Vladislav

Looks good! Best of luck on the project! Vlad

Sad news, it looked very nice when solid. A question - the front end of the frame rail seems to me similar to a RW. Does CL/CH/CX and RW frames have anything in common?

You're always able to add bolt heads in place of knobs

Larry, looks like an idea.

Great!!!

It seems to me more and more that Israel is the land of threasures. Not many of them E's on the East side of Atlantic ocean. Many thanks for sharing.

Thank you for the comments folks, they're cool and funny as always The bunk was originally well insulated with mineral wool since it's Canadian. I'm going to do the same 2 inch thik regardless it's a hobby truck with no plans for winter cruising. The interior is partly done. Plywood inner lining is cut and some metal parts are done to attach the shelf and the bed. The last one is designed (yea, we spent some weeks drinking beer figuring out the arrangement)... designed to slide up to the front wall to be a double bed. I talked with the upholstery man to make everything of kunst leather together with the cab interior to get it the same style, close to original.

Wow! Absolutely priceless thing if doesn't sink in a swamp. Ken, I would say such a rig is not extremely rare to see nowadays although the blonde is cool

Congrats on the new rig! It looks very good from the pics and comfortable. Shure it's not a Mack although it's ready to do what you need of it. I would keep it as is and save time/power/cash for other real antique projects.

Mack has (had-?) two lines of three-countershaft trannies - T200 and TR-107. They are different. When we talk about T2090 and T2100 we say 9 speed and 10 speed. There are also T2130 13spd, T2180 18spd and the others. But "12 speed" is TRTX-1070, of the different type. There's TRD-1070 wich is 10 speed and triple countershaft but isn't a T-2100. So hasn't issues T2100 related.

Today I finally put my hands on my camera to take pics out of it. Couple (or more-?) weeks ago I almost finished the body work and got the bunk out in the street to observe it from a distance and memorize this stage of building. Now it is covering with dust waiting to go to the paint shop wich is busy at the moment. Another moment I want for the first to paint up the cab's door with the strips of the chosen colors and see how it actually looks. Than continue the same on the sleeper if good enough.

The most beautiful moments in every restorer's life you posted

Lots of laugh also regardless I'm still far from total figuring out a humor on here. Special thanks for those last bonus pics

Yea. I would say... about 20-50 R's/DM's (maybe 10-?) all over the 170 million people country, 10-20 MH's, 10-20 CH's and some hundreds of Visions. One Cruiseliner is showed out the other day (better to say the other year ) I'm pretty shure none of B's and RW's and so on... Oh, yea! Some other old pieces of junk pointed out below my avatar

And one more! My DMM had it on the hood in its previous life. Econodyne's are difficult to get, wonder how the stuff above is rare.

I meant to scan a real truck. When I tried to order 3D work of the Mack chassis components the guy came to me with a portable scanner and worked out the front hub. He needed the stuff in darkness (inside the shop) and needed it in matt white (asked if he could spray it over with water-removable paint). I said "no" so he applied many small pieces of paper scotch and put a black point with a marker pen on every one. Than scanned during an hour. I saw the general 3D object on his display but it needed longer work out to clean off all the unnesesarry points wich came into his drowing by some way. It was about 2 years back and he's still doing that

Ohh, why can't you grab everything you like...

I heard alot about issues with T2090 although most the talks concerned the synchro and that fever might be corrected using a new style synchro set. I myself have two T2090 in two R models. Both have issues, one with the synchro and the other has the shift clutches worn out (grinds when shift). I hope to make a good one of those two because it's much more hard to put hands on anything off Mack in Russia My Macks are hobby though.

Welcome back! I'm probably a bit shorter than 3 years on here so don't remember your nice red F. Sorry to know you had to pass through some not very nice moments in your life but we should always hope for the best in the future. Vlad

I haven't seen any good blueprints of a B-model cab although I'm shure the best way is to make measurments off your truck or ask the friend about putting his hends on a 3D scanner. I'm not in trust to blueprints excepting factory production drawings of an exactly part.

Don't count my answer as a perfect one since I have never put my hands on both of them. But from what I have figured out from the description T2090 and T2100 seem to me as mostly the same units with one exception. T2090 is really a 10 speed but 2 gears have about the same ratio. So Mack called it "9 speed". T2100 has almost the same structure but with slightly different ratios, 5th and 6th speeds are different. So there are "real" 10 speeds with a bit shorter steps than T2090. This means those boxes have the same synchro, bearings, housing and so on. Anybody correct me if I'm wrong. Vlad

How do you determine B67 hood length? Fender ends are close to the door line? By the word (sorry to show my ignorance) - is a B67 a short version of B61? Or just an earlier one?

I would say "the great palace for the Mack kingdom" And his smile is too worth to see..

Kscarbel, many thanks for posting the Mackdefence document. I saw many of those photos before but never had put my eye on the whole brochure.

Good work and the R looks good with the boat on board. If I have many such customers I could also work with my Macks.