Vladislav

Nice to see an old thread pulled up. To add oil in the flames I can tell that in Russia and in former Soviet Union tandem truck's wheelbase was and currently is measured between the center of hubs of the front axle and the centre of the FRONT REAR axle. Not 100% sure right at the moment but i believe the most European countries do it the same way. As for Russia those measurements are predicted by State Standard system so no way for another use. I should admit that in old books of 50's years tandem truck's wheelbase was indicated to the CENTRE of distance between the rear axles, exactly the way you American guys do. But seems like that point was changed in Soviet standards at some point.

Paul, Great truck and I want more photos of it if they exist !! Even couldn't imagine you had such one in your family. I like EH's (but more the common style closed cab commercial ones) and was even sypplied with a factory manual for this military EH from a friend of mine. Glad you're lucky again with pics posting.

Ok, my small addition to the thread. Spotted this Granite in November 2018 not far from Bethlehem CT. Not ready to name the company, the guys provided pavement works. Sure not a state of the art picture but at least it's not Volvo or Pete.

Great looking picture! And the only time I saw it before is on a T-shirt Winny wore.

You can also use one off DM/U with minor changes. Those have a metal part welded to the bottom side to tight up the rubber seal along DM curved rocker panel but it could be ground off with not much labour and traces. There's also difference in the mirror bracket bolt hole pattern, some more holes needed to be drilled.

Quite interesting, thanks for the explanations. It seemed like I met the same kind issue with my R-model tanks. Those are common bottom ones with pressed in steps, typical R-model round tanks. When tried to polish I found out too difficult to get shine and lower grade relating to what I could achive on Alcoa wheels using the same materials. Not sure right at the moment but those might be Canadian made. Will check it out the other day.

Jim, a question to you since you put yoyr eye on that R-model. What were those fuel tanks with "planetary" circled bottoms? To some point I thought they were installed on Hyward trucks but recently met such ones on a MH and now this pretty sure Eastern R-700.

Thanks for posting Brocky. Nice looking trucks and perfect quality shots. I love that B.

A very nice fact that such remarkable piece of trucking history has been saved.

That's what I kept in my mind at the beginning of the thread. Never saw such rubber boot, only that ribbed plastic sleeve which protects the pipe and wires from wearing.

Looks many times better now! Good job. I missed the time you purchased the truck, saw it right now. Nice addition to your fleet.

Seems as a pretty common part. At least I saw one in my junk inventory, probably off EM6-285 either. I would ask any big used Mack parts supplier like Matt Pfahl, Global Truck Traders or Sparr on that thing. Too probably it was used by other truck makers of those years but unfortunately I'm not familiar with any other cases.

As said above. Nice truck, worth to pay attention and I hope you enjoy bringing it back on the road itself.

From what I can see on the pics all the setup is parts you can fabricate relatively easy sure with some efforts. Including the bumper since it's made of straight steel with straight corners. The attachment parts seem not needed to be reproduced as an absolute clone to the original since they're not seen from the outside. In relation to that reproducing (fabricating) of the flat style Superliner II bumper would be much more difficult task due to its stamped shape. Lucky it's stll avalible new OEM.

It was and probably still is in Gary Mahan collection. Last time I saw it in person was going down the road to the Macungie show in June 2018.

The same to me. But not that much to light my fire and make a trip to Roanoke

And some examples on Russian roads.

Spotted this one in New Brunswick NJ this past fall.

All those things in red color look nice. Including Fox Laps the ones on the news.

Does it exist?

I had to delete some images in my old posts to get avalible room for new ones. The most of those which looked important were not deleted but resized to tiny scale. But that involved some job and doesn't lean me to posting much in the future. Just one more thing you have to track in your mind.

looks in a VERY good shape. Congrats on the purchase!

Quite easy matter. You wouldn't like to get hooked up on that handle. For example when seating down. So better to keep them sharp edge down or backwards. Something like on the #2 picture.

Welcome to the group! Is that the EH model truck with a wrecker boom attached to the rear? It was partly restored and painted white with green chassis when showed up at the last time as I remember. Anyway good luck on the project. Vlad

Jim, where do you dig such beauties from?? Great looking pair!