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Garth, Guess I should have added "till you figger out what you are doing",but I think in this case I was safe in leaving it off.

It wouldn't happen to be in Oregon,would it?

one more important thing I forgot,don't get both sticks in neutral at the same time,unless you are stopped.

Hate to argue with someone that's put as many miles on a B as Trent,but the proper way to shift a 2 stick Mack trans,is like this. You split the aux. for each of the main box gears,not as Trent said. For a Duplex,start with the main in 1st,aux. in low,then split to hi,then 2nd low,2nd hi, etc. for a Triplex,1st in main,aux. in lo,then direct,then hi,2nd lo ,direct,hi,etc. The Quad is the exception in the lo-lo split only,he did have that right. In lo-lo you can shift up thru each of the main gears,but unless in severe conditions,these aren't used much.Otherwise you shift it just like a Triplex,1st lo,direct,hi,2nd lo,direct,hi,etc. The 13 speed Triplex and 18 speed Quad were considered double over transmissions and in 4th hi,you could shift directly into 5th hi.

Thanks for all the advice.Right or wrong,I decided not to trade.Got to thinking more and more this morning and decided that there'll be other LT's,but never another B61 that I taught my son and daughter to drive on,and I'm sure when she can reach the pedals,my youngest daughter will learn to drive her too.Guess I'm too damn sentimental. Thanks for posting the pic,Terry,but that's the wrong truck,the'65 I was going to trade is the cream colored one.The 1960 red and black one is old Arnie,named for it's first owner Arnold Arledge.He owned a small freight company in Burlington,Iowa.He picked the truck up personally at the plant in Plainfield,NJ and bobtailed to NYC to pick up his daughter that was flying in from somewhere to Idlewild Airport (not sure if I spelled that right).He made a wrong turn at the airport and ended up on the runway and caused quite a bit of excitement.Don't know if that was the story Fred was referring to,but one of the cleaner ones Arnie told me,LOL.I bought it on Valentine's Day,1987 from the 3rd owner that had turned it into a lime spreader.If I ever get to where I can post pics again,I'll have to put up some of the before pics.It is also the truck that First Gear used for patterns for their 1/34th and 1/25th scale B61 replicas.This old girl has tons of sentimental value,ain't no way Id ever get rid of her and if it ever does come up missing,I know the first place I'll look,got that Terry? Back on the subject of the LT,guess I gotta get busy getting rid of the rest of the offbreeds cluttering up the place so I can buy it outright.

Got a real problem on my hands.As most of you know,I hold my old Macks in regards second only to my kids,and I'd rather chop off body parts than get rid of any of them,but..........I got a chance to trade for a '51 LT in pretty good original shape,unmolested for the most part,other than a very old repaint.Offered to trade me for my '65 B61 which I've had for 14 yrs. and really pretty attached to.Some of you have seen it either at Walcott,the Milwaukee convention and the Kansas City convention,or sitting in front of my house.I've wanted an LT for a long time,but not nearly as much as Mikey has,but I really love my old B models too.Wish I could buy it outright,but with things the way they are these days,that ain't gonna happen,just like a trade of this kind ain't likely to ever happen again either.What do you guys think?

Years ago at an auction I saw a '75 Pete 110" COE that had been kitted from a wrecked Mack,it had a ENDT865 V8,5 speed,and Mack rears on Camelback.

Must be a misprint,R609's weren't made that late.Must have been repowered too,it should have a 711.

I got my first B61 when I was 13,and it was a hell of alot worse shape than the one you are looking at.No engine or trans.,beat up and rusty.Did all the work but painting it myself.Had it done by the time I was a Senior in High School.SSo I'd say if you have the desire and the means to do so,go for it,but I would try to jew them down on the price.I bought a running B42 with excellent sheet metal awhile back on Ebay for $500,only real problem with it was a broken rear spring and wore out trunion.It would bring close to $1400 at the steel mill right now,so I'd shoot for that or less.

Some of the foreign makers still produce them,but don't let that stop you.Simply replace the rims with 24.5 tubeless.

The trucks I have with actual Luberfiners are model 500C.Most of these are 673's.The 711's all have the larger Mack filter.

check out Ebay#4574099251,our old buddy is selling his truck.

I have one very similar,I'll take some pics of the engine and post them first chance I get.There were 2 sizes,the END510 and the END672.

Assuming you are talking about a ENDT676,yes it will fit.The E6300 will also fit,but then you have the front mounted air to air to deal with,seen that done also,wasn't pretty,but it worked.

You wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to buy that one.Does it have the Mack-Lanova diesel?

That would be right,Scott,the 375 hp was a ENDT866 and was the Thermodyne counterpart to the ENDT865 Maxidyne.Never heard too much bad about the 866,they seemed to hold up better the 865's.I don't know anything,but I think one of the main reason's was that they put 10 and 12 speeds behind them instead of a 5 or 6 like the 865's.Barry can probably tell you for sure,but last I knew,864 thru 866 parts are nearly impossible to find,although I did see aftermarket rods and mains on Ebay awhile back.

thats just the junction block for the trailer cord ,and tail,brake and turn signals for the back of the tractor.It's supposed to be attached at the bottom back left side of cab and there's a little cover plate that goes over it.

Great pics,Rod.Kinda looks like my back yard except the steering wheels are all on the wrong side.

Amen

The T2090 is an overdive trns.,that's why he's looking for one.As far as it being a reliable transmission,the one in my Superliner has close to 1.5 million on it and the only tranny related problem I've ever had with it was the splitter valve started leaking and I had to replace it and an air line broke.

Looks like its been repowered with a 237 Maxidyne.

you must not open too many doors,Bob,all B-73 thru B -773 that had B cabs and all the B 80 series had sunken floors.

They show up on Ebay from time to time.

I've got 4 or 5 EN510's.I'm assuming they have the same waterpump as the firetruck version.

Dan, On the very top left side of the trans. there are the 2 short rods with clevis's on each end hooked to the shift rails (or whatever the technical term is)for the aux.box.Pull the back pin out of the left one,then see if the stick will free up.If there isn't something serious wrong,it should pop it out of gear,then you can put the pin back in and you'll be good as new.I've had a couple different quads get stuck in gear and this has always cured it.Then grease the hell out of those rails,should be zerks on both ends. Cool truck,did you get the G73 too?