jeffbyrne

Hi Russ, 45 is a Cummins 'NT', I found that somewhere in reference to an F745. Regards Jeff

I was wandering what happened to that R 700, was it 1 of Hayes' trucks ?

Hi Grant, I'd be interested in most of the leftovers you mentioned, including 'F' parts. Let me know what you want and we can go from there. Jeff

My 1960 B61 T has only 1 tank, across the back of the chassis, it is the full width of the chassis . It only has 1 inlet, 1 drain. My 73/74 R 600 has 1 long tank under the frame rail, it is a split tank, it has an external pipe to feed from front to rear section, you can see where the internal divider is, it has 2 drains, then across the back of the chassis is the small reserve air tank for release of the park brakes. jeffro

Hi Mark, Brian is a good friend, he's been a great help to me, he's helped me when I was down n out. I think that eng could be in the B 613 Tow Truck. He has a nice fleet of Macks . Jeff.

Hi Mark, I think you would be right, I suppose with the constant HP and high torque rating of the Maxi it would stand to reason that those major components you mentioned would be different, tougher. I've heard over the yrs blokes saying that engs have been rebuilt to Maxidyne spec and I was thinking they were internally the same. Regards jeff.

Grant, I'm not to sure about this, but I think you could have a Blue ENDT673C, change the fuel pump and turbo to Maxidyne spec, and you would have a blue Maxidyne 237 hp with Thermodyne on the valve covers. I think they are identical engines internally. Maybe someone knows otherwise. Regards Jeff...... Maybe they have different injectors aswell.

Grant, that # is the eng # only, it does not say what eng it is. B4 the # it should have eng type, i.e. ENDT 673C or ENDT675 etc. But that chassis # is for an ENDT673C, 250 HP, Quad, On/Off Hwy rear end. Jeff.

Grant, whatsa 260?

Hi, a B 43 S 1588 is lighter capacity than a B 6xx etc,'S' is for tandem drive. chassis #'s start at 1000, so yours is the 588th truck ordered. The rear end should be an SWD 57, Trans TRD670. Hope this helps, Regards Jeffro

Hi Jeff, I'm not sure about mounts, but if your B is an early one you might need a different 'X' member behind the cab, most Quads I've seen have a Xmbr that is reversed, so instead of being flush with the vertical wall of cab it sits behind the cab, turned the other way. I think this is because the Quad is longer. If the B62 is a petrol engine it mayb a different length, even #'s in model # means it is a gas job. B60 gas, B61 diesel, B62 gas, B63 diesel etc..I have noticed some B's have chassis rails protruding out the front with a cutout in the headlight panel, that seems to me that everything is sitting back further. I dont know what the story is there. Hope this helps, Regards Jeffro.

H i Grant, not sure what engine your refering to, but if it is a 6 like the pic Thad posted they are often up higher, along the top, the flat bit at the top. If it came from an 'F' it could be on the back of the block just below the head. If it was a V8 it could be on the pan rail, just above the sump pan or across the top at the back of the block below the valley. Tell us what you find. Regards Jeff. The pan rail drivers side (OZ) about the middle.

Yeh i know what ya mean, I went to a Mack agent/authourised dealer, I wanted an early type 'J' valve they call it, or a kit for the air start. I had part # plus old valve, he brought out a 'Tractor Protection Valve',... then he was dumbfounded, I said forget it. I wandered what would I do,it made me think, all these guys are 'Volvo' guys for a start. They were new faces, this was about 3/4 years ago.. Jeffro

Hi monty, I've just worked out the scanning process, and am soon to post an album in the gallery. The blue & white R600 next to your ex Caltex truck looks like an old Gosford Meats one, and the Diamond T looks familiar aswel. Regards Jeff.

Hi Rod, I can't recall any R700's with GM's, but Noel Buntine, Wettenhalls and Brambles Manford had R700's with Cummins', Bell had one or more FR700's with Detroit Diesel fitted. I just posted a pic of a Superliner with factory 8 92 under 'Superliner with 8V92', do you know of any more? jeffro.

Hi Rob, I'm having trouble getting reverse in the truck I just purchased, I've only managed to select rev once, and that took alot of flipping in/out. When I'm in neutral on the button with lever in gear, I cant get neutral, so its in the shift knob or the airshift I spose. I spent 1/2 hr nudged up against the front gate then managed to get rev. With mine it is very quiet, can hardly hear the shifter. This is the 1st time I've had anything to do with airshift. Jeffro

Hey it works, I tried somethin new, its called a printer manual

Thad I'm working on it

I'm learnin my way round this puter thing, I got lots of pics to, maybe I can get my head round it this arvo. stay tuned

Hi Rob, I'm only just starting to play around with the ten speed, but an old guy at Mack in Sydney told me your 60 psi reducers are there to stop that, I think he was saying you dont need them but they stop the hard throw. Regards jeffro

you said it thad

Hi Rob, It would be great to see more info on it, some pics of the engine installed in trucks would be good. Regards Jeffro

there is a pic of the ENDT 1000 in John B Montville's book 'Mack', there is reference to it, it says experimental, output in the 360-500 hp range, field testing during 1973. The pic shows what is clearly an E 9 as opposed to an ENDT865/866, Mack was still using the END engine designation at the time. It has engine mounted air to air intercooling and you can see the turbine tip fan housing at the front, it is mounted atop the engine . Hope this helps, Jeffro

Hi Rod, would that be the 'spirit of adventure'? Nice lookin truck that one. R 700's are a great lookin truck. Good luck finding her. Jeffro

Hi Skip, Stevens were the original owners of the said R615RS, Mayne Nickless had some, Brambles Manford had some then there was was the fibreglass ones. I think there was about 25 in total . I can help you with your list. Jeff