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Mack trucks

Anyone here have the joy of working on them?
Old Grey Cat to this.88 Cat, 5.0 HO, CW mounts, mass air, CI custom cam, afr165's, Tmoss worked cobra intake, BBK shorty's,off road h pipe, magnaflow ex. T-5,spec stage 2 clutch, 8.8 373 TC trac loc, che ajustables with bullits on the rear. 11" brakes up front. +

 

Mack trucks

Reply #1
some what..

but i have drove quite a few..
at my last job in Brooklyn NY
1976 dm 225hp with a leach 25 yard garbage body and a dual stick "low haul!" 1978 dm 225hp single stick 5spd with the same body.. 25 yard 2001 350hp mack with a 8 spd road ranger,31 yard 2004 450hp mack granite.. this had a 6 spd auto.. boring! all had engine brakes.. and an 84 autocar 25 yard 325hp with a 8 spd road ranger "old style" shift pattern..
--- 1 4  throw.  5 8
low 2 3  switch  6 7

i loved that transmission  you had to shift it like i pro stock race car  :D

not a mack fun to drive in the narrow streets of Brooklyn.. :D you need a telescope to see over the nose of that truck.. all the old macks and the autocar had no lers just straight pipes for a long time.. deafening .. until the law said to put the lers back on.. lol i guess the people in town did'nt like getting woken up at 3am:evilgrin:

and meny other macks at other jobs.. i drove about a half a dozen macks with a dual stick low hual in it.. a fun transmission to use exspecialy in reverse:D
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there's only about a half a dozen man made objects that are herd by the human ear below 40Hz,a pipe organ,thunder,the space shuttle lifting off,a jet airplane taking off or landing,a large canon,an atomic bomb ignited in your back yard and the heat wave afterward oh wait you would be dead so you would'nt hear it scratch that!,and maybe beating your hear against a wall less then 40 times a second..rap music is'nt one of them!thats 40-60Hz@100+db the moving air is under 40Hz

Mack trucks

Reply #2
We had a fleet of just over 40 of them. DR's and RD's. all tandem and Tri-Axle dumps except for 1 day-cab lowboy.
2 88 TC's (1 is the 2.3t race car, other v8 maybe?)
06 dodge dakota 4.7 v8
79 chevy k-10, built 350/turbo 350
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