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    H Model shift boot

    in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion

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    Steve,  

    I'm looking for the same thing. My water bottle fell through he hole on the way to Macungie and rode on the transmission the rest of the way.   Let me know if you figure something out.  

    Michael

    Michael, the frame in your truck should be a little bit easier to fix, if memory serves me, yours originally had two rubber bellows type boots in it.

    The later ones were made out of a canvas material and were one piece all sewn together for the two sticks .

    Ron

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    Fuel gauge/tachometer

    in Electrical, Electronics and Lighting

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    Greg

    If you ground the wire on the sending unit (the one on the terminal) with the key on the fuel gauge should go all the way to full. If it does that should tell you that the gauge and wiring are allright. Also check to make sure that the ground wire to the tank is good (the wire going from the chassis to the sending unit attached to one of the mounting screws of the sender)

    If all that checks out it's the sending unit.

    As for the tach it could also be the cable itself. I know that sounds strange how would it work and stop and then start working again.

    A lot of the original Mack cables came with different slip on ends for the drive end. This allowed them to be used as RPM cables or speedometer cables by length. All you had to do was use the right tip on the drive end. These were made to slip into the cable and the cable core was swedged sguare so the tip could drive it. I've seen them wear there and slip in the lower tip. This would cause the tach to act up.

    I personally never liked them and used to make my own cables using Stewart Warner or S.S. White parts. That way both tips were swedged to the core.

    Ron

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    Experts Wanted!

    in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion

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    So the cams in the 300s were soft? First I ever heard of those engines having cam issues. Have not seen anything really posted on here about that.

    Any experts on why and the fix?

    We had a few cam problems. I thought the real problem wasn't so much the camshafts being soft but that the hardened wafer would come off the lifter. Once that happened that's when the lobe on the cam went.

    Ron

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    Pictures of the Week

    in Odds and Ends

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    I took a load of pipes to State College, Pa. Monday. Unloaded Tuesday morning and went to Sharon to get 2 coils. It was snowing pretty good when I left State College, this was after I got on I-80.

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    Saw this unit across the street when I was leaving Sharon Coatings.

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    It snowed most of the way back, but 79 was clear- rt.19, not so much. This is coming up Powell Mountain, north of Summersville. HatCity said he was plowing and salting this section, but I think he was parked in a cross over drinking coffee. The only time he did any actual plowing was when he went to Sheetz to refill his thermos and grab more donuts.

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    After I unloaded the coils in Madison Heights I went to the shop and hooked up to the bulldozer trailer again so I could run down to the S.C. line on rt.38 Thursday and get that dozer that I was supposed to get last week for Mr. Burke.

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    We left the shop at 6:15am and got there around 10:30am... the dozer got there around 3:30pm. Last week the truck that was bringing it broke down, this week he blew a tire on the lowboy. Then after somebody brought him a tire and put it on, he made it about 10 miles and blew a tire on the lowboy. So he had to get another tire brought to him- and it was the wrong tire, so the tire guy had to go back and get the right tire and come back again.

    So what should have been a fairly easy one day mission turned into a 2 day deal. The only other issue was that Jeff told me the blade was 10'6'' wide. Mr. Burke said it was 11'6'', and my N.C. permit was for 11'. But I didn't get stopped or checked, so it didn't matter.

    We couldn't run after dark so we went to Candor, N.C. and parked it, then we went over to Southern Pines- Mr. Burke just happens to own a home there and he plays a lot of golf . He called a friend that he knows from one of the golf courses to come pick us up and he took us to Mr. Burke's house, and picked us up yesterday morning and took us back to the truckstop. The home is for sale by the way, because he said he just didn't go there much any more- a palatial estate too, and only 200 grand.

