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Do you have the stand set up so you can block the 5th wheel when pulling your dump, having both pivots ain't great.

That's only 2" overall so 1" clearance

New exhaust always looks good, 4" stacks should make that sucker bark for sure.

Superdog got it right, the Elite package came with gold dogs,wood dash, embroidered seats and shifter boot.

Id much rater have an Allison TCS10 if Mack would build it but like a granite with a decent sleeper or a CHU with a heaviest front axle for heavy haul work, they just refuse to. Really stupid considering they have all the parts and won't put them together, but its one more way to limit Macks market share. If you want a KW W900£L with a 70" sleeper and a 20k steer axle they say ok, same with Pete, freightliner and Volvo but not Mack they just say we can't do that.

Eaton 18 speed is 14.40 low, .73 OD, Mack 318LR 16.42low, .71od. I'm not gonna tell somebody not to get an auto, however a clutched auto shift is not the smoothest at low speeds and off road and remember that with an M drive/I shift there is a 0 shaft endplay measurement so they pretty much can't be repaired they always have to be replaced.

Eaton 18 speed is 14.40 low, .73 OD, Mack 318LR 16.42low, .71od.

I've seen rectangle. 025 wall tubing used to do this before. I'm guessing your truck didn't come with 11r24.5's so you've filled in some gap there. Make sure you can't use a taller stand first and if not the tube will work, don't get too carried away just enough to work.

You can dig it up if you have enough of them there trinitrotoluene shovels.......just sayin......

Leonard plating in Nashville also does good work and is cheaper on small parts than advanced, they take a little longer but the cost makes up for it.

If the air pressure light and brake lights are on its gotnlow air pressure at the switch and if the brakes won't release its either low pressure or they are stuck. When you try to move it does the brake knob stay depressed on the dash? If not there isn't enough air to release the brakes. If so make sure your getting air to the brake chambers by removing an emergency line from a brake chamber and have someone release the parking brakes and make sure you have air at the line. If there is air at the chambers and the knob stays in on the dash smack the back edge of the brake drum with about a 3-5# hammer with the brakes released and the wheels chocked, if they are stuck to the drum that should break them free.

That is some kind of awesome, how much to redo my RW when you finish that one?

The name on the truck says it all.

Don't be too mean, that's a future head of the trucking industry right there,lol.

I just bought one a month ago, cost me $68 brand new from mack.

If its several 08-12 models and they don't have a fault light on the dash they're set that way in the ecm. Like stated above you can set them for progressive shifting and make a driver drive the way you want.

are those flip flop tan lines I see?.............who's got time to lay around and sun bathe............must be nice!

Down under they call those "WORK" shoes, I use that term loosely,lol

Ok.......I must be stupid, so adding a hood increases forward visibility?..... Really? And trucks are twice as deadly because they accounted for 14% of fatal crashes in 2011? I would love to meet the politicians that sponsored this one and ask them to add 2+2,geez.

The Daimler/freightliner Mexican built Cummins powered trucks are junk. I have a 2011 freightliner M2 And it is just crap I'd gladly trade it for my old 95 model Chevy Kodiak. The freightliner has horrible bump steer, you see saw the steering wheel all day to make it go straight. There have been no less than 5 recalls so far and at random shit just quits working. Seems a well built U.S. made quality truck could put them all out of the segment.

Another Mack guy in the making, make sure he's vaccinated for that damn red oval fever,lol. One thing....Bruder Mack Granite, kids love em.

That's awesome, I'm glad somebody can get that done and have room for their toys. As for rock....quit crying, here in TN I can't dig em up, it's all rock. I have a foot or two of dirt in the good spots but its solid rock all the way across if you start digging.

I thought it was 44,52,58,65k. I've never had over 44w 52k springs.

What year, engine, etc. Are you sure they aren't in derate or PTO mode.

If its got a 6 speed Allison that's a pretty damn good setup for dump work. As everyone else has said, you need a low first gear or a torque converter. I talked to someone on here that ran a dump trailer around chicago, had a granite with a 14,600# steer, 44,000# rears, 427 and an Allison 6 speed, said they loved and never had issues off road like the guys with the Pete's and kws.

Yeah Thomas, its got a wedge that is made to fit in the back of the 5th wheel. Your supposed to back off the adjustment but, couple the trailer, make sure your straight and then tighten the but pull in the wedge up to the 5th wheel. From there its got mechanical linkages all the way back with drag links of different lengths to make the turn angle tighter as you go back, the hyd. Adjustment is made by a cylinder that is built into the actuator rod to shorten or lengthen it. You can lift or lower the 4 corners independently, like lower the rear corner and the right side to get that corner down. Supposedly for loading completely level since some mil equipment is on steel tracks and it could slide sideways on an angled deck. Of course then you have to geg the suspension level and set the rid height after you load. To get one axle up to change tires or whatever you lower the trailer, attach a chain harness that's made to fit under the bogies, then raise the trailer all the way up, that one bogie will come up in the air with the deck. Then you remove the but from one end of the drag link and pop it loose to spin the bogie to get at inside tires. Its pretty damn ingenious when you get all into how they work and how they're made. The heavy goldhofer trailers are built the same way, freaking crazy engineering.