[AT] Weird truck problem was RE: 8V 71 Detroit in a Mack Cab overfor Ralph

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Fri Mar 5 20:51:42 PST 2010


If you look on Youtube you can find some videos of 12 V 71's in Cabover 
trucks.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Wilson" <ro.wilson at att.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:43 PM
Subject: [AT] Weird truck problem was RE: 8V 71 Detroit in a Mack Cab 
overfor Ralph


> My buddy Duke ran a diesel repair shop for 35 years and the weirdest truck
> he ever saw was owned by a man that hauled steel West over the Rockies. He
> always hauled overloaded and ordered his cab over Jimmy for just the job. 
> He
> stopped into my buddy's shop one day telling him he couldn't keep the 
> truck
> between the ditches and wanted him to check it out. He assumed he needed 
> the
> axles realigned but took the truck for a drive. He came back and couldn't
> understand how the guy even drove it. They tilted the cab to reveal a 12
> cylinder GMC! The part that was giving him fits was the frame, it was
> aluminum. It was bending under the torque of the engine when hauling 
> heavy.
> HE never said how or if they ever fixed it but it was a strange one. One
> thing he always wanted was a semi truck with a Big Al purple 
> Allis-Chalmers
> engine in it. I've heard of a few but never seen one.
> Rob
>
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> In a message dated 3/5/2010 12:49:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> charliehill at embarqmail.com writes:
>
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9fC7n5RBbU_
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9fC7n5RBbU)
>
> He's about as good as I am at clashing gears :)
>
> The brown truck he was following looks similar to my 1950 750 GMC except
> mine has single drive axle.
> and a wimpy 4-71.
>
> Gary
> Renton, WA
>
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