    He called a taxi to take us to get something to eat. Went to some sports bar, I don't remember the name of it. Mr Burke said "they've got everything from hot dogs to filet mignon here,and it's all good- I highly recommend the filet mignon". It should be good, it was $32 I think. A hot dog was $10.99- but fries were included. I got a shrimp po'boy, $13.99, and had 4 Bud lights at $4 each. I felt uncomfortable- but just a little- that he was spending that kind of money, but he's as nice a man as you'd ever want to meet and he paid for everything. He apologized for all the delays, but I told him that it was no problem for me, it was pretty much par for the course driving a truck, things seldom go as smoothly as planned. And if any of you are ever stranded in this area, just call me, i'll come get you. We'll stop by the store and get a pack of hot dogs and a loaf of bread and cook them over a fire on a stick, that's more my speed.

    But we got the dozer back yesterday and unloaded it in a field at his house in Appomattox, then I dropped the trailer at the shop and went to Lynchburg and got a load of coils going to Raleigh and Benson, N.C. for Monday, binness as usual. They're calling for 2 to 4 inches of snow here Monday. I don't know about N.C. but I told them if it was slick around here Sunday the load would still be sitting at the shop Monday morning. Supposed to be warm again by Tuesday, in the 40's.

    Nice looking old KW Mr. Burke's brother has.

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    At the truckstop in Candor, N.C.

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    Unloading

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    Great pictures Tommy, thanks for posting.

    Ron

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    The "Factory Branches" of Mack Trucks, Inc.

    in Modern Mack Truck General Discussion

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    I always thought it was a factory branch Randy, but I'm not sure. The ones at 42nd & Woodland and later on York St. were for sure.

    At the one on York St. I used to do the same thing. The branch manager would give me a big manilla envelope so I could put brochures in it (was a good way of keeping me out of his and Pop's way!) usually one wasn't enough. There were two walls filled with literature. Tried to make sure I got one of each. One visit down there we saw a type 55 firetruck out in the shop. It was from Lakewood NJ and had just came in on trade. Can you imagine what I thought of that, I was probably ten or eleven?

    On the way home Pop asked me how much I liked that firetruck?

    I told him how neat I thought it was. He said that's great because we just bought it. That was the first of many firetrucks he bought over the years, some he probably shouldn't have. That firetruck is still around and is now owned by Mike and Mark Yarnall.

    When I was a volunteer fireman at

    the Fame Fire Co. #3 we used to have practice on Thursday nights. When we had drafting practice or play "Battle of the Barrel" I'd bring my own firetruck.

    That '41 Mack would draft better than the '57 Seagrave that was still in service!

    Ron

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    Sharp LT on Ebay

    in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion

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    I have seen it several times before on Ebay. There is a boat load of money in it and it is really nice. Hope he gets his price, it can only help raise the prices on these old trucks to what it cost to restore them. I do my trucks for preserving history and not for getting my money back, I never will, can't take anything with me in the end anyway.

    That's for sure, I've never seen a Brinks truck following a hearse in a funeral procession yet!

    Ron

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    RD question

    in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion

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    I just about slept with that emblem under my pillow, while it was off the truck during the restoration,Jim! The emblem itself needs to be restored.But after a friend of Dad's sent off some rare pieces for his '29 Pontiac to be chromed(that he never got back),I'm kinda scared to send mine off.

    Mike,even the picture of an early RD on page 197 of Mr. Montville's book, appears to have the standard R-600 emblems on it. Al attachicon.gif20160208_084944.jpg

    Al

    If you'd really like to get your's restored,

    I've always heard good things about Paul's Chrome in Evans City, PA

    Don Schumaker had his hup caps for his ED done there and they look beautiful.

    I was kidding with him at Trucktoberfest a couple of years ago.

    We had the two ED'S parked next to each other and he was talking to my wife with his back to me. I reached down and made like I was going to steal the RF hub cap off of his truck. Linda was smiling funny over in my direction so he turned around and caught me. He just chuckled and said I could take all four them as long as I had $2500 on me.

    They can supposedly do work on pot metal too like your emblem, they're not cheap but they're supposed to be one of the best.

    Ron

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