Mack-Phase Two

[DMiller]

Like JY Noted, Guinea Green, I can still see that color in my head from working Macks!!! Good choice to NOT use it!

 

[Truck Shop]

That barf green I just can't do. The only thing about this rig that will be Mack is some of the sheet metal, cab and radiator. And even that radiator if I had time would get a new look.
The shell design was obviously designed by a blind quadriplegic, no offense to blind quadriplegics. But I definitely have a better design than that mess. Believe it or not it still had the
original core in it. But the holes for the top tank are blind, and those holes were not squared to each other nothing was symmetrical. On center of the old core from end to center the
holes in the front were off a 1/16 one way and the rear 1/8 the other way in order to fit the top tank. Who knows which was drilled first the core or the tank. But the aluminum side
supports should have been built to bolt to the sides of the top and bottom tanks not slid in place between top and bottom tanks and core.

 

[RZucker]

Sounds like my last three trailer rebuilds. Absolutely nothing square to work with. A 40 footer with one outside rail that's 1 inch longer than the other? I made a King pin clamp to get good diagonal measurements to square the suspension.

 

[DMiller]

Like they had no Engannears!!!

 

[DMiller]

We had Fruehauf vans delivered at Feld in 78, were dog tracking so bad had issues getting them INTO the shop bays. Spent weeks on the Emerson fleet so they would not destroy the tires by scrubbing, many of them were so far off square to be sent back to Fruehauf shop for repairs as we were not accepting them. The old Utility External Frame flats were notorious for being Off Square.

 

[crane operator]

Glad to see you getting some progress done, every good body/paint mans shop I've been in has also looked like a mess. I see those spotless shops on the rebuilding tv shows, and I don't know how they get anything done.

I like the color, what's the interior color going to be?

 

[Truck Shop]

Glad to see you getting some progress done, every good body/paint mans shop I've been in has also looked like a mess. I see those spotless shops on the rebuilding tv shows, and I don't know how they get anything done.

I like the color, what's the interior color going to be?

The same as the outside.

 

[Truck Shop]

Fired it up and test ran it today for about an hour. Jakes tested ok set the rpm up to 575 at idle. Oil psi cold 42 lbs hot idle 20-22, that's all good. And power steering works.
Typical BC 855 smokes like hell cold and stutters Mel Tillis for about 10 seconds after start up then smooths out.

 

[DMiller]

Cooling system together or core still coming?

 

[Mother Deuce]

Fired it up and test ran it today for about an hour. Jakes tested ok set the rpm up to 575 at idle. Oil psi cold 42 lbs hot idle 20-22, that's all good. And power steering works.
Typical BC 855 smokes like hell cold and stutters Mel Tillis for about 10 seconds after start up then smooths out.

It's channelling a 903 LOL!

 

[kshansen]

It's channelling a 903 LOL!

Now that's just down right mean!

 

[DMiller]

That is mean
Nothing worse than a 9 o nothin

 

[Junkyard]

I always liked to hear that lopey stumbling startup. My 7FB Cat would do it too.

 

[RZucker]

That is mean
Nothing worse than a 9 o nothin

I once bought a '76 Pete conventional with a grenaded 903 for nearly nothing, it wasn't a bad looking truck. Figured I could sell the hood and some other stuff and come out ahead, before I got it home I ran across a wrecked cornbinder with a silver 8V-92... Made a few bucks on that crossbreed.

 

[RZucker]

I always liked to hear that lopey stumbling startup. My 7FB Cat would do it too.

I liked lopey Detroits.

 

[DMiller]

Surge baby Surge, RAW Powa!!!!

 

[Junkyard]

I liked lopey Detroits.

Oh hell yeah me too!

 

[Birken Vogt]

Fired it up and test ran it today for about an hour. Jakes tested ok set the rpm up to 575 at idle. Oil psi cold 42 lbs hot idle 20-22, that's all good. And power steering works.
Typical BC 855 smokes like hell cold and stutters Mel Tillis for about 10 seconds after start up then smooths out.

Is this the type that the first compression stroke sounds like the starter is not going to make it, until it does, and then once you get it rolling over have to help it along with the starter until it catches enough cylinders to stay running?

And smokes like a chimney until you start to drive it.

Good ole days.

 

[farmerlund]

Sounds like you will be trucking soon TS

 

[RZucker]

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Is this the type that the first compression stroke sounds like the starter is not going to make it, until it does, and then once you get it rolling over have to help it along with the starter until it catches enough cylinders to stay running?

And smokes like a chimney until you start to drive it.

Good ole days.

I just replaced the starter on my old IH yard truck with a Denso gear reduction starter, It doesn't do that ugga-ugga thing now. 400 HP BC 3 with STC. Starts... farts twice and runs smooth.