Vladislav

Best B-day wishes and good luck on all the projects!

Those cooper lines are avalible new by foot (by meter in my country), just be sure to order the soft kind, not straight pipes which actually tough to bend. Also be sure checking the size since there's a trick with actual cooper pipe size and how it's marked in the sales lists. For fittings you can look Parker Fitting which would cover any need on whatever you break in the gas line. Vlad

Ordered a couple of stickers to make up the R-model cab after paint. Supplied the guys with photos of the original ones plus basic measurements. After a few days they sent me pictures of the ready stuff and I said Ok and went to pick up. Once in their shop and I saw the prints in person I couldn't resist and almost laughed my butt off !

Seems like all R-model axles fit the springs similar. But you can not use a beam off a DM because the U-bolt drillings located different. The same story with MH/RW2 axle beams. It looks like the casting is basically the same with wide spring fitting areas but then they're drilled specially to different chassis types.

I would grab it. But need options to ship it to NJ 08901. Not for free but not for 5 times of the hood's cost. Vlad

Seems like someone has his so lovely trucks so only a thought of selling any sends shivers down his spine

Excellent pics of those Fords! Many thanks for sharing.

Would be nice to see some pictures of your truck. B615 is not a very common animal. Vlad

Welocme to the forum! Getting excited when doing restoration steps is a good practice. Patience and being organized helps too. Not many new parts for a B-model could be found nowadays and Watt's Mack is probably the best place to start the search. Still plenty of used stuff in people's yards, some things show up in the for sale section of the forum from time to time. Also it worth a try posting a thread with a question of a current need on here. Mack museum is closed to Covid and there's no info on the opening date so far. And taking to account they had a 2 month waiting time for a request when operated it now seems doubtful to get any info from them soon enough. Good luck with the project.

The white F-models looks like Turkish company, yellow F-model with blue top and bottom is Dutch company. Dark green R-model is definitely a Iran-Kaveh product and by the look of the plates it was doing its service in the same area as it was assembled. Wow! That dark green San Jose R-model is not an R but U with integral sleeper! Great stuff you fished up Paul.

Thanks for sharing. The life goes on and it's always nice to see a part from the different world.

Looks very solid on the pictures. A good purchase no matter you will fix it or let someone else playing with it. Vlad

First of all there were multiple styles of L-model fenders. Putting aside LT ones which are completely different there were (at least) two mods of the commercial L-model (mostly LF and LJ) fenders - for the standart and for the longer hood. The latter was used with Cummins engines I belive and maybe for other applications. You could see a kind of extensions closer to the grill or bumper mountings at them. Another story is firetruck fenders. Those seem could be found in a very good condition but they wouldn't work on a commercial truck. Firetrucks also had two different styles - early and late. The early ones are difficult to missmatch since they have special dropped shape. But the later ones look very close to the commercial fenders in general. Regardless that they were supposed to be used with 9.00-20 wheels so the arch is smaller and the overall fender shell is deeper. My first thought was to cut the edge over the arch to make it the commercial style but investigating further I found out the firetrucks had different hood sides (shorter near the cab) and the line where the fender touches that side panel lays higher. The reason as I discovered was "fatter" area of the fender where it comes to the hood side, cab front lower corner and also the front of running board. So seemed like no way using firetruck fenders withough sufficient butchering or wrong look. There were also fenders of heavier (mostly LM) series trucks which were of simplified shapes but those are easy to determine. Easy when you see them yourself but a person who would offer them to you might be of no such idea keeping in mind. Vlad

Nice! Thanks for sharing! And you can always feel "back into 2016"

Looks like a fat book with lots of info. Unfortunately you can't buy everything. And if even buy you don't have time to read or pay attention to everything. But if I have such truck it seems like a must to do deal. Thanks for sharing the stuff.

By the look it's similar to what used on L-models. But those are usually with a key slot to lock down.

Same on APADS experience but could be solved by connecting the high pressure sensor to a separate relay to switch the fan. A kind of a lame customizing but would fix the problem.

Awesome! And now I see it matches the color of your AC. That license plate trick is funny indeed

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?

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