j hancock

I looked up the address for the museum on the web.

The Mack Trucks Historical Museum

Don Shumaker, Curator

2402 Lehigh Parkway South

Allentown, PA 18103

Yes, indeed a nice piece of history to hang onto.

Jim

Hey Mark, Found a picture of the company that bought my father's business. They were out of Quincy, MA. This picture was taken about 1977 when he still had interest in the property.

The trailer may have been one of ours repainted and I think the Loadstar on the far right was a repaint as well.

Jim

Hurry up cause i've been dragging my feet on my vent windows. Bought the handles and dangit, no studs to hang them on.

mike

I used a lever repair kit from Mac's Ford parts. #01A-7022938 $14.95/kit need one kit per door.

The studs are swedged onto a u bracket. I seperated the stud from the bracket and the installed it into the Mack vent window. I had a little material left so i swedged it back on then I zapped it with a MIG to make sure it didn't move.

Then the glass can be installed. If your chrome is good, steps will be needed to keep it protected from welding heat and spatter.

I also purchased new levers 01A-7622916/7 $54.50 pr. because mine all had been broken with the stud inside. These levers have a little push button lock vs the non-locking originals.

I did a little figuring and I think that (maybe) original levers can be used with new studs.

Jim

I just looked at it again,i'm pretty sure the bad bearing is causing this.

Could be, I can't tell for sure in the photo. But there is misalignment. When the trans comes down, everything else can be inspected.

Good eyes! That does look off.

There is an inspection port on the top of the bell. The floorboards have to come out to get there.

Wasn't that some kind of auction on ePay for those vent windows?

Providing the guy didn't have gun to his head, he was ok with paying the price.

Even the notorious broken lever and stud can be overcome with a little skill and patience.

Jim

Have any pictures of the other trucks? i am always interested in seeing "vintage" moving vans,as my dad was leased to NAVL for over thirty years,and me to Atlas for 22............................................Mark

True Bedbuggers!

Mark , I wish I had the pictures for you. I wish I had them for me.

It was Cape Cod Moving and Storage back then on Bearses Way, Hyannis, MA. When Dad got the business, it was Global and then moved to NA. All his stuff was single axe and 30-35ft trailers. Lots of stuff has changed in the trade since then.

He sold it in 1973.

Jim

Great pictures! Wild paint! Thanks for sharing!

In the early 70's, my dad had a cabover Brockway single axle with a 220 Cummins. It's paint was just plain white with North American decals. It was teamed up with a White cabover, GMC Astro with a 671, lots and lots and lots of Internationals that came with the business. He hated the 'Binders but the dealer bent over backwards to get the trucks in, repaired and out super fast.

Jim

That's cleaning up nicely!!

If you want another one, you could check out the Hitchcock Bros B-75 on Craigslist in Canaan. Sadly, I think it has been outside a little too long.

Jim

That is an awesome B75!!! Was it the B75 that had the Cummins or Cat or something or was it the B73? Which one of those had the Mack motor?

B75 would be a Mack motor. B73 and B77 were Cummins. Jim

Hey Ben,

Some of the designations carried into the R models but not all. I think the use of the letters W and P got dropped.

Others will have to jump in to say for sure, but that is how I remember it.

Jim

Hi Folks, I'll put in my .02 on the subject.

T = tractor

X = heavy duty

SW = six wheel or tandem straight job

P = single axle straight job

S = six wheel or tandem straight job

ST = tandem tractor

LST - light weight tandem tractor

LT = light weight single axle tractor

SWX = tandem heavy duty

There are more too.

All info is worth exactly what you paid for it. Mack did love alphabet soup!

Jim

Hey Mike,

Good save and brings your memories back home.

The sheetmetal and fenders in particular look fantastic!

Was the truck a tandem, long wb since day one or was it stretched out at some point?

Jim

Thanks All,

Jim, Are you coming to W. Spfld ?

Don Hancock

Hey Don, I am heading to the show. Not sure of day (s) or time yet.

I will look for the van trailer with the palm trees and flamingos painted on the side!

Hello Don, Welcome aboard!

There's plenty of room in the pool. Just be careful of the deep end!

Jim

Others will have to help with the technical parts.

I had a 2 stick 6 spd that I wanted to swap the lever and the the air cylinder shifting mechanism onto. The fellow that has been around Mack trans all his life said that it was not possible to do. There was something to do with the internals of how the shifting forks worked.

To be honest, I just can't remember the exact issue. But, that it what I was told.

I went with an X107A air shift 6 spd behind my 285 with 4.17 and 1100 X 24.5 and at times it would be nice to 4 1/2 shift position because of the big drop from 5 to 4.

That was a Big Dog in it's day!

Pretty KooL that it was still working in the mid 70's (I think) by the age of the cars on the hauler.

Weren't the integral sleepers L cabs all done by about 1957-58?

The smaller guages are SW and probably be best to just get new. I have bought them through Summit Racing and Watts. The tach can be purchased through Watts. Watts also has a Mack Speedo but it is new with kilometers as well as mph so it will look different.

All guages are SW so if you want all could get new bezels from a shop the has the tool to remove the bezels and then recrimp new bezels to the unit. Then...while they are at ther guage shop how much more will you want to do? Freshen the faces? Reset the odo? More $$$

Between rebuilding and getting all new is about the same money when I last priced doing a full set.

Rechroming flash chrome would get into bucks. Flash chrome is when a metal is highly buffed and then chromed. Chrome is actually clear. So it is a electrically processed protected plain metal. That would be tough to do on any part that has a defect.

The copper, nickel then chrome system (triple plate) would not work on most bezels because the end process would be more brittle than the flash chrome is.

Boy, it sure would have been sweet if Mack had done them in stainless!!!

Hello, I think it is flash chrome. I checked my guages and they are magnetic and stainless is not magnetic. Also, when I have looked at a old, tired rig, the bezels will show rust. There again stainless steel doesn't rust.