Vladislav

Bob, sorry to hear. Rest in peace the old man.

Merry Christmas BMT!

Philippe, welcome on board! Normandy is a really beautiful area. Especially along the beaches on early days of June every 5 years It would be nice to see pictures of your new purchase. Was that F built in France or imported? Vlad

That's what I originally said to the guys, to not put foam into the triangle. But they made that triangle a bit less than required (they didn't have the cab, the old panel only as a sample). And when I put the panel in place the seam which connected triangle to the main panel area appeared thick enough to not allow the door to close.

Hat, This makes me think that some people might have troubles carrying loads. And at the same time have much more troubles of having too many of potential helpers on that matter. And as for me I might get a trouble choosing in which category I'd prefere to be myself.

Neat road scenaries, and the mountain views too. Big Mack trucks pics are always welcome. And Santa assistents' too. Not nice news in Gladys this time. Seems you better start thinking on getting a fire proof house. I mean in addition to the fire-proof shed. The only thing that is not almost clear to me is that red one with Mercedes-Benz cab and the drum of unknown application. Do people use to call them as Freightshaker of some model?

Interesting that the diamond quilt stuff you used on your doors is the same as I have on my sleeper interior panels. With the only exception mine is blue. Nothing of a surprize with that fact since my sleepers are Canadian built. I like the way your door panels look. Hope you will not get the issue with the cab skird as I did.

When a door is installed properly the upper mirror bracket bolts passes the cab inside edge being a bit higher. You can see them from the inside of a cab if look into the gap right above the door top. I haven't refreshed the rubber seals on my cab so far but have the doors about 10 mm out along the rear edge relating to the cab side wall. Almost can not get them deeper regardless I would like to. Having them in that position the distance between the inner surface of the door and the cab corner reinforsment is less than 10 mm. I'd say something between 1/4 and 3/8 talking with SAE lexicone. When I got the door panel from the upholstery shop the first thing I did was just put it into the door opening and than a try to close the door. After an hour of tinkering and suffering the panel went back to the shop together with a additional piece of material to be done totaly new once again..

Too sad to hear and also sad a big truck was involved again in the terrorist attack. There's plenty of Polish truck drivers all over the Europe, most of them do their hard everyday job. And Polish drivers count as one of the best in Europe. Berlin is relatively close to me. Had been multiple times to the city.

You're right. They are R688ST's. I supposed it's possible to identify a model by tracking down the front part of Mack VIN. At least I have such practice with some other vehicle producents I used to deal with. Thank you for paying attention to my question.

Hmm... Straight rails could be manufactured here locally. With only trouble of metric sheet thikness. I.e. you can order 6 mm or 8 mm, not real 1/4". Wonder are OEM R and RW rails still avalible? And how costy?

Nice pick-up! And the crue of the foresters too. The new shed is great! And what is more important, it's fire-proof. Hope the mixer can suit it with no troubles.

Anybody please give me explanations on this matter - are those rails fabricatet by PG Adams or others have all the shapes in the front area (like say R or RW Mack have)? Or are they just straight pieces of rail you need to weld in the middle of your truck to be connected to the original front end? Thanks.

Cool piece of old iron! Some amount of them was supplied to us either.

Congrats on the steal deal ! The truck looks nice and the idea with lights is neat indeed. Good luck on bringing Mack to better condition! BTW you can always relax for a bit during the work with a can of cold coke. Vlad

Guys, what do you talk about? -28 F ??? Sounds coooold-d-d!

Hmm... A neat entertainment it is as it seems to me. Personally I'm going to pass it due to the need of visit Facebook page and than wait 3 weeks of shipping. But it's not a great trouble to order something similar locally. I suppose T2090 would work well for me.

The price is not really friendly but note how clean the interior is.

Don't forget to reproduce the lower corner split on the bottoms of the door panels. Those areas are straight against the cab reinforcement plates and really tight. I got my door unable to close with the newly fabricated panel because the upholstery guy "slacked" on the size of the "triangle" and made it less than it should be.

I personally would prefere just one drive axle longer

I got exactly the same issue just a couple of weeks back. It was with my 4x4 when I switched the wheels from summer ones (off-road) to the winters. Those big ones 33x12.5 had more off-set so when I put the jack it was back of the tyre. But when I tried to install the whinter wheel with normal off-set I got I against the jack. Needed a couple of minutes to figure out why I couldn't fit it on the center of the hub. I such cases I use to say it's better when you have an issue resolved such easy way, no matter how much of time and efforts you spent. I mean in relation to possible really hard issue.

I suppose that is the reason he still has it for sale. Here are couple of pics from the previous add we have discussed in the past. Note the dates on them.

Didn't know that. I thought both were owned by Gary Mahan.

I suppose those ones you saw in Ukraine were KrAZ trucks. Cool looking units designed in the late 50's. Still plenty of them in operation in Ukraine and Russia. Interesting fact that they got their basic design from military Macks model NR which were supplied to Soviet Union under Lend-Lease during WW2.

Yes, they did. But they sure were/are located in Europe, Austria BTW Austria is NOT Australia.