Vladislav

Upps, all is fine now, the issue is gone.

Great pictures and it looks like the great show it was! No doubt the organizers put alot of efforts to get everything together.

Also great to see your face smiling ear to ear and a little! I used to work plenty of time with about no gaps but once I figured a man should force himself to take holidays. Otherwise the most bright pages of the life book go aside and get missed.

For some reason I don't see nearly a half of images with comment of "the server is busy please try again later". I sure will but would like to know if anybody else is against that brick wall? 

On 11/1/2022 at 9:12 PM, tjc transport said:

 Vlad, I would wait a few months to see if the political dynamics here change as a lot of people hope they will.

If that does indeed  happen, my bet is relations between Russia and the States will get a whole lot better.

Let's hope. There's definitely a trouble to drain the swamp at the moment...

14 hours ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

Vlad! It's almost time for American Thanksgiving! Are you coming again? We will set a place at the table for you! 

Damn, turkeys are sweet!

Unfortunately I have nothing positive to say. Diplomatic war followed to firing employees from US ambassady in Moscow (alot of BS was involved no doubt) so no touristic visas are given in Russia anymore.

It's possible though to go to another country where US ambassady deals with Russian citizens. Those are in Azerbaijan and Tadjikistan trusting to recent rumors. But the same rumors told not many visas become issued with many requests declined. Seems I should plan one more "adventure" and make a try myself.

...And mentioned relatively small drop in revs at a shift gives thoughts that the tranny is NOT T2070 but maybe t2090 9-speed or so with much closer gear steps and less drops as a follow. All T200 series trannys look similar in general and sticker in the cab may be obsolete to the current state of the truck.

Worth to mention even if the things are of that way it wouldn't mean big change in the shifting approach. Just as said above, try to feel what the truck wants from you and improve your skills. Than after a bit of time you will learn which revs to go out and in a gear. Crawling under the chassis to look for stamping on the tranny housing may be found as a worth to do thing either. 

Vlad

15 hours ago, Brocky said:

Vlad

Glad to see you back.. I can understand some of the problems you are experiencing..

Thanks, Brocky!

Good thing is my problems with presence on the forum was mostly a matter of old 'puter giving up the ghost. But the matters you mean are in the air around indeed.

On 10/2/2022 at 8:22 PM, Nieboer Trucking said:

Hello Vlad, thanks for your story, love it!! I guess the Mack is a formal Haliburton truck. I would travel to Turkey , I heard about more then a few old macks around there. I would looking for the old Ersan macks, but I guess they are scrapped already 

Hello! Unfortunately I have no ideas on the truck's origin. Would be interesting to bother Haliburton for any info or just send a request to Mack museum as beginning. Currently I'm too busy with many things so can't pay attention to the matter well enough.

Interesting entertainment to rifle through Turkey looking for Macks. I was lucky cruising Turkish roads in 2010 with my motorbike. Drove no less than a couple thousand km including streets of Istanbul and Ankara. Was for a couple of weeks there. A score of Macks turned out really poor with only one truck seen at all. It was probably a DM I catched with my eye in a opposite lane of divided interstate highway. Was difficult to recognize the truck riding at 140 km/h and the truck had its own speed too. I had a thought of making a U-turn and catch it but it could worth me up to 100km of extra trip with no result guaranteed. I was told there were many Macks in Turkey earlier but I saw what I saw. The rumors are Iranians found new homes for the most of Turkish Macks.

Factory Mack wheel had its hub riveted to the plate (spokes). It looks though that you can purchase a wheel of the same vendor as aftermarket. But it sells as just a rim with spokes with holes to install a hub. Or a wheel with a hub but sellers mention a need of adaptor. So a contour of another story than just a ready correct wheel to fit seems on a horizont. 

My guess is that style of the wheels could have different hubs depending on a truck model it was used on (don't know for sure though). The wheel I used was off a Mack and had its center with Mack logo, as on the picture.

11 hours ago, Mcrafty1 said:

Morning all, I have an 1986 Mark R685S, It has the mack steering wheel that feels like a soft rubber material that gets sticky feeling at various times/weather conditions, if you have one you know what I mean. I do not like it and would very much like to change it for a wheel with the solid bone type similar to what the older B models had. The problem is there are far to many wheels of all types listed for macks but most if not all offerings don't stipulate specific model fitment. What would I need to do to get the information need  to be assured that the wheel I'm purchasing fits my particular wheel column? I really don't want to pull my wheel to count splines or mic shaft size if I can have the new wheel in hand before I pull the old one, Thanks for any help with this.

I fitted a wheel off 2002 Mack Vision and if suited 1988 R-model steering column fine. Had that same black rubber wheel you was telling about and got newer style which looks good on my mind. The pic is not my truck but the same look.

