base with foam and vinil lamination, as described. The other one and the later one was solid plastic parts. ABS or so material. They were painted beige and gray metallic after a certain year. Those foam parts and solid parts seem interchangeable. And solid ones are much more steady and easy to fix (glue-fill-paint). I doubt there's a good way to fix foam conteining dash parts into or close to their original shape. There are laminating films with surface similar to automotive dash material (to repair or maybe even fabricate dashes?). But you doubtly could build up a layer of foam even enough to laminate it or glue up with anything. So on my mind two possible ways of fixing exist. Finding good used later style solid plastic parts and paint them over. Or bringing any style parts into upholstery shop to be furnished with leather or kunst leather.

I personally took that second route. And those my dash parts are taking place at a upholstery guy for 4 or 5 years now. Along with a roll of covering material.

Vlad