2 stick mack

My dads B63 had a cummins 262. It was a 220 with a turbo on it.

 

I drove all kinds of Mack’s back in the day.
An 81 R model tractor with a 380 CAT and a straight 15 speed.
Then there was 79 R model with a 300 plus and a15 speed overdrive.
And also a 74 R model with a V8 Mack engine and a six speed.
Also a 1973 F model tractor with a 237 and a 5 speed.. that was a real power house lol.
Oh yea and there was the old U model with the cab pushed all the way to the driver side and an extended mirror bracket on the passenger side...
I think the U designation stood for Ugly lol.

 

Did my first 10 years in one.....

 

Run a 5x4 currently, but it’s in a Pete. Drove a 5 speed maxadyne trans for a little while, the “Lazy man’s Tranny”
It definitely earned that nickname.

 

Still own a 1967 r600 with quad box

 

I have had a few U's and dislike them. Its almost you needed to add two feet to anything you were doing. I think the engines were about 240 horse and god only knows what torque out of those things. But they will wind all day to 2400 and stay there the rest of the week if need be disregarding the pyro and temperature gauges. Pyro in particular. Ive pegged a few with those tractors at 1500F for hours.

And they simply just wont die. As far as I am concerned the old macks can live forever.

But the best one would have to be my favorite superliner 500 with the v8 and 15 speed. Not fast but she will handle whatever comes in terrain. Once in a great while when everything is a good day me and my foreman in his little international would some racing. Bossman one day was sitting atop of a 100 foot grasshill of about 30 degrees or so. We drove off the road together right up to him. Having to stop before hitting him at the top. Who needs roads HA.

Any number of neurotic fleet managers or owners would have fired us a thousand times.

 

Never had a mack, but I had a 4x5 in a white cabover.

 

And for the reality check. There hasn't ever been a single big diesel engine ever made that can hold 1500 degrees for hours. Could you just once tell a story that doesn't involve breaking the laws of physics?