Vladislav

My imagination gave me an idea to dig her out alltogether with a piece of the land (I don't know how) and put in your yard keeping the trees in place. Sure kidding. Solid truck from looking the pictures and could be fixed. But would require plenty of TLC and overall paintwork. Of what i would do is 1st try to fire her up, than probably swap a complete engine to Mack diesel and get her running. Than continue with making up the look. Good luck with the project. Vlad

I wouldn't surprize if they are open for the US citizens. If only they didn't mirror the limitations Trump put on them. In fact you just google Iranian ambassady contact info and make a call.

Ok, I will keep in my mind. But there's an on land road from Russia to Persia.

Too probably. And to my surprize Iranian drivers told me they didn't have troubles with Mack parts. I suppose they produce many things locally. And also I saw they make wheel hubs for Macks with studs location to accomodate European patters wheels.

I missed that even for just 100 km. A friend of mine (who made this movie) told me about the appointment with Iranian guy when I already had affairs for the time. So I couldn't get to the party. Interesting that those guys went further from Russia to Lithuania and than Poland. As I was told that R-model was freshly restored and extremely clean.

Mike, what engine is in yours?

1040

They're original. That's original military Mack NM. The matter of the question at the time is it's an early steel cab series model or a later open cab one with a commercial L-model cab installed.

Same here. Both for roads and the rivets

Yup, pretty sure. Also square fuel tanks and the air tanks removed from under the battery boxes and installed on brackets to the chassis. Plenty of minor similarities too.

I already bought a set of KD-516 (or so) from Truck-Lite to install on the R and also another set without the short light for MH. But Cruiseliners had something different from the factory. If you look at the pics and also the brochure photo of green cab you posted above those lights have mounting area at the front only and the most of their body length is "flying in the air". I don't remember seeing such ones for sale or installed on other trucks. My new purchase has marker lights which look as Kenworth W900 fender turn light and I noted similar setup on other Cruiseliners. But those "flying torpedo's" are definitely a special and attractive thing.

Any ideas on what the torpedo marker lights on Cruiseliner are? Some special style with the tail part hanging in the air. Never saw anything like that on other Macks nor another branded trucks.

Great looking truck and I like the paint scheme.

Good point Jim. And right in time. I measured the rail and it's 3/8 x 10.4". The 2nd figure is not absolutely accurate so it seems as the option. The truck is WS785LS.

In the asked task I'd put a bottle jack onto the top of the frame rail and make a lee of chain or tight stripe over the bottom of the spring and the jack top. Than lift the jack so it will pull the chain forsing the spring bottom to go up. My chain winches were 1 ton so applying 2 of them to both the springs didn't put more than 1 ton of force to each spring. And I remember well I didn't seat the insulators by the clamp bolts. The rubbers were completely in their places so I just put the clamps and drove the bolts in.

From what I saw it's thicker. Going to grab a caliper and get precision figures.

You're welcome Steve. The floor is quite good and doesn't show any corrosion by the first observation. i sure will clean the dust off it and look more detailingly but it's shape seems promising. Some outer panels have bents and I would swap them by aluminium sheet since the most of the panels are straight cuttings. There's also a mess of rivets so better to install new ones instead of aftermarket spots. Of difficulties there's a lower part of the windscreen opening which has multiple cracks but I found out it's fiberglass so could be repaired. And the windscreens themself is one of the 1st points in the fixing list. I'm afraid I will need to bring the truck or the cab to a glass shop for fabricating well fitted windscreens. And this means I should fix the opening first. Unfortunately all that is not a deal of the day since plenty of current affair already take place. Interesting you have Warszavwa. They're pretty rare here, I just can remember one or two owned by people. Pobeda's are pretty common, just seldom seen on a road.

Nope, the frame rails are solid and straight right from the under the cab factory split and almost to the rear end. I checked this out once more just an hour back. I hate frame mods so payed attention to the matter. The rails are no less than 5/16" thick and tall, probably 10.62", didn't measure so far. Thank you for posting the brochure scan.

Great point Mike, you catched it! It's written "snakes" indeed. I meant "snacks" to not be hungry. So far I didn't see any place in Russia where snakes are offered as food. Otherwise I wouldn't miss the chance to taste A 300 mile trip sounds like a drive. Anything really interesting or worth to be used as parts?

Hmm... I'm new to Cruiseliners and newer knew there was anything aside from a daycab and sleeper optins. If the side view gives you that feeling I suppose you're right. I didn't put an info request to the Museum on this truck and doubt will be able to do it soon in current situation. Of what I noted in person the matress in the cab looked too narrow and had its front (direction wise) line stepped to clear up the driver's seat.

Interesting. As long as my R's went to Russia from Quebec I don't see anything impossible for that IH to go the same track. I will ask local folks on more pictures of that truck and possibly someone is familiar with it.

I noted the cost of old Macks selling in Australia is much higher than in the US and also in Europe. Wonder why it is. Might be higher overall cost level for everything but I doubt on that by a matter of today's market globalization.

Paul, I also thought about that many times but than finally figured the matter. Say a B-model is a very common old truck in the States, at least over East coast area and you don't need to go a hundred km because you can find multiple offers in a radius of 50. And if I look for an old Russian truck such as GAZ-51 or ZIS-157 which are about the same common overhere as a B-model in Pennsilvania I would also go for an example no further than 100km. Macks are extremely rare pearls overhere so the scale of the hunt is different. And my hobby is that exotic as long as I'm here. Once I thought to myself of if I ever live in the States I would import and restore ZIL

To my sorprize it's unclear to me so far. It's inline 6 END engine with turbo on the exhaust manifold. Originally I saw the turbo only and thought it was something like 237. The tag on the block is missed and the paperwork kept the # started with CM6-250 what I figured as misswritten EM6-250. But when looking the truck I found out it had a chassis mounted aftercooler in front of the radiator. And being a 1982 Macungie built unit the engine seems even as E6-350 2V. On the other hand the tranny is 5 speed so the engine should be Maxidine. Any EM6 with CMAAC? Telling more there's second transmission behind the main box connected by a drive shaft. Probably Browny and probably 3 speed but I didn't investigate the matter so far. There was an air shift control in the cab but it's no longer there, the air lines under the floor were cut.

Ok, to my understanding the engine SIZE is 672 ci