On 7/1/2022 at 5:45 AM, Truckie Harbison said:

Just joined the forum and was pleased to come across this thread. It’s amazing how many people knew Mike. He was truly one of a kind and is greatly missed. Before he passed, we spent a lot of time talking about his trucks and he was determined that both of my sons and myself would each get one of his trucks to work on and take to shows. Somehow he convinced my wife that she should consider herself blessed to have Mack’s in her yard. Now we are the proud caretakers for a 1970 F Model, a 1975 R Model, and a 1979 Superliner. Each of these trucks were featured in his daily Facebook posts. Slowly but surely these trucks will be restored how Mike wanted them. 

Great to hear and welcome to BMT!

I never met Mike in person (unfortunately) but had a few private conversations with him. Hoped to make a trip to his place some day to check out the collection but the things turned out different. A sad reminder on better to do what you can when you can otherwise a back burner deal may burn away.

I wish you good luck on restoring those trucks. Pretty sure Mike would be happy to see them finished if only he could.

Vlad

On 6/29/2022 at 12:35 AM, h67st said:

You're right, aren't the windshields shorter on the L model?

The ones on a H-model seem taller than on a L or a C. The latter two definitely differ being installed into openable frames (L) or straight into a gasket (C and B with L cab).

I doubt the width differs (exctepting frames or a gasket) since both day cab or integrated sleeper cab on a L-model have the same cowl to suit the hood.

1 hour ago, h67st said:

Did you buy new glass? I'll be buying new for mine soon if anyone has recommendations.

H-model windscreens are not interchengeable with a L-model. They are but with an integral sleeper L cab.

6 hours ago, other dog said:

That picture no. 5025 is U model nut by the way. Everybody remembers U model nut.

He bought a fuel tank at the flea market and he was riding on a golf cart holding the tank. His girlfriend was riding, I guess a friend was the wheel man, or it might have been the seller just hauling the tank for him. He was just a youngster when he was a regular on here, now he's a grown ass man. I talked to him for a few minutes.

Cool to see that picture #5025. It shows out the life goes on and also brings hopes the U-model has chances to be finished some day. Glad to learn Vinny was fine.

14 hours ago, Freightrain said:

Here it is.

Wow! Thanks, Larry.

If you ever see the truck again (and if you will happen keeping this point in your mind) please pay a bit of attention to the sleeper. The one I have on my R (and the one I built) seemed a kind of unique since I never saw a similar bunk on any truck or a picture. The one on the B is not a 100% copy too but very (95%-?) similar. I have no practical need in any info about it having my bunk almost finished. But would be cool to learn its origin and design details. I will try finding the truck owner's contact info either. Thanks.

I'm really glad to say thanks for the Macungie photo album!

Spent a couple of hours yesterday observing the pics of those nice trucks. Sure saved a few on my hard drive. Although it's difficult to choose a favorite in such the case my "truck of the day" was a rusty heavy L-model on a lowboy hooked up to a Pete tractor.

Worth to mention the fuel money you spent on the drive to the show gave fun for many others either. Very appreciated!

3 hours ago, other dog said:

By the way, all these pictures are still on my camera, full size and uncut if anybody wants me to send them any of them. I'm going to delete them, but I haven't yet. I delete mine every time I put them on the computer, Zina on the other hand has never deleted any off her camera since I gave it to her for Christmas several years ago. Which is like 2,200 pictures, I just looked. Good thing I got her a big memory card for it too.

Tom, I got to good practice (as it seems to me) using my digital camera. I just buy new memory card after a current one is full, or preferrably a bit earlier if I'm going to some event or a trip. The "used" one gets off and puts on a shelf with a mark on it. So you can always access all your images in original resolution if ever need.

Nice looking r model indeed. Bronze color is fine! Seems like difficult to purchase and also keep owning. But no need to restore since she's self making up.

Haven't opened the Macungie album yet. Just going to. Thanks in advance!

Thanks for sharing the pictures!

I sure heard about that show in the past but now learned more facts from Larry's post.

Does anybody know the owner of red and white B73 with L-model cab? The sleeper on the truck looks very close to what my SGT R-model have and I enjoy suffer difficulty identifying the producent.

But you had great time (at least I hope so). And we can fill our tanks only being in this part of reality, on Earth. Sure no point in spreading cash left to right. But sometimes it worth to pay a bit more than would be pleasant for things you can do today since you never know what you will be able to do tomorrow.

Thanks for sharing Tom. I too hope to see more if you find time to upload.

12 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Was gunna take Mrs Mack over for the show but bugger me the cost is kinda huge 

 

You may be sorry in the future after not doing that. Would be a really cool adventure. Worth to bother imagination a bit, maybe looking for a non-profit but fuel paying load to cover some big portion of the distance.