79 superliner 300

What kind of work are you planning to do with it? When you go see it make sure the cab is structurally ok. That camelback will beat the daylights out of everything. Hope your not a big guy lol

 

Can't argue with that compared to todays stuff, but if you had the EM6-300L you had 1425tq @ 1020 rpm. That still amazes me out of a 11.0L engine from almost 40 years ago

 

Five speed transmission but ran from 40 mph to 70 mph in 5 the gear.

 

I drove a U and a R model back in '83 with the 300 and a straight 5...Coming out of a screaming jimmy, it took a little getting used to shifting it...The joke was when you wanted to shift you'd take it out, reach up and drink some coffee and about that time it would be ready to slide into 5th....With that hi-torque low-RPM engine, I couldn't get over how hard that truck would pull, forget 2100, it came out at 16....They were a tough truck back then and all Mack....I never had a Mack break down on me and leave me stuck somewhere....Yeah, they rode a little hard, heck they all did back then....One drawback on the Superliner was they were a heavy tractor, something like 21,500, that'd limit your payload, especially with a reefer, but man would they pull...Oh yeah, if you lost your alternator/batteries, you could put the fuel pump on mechanical override and keep on truckin....

 

For short haul local work it's fine anything else the fuel cost will hurt you

 

Digging around and found some pix on the old Macks I drove....They were a well built unit back in the day, circa early to mid '80's these were...

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