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i watched many other guys drive these before i bought mine, but yes once i got it i drove it every place to work to the store out to eat every place i went it went for about 4 or 5months. . . Most young guys get confused on a 5spd car or pickup truck i take some pride in being a young lad of 27 that can drive 2 stick Mack rather well i skill i learned at age 19. Mike

If you'll also notice I said "i heard horror stories of" i heard all of the what not to do's and i sat back and watched few different guys shift these trucks before i bought one myself as to not damage it. Not point in buying a Rig you can't drive right ? Mike

I see, i guess in the time frame it was used it was a very neat trick. . . But yea i don't see any body dropping a newer body on an older these days, everybody seems to run what they got as it was. Mike

I got told many horror stories about if you lugged a thermodyne it blew head gaskets and if you hit double neutral and you couldn't get one or the other back in gear at the right time you would have to come to a complete stop and start over. Mike

eo i have noticed those a few guy tweaked around with some floats and wide rims with custom off set's to sorta correct the issue but but all in all you can still tell. . . Mike

Really ? . . . The Reo gas engine in my Studebaker 2.5ton 6x6 runs great pulls like no other Gas engined big truck had ever seen, most of the gas powered trucks i've owned in the past where high revving slow moving Gutless dog's, and this beast totally changed my thinking on Gas engines and large trucks. I'm used to driving F700 Ford's with 351 n 361 V8's or C60 n C70 GM's with 350 n 427 V8's . . . I found the only Gasser's that performed well where the GMC Big Block V6's, the IHC 345's n 392's and this Amry surplus Studebaker with the REO-331 I6. I haven't owned a Mack Gasser but i'm sure after running Mack turbo diesel's i wouldn't be impressed by them. . . Mike

Really ? I figured with the Gasser you could just pick your range and bang gears 1-2-3-4-5. . . Thats how i was taught to drive the IHC Gas engined truck's, pick your range and shift. . . at least missed shifts on the gas engine don't = crank case full of coolant Mike

I bet them Gas engined Mack's are nicer to drive no splitting. . .just clutch n shift maybe even shift no clutch Splitting the Thermodyne so you didn't split the Thermodyne stick your arms threw the steering wheel and start grabbing gear, hoping you never hit neutral on both sticks at the same Mike

My Reo-331 isn't a flat head. . .it just seems like an awful lot of truck builders used the Reo Gas engines. . . Mike

a truck ain't a truck till its got some dent's scratches and some rust. . . Mike

I think today it would be more fitting to drop a B-model body onto an R-model chassie n power plant. . . Vintage B look Modern R power and road speed. . . Mike

The KT-Cummins diesel had 3 power settings. 450hp 525hp 600hp 1150cid I6. Mike

Sure loved the word dyne. . .Thermodyne, Maxidyne, Econodyne and Magnadyne. . . Did i forget any ? Mike

Cool stuff Mike

Wowzers. . . That is one big bulldog Mike

The biggest Mack truck's i can Find or the Military M123/M125 10ton 6x6's and the CL350 Logging truck Was there any other Large Mack's produced ? Mike

IHC n FL got the market flooded with medium duty n heavy duty commercial trucks. It don't look good for Sterling or Western Star. But you gotta remember we now have more trucks then jobs and folks are now starting to go back to the old style of thinking were they ran a truck till its worn out not till the body style changes... Mike

That truck looks ready for Ice Road trucking 3 rear axles all full sized tires. . . Mike

any chance of the EN331 being a Reo engine ? My 1953 studebacker M275 Has a Reo-331 I-6 gas and the intake/exhaust manifold assembly says on it "golden comet power" Mike