39 Baby Mack

I got the weatherstrip from Cal Little back in 2012.

Pine Hill Restorations (717) 566-8973

Between John Chalmers, Neil Kauppila (fifth wheel),  and him I'm sure they can get you what you need

John Chalmers (717) 334-8709

Neil Kauppila (774) 353-6723

Happy Belated Birthday Randy!

Ron

Happy belated Birthday!

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Happy Birthday Michael,

I hope you have a Macknificent day!

Ron

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They are electronic, but I don't see anyway that replacing an electronic throttle module would reset the odometer back to zero.

Ron

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Happy belated Birthday Ken!
I hope it was a good one!

Ron

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Just double checked myself, there were actually three "B" models that had four digit model numbers. Had nothing to do with what we were talking but I was surprised to see that there were any at all.

Ron

On 10/17/2014 at 10:25 AM, mackdaddy said:

I have 3 of the B755's all with the L cab. I have never seen a B7553 but there must of been a few. And yes they would have been a twin turbo. Most interesting to me is that they built the 864 which should have been considered an experimental engine, through 1972! Begs to ask why? and who for? Both the 865 and 866 were in production then! I attached a word doc on the production and years.
Mack V8 Diesel Engines.doc

You can have a lot fun with numbers, can't you Dan?
Just was looking for photos of the 864s and came upon this thread on BMT.
Would a B-755 with an ENDT864 carry a model number extending out to fourth digit being a 3 to denote a turbo charger.
I've never seen model numbers carried out to the fourth digit. Or if they ever made a B75 with a turbocharged 864 would it be a B759. As in F715 versus F719?
I always thought that an H-61 with a Cummins engine in it (the only H model available from the factory with a Cummins in it) should have logically been called an H-71 as was it's western counterpart the W-71. The W-71 as far as I know was only available with a Cummins.
Just thinking out load, that has been known to get me in trouble!
Fun with numbers!

Ron

Happy Birthday Mike!

Ron

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"In my opinion, the Mack-Signal merger was the most successful large corporate merger ever attempted."

Zenon C.R. Hansen

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Mack Trucks was at a crossroads when they decided to bring Zenon C.R. Hansen on board to "fix the problem" and lead the company in an all new direction. He did.

Zenon "wanted" Signal's financial support, and he later credited the Signal Companies' board for Mack Trucks' return to dominance. Their financial backing could, and did, supercharge Zenon's growth plans for Mack Trucks. And, Signal promised to allow Mack Trucks to operate with autonomy. They did. Mack earned more money for Signal than any other subsidiary, and Zenon famously kept them aware of that!

In addition to Signal's financial backing being important to Mack's success, Zenon said "the really significant value has been this, that Mack has been associated with a high-grade organization which made good on all its agreements. We have kept our autonomy under Signal, and they have not meddled in the day-to-day operations of our business."

Once, Zenon walked into a Signal board meeting to discuss bonus plans for the conglomerate companies. They didn't tell Zenon what bonuses were going to be handed out, rather he told them! Speaking to the board of the parent company, Zenon knew that it was his company, Mack Trucks, that was making all the money for Signal, and he told them so!

"This is the bonus plan this year in my company [Mack Trucks]. I don't care what you're doing in your companies, but this is what I'm doing in mine."

Particularly while Zenon C.R. Hansen ran Mack, the Signal Companies was extremely loyal to Mack Trucks.

In 1964, prior to Zenon taking over Mack Trucks, the company reported US$275 million in sales. In 1966 with Zenon at the helm for two years, Mack sales reached US$411 million. And in 1970, sales leaped to US$534 million.

We're talking about the man that issued every Mack employee a silver dollar-sized coin with a bulldog on one side, and a slogan on the other side stating "You Make the Difference". I carry my coin every day.

Mack's outstanding earnings in 1966 was a double-edged sword........it made Mack Trucks a takeover target.

Initially, to fight back, Zenon was designated chairman and CEO as well as president. But he finally realized that Mack needed the financial security and protection of a larger conglomerate, but the merger would be on Zenon's terms.

Zenon said, "Our feeling was that if we had to get into bed with someone, it would be a Park Avenue glamour girl, not a Greenwich Village streetwalker."

Zenon believed that a successful merger must address four priorities in this particular order:

1. The employees

2. The dealers; they have US$100 million tied up in Mack trucks and parts

3. The Mack customer

4. The stockholder

In responding to critics who said that shareholders should be the first priority, Zenon said, "What good is the stockholder's dollar if the employees are not happy, if the dealers are in trouble, if they don't have a customer?"

New York bankers introduced Mack Trucks to the Los Angeles-based Signal Oil & Gas Company, and it was the perfect match.

Recalling their initial meeting, Zenon said, "You size up the people and pull it out fast. We had never met, and we had an agreement in two and a half hours."

