maxidyne237

I guess your sneaking into PA under the cover of darkness with 20 ton on 3 axles?

I would put rails in that RD in a heartbeat. I would guess the old rails on the B81X were dropped off at Adams for duplication of all the holes?

Thanks for posting that. Mack used to have one of the best parts systems in th US.

The overall parts situation is an important topic that we don't speak anough about, and certainly one of the issues I have with Volvo.

Since acquiring Mack Trucks, Volvo have adopted a strategy/policy of marking up spare parts prices to "just below" the point where most customers will walk away.

Let's take a simple example. An AC belt used to be $3.00 to $4.50. Mack's cost as around $1.00. Mack covered their overhead and made a solid profit, and yet the customer received a fair price. But Volvo came in and decided that most customers would be willing to pay $9.00 to $15.00 for that AC belt. Anyone that has been purchasing Mack parts for many years knows exactly what I am speaking about.

The other day I needed a low air pressure sender. The Volvo/Mack dealer demanded an absurd $105, while the exact same Cole Hersee switch was available for just $7 at NAPA. This is a typical example of Volvo intentionally raping the American customer so as to improve their global margins. Mack Trucks didn't do business this way.

Mack Trucks wasn't selling the parts too cheap, rather they gave the customer a sound reason to shop at Mack's dealers rather than the will-fit parts house. But now Volvo has pushed customers out of the Mack dealers. No customers shop at Mack (Volvo) dealers for anything other than proprietary items they can't buy elsewhere.

Volvo's stick-the-customer strategy has been a poison pill to the service departments at the Mack dealers as well. Up to 80 percent of the service work performed is warranty now, because they are unable to be price competitive with customer and local shops. In the days of Mack Trucks, warranty repairs never accounted for more than 10 percent of shop work.

And Volvo's termination of Mack part numbers, replacing them with meaningless "Volvo global part numbers", has destroyed the once superior Mack parts system. The Mack part numbering system combined shear brilliance with simplicity. Easy-to-remember part numbers that told you exactly what that part was. This is why Mack parts people were the best in the world.

Volvo's randomly chosen impossible-to-remember global numbers represent nothing. It amounts to much more than a huge step backwards. Relating to Mack, the part number change to Volvo global part numbers is just plain stupid.

The Mack part numbering system was VASTLY superior to the dysfunctional Volvo system. The Mack veterans in parts operations told Volvo the change was a huge mistake, and most of them were shown the door for not willingly going along with the "new way".

I agree with you Mack's parts system was second to none. Compard to other manufactures Mack's part numbering system was by far the best out there. After Volvo's takeover parts prices have gone crazy. Nationwide back orders and NLA are common place today even on trucks as new as CH's.

Its a shame that with the joint history of Mack and Scania that the two couldnt have been partnered up now, rather than Volvo. After looking at Scania's web site and seeing their own planetary axles and transmissions, Scania seems to be focused on "balanced design" just like the Mack of old. Besides a revamped E9 in a new Mack, a Scania V8 would sure fit the bill better than a MP10!

I just saw on the news Obama is giving $9 billion to Africa so they can have power in their desert.

http://www.wfsb.com/story/22724390/first-family-touring-mandelas-island-prison

Un-real. Like we dont have enough problems here. Giving away money we dont have.

The current cab is based on the CH cab. The original Maxi-Glas door shells which I preferred, shared with the MH Ultra-Liner, were replaced with cheaper steel doors.

The CH cab entered the scene in 1988, supplied by Sheller-Globe.

Connecting the dots to the current supplier CVG, Sheller-Globe purchased Motor Panels of the UK and then put the Norwalk Mack cab plant under its new Motor Panels division. Then that division was sold in 1989 to UK-based CH Industrials, which was sold in 1991 to UK-based Mayflower Vehicle Systems, which was sold in 2005 to CVG (Commercial Vehicle Group, which has acquired Bostrom and National seating).

So currently, CVG stamps and assembles the cabs under contract in a run-down plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, originally located there to supply the Winnsboro, South Carolina plant.

Volvo Group owns the worn-out last generation technology cab tooling (CVG just uses it) and refuses to invest in any refurbishment because the narrowed North American version of the new Volvo global cab platform is in the pipelne.

Every day, these 25 year old cabs are shipped 500 miles all the way from Kings Mountain to Macungie.

I have to agree with you that the Maxi-Glass doors were superior to the daylight window steel doors. the internals I feel have been cheapened in the steel doors and they only have an automotive style door panel not a steel panel to enclose the door internals. My biggest complaint is the horrible door stop that with little time gives out and lets the door hit the A pillar when open. This is a big problem in dump truck applications where the the door is constantly being leaned upon when rolling tarps or opening tailgates. You could support your entire body weight on an R model door hinge that never wore out. The external Maxi glass stop was much better than the joke that is offered now.

I sent you an email.

I cannot remember ever seeing a Superliner with an external air cleaner only on the right like Gary Mahans'?? There was a green Superdog at Yakima that was owned by the former Mack dealer in British Columbia, Canada and it was a beauty! I have not seen any pictures of it from the threads that covered Yakima.

Here is a friends original owner '91 with factory single RH external air cleaner. Bought new from Trenton Mack.

I am looking for a genuine Lund B model exterior sun visor. It can be NOS or used. Let me know what you have. DICKIESANTUCHI@yahoo.com

Thanks. Makes life easier with the part #'s

There's a co here in Jersey by the name of Vollers that had an RD Tri axel just like that one, they used to haul there PC-600 as well as all kinds of big stuff with her!! Some of these other guys would have these great big RW's and Large car Petes an K/W's But Voller's would do the same job with the RD

BULLHUSK

Vollers Rd also had 65k rears and 20 front on 12x24 rubber. I think they had or have two of them. They have some big iron!

If you can't handle a Mack trans, get ourself a smash and grab slop box Fuller. -Brad

I love that sentence!

Its a farm sprayer

What a waste, owning and maintaining a fleet of aircraft. This and other corporate overspending helped put Mack in to serious trouble by the late 1970's

I am surprised that KW has all the hood emblems

Nice save. It defenately is harder and harder to find parts as too many end up just going over the scales as scrap.

yep they are doing what I call a DE-Macking (only the dawg and the letters will be real Mack) of our good old Mack, buy cheaper parts make more profit and screw the customer .

Sorry to break the news to you but the axle in your RD was cast in Brazil.

Ill have to dig it up but I have a CL Elite poster with a truck with the same specs and paint scheme. It said something like limited by number not imagination. I have only seen one of those Bulldog wheels before.

KCAM, you dont happen to have a pic of that Farina RW?

Bristol PA.

Not RWV but I am sure the body was put on by them, and probably running for them as a O/O. Pic is from John Pearson. Taken in 1993.

This tri axle looks like an old Vogel truck from the shore.

I thought the same thing! Old RWV truck with that TiBrook body

3p, are there any plans to offer a Mack MP in natural gas?

I have never seen another DM800 with dual stacks. Know any of the details on this truck?

The dual stacks were a NJ/NY detail done on offset cab Mack tractors.

great job!