lucerne tractor

Last qtr fuel tax 6.90mpg

Do you have a variable pitch turbo? VGT controll? I have a 2005 460P that I have been working on for a year and, knock on wood, I think I got it. It pulls to 1200 and I shift at 1600 to 1750 according to the terain. If you got the same type engine I can give you a list of my problems and cures. Do you have a dash computer that tells you what the lightning bolt codes are?

I believe Dodge did that up till a few years ago. Maybe they still do, can't afford a new one.

Never seen one, pretty mean looking. thanks

Always look forward to the week in pictures. Thanks,Mark G

no you couldn't,sorry!!!

I filled up at a Wilco Hess going north on 77 in SC because it was cheap and it would get me home to Maine. (if I remember right $775.00)stayed at the next Wilco Hess in NC that night, got up in the morning and though my gauge was broke. Went a few miles and though I better put some fuel in and see, I added $561.00, that hurts. I ordered Mack locking caps from ebay. I usally put in 60 to 70 gallons and run till I need more, get the showers adding up for 6 weeks on the road. As Rowdy said, I don't get paid to haul fuel. Being 79,900 this friday I really didn't have room for more fuel, l Picked up a Deere 772g Motor grader in Springfield Vt. and took it to Bangor Maine, via 91 93 and rt 2. Snow still in the White Mountians on 5/10/13. Was 3460 lbs over on the trailer axles but the north bound on 91 was closed on the way down and 2 was quiet so scooted back to Farmington Maine for the night and left at 4:30 am this morning for the final 2 hrs.

If you read about it, he drove it last year and has the ladders and the spot lights, looks like he has it all. number in case the auction ends soon 207-242-2513 he wants 11,500. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1932-Mack-Fire-Ladder-Truck-/261209311373?pt=Commercial_Trucks&hash=item3cd149c88d

What a beautifull truck, you won't be sitting on it long at that price.

Thank you gentlemen, next year the big six O, yikes. Like my friend said at his 93 birthday and 75th wedding aniverary party, never think old, always think young and you won't get old. He still works morning to night six days a week with his dump truck,dozer and excavator. Plows 35 driveways in the winter.

Now ya see thats the differnce between you and me. I would have had to fill her fluid tank, because, if I didn't, I would be thinking of her all day, yah know, worrying if she got taken care of properly. She didn't even have a seat belt on,just needed someone to take care of her. But hey, thats just me.

Their closing statement says it all, there is no money left behind the wheel, it's all spoken for before it gets there,from behind the desk..... Nashua Motor Express has ceased operations effective January 31, 2013 after 92 years of traveling the roads of New England. Thank you to our wonderful customers and loyal employees, we will miss you. We have decided to park the trucks and continue our logistics division.

What he said!!

I've got a streight six Mack diesel and 4:30 rears, it runs 65 mph @ 1625 rpm with a fuller 18 speed. Seems 6:67 you would only need direct and over drive, but it would save shifting!!!

Don't know much about the V-8ts, but isn't 2300 kinda high revs for a V8? Thats what the (looks factory) sticker says on the dash. I could see that being max on a streight six. If so, that would mean the cab was changed?

84 and 81 have been under construction for 1/2 century, They only have time to set the cones out in the morning before they have to start picking them up after noon. I swear. That road will beat your truck to death and it's the main artery. I've been stuck on the old Pa. farm roads when I was 83' long and 9 1/2 wide empty. I had to call my girlfriend in Iowa to get on the computer and find me, she then would try to leed me to a bigger road or a place to turn, I drove 60 miles before I got back where I made a wrong turn. Pa. has got hills, to be honest, Denver hasn't got anything on Pa. they might be longer but not steeper.

Video, got to get a video. Don't forget youtube.

The rear ends in these are smaller then my Macks, couldn't believe it. I like how the rears are individual though, they crawl over anything. You can put the rear axle on the rear deck of a lowboy and the next two axles are still sitting on the lower deck. I got to a base to pick up a new hum V with a generator on board and a trailer loaded on behind. Dropped the gooseneck and said drive her on. The officer said don't we need blocks to get up on the ramp? I laughed and said drive it on, when he got it on the main deck, I said, put the front wheel on the rear deck, he freaked, he did it and was amazed. When I delivered it, a civilian contractor was unloading it, he said back up to the dock and I'll drive it up over the rear deck, trailer and all. Didn't want to bang up the trailer, I dropped the trailer and he backed it off.

LMAO

My old 69 R Mack did the same thing, after it warmed up it was fine, no smoke. BUT, it took a long time to warm up, working it was the way to get it to temp. I don't think it would ever warm up to temp idling.

Just got back from the New Orleans WWII musieum, lots on the Higgins boats. They were built down there but he was from Wisconsin or somewhere up there, never had an education, wasn't around the ocean, wasn't a boat nut, but he designed the PT boat, the landing barges and a few others, and built them fast. Hitler called him the american Noah. He said he saved america. Great pictures, loving them all.

I have run 10 and 20 through Texas alot this winter, Mack is making a big comeback. For one they have the best looking truck in production now with the Pinnacle axle forward rawhide, the regen systems are alot less trouble then all others,they have a great transmission with the M class, and it seems the engines are holding up once they got the bugs out. Nice to see piggy back Macks coming from north to south to the dealers when most others are coming from Mexico north.

Incredible pictures, my son, 12, is a Moxie drinker, can't find it anywhere but the very northeast. Those shovels on the train, I have the the Buddy L size metal toy of the shovel, it's exact. That is alot of history, so much of it shipped over seas. Fantastic pictures, keep it up and thank.

Pretty impessive move with automatics.