Vladislav

A friend of mine (he works for me either) use Cooper Discoverer M/T's for a while. Probably two sets to the moment. He used to ride 35/12.5R15 on his 1983 Mercedes G. The rig is mostly made for hard off-road but used for everyday run in the city either. And when he goes to some off-road challenge there usually is a highway trip of 1000-1500 km to the area. Sure no really fast runs but 100 km/h (60mph) is an almost normal thing. There are Russian-made tyres also. I don't know how they are of quality now. Heard some were not bad. But 15-20 years ago they were all crap. People had no alternative until used tyres came to the country together with used foreign vehicles. Personally I prefere to avoid using them until would hear good recomendations for no less than 5 or more years.

I have seen one in a mixer too. 1999 RD690. Thought they were stock starting from some date. It looks brutal but I have no idea on how good when drive. Sure flip-flops were not on my count.

I do like BFG's. Ran one set of M/T's for a couple of years for both summer and winter. Than had A/T's on another vehicle ans was happy with them for 3 years with no swap in the winter time. They weren't nice for real ice. But good enough when mostly in the city or nearby. Currently I wear out Yokohama's M/T for no less than 70000km to the moment. Their look tells 10-15K more would be Ok. But I like to get muddy ocassionnaly. And can do it any time I want. So for highway reason I'd go with something smoother along the thread.

From what I can see in the pictures it differs from what I need. I don't have a B-model but looking for a set of differentials for my WW2 Mack. Something faster than 9.02 the original setup. But those wouldn't fit into my axles. And it seems the gears off them either. Thank you for posting the pictures.

Actually I need a pair of carriers (differentials) only. But I'm afraid if you even agree to remove them a shipping to New Jersey from where they might be shipped to me would cost a lot. Any suggestions on how difficult to send old iron to the States?

Australian Valueliners were almost different ball game indeed. As far as I've figured out the most Macks built there in those years rode on a R-model frame. I mean American Eastern R's. If you know RL/RS had their own frame style - straight rails from front to rear, of the constant section and with no spread at the front. Both 600's and 700's. Talking further of Aussie Valueliners you can easily identyfy V8 trucks. They had higher cabs with the hood top beweled. Those with the horizontal hood top were in-line 6's.

No. The headlight bucket was fitted right onto the hood. With the bezel (chrome ring) on the light unit. The outside stainless steel plate attaches straight to the hood either with screws. No real connection between the bucket and the plate.

At what place Ford used them? C-series were cabovers.

It seems to me nice to put ducks in a row having such one in the middle.

Looks like the teeth count could be done without diff removing this time. Just in a can with the oil drained.

So did you mean RS600 with V8? I suppose they never existed. Although I'm not 100% clever on this matter. And if anybody say I'm wrong I'd like to know that.

Nobody really knows how many Macks were melted down to become a Hyundai part. But now it pays back

If you mean that guy runs RD with a round headight in a suare bezel to fit a RD newer hood suare opening it was a factory option for some RD's. Sure they had them on both sides when new. There was a talk on that on here recently. Just a couple weeks back. I'm not ready to point you to it right now.

RS700's were Valueliners either.

Neat little truck! Oh, maybe I'm wrong. It starts being not so little when you intitiate works to make it up I suppose you better put front brakes on if runs with no trailer are planned in the future.

Welocme to the site!

Hi, Why don't you like any of these? Seriously, if you're looking for an original one, the best way is to contact Watts Mack, the company which drives this site. They're helpful and qute professional on everything classic Mack-related. http://www.wattsmack.com/ Or just google "Mack torque rod" and try your best talking to parts stores in a hope to get a correct part. The main measurments will be helpful. Vlad

I wish I could Actually there's not so much of to catch overhere. So I try to not miss any chance. And another reason is I payed for that load just a bit more than if I for example buy and import a 7 speed gearbox only.

It seems to me as one good idea! Are you sure you will make such thing correct using your B67 cab? I suppose it's the most important trouble. Isn't it? For shipping it cost for me $2.5 for one kilogram of old iron to bring to Russia from NJ with customs included. I have no of idea on how much would that be for the opposite direction. So if you find it reasonable I would be too likely to trade the setup for something else of the same weight rate

Al, Many thanks for pointing me up. Honestly the Chicago R model thread is so huge by now so I still only going to cut a bit of time to read it all from the beginning. Just missted the point when it was started and now it's a kinda hard thing to be done. Looking the picture it could be seen that's a RD indeed. Those guys haven't saved efforts to redo the hood to look the way DMM does. It turned out nice on my mind. Though in my case already having original Mack 6x6 DMM I don't see much pleasure bringing that custom-built monster back to life. And it's not too old enough so far for plenty of works to spend. With plenty of other projects in plans at the same time. Which burn my bisquits

Hi, I might be interested in the rears. But my need isn't the whole bogie. Just a pair of differentials, or much better just the sets of gears off it. It's not a matter of cost but shipping weight. And I don't know how easy it could be to arrange shipping to New Jersey. Further I can do it myself. Vlad

Brocky, Thank you for the tip. Yes, I doubt it might be reasonable to ship those units to the States. When I googled such parts there were several offers on them on your side of the ocean. And the front axles exist with different ratios either. I'm going to try put them for sale locally for first. It's starting to seem to me here might be more Macks or other American trucks than I used to know of. So let's see.

Here is much cheaper to weld a drive shaft using two different halves with different forks and than balance it. At least so far and if you have the parts for the conversion.

I found it. Not them though. I found some web-store with rubber insulators for small van-boxed trucks. They offered cheap and described as for 2 inch straps. I bought two rolls from them and when recieved found out they are actually for 1.75. With the comment "they could be used on 2" straps"!! Unfortunately when cutting SS strips I ordered them 54 mm, not 51 as I should for two inches. So those rubbers being possible (too hard and not nice) to put onto 2" strips have nothing of intend to fit mines. So now the search continues.