Shawn Barrett

Here It is! Check this baby out

Somewhere on here theres a fella that built one helluva nice race car trailer hauler with a B model. Unfortunately I cant find the damn pictures or his name at the moment....Anybody remember this Phantom 309? Metallic Blue? has a matching blue '55 chevy race car he hauls with it?. Used an old DT466 Intl. engine out of a school bus and some other miscellaneous parts from that bus for running gear... Built a custom bed for the back. It's a mutt but it's a damn fine looking mutt that hasn't been chopped up and thrown on a pickup chassis.

Holy crap look at the size of that Moose

I put the Pete in there just because you don't see many cabovers anymore, and the KW is kinda odd looking...OK, it's real odd looking. There's hundreds of trucks like these -maybe thousands even- all over Ohio, W.V. and Pa. now. Lots of Macks too. They're fracking around, looking for that fracking natural gas. I don't know if the KW belongs to a fracking outfit but it looks like it probably does, it was very heavy-duty. It was parked at the Go-Mart in Fairplain, near the fine looking red and black B-model..

Damn that B model is nice

I dig the garage idea....no pun intended

Great site! I am trying to figure out how to upload pictures of my 72 RD685S Just got the truck last week. Spent its life in NC as a wrecker. I bought as a cab and chassis. Plan on restoring and putting a fifth wheel on. I have pics on my computer but cannot figure out how to upload to site, any suggestions?

If you hit the "start new topic button" at the top right and then go down to the bottom right and hit "more reply options" it'll open up pic and link options to you. good luck and Welcome!

Welcome aboard Ben and Tim. Glad to hear you are keeping em chuggin. Post some pictures of that old Bulldog if ya can. We love pictures around here.

wow...

Thats a sweet wrecker

Happy Birthday!!

Nice pictures fella. If its a Mack we want to know about it....Whether its in Britain or not. Keep em coming

Ahh that right tool for the job stuff is overrated. This redneck stuff is more fun to watch. But I'd buy another Mack sure....

Check out this link on youtube. Ive done more of this crap than I care to remember.This is a very simple video I stumbled upon about fiberglass repair and it illustrates the general processes involved.

First off, its going to get worse before it gets better. Rob is asking about the surrounding area because as you can see in the video you will have to reach out to the surrounding areas to get support for the repair area. Obviously the bigger the bad spot...the bigger the repair area will be overall around it. You will be working from the inside out. Once you gat a solid layer of fiberglass cloth and resin to make a base on the inside, you will be able to use a common body filler for the exterior if you so choose. The good thing here is...you can fudge it. There is no measure twice and cut once or you are screwed. If ya dont like the way it looks grind it out and start over.

The stuff makes me itchy just looking at it, but its a project you can do yourself at home without blowing alot of money. Remember to grind out and make a trough out of cracks in order to get the resin in and make a good repair. And the drilling out of the ends is simply a matter of finding the end of the crack, marking it and drilling it out so it cannot continue to grow in length. Just like rust repair, remove the cancer and start with fresh metal, same idea. Remove compromised material and replace with new. Dont be afraid to tear into the material, like 36 grit on the backside, the key is to rough up the material so the new stuff has something to bite into.

The fact that this is right on the edge is another curve ball. What I would do here is use masking tape on the outside to create a backstop and pile on the fiberglass sheets from the inside, get it good and thick out over the edge and then grind flush with the hood.

Thats gotta be worth at least that much if not more. Ive seen prices not far from that for old rusty hulks that just so happen to run....This baby has all the hard work done already.

Good old fashioned American ingenuity Now tack up the roofing all the way across, turn the truck parallel to the barn, have your wife put it in lo and get the nail gun......bang bang bang bang right down the line. Reverse bang bang bang bang. Forward bang bang bang.....you get the idea.

Since Rob used that word, he can explain to Vinnie

HAHAHAHA

Yea only thing better than smashing into the tree woulda been, had it been big and rotted and fallen on her damned head.

hi Bob,

I still have both of my LJSWX's.Unfortunately,the green & yellow one went from being a restorable,running truck that needed a cut off(it was cut in 2 when I bought it.)to strictly a parts donor thanks to thieves and vandals.The radiator was stolen,all glass broken,copper stripped,hole knocked in oilpan.Here is a pic of it before it was vandalized.It has a 220 Cummins that was a good runner,with a Duplex.

I don't have pics of the other LJSWX in my computer,it's a long wheelbase chassis,originally gas powered,it now has a 711,Duplex,and 4 speed Brownie.The cab was rusted beyond repair and was removed before I got it.Luckily,it has a good radiator and soeday I'll combine the 2 and make one whole truck.

Sounds like a Smith&Wesson or Winchester security system needs to be installed pronto!

Nice find by the way.

Yep thats a beauty....stay away from her Olive...High maintenance type, nothin but trouble for a guy like you. Haha

Hope it all works out for you. There is a car transport op. out of Bethlehem. They hauled in and out of the local dealership I used to work at in Allentown. I always thought their equipment was very well kept. Considered looking into a job with them but got hooked up with another outfit before I ever got that far...But its ok I drive Macks now! I think they only had Kenworths and other trucks of ill repute

Regardless, good luck! I hope it works out.

Happy Birthday!

Thanks for the info fellas and Rob I actually read the reply you gave that other fella a while back and even looked up the material but it sounded like one helluva science project. I was hoping somebody might have a pin close to what Im looking for without the easy bake oven tactics. It sounds absolutely genius just a little daunting. There is a Fastenal not far from me however so If it comes down to it and thats what I have to do I will do it.

So have any of you out there in TV land found a suitable replacement for our hinge pins on the B models? I told myself I wasn't going to pull this truck apart and start a full on resto., yet I've found myself in the garage tearing the door off the truck....I cant stop myself. The door has been sagging at least a half inch and has a gouge into the door itself from the years of neglect and bouncing off the latch catch bolt on the cab....I cant take it anymore!!! So the door came off and the hinges came out and they are soaking in a WD40 bath, now I have to work on rebuilding these bad boys. I know Im not the only one, what have you guys been using?

Sweet F model. Welcome aboard.

Awesome! dont see that every day

Exactly,what could be more humiliating than to be branded for life with that awful symbol.