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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^This is complete B.S.

I'm not in the right frame of mind to set this straight,
BUT.
you my friend have a lot to learn..

 

Hi jdiesel, while I agree, the Mack "R" model was darn near indestructible, they were a handful to operate, and I'm convinced, most of my back problems today, stem from the Mack I drove 35 years ago. It had "camelback" rear suspension, and rode so rough, it would pop out of gear. I drove that truck for almost 4 years, until, I just had enough. Of all the trucks I drove in my life, and there's been quite a few, that Mack was the roughest riding truck I ever drove, and I vowed never to drive one again.

 

Hi Mack E-6, boy, you got that right. The 1st "heavy-duty" truck I drove was a 1963 IH R190 tandem dump truck, with Hendrickson (I think) rubber pad, walking beam suspension. But that truck was so slow, and I didn't go too far with it (asphalt hauling), and no air seat, and I was a young, and thought, all trucks rode like that. My 1st truck, a 1982 Western Star, had the White equivalent to the Reyco spring suspension, and after a month and 2 broken springs, I had the back cut off, and had a Pete Airleaf put on, and it totally transformed the truck.

 

The truck had 44k bronze bushing camelback, I definitely remember hearing the thundering sound as it went over bumps and me bouncing around in the cab.
Growing up in North NJ Macks were all around me. My godfather had a single axle twin stick R, an old U model and an R similar to my dads. I love my west coast trucks and yellow painted engines but Macks will always be my sentimental favorite, along with Brockways and Autocars but that's a different story lol