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2 hours ago, GA_Dave said:

Tanker 26, Dunklin, SC

1984 Mack DM/KME A/S32R-9

500/5000

#DM4925-2448/#KM-617

Looks like an Air Force rig.  

2 minutes ago, froutzy1 said:

Thanks for everyone's Help!!! The time has come, I will be going to pick it up this month! Still looking for a place or a friend to help me with a once over on the engine and replacement of the breaks. If anyone is in the PA/MD area and knows anyone that would be great!

 

Thanks again to everyone on this forum, it has been a long wait but is finally here

Posted this in your other thread as well...

Call Lady & Taylor Body Shop / Pennsylvania Fire Apparatus in Heidlersburg (Gettysburg).  717-528-4196

Jere Lady is the owner.  There is no better source of information on old Mack fire apparatus that I'm aware of, and I've been around fire trucks for 25 years.

56 minutes ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Shows how lost in the past some of you guys are... Communism has been effectively dead for 30 years now. Other than maybe Cuba and North Korea until those regimes fall, the only place you'll find communism now is in the museums, where it belongs... Along with the swastikas and confederate flags.

So I guess China is the 12,000lb pink communist elephant standing in the room that you can't see?

No connection.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/112401752454?rmvSB=true

2 hours ago, fxfymn said:

Since I retired I just don't keep up on the various machinations of the builders. Last I heard E-One was on the brink of bankruptcy with many of their big dealers either folding or dropping them to rep other builders. I guess they turned it around? E-One used to own Northern Virginia, now I don't think they have had a delivery here in the last decade. Fairfax went from 100% E-One to 100% Pierce with over 100 Pierce delivery's in the last 15 years. Locally I see a lot of Pierces with a very few other brands scattered in. 

Ah, don't we wish Mack would get back in the game!

I pass the E-One factory often in Ocala Florida where my family has a horse farm.  10 years ago the yard was empty.  Barely looked like they were working on anything.  Now its full.  The City of Boston just placed an order for 23 E-One pumpers.  Photo credit to the Greenwood Emergency Vehicles Dealer website.

Nice work... By a splitter, do you mean a two speed rear?

26 minutes ago, tjc transport said:

in the description he said the bonnet was raised 100mm. 

why he would raise the hood 4 inches is anyones guess. 

Something about the radiator looks off.  I wonder if he's put a bigger unit in to deal with the conditions that this rig is accustom to.

That CF Aerialscope Tower from Hazel Twp is still in service.  They've also got a Granite elliptical tanker.  Used to run a MR heavy rescue and a CF pumper.

Not that its as tough as backing in a trailer.... But there are some FDNY companies that are in the classic horse drawn steamer fire stations of old that are that close.  Fast forward to the end of this video of Squad 18 in lower Manhattan... Check out the clearance to the mirrors.  They do this a couple dozen times a day.  The second piece (Frieghtshaker) is driven by a FF that isn't the normal chauffeur of the main piece so he's not as proficient at putting it back in the barn.

Paul Cheshire aka 41chevy, provided this typical Detroit diagram to me for my recent problems.  Maybe it can help.

Oh my B test when I was 18... In downtown White Plains, New York.  Done with the test about to pull back into the DMV lot but have to make a left turn across two lanes of traffic.  Two cars stop to let me through because the light in front of them is red.  I initiate the turn just as the cop 3 cars back lights em up and blips the siren.  The guy in the far lane pulls forward and I have to stop.  He stays there and now I'm blocking the two lanes that the cop needs to get through.  Pull the brake, turn the truck off, put it in gear, get out and run to the back of the truck to check and see if its clear, run back to the cab get in, fire it up, brakes off, back up 4 feet, continue my turn in front of the car that was blocking me and I get into the lot and traffic clears and the cop goes by.  Guy says with a straight face.... "You should have put the truck in neutral before you started it again instead of just pushing the clutch in".  I must have looked scared as could be, because he said "relax you passed" and proceeded to laugh his ass off.... Then I look out over the hood to see the guy who brought me for my test laughing his ass off.  

Rowdy... dude you have no idea how lucky you are.  That easily could have sent you into cardiac arrest.  The locking up of every muscle in your body could include your heart.  Glad the only residual is a sore chest.

Did that thing get leased out as a rolling set for the filming of Boogie Nights?


