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you may have done this already but leave the fuel cap off when you start it...if it keeps running then your tank vent is plugged

I bought an alternator from a guy on ebay..qualitypower1..he put a double groove pulley on it and sent a bracket along that bolted to the stock generator mount..I bought it pos ground and ran it for a year then changed it over to neg. ground still keeping the series paralell switch...works good for me..Jim

pretty sure thats the one sitting at Tiger General on St.Rt. 3 about half way between I-76 and 18 Medina...If you stop by check out that 1968 Cline winch truck with 8v71.....Jim

Im planning to to haul the dodge to the BMT show at Watts Mack on the 22nd...its about a 3 hour drive....anyone else going? hope to see you there...Jim

I didnt get to talk to anyone yet but I thought they maybe used the right tank for gas for the crane unit...left tank had a diesel sticker on it.....Jim

B 83 SX sitting two miles north of Wooster Ohio on St.Rt. 83. Has Bucyrus Erie H-5 Hydrocrane mounted on it..looks pretty clean and and has a crane service logo on it...Data plate says B 83 SX 1230s something...call 330-669-3545....dont know anymore just passing this along....Jim...If anyones interested I can go back and check it out better for you....

I used the 4635 bottoms and 4636 tops for my B model and have held up good until I lost a top on the way back from Iowa...the guy down at the napa store got me another 4636 top for 65.00 and i thought all was good till they added 25.00 shipping...what can you say!!!!...Jim

The first dodge is my sons 1941 wc 1/2 ton,been in our family for 25 years...the second one is Roy Franks 1953 1 ton power wagon....the fuel filter canister has a fiber washer under the top nut and was falling apart so we used a soft copper brake washer instead...seemed to do the trick...Jim

I got home last nite from our trip to the Power wagon rally in Fairfield Iowa ..We put 600 miles on her sunday and a little over 1400 miles total.We hauled two power wagons out and back on our trailer,my sons and Roy Franks ... everything went good except for the last 75 miles or so on the way out when she quit on us..after changing the fuel filter we were back on the road for about 10 miles when she died again.We got going again and made it to Fairfield where I got a copper brake line washer and put it under the top nut on the fuel cannister..it was ok after that..The truck ran great as we could run 66-67 in 5th and 53-54 in 4th high then 4th direct if needed and never had to go to 4th low on the big road...that double over triplex is sweet...I just kind of cruised along at 55-57 most of the way and we got between 7-71/2 mpg so I was happy with that and ran around 185 temp. or so all the way... Saturday we drove it over to Ottumwa truck show where we met superdog and spent a couple hours there before heading back to Fairfield.for the banquet.We left Sunday morning and it rained almost all the way home and every once in a while the old mack just fell down and then would pick up again,usually at the worst times ...up hill....didnt act quite like the filter...just a weird kind of miss and would stumble along at 14-1500 then get going again...very frustrating and pouring down rain...me and Roy checked everything and all looked ok...Went to Roys this morning to unload and had the same miss...just out of curiosity I dropprd the bottom of the air filter can and it was full of water!!!! poured it out,put some new oil in it and it ran ok going back home this afternoon...can we be that lucky??? anyway it was a great trip out and back and hope to do it again next year...thanks Jim

Hey just wanted to say thanks to Superdog...glad I got to meet you and the guys...very nice show with some great looking trucks...it was only 35 min. from the Powerwagon show at Fairfield so we were able to drive over for a few hours before going back and loading up the trucks...I must be getting old cause after 600 miles on the B yesterday I didnt want to get out of bed this morning but Im still smiling...Jim ...

