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Guy Edelist

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  1. Dear Vlad, thanks for your answer, so far i did not find the chassis number, but we know for sure that this is NR4D,

    because the reasons i explained before, there was no chance to bring into Israel new truck so the Lanovas had been stripped down and the chassis had been stretchered.

    amazing but true, those tricks where common back in the '50 '60 in Israel. and it works....

  2. Paul,

    In Israel they use in 1959 Autocar with 200 HP to pull road trains to Eilat in much hard route than today, same GCVW - about 90 tons

    means it can be done, but in one uphill needs to disconnect one trailer and than drive downhill to take it re connect to the 1st one and hit thew road, sometimes for 11 hours.

    In the past ~50 years there is +- flat road but they have to be productive and save time without changing gears and move slowly, the road to Eilat is very packed compare to Australia outback..

    The Long hood RW's of Mifalely Tovala had E9 with 440 HP.

    Other companies that got long hood RW use Cummins and strait 6 cyl Mack engines.

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  3. Some of the Superliners had E9, V8 engines with Mack Gearbox with 5 gears X 3 ratios at a button on the gear lever.

    this button had the tend to find a "neutral" between the ratios, not that funny when going downhill.

    however this gearbox (what's it's name? TRTXL?) was to weak for the E9 and and weight of the road train.

    Thse superliners had also Thelma retarder

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  4. I Assume this short nose is only for Israel, was made in Mack Ashdod, Israel.

    there were several units with short nose, the filter is the rear there was no other palce to put it.

    The top one road train was empty, when trailers full with Potash the GCVW is 90-100 ton.

    these two pictures are from different vehicle, it's very hard to kill Mack.

  5. Paul you most welcome to visit, all of you welcomes.

    Israel is great place, history, holly places, nice looking girls, great atmosphere.

    The DM865SX was so successful that when retired lots of them sold as truck trailer to Iraq and Georgia (the one near russia not in US) while other converted to tippers and went to work in Africa. (from the internet)

    The only draw back was sometimes unaware drivers that over run the V8 engine. i.e. push to high RPM with no reason thus made damage,

    but you cannot find any other truck / vehicle/ airplane that serves so many years and cost so little to run.

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