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Between the air box for the filter, the firewall and the exhaust coming above from the turbo, it was a bitch to get it back on. Essentially working blind.


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Well I think the problem might be solved. Put a pressure gauge on the filter housing and it pegged above 80lbs. Old timer suggested that a restrictor fitting on the return line being plugged wouldn't cause that. Told me to check the pump. Pulled the fuel pump and turns out that the plunger on the pressure relief valve was rusted closed. Used a small bolt to work it free and pull it out. The bore was clean but the plunger had rust around the back of it. Used an emory cloth to clean and reinstalled. Ran out of time before I could test drive. But at 3/4 throttle pressure topped out between 55 and 60lbs. Keeping fingers crossed that the problem is solved.


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19 hours ago, 41chevy said:

Photos at the bottom. Gasser.
http://www.leblogauto.com/2017/02/penske-restaure-son-blue-hilton.html
 

Gasser it is. That's a shame. A 653 or 6v53 would sound so much better then the over muffled gas-lit V8. I really don't mind the sound of a 707, Hall-Scott or a Continental but the commercial big V8 gas mills that have no growl and all you hear is gear noise drive me nuts.

There is a video of it getting getting yanked out of the woods prior to restoration on Penske's FaceBook Page....  i'm not on FB but maybe someone could search for it and post.

I suspect that this rig had a 53 series Detroit in it with a 5 speed main and two speed rear.

When we used to run at the 24 Hours of Daytona (1999-2004), we stayed at the Super 8 on International Speedway Blvd.  We called it the Stupid 8... It was awful.  

Yeah its funny when I'm on biz in bigger cities I'll stay at a Hilton or Sheridan or even a higher brand name, but when I'm in less urban areas its Holiday Inn Express all the way.  Central Tennessee, Western Illinois,  Austin and Houston, Between Louisville and Indianapolis, always a Holiday Inn Express.

"I used to touch Fawn this way."

"I know, she told me."

"She did?"

I could go on and on with quotes from this masterpiece of a film.

Bluto: "Guess what I am..... I'm a zit... Get it?"

Bluto:  "My advice to you, is to start drinking heavily"

Bluto:" Kroger, your Delta Tau Chi name is Pinto."
Larry: "Why Pinto?"
Bluto: [burps] "Why not?"
Kent: "What's my Delta Tau Chi name?"
Bluto: "Dorfman, l've given this a lot of thought. From now on...your name is Flounder."

On 2/18/2017 at 2:22 PM, Timothy Maikshilo said:

No sunny and 75 degree's but winter is coming soon to the land of the long white cloud. Than is will get a bit frosty here 32 for a low and during the day about 50 to 55  we may have a bit of work in American Samoa this coming winter.

Tim... You're back overseas?  Last I read you left Christchurch and returned to Vermont.

1 hour ago, GA_Dave said:

Hopefully, Reedsville's new firehouse sits a bit farther from the road than the old one.  As you may have noticed in my two pics, the trucks were barely out of the doors, but the front bumpers were at the edge of the road.  I was standing in the road to get my pics. 

 

There are many stories of mishaps such at these, some worse than others.  Having actively visited fire stations to take pics since 1981, I have encountered dozens of them and witnessed several!  As a Firefighter for over 32 years, I have also been involved in a couple and even though I was the responsible party, I was not completely at fault.  Both happened exiting the same bay at the same station, but in different trucks and one on each side of the apparatus.  There is a 1" to 3" drop, depending on the time of year, from the station floor to the outside ramp.  In both cases, several years apart, the drop was closer to the 3" mark.  If the rig was not backed in squarely with the building, you drop one front tire before the other, causing the body to shift and occasionally, a lift-up door to unlatch.  Both times, the lift-up door was about halfway up when it hit the overhead door track.  Both times, the door removed itself from the side of the rig and landed on the floor.  Damage to the building was minimal.  Repairs took less time than all the paperwork!

I had something happen to me once.... I was in College and just home for a short break when I was doing driver training to qualify on our TeleSquirt the following day.  I was backing into the bay (the same one I mentioned above that was accidentally converted from double to single door before my time) and the overhead door got stuck above the top view of the side mirrors of the rig.  I had no idea it was +/- 12 inches from the top when the turntable of the Squirt hit it.  Broke the coil springs and the door couldn't stay up.  A pair of extension ladders were used to prop it so we could get the rig back out and it was fixed the next day.