Im tall and my sons are even taller yet and my problem is that the released clutch pedal comes up so high making it hard to get your foot up on top of it...The clutch seems to meet the adjustment specs in the Mack book,grabs about half way up and does not slip but I have 4 inches of down travel till you start to feel some resistance...can I use the stop screw on the linkage to limit how far the released pedal comes up..Im thinking if I could adjust the stop and take out 2 inches at the top I would then have about 2 inches of free play...any ideas,,,thanks Jim

OK....since I already got rid of the reg/gen and went to a one wire alt I just unhooked the pos groung alt and switched the cables at the battery and switched the wires on the volt meter and everything worked like it did before but im now neg ground....Like Larry said,,,I was overthinking this...So now Im dropping off the alt to have it changed to neg ground...the paper work with the new series parallel switch said it would work pos or neg depending how the battries were hooked up so were good to go....thanks everyone... Jim

Thanks...thats what i plan to do if this does not work out...When I got the truck running I bought a new switch down at the john deere dealer...its worked perfectly since then... so I figured why change when it looks like swapping the battery cables around will simply take it from pos ground to neg ground...Ive got the truck down at Roys now putting brakes on it and fixing the pinion seal...oh and I went to akron/medina and picked up another fifth wheel.....so like Larry says Im taking the alt wire off,swap the cables at the batteris and tell you what happens....thanks Jim

Thanks....I know I can insulate and use a power source plug if I need too( reminds me of when I was a kid and my dad drove a b model for Yankee Lines ...he had his radio mounted in a woob box and vice grips with garden hose on the ends for the antena mount) but one of the trailers that I can use has LED lights. I was hoping someone had switched the battery cables around and left the seriesparallel and starter alone...thanks Jim

My B61 is pos ground 12/24 start and everything works fine the way it is but I want to change over to neg ground to uce my gps,cb and phone charger...Larry..freightrain..has helped me try to understand this but im still wondering about how to go about it...I want to keep the 12/24 series parallel switch as it is,switch the one wire alt to neg ground,switch the voltmeter wires and then switch the battery cables around..the series parallel switch instructions say it can be used pos or neg ground and looks like just the cables need switched at the batteries...I have one group 31 12 volt on each side,,,has anyone tried this...or am I overlooking something...thanks Jim

Thanks....I put about 400 miles on it last year and Im planning a couple road trips for this summer....hope to make to the Watts show...anyway Im going to replace the seal and put the sleeve on and go for it...I hadnt noticed it leaking till I ran it down rt. 250 at 55-60 all the way...Im going to check the vent also...thanks Jim

Hi...My pinion seal is leaking so I got under to check it out and found that the rubber dust shield/cover is missing off the yoke...I called around with no luck and checked with Watts Mack and they cant get it...Ive got the seal and a sleeve for it but no dust shield...does anyone have any idea where to get one/make one or just run without it...it wasnt there so its hard to tell how long its been gone..thanks Jim

My B-61T has the pos ground system and I was wondering how to hook up electric trailer brakes to it.I found a nice goose neck lowboy trailer that I could use behind the Mack but need advise on hooking up the brakes...My buddy bought this trailer to pull with his semi and the light went off in my head...hey I could use it and haul my sons old power wagon and take it to the Watts truck show...sounds like a neat road trip...also I should have changed it over to neg ground but didnt as everything worked ok...thanks Jim

I found these on ebay this summer and they were green...I had to have them...Jim

I bought the used drive tires already mounted on the 24.5 rims and took the spacers too...My old spacers were maybe 3 3/4 inches wide and the ones I got with the 24.5s I used were 4 inches...the wedges are close to being bottomed out so I may pick up some longer wedges or maybe grind a little off the old ones...not quite sure what would be the best way...The front rims I took to the tire shop and they sand blasted them and powder coated them for $38.00 apiece then had them mount the new tires....Jim

I got new tires on yesterday and what a difference...took those bias ply 10.00x22s off and put four used 11r24.5 drives on and bought two new 11r24.5s for the front...the ride is way better with tires that are actually round..Im not going to get into the story about how it took"three men and a boy" to change them over.When I started working on the truck it was like I cant wait to get this running again,then I cant wait to get it finished,then I cant wait to actually get it on the road and drive it and take it to some local shows..Today I took it on the interstate and it showed 65 mph at 2100 and rode and handled pretty good for bobtailing,Ive bobtailed Preston trucks that were worse ride than this...anyway Im realizing that I cant get enough of the old Mack and on the way home it hit me!!!Now I must have a trailer and go somewhere...If my wife new what I was thinking I would be going somewhere alright...divorce court....Jim

this is going to sound stupid since I dont know anything about the newer motors so .......anyway when my B model was doing that I remembered what my dad said and and took off the fuel cap and sure enough it kept running,tank vent was plugged...Jim