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  • 3 weeks later...

yep they are doing what I call a DE-Macking (only the dawg and the letters will be real Mack) of our good old Mack, buy cheaper parts make more profit and screw the customer .

Makniac , collector and customizer of die-cast model in 1/50th scale

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Sorry to break the news to you but the axle in your RD was cast in Brazil.

Westport Axle's Mack chassis assembly plant is using axles produced by Brazil's SIFCO. SIFCO, Volvo's assembled front axle supplier in South America since 1979, and Swedish production from 1995, replaced Dana for Mack brand axle production from May, 2004 (Westport and SIFCO are both owned by Grupo Brasil).

But given he said that his front axle was stamped "Mexico", that sounds like the Sypris Solutions (under their Sypris Technologies brand) plant in Toluca, Mexico.

Dana sold several plants to Sypris in 2004, and then outsourced axle component production to them. Dana, an example of what bad management can do to a legendary U.S. company.

https://www.sypristechnologies.com/products#IBeams

http://www.sifco.com.br/ingles/produtos/suspencao_dianteira.htm

From 2008, Meritor began supplying front axles to Volvo from a new plant in Monterrey, Mexico for Mack-brand chassis.

http://fleetowner.com/management/arvinmeritor_mexico_axle_plant_0827

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Sorry to break the news to you but the axle in your RD was cast in Brazil.

maybe I'm not sure a 100% but my RB688 is a 1989-1990 built up in Oakvile ON Canada,

my comment was more oriented in the way that Mack is producing less and less from within inside de company .

Makniac , collector and customizer of die-cast model in 1/50th scale

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  • 4 weeks later...

Is that the steering box on the RH frame rail? Never saw that before.

You never saw dual steering boxes?Lots of heavy trucks run em.

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