Great video great trucks and my favorite I have a 1969 Mack r 600 with the steel dash and two stick 6 speed 237 motor love it this thing will be with me for a long time thanks for sharing 😎
I spent a lot of my life owning and driving R600, DM600 and 800, I still have an 86 R600 endt676 6 speed with 125k original miles. I'm second owner, but the truck is in it's original home. I bought it the same time I bought the building, both from the original owner
@@AppalachianRust You know what killed a lot of them was the tie bar on the fro0nt rear spring hangers being loose or missing. Cracked the frame crossmembers and the upper rear corner of the door frame
@@AppalachianRust I think I wasn't clear in my description. I was referring to the rear spring hangers of the steering axle. There is a bar there running from side to side, that usually gad the battery cables and the fuel crossover attached to it. Earlier tricks it was a square tube with brackets on the ends thay attached with 2 bolts to each spring hanger. Later models it tad a round tube with a threaded stud coming out either end. That gets loose and breaks the frame crossmembers, especially the single piece U shaped ones. The 2 piece ones seem to fare better. The flexing when that crossover tube is missing also cracks the rear upper cab corners on the inside. Yeah I've replaced a few trunnions. The "body-bond" bolts can be a pain. Much easier if you can huck bolt them in. Do you have any steel dash trucks? Or how about a BCR Kit?
@@joecummings1260 on this truck that cross member is a piece of channel iron and I’ve had to replace some of those bolts. So yeah I do keep a check on that. I was just saying the trunnion is a weak point too. I think one of the trucks has a steel dash but it’s got a 237 in it now not the old V8
Great video great trucks and my favorite I have a 1969 Mack r 600 with the steel dash and two stick 6 speed 237 motor love it this thing will be with me for a long time thanks for sharing 😎
Absolutely! They are great trucks. Thanks for watching take care
I spent a lot of my life owning and driving R600, DM600 and 800, I still have an 86 R600 endt676 6 speed with 125k original miles. I'm second owner, but the truck is in it's original home. I bought it the same time I bought the building, both from the original owner
They say “Mack’s don’t die they just find new owners”
@@AppalachianRust You know what killed a lot of them was the tie bar on the fro0nt rear spring hangers being loose or missing. Cracked the frame crossmembers and the upper rear corner of the door frame
@@joecummings1260 we recently replaced the trunnion in this truck
@@AppalachianRust I think I wasn't clear in my description. I was referring to the rear spring hangers of the steering axle. There is a bar there running from side to side, that usually gad the battery cables and the fuel crossover attached to it. Earlier tricks it was a square tube with brackets on the ends thay attached with 2 bolts to each spring hanger. Later models it tad a round tube with a threaded stud coming out either end.
That gets loose and breaks the frame crossmembers, especially the single piece U shaped ones. The 2 piece ones seem to fare better. The flexing when that crossover tube is missing also cracks the rear upper cab corners on the inside.
Yeah I've replaced a few trunnions. The "body-bond" bolts can be a pain. Much easier if you can huck bolt them in.
Do you have any steel dash trucks? Or how about a BCR Kit?
@@joecummings1260 on this truck that cross member is a piece of channel iron and I’ve had to replace some of those bolts. So yeah I do keep a check on that.
I was just saying the trunnion is a weak point too.
I think one of the trucks has a steel dash but it’s got a 237 in it now not the old V8
Hey James the mack sounds great have a good day man
Cool ride along James .
Is that a 2 stick transmission
It has an air shifter on the main stick for the High Low and Reverse instead of the stick.
I don’t see many like it.
It’s nice for spreading stone.