joes mack

24x8.55 or 24x 9.0 s are more  common now. they will work just fine that's what we ran on the coal trucks where I used to work at. we had some  trucks that had all 3 sizes on them and you had to watch carefully about not  mixing the lock rings up when mounting tires.

thank you FJH I was thinking that was how you did it but I wasn't  sure if it was clockwise or counter

I need some help how do you adjust where a clutch grabs. I put a new clutch in our 1980 s1800  international tanker it has the 446 gas engine in it  and it is catching at the top. it has the 3/4 bolt looking thing  on the pressure plate. I would like to get it to where it catches about half way or closer to the floor as we have a couple of drivers who like to rest there foot on the pedal for some reason.

good ole shot or 2 or 3 of clear moon shine and honey warmed up  and go to bed while you still can  will clear you right up.

I will agree with don we have 4 cf macks at yocum creek vol fire department and all but 1 have drum brakes and when it needs rotors I will convert it to drum brakes. its not that hard to do. go to a salvage yard and find a single axle mack and take everything off of the rear or if you have a few members who don't mind getting dirty take the whole rear end out from under it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and your family Rob good to hear from you.

the old fire station in cranks and cawood both have been shut and tore down.

General Ike station 2 will cover to the Lee County Va line on 421 and up to the bell county line above martins fork lake on 987 and all areas in between.

General ike  sunshines station 1 is in the old armary building in sunshine. the new station 2 will be up at cawood on the side of the new road.

I'm safe

Don if only I could win the lottery we would have the newest old mack fleet in the country. I would love to have a truck like this for our area. its prob got 3.000 or bigger tank. but then we would have the problem of not having anyone to drive it except me lol.  

I would almost trade one of our CFs for that truck. it sounds to me like they don't have anyone left that knows how to drive it. I know its a old truck and its nice to up grade your equipment if you can but you just cant beat a MACK and if they cant get parts for it there not going to the right place to get them.

my uncle that lives in new Lexington ohio used to work in the mines and the shops where big muskie was at. he retired in 90. my grand father worked there too in the mid to late 60 when it was almost new.

sorry for your loss

if you ever make it to southeast Kentucky I know where there are 7 CF trucks at.

12 hours ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

Not enough information to help.

Need mileage, hours, engine, trans, pump and tank size, maintenance records, has the aerial been certified recently??? How about the ground ladders- certified? Pump certified? 

How about the body- where is the rot? How much? 

it has a em6 300 engine  Allison auto 1250 waterous pump 500 gal tank 30 gal foam tank it was last certified 5 years ago. no ground ladders, and pump has not been tested in five years. truck was last used 2 years ago on a large building fire and has been sitting in the station except for being started and moved about every 3 months.

the neighboring department is looking at a 1980 cf  50 ft telesquirt the truck starts and runs good but has a few problems the paint is cracking and bubbling in the normal spots. but the biggest problem is it has a hydraulic leak in the turn table. and has a electrical problem when the boom is turned to a certain spot (cant adjust the nozzle ). the pant and body work is not a problem but the boom issues kind of have me worried. what price would be fair to offer for this truck. and roughly how much to have the hyd leak in the turn table fixed.

On ‎3‎/‎14‎/‎2017 at 11:07 AM, GA_Dave said:

I couldn't recall the name of the FD, but I know the guy who made it happen.  Howard is a class act!

Howard is a great guy. him and Don has helped us out a lot

we need that to go with the CFs

ok ill call my friend tomorrow and find out where the yard is and when there open. how much longer do you have to get it out of there

I live about 45 mins from big stone gap where is the blazer at? I have a friend that lives there that may also be able to help with this.

we got our 446 engine at the fire house we bought it from W M COHEN and SONS in pa  the engine came with everything including the wiring harness were now waiting on a new clutch to get here so we can put it in and get the truck back in service after being out for almost 2 years.

the truck has been sold to a guy from Memphis Tennessee. they came yesterday morning and drove it home. they are going to make a memorial truck out of it.