In the deal, Mack and Zenon retained complete autonomy, and Signal promised not to acquire any other truckmaker. Mack Trucks received Signal's financial backing to ramp up plant expansion, production and sales, and Zenon joined Signal's board of directors.

As a result of the Mack-Signal merger, Mack Trucks in 1971 was once more the top selling diesel truck in the United States. One out of five heavy trucks wore a bulldog.

By the end of 1973, nine years after Zenon C.R. Hansen had taken the helm at Mack Trucks:

- Production had increased 138 percent

- New truck deliveries increased 134 percent

- Mack sales skyrocketed 200 percent, from US$275 million to US$880 million

- Shareholder's equity rose 147 percent, with return on invested capital increasing from 2.7% to 13%

- Earnings per share increased by an astonishing 764 percent

All of this, because of Signal's support of Mack Trucks and Zenon C.R. Hansen, the best truckmaking CEO in the history of the industry right up to the present day.

As Zenon proudly said, and history has gone on to confirm:

"I don't think many companies can match that record. I have been asked many times how we did this. I will say it again, there's no substitute for experience. It all boils down to experience, damn hard work, and good application of effort by the Mack management team. Our talented, dedicated, ingenious Mack people have made a difference."

 

 

That's great!

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Mr. Hansen in I think it was 1970.

I was fifteen at the time and didn't quite know what to expect? It didn't take long for him to put you at ease. A very nice down to earth gentleman!

I'm repeating myself but one thing I'll never forget his how he called my bluff. I was kidding him about all the bulldogs he was wearing, suit buttons, tie clasp, etc., etc. and with a smile and a poke in my side he showed me the zipper pull on his pants!

Last time I ever talked to him was in the early eighties, we were having a problem with a truck that was at Somerset Mack.

One of my older brothers was trying to get some satisfaction from the Mack Co. with no success and wanted to talk to the president, no go.

I called up to the office from the shop and asked our secretary to look up Mr. Hansen's phone number in Sebring, Fl.

She called me back with the number and I called him.

Didn't know who answered the phone so I asked if I could talk to Zenon Hansen, he said well this is Zenon!

I asked if he remembered our company and me and I told him what our problem was. He said it was good hearing from me and gave me Jack Curcio's private number into Allentown, through Rosalee, and strictly off the record here's his home phone number too!

#276 is now #26!

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Absolutely! We missed you at Macungie. I did see one of your old trucks at Midway Western Star Monday, though. MH with Johnson stickers on the door.

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Thank you for all the Birthday wishes.
Sorry we didn't make it to Macungie this year, we missed seeing a lot of good friends.

Ron

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Happy birthday, Ron. It seems you share a birthday with my wife.


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My memory get's a little fuzzy sometimes, maybe kscarbel can remember for sure? Weren't the first motors in th MHs made by Trico? The wedge shaped motors like they used in the last "F" models.

Much better motors in my opinion.

I do remember for sure there was a change in how the arms attached between between early and late style motors.

The first ones the main arm slid on with a clip that was spring loaded. The clip went behind the splined nub on the motor to retain it. Later ones had a split main arm with an allen headed clincher bolt and an acorn nut on a threaded shaft to retain it. Needless to say it wasn't going to fall off!

Ron

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9 hours ago, Black jack mack said:

I have a 1987 Mack MH. The passenger side wiper quit working. Nothing available from Mack. Does anyone know if you can switch from air to electric?

I did find one at a place called find it parts #63QT413.
Are you sitting down?
$530.20 and it's not gold plated!

Ron

2 hours ago, Underdog said:

I've heard talk that an MR electric wiper can be made to work on an MH, but I haven't tried it. Mine are still working.

Gregg,
That sounds like some BS I might have started!
In all seriousness I did convert one of our MHs over to an electric wiper motor.
I said electric motor because I only did the LH (driver's side). As far as I'm concerned that's the only one you need anyway unless you have a RooBar on your truck.
I used, as you said, a wiper motor off an MR. I couldn't begin to tell you in detail how I did it but it worked quite well. The one I did is in a truck not to far from me. Maybe if the need ever arrises I could ask the owner if Icould remove it and take some pictures of it for you guys?
It was quite involved and I actually only made two of them. One for a spare, and then as time permitted was going to make electric motors for all of them. Never got around to installing but the one of them.
I like a challenge and was quite pleased with how it turned out. I even thought hey why not make one for the RH side!
Well with the duct work for the heater/air conditioner I gave up on that idea real fast!
With the motor set up I made for the driver's there was probably only about a 1/4" cleareance between the electric motor and the cross shaft off the clutch pedal!

Ron

Not that I know of, Sprague devices is who made them, I don't whether they're still in business or not.
Maybe someone can rebuild them?

Ron

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