HeavyGunner

Well as small of a town as that White is located in you could call any business in that town and I’d be willing to bet someone would help out with the name of the owner or business that it sits at. 

Absolutely gorgeous truck, maybe someone should tell the owner that axle is misspelled multiple times on their sign. 

Great looking trucks, neat that they mounted a hard side pop up camper on that trailer. 

2 hours ago, j hancock said:

2RU135F is hood to radiator and hood to cab welting material.

269AXF is beaded vinyl welting for the fender (front) to headlight panels.

22QM21 is the fender (rear) to cab rubber welting.

Thanks you for the clarification. Got the ole boy I bought the shop from to swing by today and point out what is a treasure and what is trash. Filled 2 pickup box trailers full so far and have much more to go. Getting closer. 

15 hours ago, csptnjod said:

Ok first yes for the most part it was a scam however if you approached it right you could make out some what. After reading through several of these remarks I find several incorrect statements first they didn't charge 5000.00 down you gave them 1.00 they set up a corporation and started driving second they didn't pay percentage they paid by the mile household users so you got screwed there never did figure out how household movers guide came up with those milages anyway milage pay was .10 lead driver and .8 second driver however each drive got paid for every mile driving the truck ran no matter who was driving but as I said they used household miners guide is you list approximately 12% or more on actual milage they did do all the Maintainance and the rule was you had to have repairs done by them on a few occasions though I did have it fixed on the road like when my ac quit that pissed them if but o-well. I expect that only maybe 10 to 15% of the trucks actually got paid off. As I said if you approached it right you could do well in my case I ran a husband and wife team and we were just in it for a pay check and we did well we never figured to end up with the truck. You had to load and unload your truck or pay the jumper out if your own pocket that sucked. I could go on and on but I just touched on a couple points here that I saw were inaccurate. I irked for them for about a year and a half before moving on.

So you were there for the transaction with the gentleman Billyt was referring to? Sounds like you got hosed to me. Paying truck lease payments, fuel, repairs, insurance for something you don’t own. Why In the world would you take on all that risk for something you don’t own? Seems like that’s akin to paying taxes, homeowners insurance and footing the bill on all repairs on a rental to me. 

Can someone tell me what these are? Window seals? Door seals? Hood seals? 

Mack p/n 2 RU135F

Mack p/n 269AXF

So I had to clean out all the parts grampa had stashed in his shed and there were far more than I thought. 

That is a really clean truck!  Looks like it would be lotsa fun to take to tractor shows. 

I’m sure it’s challenging trying to figure out the slang in a second language Vlad. You do very well.

1 minute ago, Vladislav said:

What is that black top you guys are talking about?

Marmite??

Asphalt for paving roads. 

Some really neat pictures. 

41 minutes ago, Freightrain said:

All I've done it change oil every spring(cut filter apart to check for anything extra).  

Stupid question. How do you cut a oil filter open and not get debris (metal shavings) in it? I know there must be a way which is why I’m asking. 

Cool pics Ez. Post the other 87 when you get a chance please. 😁

12 hours ago, 1977vega said:

Put it on the scrap scale, just don’t go home with cash!

No worries about scrapping it. I’m getting ready to haul it to my new shop and was getting a weight to figure out what I needed to haul it. I think I’m going to borrow a friends drop deck and tractor and move it Saturday. 

Great pictures. You definitely move some big freight. 

I’ve tried searching on here for the weight of my B753LT and cannot find anything. Any body know what it weighs? I’m guessing 7-8 tons? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

I was expecting a new basset hound but a ground hog will do. 

Interesting videos. I knew Cat was big but had no clue they had 40% of the engine market. I know it’s blasphemy to say on here but I absolutely loved every 3406 I drove. Big, flat torque curve to use. Sounds like a lumbering beast, especially for when straight piped. Very reliable, never once did I worry about it making it a full week with out breaking down like I do now. I’ve heard some Mack engines pulled like that but cannot speak intelligently about the subject since I’ve never driven one. 

Is it 4wd? Neat truck anyhow. 

2 hours ago, j hancock said:

Interesting!  Never heard of that.  Must be one hell of a filter!

Well at least we didn’t have to worry about loss of any performance with that engine when adding oil to the fuel. Those were by far the most gutless pos’s in our fleet and they cost us huge money to keep running. I had heard the last 3 years of owning those 2 Mercedes powered trucks they cost our company $91,000 in repairs and that is what pushed upper management to ok getting rid of them before 800,000 miles. 

30 minutes ago, j hancock said:

Heard of ATF being used in fuel back in the day.  Wouldn't risk it now because of the color! 

I have also heard of some shops getting rid of their waste crankcase oil by putting it in the fuel tank to be burned.  Who knows what ratio of fuel to waste oil might be? 50/1 maybe?

I have being using Power Service Diesel Kleen for lubrication and as a fuel stabilizer.

We had a couple of freight shakers with Mercedes engines and they had a special spendy tool that sucked oil out then went through a machine which filtered it and put it back in the oil. 

I’m no expert but I’ve never heard ultra low sulfur being worth a damn when it comes to lubricity. That’s why everyone really started pushing the use of fuel additives especially for older stuff.  Our county started buying biodiesel and blending it with regular diesel for lubricity reasons. Apparently it has worked. I’ve been told they don’t have near as many fuel pump problems as they used to. 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610215013879