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I always have my steers spin balance and rotate every 10 t0 12k, they stay new for a long time. Took my truck in when I first got it for 3 axle align with the best equipment and tech in the area. He set everything and all was perfect according to him. Six week later I was back with a slight cup in my drivers front, he checked it all again and all was fine, had two shops, one Mack dealer and one TA check it on the road and all was fine. Made it home after six more weeks, took it to my shop, the 1000.00 tire was ruined, so the other was no good to me, the wheel bearing was broke in pieces and the king pin bushings were shot so bad the king pin was ruined. Bounced at 45 to 52 or 53 then was fine, at the end I really noticed it on downhill curved on ramps, it really bounced. Maybe you should lift the truck and check it with a big bar? Mechanics today, I don't know?

Doesn't look like they made an e7 400 in 88 either, so it must be an e6 350? I see a lot of e6 350's in 88 on truckpaper. Am I wrong?

Bull, it says e6 400 in the add, I tried to look up the torque and only came up with an e6 350. I wish it was an e7 400, they have torque, maybe it is, 1988 what did they offer in superliners,? anyone?

Anyone know about the reliability, amount of torque, cubic inch, in a 400 e6. Parts availability? Any bad issues with this model truck? thanks,Mark

LOL !! Just spent 6k on the Mack but didn't bother with the alb light, leaving Sat for 2 months, great huh!!

I don't think it's Canadian, you can almost fit another wheel between a Canadian spread. The aluminum tank is split, it was an add on for the hydraulics. To show you how crazy some regulations are, a lot of the quad rgn's I used to pull that belonged to the same guy as this Mack have a spread you can fit another axle in between, some states he can't haul the weight with a quad, but if he lifts the third he has a tandem with a stinger and it will pass as legal. Go figure. Like Maine, you have to be registered 100,000 to haul over 80,000 on a tri axle, the other day I permitted my tandem trailer for 105,000 and it was legal with 80,000 cab card for Maine. Moved just under 100,000.

Inspectors will conduct more than 30,000 brake inspections across North America during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Week Sept. 8-14. they will be checking for alb lights being on too. Also brake inspections can lead to class 1 inspections.

Here's a sleeper Mack that's a yard jockey now because it has a wet system to move hydraulic rgn's. Thought it would be good to post so it will be saved in cyber space somewhere. Cool looking old Mack.

I agree, and it makes me feel better about my 460 Mack, I love the truck, but it's like Glenn said, and I have no problem falling asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow on that great big thick bed in that beautiful Mack sleeper. With less power and a weaker engine brake, you learn to drive, really drive a truck, up and even more so, down hill.

You just might catch some poor sole with an rgn in Utah looking for a way out. Shipping might be cheaper then you think.

I switched back to blue and white, old eyes ain't what they used to be, shouldn't say that being a driver, but rest assured, my new brail gps just arrived via ups!!!!

Great looking truck and welcome to the board.

great stuff!!

Great photo.

I saw that wrecked one at the Mack dealer, once or twice, saw one in truckpaper and one at either CB Kenworth or Diagle and Houton Western Star in the used for sale lot,both neighbors in Bangor. Could be the same one as in truckpaper.

Trust me, whats in front doesn't count either. Been up there in the woods a few times, they come around a corner on the wrong side and you move or die. There are signs that pretty much say it is their road, pass at your own risk.

"As if it were getting no air"? Hood lined up with the intake hole, anything blocking the intakes on either side or in the middle under the hood? Correct filter, installed right? What does your filter gauge read running? Take it out leave the end cover off and run it, see what happens. Maybe something real simple.

Watched the video, mine bleeds out constant when the pressure is down to 0 and pumping up, once it closes it pumps up air, this is behind tons of airlines on the drivers side above the steering column correct? I can't really see mine, but I can see the rubber disk and feel the air. It pumps up so slow that it sets off a vgt code. Once it reaches pressure the code goes off. Maybe mine is bleeding like your at pressure, will have to check. That is the treadle valve correct? I just changed the vgt sensor so I know it's not that.

BAP sensor, where is it, what does it do, what am I looking for? thanks

Maybe the new member Katie has seen this, it sounds like the odds are good since these are the trucks she works on.

I'd like to hear more on this and the outcome. I have the same model and am not happy with the boost. At times it seems to pull fine then other times? . New air to air, new vgt sensor and complete new vgt oil filter system. Sometimes only 25 to 26lbs when pulling hard, other times 30. Shouldn't it be 35 lbs?

welcome aboard

Sounds like the rear end would have to be changed too. It's geared for the higher rpm gas engine.

Mine runs way low, lower edge of the green 150? but runs up to 200 quick when pulling, the fan jumps in and out to keep it under controll. You look fine where your running.

First fact, our number one export is energy, oil, coal, natural gas. The reason for the Keystone pipeline is to get Canadian oil to China, the reason for the gas line crossing the state of Pa. to the coast is to get natural gas to China. We are enery self sufficiant. Second fact, electrical energy plants create 40% of the polution. Anyone with a new truck is spending their life in a repair shop, the number one answer today in a professional repair shop is "I don't know" enough is enough on trucks. It seems out of sight, out of mind. This same dirty energy we have been burning since the industrial revolution is now still being burned "uncontrolled" in other countrys. Last I knew air travels around the globe, as does water, so aren't we doing the same thing we did in the 20's only in someone elses back yard? How about a tarriff on companys that sell to the U.S. 1.....if you openly burn fossil fuel with no regulations to meet U.S. standards 5% tarriff on the import value, 2... child labor, or no overtime, 5% tarriff, 3......do not follow DEP rules as far as water polution 5% tarriff, unsafe working conditions, not following OSHA regulations, 5% tarriff. Maybe then we would have a fair trade act, the biggest change in the enviroment in history, our debt cleaned from the slate and jobs coming home.