BAD DOG

A Packard bus and some other trucks.

And a few more Macks

Made the 5 hr drive up to Barrie, ont. today for our Canadian chapter of HCEA 's season opener. It was a really good turnout for today. There was some different pieces this time a beautifully restored Erie Steam shovel and an AC Mack dump truck working in the pit. Here's a few pics.

True a trailer would go good with it.

Glad this Friday is finally done. Got elected to haul Jersey barriers today which isn't usually a bad gig but I had to take a pre loaded wagon sound good but I didn't get to choose it and some of the company we haul them for has some prize ones I don't know who pulled it before me but I don't know how they kept it in the road. After I strapped everything down as best as I could with what there was to work with I checked it all over and I always check the regulators on the lift axles. The front lift behind my drives had 90lbs in it the second lift had 20 and the very back lift had 40 in it so you are going to have the trailer picking the tractor off the ground almost. When I haul them because of how they load them mostly to the rear I always put lots or air to my back lift and less to my front lift to push ha bit more weight on the drives. But the back regulator the knob was busted off and it was seized tight so I left it alone since I wouldn't be going by any scales on my 100 mile trip and with what they have on there for straps it isn't a legally secured load any way and if they want to look close I'm probably going to jail anyway! Lol! So I locked the front lift up which I normally would do with the centre lift on 6 axle in Ontario but I needed more weight on the drives so this gave me about 65 or70 lbs on my suspension gauge. So I went with it and when I got out to the highway wouldn't you know it my prize downhill Cummins powered Paccar product acted up on me, the engine shutdown light and a few other bells and whistles came on and it de rated itself on power usually I can pull over shut it off for a few minutes and it will be ok not today as soon as I got up to 45 MPH it came back on. Tried it 6 times on the way down made for a long trip. Plus on the trailer on the back lift I had brakes on fire almost because the camshafts were seizing up too. So we tapped the pushrods in and avoided using the brakes as much as we could. Then when I got down to the job they sent me over to the Flying J to wait till they needed my load so what would usually be 5 or 6 hrs turned into 12, glad I get paid by the hour. After a rest and a good regen the truck ran fine coming home.

Sucks that there are people in this world that would do something like that and that you have to lock and guard everything anymore! Nice classic Mopar!

But I have to say your Pete looks pretty good and that much polishing is a lot of work if it's a daily driver.

I was thinking of doing that with out Pete at work putting a Mack emblem on the front to give it a bit of class. I felt bad for a while because I was the one that backed into the stupid thing with the RB dump truck witch my boss and his son took the good stock Mack mirror off and put a shakey pair of cheap Taiwan go ones on and they said you don't need the round convex mirrors so they took them off but they don't drive the trucks so they know everything I felt bad so I bought a set and put them on it. So I wouldn't back over anything else hurt my ego more than anything as for the Pete I should have taken another crack at it and put it out of its misery. Lol!

Sure looks like an R Model Visor to me.

I watched it tonight. Lola like an ok show and I like the idea of taking something old and customizing it and making it more modern and usable, but I didn't care for the finished Mack I think they could have done things different.

The clutch in the centre of the page looks like the one I used.

Nice pics. I had the chance to go with 2 friends down there this year and when I was asked we were swamped at work a figured I couldn't get the 2 days I needed to go on the trip off. As it turns out they gave me Friday of last week because they ended up not having enough work for everyone and probably could have got the Thursday I needed for the trip off too but who would have known a week or 2 ago. It figures that's how it usually works. I wish I would have went now.

Superior Tubo and Injection in Detroit Mich put made mine all up as a kit for me about 11 yrs ago was easy to put on and it cost me about $1000 back then so $1500 might be more like it today.

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

That's Harbour Fake! Everything in there is from China. My brothers Father in Law loves that store buys all kinds of junk there. He works at Chryslers and preaches all his crap about driving a North American made car but he's the first one in line for a deal at Harbour Freight. We have our own Canadian version of them here Princess Auto Stores I rarely buy anything there.

Here's my fan clutch setup. It's worked well for me.

I think you might be SOL on the factory viscous style fan clutch. I'm pretty sure that part was labelled obsolete. I put a Kysor air fan clutch on my 865 years back because you couldn't get the viscous clutch. I put that Kysor on my E9 can't get one to bolt up to the hub out of the box you have to machine an adapter out of aluminum to bolt to the hub then bolt the clutch to. I'll post some pics of mine later today so you get an idea.

Yeah it's a shame about the cabbage. It was looking really good. Looks like you've had it in a while. Up here garden was only just fit to plant last week then the Damm rain put a stop to it this week.

Keeps the gras cut and fertilized all in one plus if you have car troubles you can ride it to town.

Looks great ! Love the hood gaurds. I'm figuring on getting a camper to take to shows with my Superliner. The air ride hitch is a good idea.

Looks like too many right wheel peels have pretty much taken the life out of those right side tires!

That's cool a new look and life for the Superliner. I've looked at a couple 6 cylinder powered Superliners with that same idea in mind. And I'd straight pipe it , but a straight pipe weed burner would be sweet too!

I'm glad to hear that E9 MH ended up in good hands. Would that be Island Mack Trucks sales I believe it was called, that has it now. In 94 my dad bought a new E9 powered CL 613 and the wait on ordering one was too long so our dealer in Windsor pulled it from the lot in Vancover Island.

Welcome ! Sounds like you've got a couple nice projects on the go, especially the B Model.

Yeah Superliner 2 step brackets are L shaped. And I believe Superliner 1 brackets are part of the stainless strap. I have to agree with Superdog and go with CH brackets. I put them on mine years ago only thing I had to do is trim about 3/4" off the bottom ones so they don't hang out too far past the wheels they work good and are much heavier.