Vladislav

Pretty interesting and sounded like making history. Just wonder what was the original reason to lift up the cab on V8 Valueliners?

Later E9's had two piece pistons also. At least in Europe used in 560 hp Renaults.

Hope he's doing fine and would take a minute in his tight multy-priority shedule to sign up and say hello.

Bolts were overtorqued when the rod was installed and broke down at a certain time. Or opposit situation they were loose and got gone. After either of the scenario the axle got ability to spin over its mounting bushings by acceleration or brake torque. The rod hit the crossmember and got the shape you see. U-joints kept its company by the same reason. Of possible traces to proof my suggestion I would look over the crossmember surface for punch marks or scratches made by the rod since it too probably made multiple hits. Also I expect one of the bolt holes worn to one side since two bolts were doubtly ruined together. One of them hold on for a bit of time before to get bend broken. Vlad

The right pic is awesome! Say hello to Zina. There's also idea. Couldn't you ocassionally take the red KW for a weekend drive? It would be a bit of fun and memories and also the way to update the girl in a car photo collection. I remember about your B-model mixer sometimes.

I would temporary install electric fuel pump into the fuel supply line or even attach a hose with such a pump and sunk into a jerrycan. Straight jumpering electric terminals takes all air and so from the primary circuit in less than half a minute. Than I would crank with the pump still on. If it's a matter of fuel supply or air the engine would start quite soon. If not your way is to investigate assembly mistakes. Such as injection timing, cam shaft timing, valves adjustment etc.

Congrats on the well deserved life turn! Hope you will enjoy spending time either in Virginia or Florida. I'm pretty sure you would like to do plenty of things aside of chaining steel rolls and tarping dumpsters. And as the guys mentioned above we all hope for your camera to be kept well greased, cleaned and operational.

Are those thanks specially made for fertillizer? Liquid?

Great stuff! Probably would fit my dash too. But since my truck was military Mack used metal as less flameable material. This way I'm going to reproduce this.

A DM hood would not fit a DMM for sure.

Cool trucks, thanks for sharing. The color of that superdog is my favorite for the model.

Congrats on one more big step done! As Bob said it was a pleasure to follow your progress and thanks for taking time to share it. Those who make restorations or other big projects know you need bunch of time doing work and arranging solutions on every questional step but also extra time to make good photos and typing descriptions if you post the job.

And speaking about yellow one considering it was seen in Petersburg VA region I would suppose it was Keystone Truck and Tractor Museum example.

Once i investigated leftovers of the original glow box the housing was metal and the lining was canvas. Probably the same material as was used for seat cushions.

I belive Hendrickson made them but doubt they're still avalible. Hendrickson was an OEM supplier for original Mack bumpers so quality would be right. Personally I have no ideas where to pick one up excepting ebay. They show up there from time to time. Also keep in mind there were two very similar styles of R-model bumper before and after 1979 (or so). The difference was in the mounting holes pattern since different front spring brackets were used. I don't know which one would correctly fit a U-model probably the early one and the most options I saw avalible (in chrome) were for the later series trucks.

Those on white plasic were a real treasure with no chances to find just a couple years back. Since that good guys at Watt's Mack custom ordered a portion of them somewhere and currently they're avalible through their web-site. Cost is pretty reasonable either. I purchased a pair myself. I don't know if they're avalible on a limited basis or not but there were not many options on Mack mud flaps during the recent years. Another worth for concideration option is black heavy rubber flaps also from Watt's store. They aren't colorful just white print on black background. But they're correct style with dogs facing each other and rubber. Also quite reasonable cost. Vlad

Is your truck a single axle or a tandem? Tandem B's utilized (in the most cases) the same style carriers as later models did such as CRD92 and CRD93. So plenty of different ratio diffs could be swapped in. Sorry no help with single axles.

Thanks, interesting points.

Best B-lated B-day wishes! April is a nice month. And doesn't seem as a bad time to stop doing job.

In Europe you're seldome to never seeing a tandem tractor with so long wheelbase. My guess the truck was a straight truck or a chassis reequipped with the 5th wheel. Or a custom ordered one but this is not a new truck. Nice 14L animal.

Yup. And dial checking its center when installing for the cut would allow the belt grooves exactly where they should be.

Best B-day wishes!

Couldn't the pulley being put into good shape using lathe? They're cast iron parts in many cases and may have enough of meat to cut off.

DMM had different ratios in the transfer case to supply the torque to the front axle. Front axle's diff ratio was different than rear diffs so the transfer case was designed to compensate the difference. Actually there must be (slightly) assymetrical interaxle diff used. I remember I saw multiple those ratios in some brochure and thought it could be done due different styles (vendors) of front axles used in DMM's during the production years. Following logic you're right about 6 wheel full time must mean interaxle diff. And it would compensate some difference of front and rear tyre sizes. But usually it works well when you drive slow and not for a long distance. Otherwise the transfer case may get overheated due to constant spinning of the interaxle differential which is not supposed to be.

PAI supplys R-model door glass either. But clear glass only, no green tint. Mack part# is18QX416 for the clear glass and 18QX416P2 for green. PAI offers FGT5785 which is supposed to be similar to 18QX416. Both L and R door glasses are similar when new since they don't have metal attachment plank.