rsb502

D-d-d-d-dumbass,lol

One more reason to stay out of the northeast, one of the few places that has tolls, which are outrageous by the way and they still have the shittiest roads in the country, yeah nobody is taking a bribe or payoff there! Hell just average it to $10/vehicle and multiply that by the few hundred thousand that pass that toll booth a day and tell me where the money went....wasn't for asphalt!

$250,000 won't even get a single axle heavy wrecker anymore, there's a guy here with a new Pete tri axle with a Jerr Dan body and it was a cool million. I saw the invoice on a 60 ton rotator on a tandem axle international once, nearly cried for the guy, $1,112,000. I don't know how they can buy em myself.

Grrrr

I always wanted inside parking, 20 years and still working on that one, of course TN winters aren't that bad. When I had the Granite and 84 Superliner hauling rock I'd use the block heaters below 30, but I had em on timers to start 3 hours before we fired the trucks up.

An 81 should have the emissions information plate on the valve cover with the engine rating. As for axles yep just look for tags, if you call your local Mack dealer and talk to an old parts guy they can get you original engine, trans, rears and suspension.

Get the whole truck, the grille and bumper go together and they're unobtainium at this point, hell the hood, grille, bumper combo is probably worth its weight in gold if you need one for a restoration

Not bad at all, my tandem RW weighs just over 19k and no wet kit......I do have an E9, double frame and 44,000 Mack camelback rears though.

Yeah on an RB the brake lights should work off of an air switch, two wires, are you looking for current on your air switches? There will be two with 2 wires I can think of, one is normally open the other normally closed, the normally open switch is the brake light switch, +12v on one wire all times, +12on both or closed when the brake is applied over 5-10psi.

Yeah sounds like an combo, that or depending on your air system set up a crusty quick release valve that's slow to close.

Yep, the mechanical detach trailers have to have em, they have rollers on the front of the apron to help get you under the trailer. Sucks to do with camelback it is sooooooo much easier when you can dump the air ride and drop the truck 4".

Never seen bags on the front,get pics too when you go.

Of course then it may drift down on the road and apply your brakes, not cool.

Take the dash apart and remove the spring that returns it to the top.

The biggest issue with an older engine in the newer Macks is the dash, you can always make an engine fit and bolt up if you try but the dash is electronic in all of the newer trucks and runs off the body control module and ecm. If you don't mind building a new dash cluster to use analog guages its not an issue but the dash in a titan is all electronic gauges driven by a computer that wouldn't be there with a repower and it may be a bitch to make a new one. Oh and then you'd be an outlaw to the EPA, which isn't an issue to most people, damn gummint!

Mike I've got a few acres I can put a Superliner or R model, im just sayin!

Jay, see if you can talk em out of some aluminum wheels when its time for tires. You seem to have some pull with purchasing,lol.

Well as long as somebody got the parts, wonder if they even knew what it was when they cut it up.

Don't forget the air pressure switch on the brake manifold, when you release the park brake you activate an air switch that turns those both on.

Nice, a small shop is better than my shop......which is no shop,lol. I have been told by every single person I know that has built a shop, both residential and commercial to figure up what I need and add 20'. I have never heard anybody say they built it big enough, they all say "I wish it was bigger". Their wives say that too!lol

Aight, thanks for the info, this is an old 40' moving van so the only clearance issue is height but with a shorter 215/75 tire that is a non issue. I just don't want to put any money into the 15's and have to deal with tubes and boots and all the b.s. that goes along with it and the weight is no problem, I'll probably never put 20,000 in this thing.

Well I got one for ya, got a trailer I'm lookin to acquire but it's got 15" spokes. I have 0 experience with em so the question is, can I swap to a tubeless 17.5 or 19.5 or anything on those spiders? I just hate tube tires and they have some cracks so its about tire Time.

Looks good, get us some pics of the whole truck when you get the tires on it.

5.0! Whew ease up on the skinny pedal, a friend here has 4 new granites,3 mp8, 2 Allison 1 8LL, all get over 6mpg.the best is 6.8 with an mp8 455 Allison and 4.19 rears on 11R24.5's. He has found that your foot has is a huge factor in tire wear and mpg with the Allison trucks.

Well on the cb handle front I got the nickname "502" back when I was big into street/drag racing, told everybody I was gonna drop a 502 crate motor in and smoke em all 1 too many times. Anyway "502" got shortened up to "deuce" for a while, then I made a change to "empty pockets", i thought it fit well driving a chromed out truck. Then after goin back to dump trucking they wouldn't let me keep empty pockets so it was back to deuce, has been ever since even overseas.