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Yea, I was checking out an MR Mack in the yard and it utilizes a tube extension(Donaldson). I'm going to try and borrow that one for a long time, do a little recession fit. I'll measure on Monday, cool thing it has a stainless steel rain cap. That MR is supposed to be fitted with a concrete pumper, but it's going to be at least a year, if ever. It had a Schwing pump, but those things get shipped over seas since they all drive on the other side, they leave the truck. With concrete mixers when it rains were mostly parked so I'll plan on tinkering with that snorkel, it looks like a paw or hoof sticking in the air, and it probably makes noise to bote. Also, the air should be cleaner up a few feet, away from turbulence or surface tension or yeah. Any more tips on securing this thing? The MR is fitted with a steel tube rail for support.

Ok. I found another post. Donaldson makes an air ram and another that I'm interested in is the maradyne turbo precleaner. I'll just have to figure out how to mount this cleanly. Any ideas were I can find an extension from the air cleaner housing? Also, any advice on this set up for a concrete truck would be great. The turbo precleaner apparently uses centrifugal force to spin out contaminants, is this style similar the Australian spec Superliners. When the truck is getting loaded and on some jobs it's very dusty, I'm just wondering if this will hinder air flow in any way. I mean I'll settle for a chrome cap on a small extension.

My current truck is a 2000 DM Mack concrete mixer EM7 and T2080 I don't know the gear ratio, but he'll only do 65 @ 2,000 rpm I usually run 1,700 truck friendly revs though. The trucks runs great as it has only 88,000 miles. I want to kit it out and was wondering if it would be proper and applicable to add to a snorkle atop the air filter housing, like a Superliner? If so any idea as to were I could find one. Also, I previously drove a DM Mack with an extension from the housing to the cap, say about 18", I could ad one of those, if I could find one. Lots of driver just drive around with no pride these days, I mean, it's part of the job for one's unit to be respectable. That's what I want to do. Mad Mack I'm Back!

Bonjour, the first thing that came to my mind are the AC Macks that served on The Western Front in The Great War. Lots of those units are still in France huh?

1. Safety - Macks are high quality and I've crashed tested one. 2. Perfomance - LOTS of grunt (torque table), and rock solid transmissions. 3. Enjoyments - For my field (mixers) bulldogs are great, chassis feels heavy, tight, and confident. 4. Heritage - Bulldog breed never bred down. 5. Efficiency - Macks (EM7) get 5.5 to 6 mpg and Cummins or Cat or Detroit maybe 4.5. I don't now about the new spec, but like an Ism cummins or that joke M11 cummins in a mixer maybe 4.3. C10 cat 4.5 mpg and a 60 series Detroit in a gravel bucket just park it. 6. Efficiency - Loaded piggybacking 20 tons traveling 60 mph I downshift from top gear to 4 then 3 and I'm done. Where as say a 10 speed Eaton fuller you'd have to use a lot more brakes and skip shift down to have it so easy. 7. Quality - Macks have 3 oil filters - overkill I'll take it! Mack bogies are awesome they stay cool and can crawl and operate offroad with ease. 8. Image - "Go ahead and crank up my International or Frieghtshaker or Petercar." NAH! 9. Sound - Macks motors have a big balls sound. They're also cool and smooth. Ignorant people actually say "You can lug a Mack." 10. Aerodynamics - R models and DM's have such a low drag coefficient that given a set of wings you could fly. 11. Macks are beautiful and unique. "Ugly like a Mack truck." I've heard that one too.