If you bought a Mack back in the 1960,s? It wouldn't surprise me if it's still on the road and working and the owner is long gone! That's what happened with my Grandfather he bought a old LJ Mack ran back and forth from Pa. To FLA. Every week the Truck is still running on a job site at a black top batch plant they took the sleeper off it put a dump body on it, and he passed away dead since 2002 at 90 years old!
My dad had between 5 and 6 million miles under his belt. He only used the clutch to stop or start and for the power take off. Go ahead,use the clutch every time and your knee is going to bother you a lot!
First truck I ever drove was same year Mack concrete mixer, same set up. I got about a five minute lesson, drove around the yard twice and away I went! Won't say it was perfect right out of the gate, but I had it figured after couple hours, never saw another 5/4 set up again after that, this would have been late 90s. Another concrete job later saw me in a Detroit 6v75 with a 13 speed Eaton Fuller with the 3 range splitting, that thing was a blast to drive. Slam your hand in the door and drive angry all day
Back in the 70s I drove a 69 Flintstone (steel front) maxidyne 237hp with a 6 speed overdrive and fitted with a 4 speed airshift Spicer auxiliary box. Great sound and a good old hauler. Probably don't need to use the dynatard on upshifts, but it's fun to play with it😁.
@@eddieweigel9490 ehhh T2060 was an air shift 6 but it’s possible I got my numbers screwed up but yes it’s a twin stick 6 Mack single trans 5 speed with a R L D shifted L1 D1 2 3 4 5 + 12345 reverse
Never drove an R, but rode in one my stepfather dove summer of '75. In '83, I drove an F for National Freight. 237 engine, I believe. And a 5 speed. 740,000+ on it when I got in it. They were a totally outlaw company back then. I took styrofoam McD boxes from NJ to MA. Then brought rolls of paper back. Most loads of paper were at least 50, 000 lbs. One was over 57,000. No scales up there back then. Had to sleep in the driver's seat every other night.
I drove Many of R600 & R700 Mack,s. I want ta tell ya Something! It takes a Special Breed to drive a Bulldog Mack! the right way, a Mack is a Man,s Truck.💪🏽
I never could get used to jakes while shifting. Each hole change he loses momentum lol. They are for holding you back , not that other biz , but knock your self out.
Actually a 6 speed 1 transmission 5 on the left stick. High, low and reverse on the right. Only used the main 5 in high with the maxidyne on the road. Gave you 5 reverse gears and 5 PTO speeds with the right stick in nuetral
@@nickkercheval2704We have to keep an eye on these young guys Nick I drove many mud sticks a 18 spd quad box a 12 spd Mack one of my favorites anything and everything thing MACK I love them these old mechanical beauties
Ohhh I gotta find me a old Mack. Those are REAL trucks REAL MACKS, hard working REAL MEN drove those old beasts GAD DAMN IT SOUND THROATY! Have it on stage 2 engine brake?
This one just got sold to a buddy! Oh well. These old dynatards have 1 stage only, all 6 fire off. Though because they’re mechanical it takes a second for all 6 cylinders to pop off during engine braking, thus is why you hear it clapping haha
@@mcbeepcheeks yea some other old engine brakes as well do the same think the N14 might because whenever I use the jacobs on that motor it’ll pop then sound stronger. You shouldn’t of sold that truck man that must’ve been a blast for yeh
On dry days, The Jacob Brake can be used Power is applied to the drive wheels when you take your off the fuel an apply the foot brake. Jacobs Brake another way to help slow down your vehicle .
Nice old Mack with twin sticks I wonder what does that blue knob do you got your Yellow parking brake Red trailer Air supply Then the blue what that do?
The blue knob could be two things. It could be an "emergency" air supply. If you run your tank down far enough that your brakes set, you can hit the blue knob to get more air. Sometimes seem on fuel haulers and school busses. The other thing it could be is the tractor parking brake. On some trucks, the yellow actually set both the truck and trailer, similar to pulling both the yellow and red on a normal rig. The blue would do what normally pulling the yellow only would do. I don't know why they did it that way, and fully understand why it fell out of favor.
The blue knob sets the tractor brakes only. The red knob is trailer air supply. The yellow knob is system park, it sets the tractor and trailer brakes.
I think I got more of the story on three knobs. Back in the day, trailers didn't always have spring brakes. So, one of the knobs could apply constant air pressure to the trailer service line if you wanted the trailer brakes to help hold when parked. Now days, trailers pretty much all have spring brakes, so simply pulling the red trailer air supply knob will set trailer brakes.
@@James-kd7dcSome of them are set differently. Blue is sometimes to set prime mover brakes, in other the blue button (actually black) would release trailer brakes.
Truck sounds great! Is that a dynatard or a Jacobs? Great job shifting it and cutting the engine brake off with the accelerator when ya have to! I can appreciate it because I do it when the truck calls for it. Really cool sounding truck! What size exhaust?
I wonder if the people that complain about the jake being on while upshifting have ever actually driven an R model with a 6 speed, in hilly areas it’s a must you will not have enough wheel speed to make the shift from low to direct, without the rapid decel from the jake brake being on, again… in hilly areas. A flat road sure you’ll be fine, unloaded… yeah you’ll be fine. load it up and start on a steep grade, and you’ll be starting from low all over again without it
Spot on brother. Washington state is no joke having only 350 horse, maybe out east where most of these guys just drive on flat highway for hundreds and thousands of miles you’d get by without dropping it down too quickly but to get over the hills and keeping up in the loop of other trucks to make a buck, yes, it definitely helps. Keep on!
What a rookie never shift with jakebreak on and if your going to use the jakebreak use 1 position 3 is only for heavy load and short stopping distance ✌️you’ll learn learn when have too rebuild the transmission or clutch or both as fast as your shifting 😝✌️
Yeah boss be careful who you hire next cause the next guy could be me 😈😈 don’t want an old school 🤩✊🤩MACKJOB🤩✊🤩 tearing up your nice little Peter out from the roots
Let’s go show us what you’ve got One hand on each shifter The way you were going it looked like a 15 speed triplex and sounded like either a straight piped 237 or a turbocharged 711
You're pretty good if you'd used two hands that would have really made my day I always like Mack Jakes you can use both sticks all the way up to 5 the gear I did
You in a sea of 500+ others that can dig it. Let’s see how many views you get of you driving. I got 45k and still going. Keep the rubber side down!! ✌️✌️
6 speed Mack TRXL1070 1st gear can be used in low or direct, rear of the gears have to be used in direct only to prevent gears from spinning up too quickly. A Mack thing ✌️✌️
Don’t get it wrong this truck is well used. A bit of window cleaner and a few microfibers, stick on 6 or 7 eBay switch extensions and you got a polished turd 🤩
