mrsmackpaul

Sounds like good news and all is running well Paul

Well the FWD was caught by the Boston trucker, dunno if he new what he was hanging about Paul

The Ranger and Everest are the best sellers in Australia by a long way, that's gotta say something Paul

Phew, close call on spilt beer FFS , this shit is getting real ha ha ha ha Paul

Yeah your probably right But I reckon we can bull shit with the best of them ha ha ha ha Paul

I think it would have to have at the very least 3 clamps and most likely 4 clamps to get everything sealed on the intake properly A bit hard to tell with a actual photo Paul

You blokes have left a muddy mess, bloke mowing the grass is gunna be happy with you lot Oh and the video works fine form Australia Paul

That's a huge show, I thought I would grab a few favorites out of the photos but there's so many favorites that wasn't gunna work You blokes had a great show even with the rain by the looks of it Thanks for the photos OD Paul

At least until cocktail hour ha ha 🍹 Paul

A Mack box is fair bastard to pull out compared to the Road Ranger, however if it has to come out then it has to come out However if the cab is a air ride cab, which I think this is, you can the floor sections out, disconnect the air bag and ride height valve, and probably air cleaners and a few other things and jack the cab up a fairway to get the top off the box, you'll be surprised Getting the top off the box is the easy part, getting it back on is a fiddly job but can be done Don't cake it's mating surfaces in RTV (I think you blokes call it that) or form a gasket stuff, it oozes out inside the box, drops off, gets sucked throught oil pump and plugs all the oil galleries feeding the bearings, then you'll notice you start jumping out of gear as the RTV stops the sliding dogs going all the way in, some ass clown mechanic had done this yo my old bucket of bolts before I owned it, I had to pull the box out amd fully disassemble it and change bearings and a couple of gears and sludimg dogs, theres a few huge days work right there Once you put the lid back on the box, drop the tail shaft off try it through every gear before calling the job done and lowering the cab back down These are things I have learnt the hard way, the very hard way The book (work shop manual) won't tell you any of this, the reality is most of us aren't equipped or flushed with enough cash to pay someone to do this For me, I have learnt this type of stuff on the side of a road or in the shed at home Most mechanics will just fit a change over box and call it done were most times it doesn't cost a fortune I doubt most mechanics would even know how to drop a box apart these days Paul

It sounds like a rod all selector fork is loose on a rod On any other brand of box, we're the stick enters the top of the box becomes worn and when you race the gear change the stick comes out of the selector rod dog and leaves the transmission stuck in gear But more detail is needed Paul

Good man Vlad And you aren't the first bloke to have life get in the way of playing with trucks You keep the dream alive over there my friend Paul

I am always amazed just how different things look with some paint on it Won't loose it in the dark Paul

Great stuff Brocky, 10 years went quick Paul

Well I have learnt something new today Never heard the term "turnaround" before Only heard of shuts downs and outages And I dunno what else she was going on about, I was a little distracted Paul