Vladislav

Happy belated B-day Tom! Best wishes! And yes, glad to see you spent the time really nice.

Did Superliners ever have gold dogs from the factory?? I think Maxidyne feature was long gone to the moment the 1st leaved the assembly line.

Thanks for clarifications. I didn't happen watching Western chassis components much. RS/RL chassis were shared on the forum from time to time but FS/FL seem as rare animals. Maybe it's just an East coast thing IDK. I think you're right about Australian chassis style. As we see Paul put a like to your post. I guess he'd put a dislike if you were wrong

I guess much larger displacement. The firetruck you mentioned had both rear and front hood extensions.

Joey, thank you for the offer. I have one interesting idea on how to modify T2090 on the ratios to better suit my needs. There seem some difficulties though. I need to play with shafts and gears a bit but that's not a deal of the day. I will make a post about that when able to get to the project.

I saw one on ebay a few days back. The condition wasn't perfect though. Not sure it was described as a F-model part. I might just requesting "Mack emblem".

...or send request to Mack Historical Museum for the VIN record.

Joey, I'm out of likes for today but would like to give my respect to you for that extensive sharing of info and tips on the transmission tools and repair. I have a general T200 overhaul manual but gladly saved the pics you posted on my 'puter. And now I can understand the way people fit the compound with a tranny on a truck. I was told by one of former drivers of my SGT R-models that they removed and put back the compound housing a few times. And had plenty of headaches especially for the first time. Two things I know for sure. They had the job done and they didn't have any special installation tools definitely

I belive one off a CF firetruck would work. But I doubt it would be notably easier to locate, sorry.

I don't have that code handy. But the matter was discussed on here many times. I'm sure the answer can be found in Exterior, Cab and Accessories forum on this site.

Too sorry to hear. Glenn always shared top skill advices. He definitely was invaluable when someone needed help resolving issue with an old Mack engine. Rest In Peace.

You would barely remove a few ten thousands of an inch polishing camshaft even with sand paper. I had experience "correcting" shape of journals of Mack shaft after "imperfect" grinding. It's a long story to tell right now. The matter is I needed to remove nearly 0.01mm at two opposit sides of a journal. Could not do anything notable with 220 (or so) grid paper. Had to use a diamond file and worked one journal for nearly 30 minutes one side. Than another than smoothing the scratches down with multiple papers lowering the grid. Ended with 800 or 1000 and the surface was a mirror. Sure all the job was well inspected by microgage. I could easily see 0.005mm (0,0002 inch). Those journals are damn hard, heat treated.

I like that diamond plate flooring. The truck is going to be as tough as a locomotive!

Sorry to hear about the negative experience with the crank polishing. Unfortunately no one is guaranteed 100% from getting in a such situation. And those are lucky who have will and power enough to pass through and continue reaching the target. When we deal with a hobby it's an adventure by its origin. Or a game. Much worse when similar things concern job or business and especially health. I once had bad experience with a shop boring new sleeves for Lanova engine block. I also had to go to another place. Than a few months later I found out I made a good thing I didn't close the door too loud leaving them. The matter was they didn't complete (atually didn't do at all) the job explaining my custom-cast liners were too hard for their cutting tools. At the same time they asked me to pay nearly 1/4 of the full job cost. I said I wasn't lucky doing that but paid. And later on when I had to look for a place to provide stitching repair for a stress crack in a cylinder head I found out the only place which could do the job was those folks. So I had to come back, they well recognized me and did the repair with full respect and quality. P.S. The weld seams are a cat's meau as one of our members used to say

At least on the pictures all looks fine. And my guess when the truck is seen in real nobody would note any imperfections in the windshield rubber shapes. Especially taking to account there's none of them BTW it's possible to smooth down uneven edges or surfaces of a rubber part just with a piece of sandpaper of grinding wheel.

It's still a mistery for me how a building could be jacked up without deformations and cracks in the walls etc. Even that steel sub-frame has certain grade of flexibility. Or is that way suitable for some designs of homes only? I mean you can move a wooden frame building but that's impossible for bricks, right? Anyway I'm under impression every time I see a pic with such a scenary. Have never seen that for real. Only one house somewhere in Virginia which was prepped for move (jacked up) but still in its place.

Looks like there are no radiators in the place where they should be (and definitely were). The ad mentions of restoration in the past. Probably some mods were put into the truck along it. Anyway it was interesting to see. Thanks for sharing. Vlad

And still not easy task if nobody's helping out from aside

I wonder how did you put the shaft onto the lathe? That thing is supposed to be damn heavy. We have to carry Mack cranks by two men and when I took the last one off a block I just hooked a chain hoist to it. The final result of the cleaning looks tasty.

Definitely plenty of cool toys to drool over. I hope those restored trucks from the collection will find good homes. Thanks for sharing.

My guess it's an emergency exit made due to the long sleeper compartment. Neat looking truck, thanks for sharing.

The chickens look good, the tyre looks bad. I also see someone emptied down a bottle of Vodka at a certain time. Actually cracks in rubber are crytical if they allow water (actually sand with water) to access cord threads where they can rub them through. There's no steel cord in sidewalls, only nylon. So no rust issue from water getting to. But I can take it's easier to swap old tyres just for peace of mind.

I've got an idea which ocassionally popped up in my mind while I was spinning thoughts of better use of the FRO tranny.... Never mind. If you keep 6V arrangment you may intstall small 6V battery separately (off a scooter or so?) and connect it to the ignition system. So the latter wouldn't be affected by voltage drop while cranking. I'd connect it to the generator circuit through a diode to supply with charge and not discharge when starter is in operation.

I belive Jeff Lakazchik is a known person in the antique truck world. I don't remember showing him up on here, maybe he's more to military vehicles than Macks. Would be funny to discower he's a ralative to Other Dog. Thanks for the link to the video. It was definitely interesting to see.

Got the info guys, thanks. There are still relatively many American trucks cruising the roads of the country. The majority is Freigthliners, IH, Volvos, a bit of Kenworth and Pete and a few drops of Vision Macks. This way trannies I see for sale are mostly RTO's which cost nearly $700 and Meritors I didn't get familiar with. My guess they're automatics. Or more correctly, automatized. Don't remember ever seen Allisson offered for sale. FRO's take they share too but they're fewer in number, probaly were taken off newer trucks which are more on the road so far than parted out. Personally (let me boast a bit) I accuired Mack TRTXL-1070 12 speed, 2 T2070, 2 T2090 taken off my trucks (one is under restoration at the moment), one more operational T2090 in a truck I may use for projects, 2 T1078 5-speed which even don't worth count on my mind (one in a truck), T2060, T2070 and X-1076(?) 6 speed in trucks accompanied with RTO 9-speed in a truck I'm going to get rid of (the tranny, not the truck). So that FRO dosn't seem having good chances to accommodate in one of my Macks. But who knows