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    I am using sandblast sand.I have used this before on my antique caterpillar's and my R model before.Have had great luck using it.Bout the only thing it doesn't remove is grease.
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    I moved the frame into the shop to do the sandblasting,it alot easier to recover the sand to reuse it when you are doing it inside.Besides there is an apartment complex next store and I didn't want any of the good folk start bitching about the dust and noise.It doesn't matter that we have been here only about 50 plus years before they came along,they have all the rights.I moved it inside on Thursday and have been at it ever sence.I guess I have about 2-3 days left.Our tire guy is coming by on Monday to loosen up the lugnut on the rear wheels so I can remove them.That way it make it real easy to get around the rears.
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    Great little machine,we had 2-D6 of the same vintage.The only thing wrong with ours and the one you have is the tilt for the blade.You do it by the 2 pedals on the left,it will give you a real work out.Good luck.
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    I am waiting for a friend to bring his loader over to the yard so I can use it to pull the frame and rears into the shop to sandblast it inside.The weather hasn't been that great to do it outside.This way I can take my time and do the whole frame at once and not have to worry about tarping it at night.
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    Rudy,I have one on my B87 thats on top of the aux.trans.What 2 B87 did you see at the Mack Days.I was there and didn't see any,are you sure they werem't B81's.Thanks Mike Durkin
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    My wife is great about it.We'll be married 29 years on the 28th of this month.So after all the shit I've broughted home she has never said get it outta here.I always tell here I could be out drinking and chasing other woman around she just looks at me and shakes her head.
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    It will be completely red,just like the day it left the factory.
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    Yes it a 335.
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    Mine a B873SX serial #1117
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    Someone please stop me.I have this problem the more i look at my B87 the more I take off of her before sandblasting,prime,paint.Today I removed the front right spoke wheel and brake drum and then the complete brake backing plate just so it would be easier to get to the area of the king pins to paint and blast.You will all know I'm truely a sick person when I remove the rears.I think my wife will have me comitted then to the local HAHA Hotel, if she doesn't already have a room booked for me.Will post some pic on Tuesday.
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    At that number someone better have a shit load more and alot of time on his hands.I know I'm going through my B87 right now and mine I would have driven it to the west coast before I started.
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    Ok,which one do we do first.Since I'm doing a B87 lets start on the B81.Everything will be fresh in my brain.When's a good time to come up.Mike
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    Spent all day removing the 49 years of dirt,grease from the frame.Also removed the power steering from the truck and clean it all up.Hopefully will be sandblasting starting on Tuesday.Don't have much of anything going on this week.I would like to get the front half blasted and primed then will start on the back half.I welded in the panal on the bottom of cab where the back panal meets the floor on Tuesday of last week,Did some putty work on it have to sand it all down,then the cab will be ready to be primed also.
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    Macktrucks4,I think that you can haul a trailer behind your antique truck as long as it's not for profit.I was always told that i could haul my other antique trucks and caterpillar tractors to and from shows.
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    I have my 1979 R model tag in PA with antique tags,I did have to paint it but was going to do that anyhow.You will have to have antique insurance on it that cost about $200.00 a year.If you don't drive it at all why would you think of tagging it,since you have 9 acres.
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    Looking forwarded to it.
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    I think I brought the last set of B87 emblems from Tidewater Mack.That was back in 2005 I think.Did you get your truck yet,would like to come up and see it.Thanks Mike
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    Forgot to mention everything is original except for the batteries,tires,and I just put front brakes on it this weekend,since my younger brother wants to get his CDL using it.I had to get it inspected since it has antique tags.Total original miles are 72,156.
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    I live about 10 minutes from shop.The Ford is also red.When we were in the excavation business everything we owned was painted red.The spec are 169"WB,ENDT676-300 285hp,TRXL107-low hold 5 speed,12000 front,38000 rears,Price when we brought 20 was $44,904.00 in 1979
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    Vinnie,if I use it as a daily driver it may get up to 100,000 say in maybe 5 years.
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    Started to sandblast the frame today until my air compressor took a shit on me.Got water in the gas,took the tank and carb all apart and clean it out.By the time I got that done it was getting a little late so I should be able to start right up in the morning.Will post a pic when it done.
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    Yesterday was such a nice day I took the old R model out for a ride.After I wash her all up from collecting dust all winter long.She's parked in the driveway for the night will be using her this week to get back and forth to the mancave since the car is at the dealer.
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    Hope my B87 looks that good when I'm finished.Keep up thr great work.Mike
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    The Mack V8 ran away one morning and by the time we got it shut down the damage was done.We did it in house.That truck was preety beat when we got rid of it.I can only think what it's like now.I would have taken the old B87 to drive over that truck any day,when you took out the B87 you knew you would be coming back under your own power.
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    When ever we would get hung up on a hump on the road with that truck within 2 weeks the front rear would blow out.The other problem we had with it was with a heavy load on the lowboy and you went to take off the frame would flex bad enough that the fan would hit the should.My dad had wanted to order a truck that he would spec out but the wait time was to long so Trenton Mack found this truck that was ordered by a fellow in North Jersey to be used as a triaxle dump.It only had 58 rears and my dad wanted 65's,but Mack said they would hold up and they back it up so everytime they blew Mack replaced them.

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