mrsmackpaul

Been up and at it for Saturday Sprayed weeds last night after fitting a new slave cylinder to the spray truck

I put all stainless steel bolts nuts and washers in my mirror brackets and aircleaner straps Stops the rust stuff in the future Most of the stainless and chrome trim cleaned up okay, not show quality but it's original still Paul

Bob would be easy to find with the smoke signals Paul

A bottle of Bourbon a fire and get the tyre off the rim and keep the mosquitoes away Tyre on the fire The perfect night Paul

I watched this today, as I recall this era It was awe inspiring to all around the world The world dared to dream and have a crack at the impossible Today there's Bonnie Blue shagging 1000 men in 24 hours How has this happened The bloody woke brigade lowering everyone to the lowest common denominator Learning fractions at school has paid dividends These fine men inspired the world to be the very best it could be I reckon JFK was like that, be the very best you that you can be And yes, watch the whole video, so much more interesting and worthwhile than the click bait rubbished pushed Good job Buzz Aldrin and Zoey What a wonderful world we once had were we inspired all around us to be the best they could be I do often think of Paul Harvey's words "I believe in my god, my country and myself" Paul

I will search and see if I can find the whole interview Paul

If you are still struggling and with no result I know of a way that works really well and it doesn't involve burning the tyre off But the tyre is no good for anything afterwards A Stanley knife and a good blade Just cut the wall off, I have done this before, yes it does work I cut closer to the tread side first Then once the tread is off Cut the tube and rust band off Then with whats left cut the wall down near the rim off Now there's only the bead left Rim and the remaining tyre are on a bench while I do this bit With a wire wheel on your angle grinder, start on the inside of bead The wire thats in the band appears quick enough, cold chisel or angle cutting disc and cut the bead The remaind of the tyre drop pretty shortly after that I have needed this on crappy old farm gear thats been sitting full with water and mud and crap and the rims rusted and expanded I'm sure all you muscle men don't have to go the limp dick way like this, but for me, well needs must occasionally Paul

It has a padded dash ? I have never seen a padded dash in R model A few different people make new dashes, but if your not in Australia they will be of no use to you as they are RHD Paul

Torsion bars are much better if they are working right Nice and simple Trying to tilt a little Isuzu last night, my ring was fairly hanging out Got all the stuff from behind the seat out and chucked it on the floor Straight up and over Paul

That is good news Spill timing is fairly good but like using a set of feeler guages or calipers, it's a fairly individual thing Great news it worked for you Paul

Good stuff Any happy snaps or your building suspense ? 😉 Paul

Diesel is really good for tough beads Softens old rubber, squirt some diesel in there, and work it a bit Paul

They were very common back in the 60's and 70's in Australian yards All painted amd dolled up with flowers in them Paul

Tyre art for the garden, the very height of sophistication in 1960's and 70's Australia The very best was the Swan made out of a tyre and some nice flowers growing in it Paul

WOW, this my learnt thing for this week Having the coolant in tiptop condition would be critical I would think There's a huge amount going in in those motors and their cooling system Maybe Mack had a patent on the tip turbine idea and Cummins and other manufacturers had to have a different approach Tip turbines biggest draw back is you can't build big boost, 21 pounds is sort of the max and you have to be pulling pretty hard and that boost is only for a short amount of time 15 - 17 is sort of normal Get to a chassis mounted intercooler and I read of blokes getting 35 pounds boost Thanks Geoff, very educational Paul

I don't think any F600's made it to Australia F700's yes, they had a drive shaft for steering running across the dash, under a cover etc so it didn't stand out Then like pretty much every Mack built over the next 40 years in Australia, the R model chassis was used, long after everyone else in the world The R model chassis lent itself to RHD conversion much better than anything else Mack has built, the frame rail shape So CH Macks had a R model chassis out here The F 700 became the FR 700, F cab R chassis Paul

Very good Bob, you've got it by the balls now Paul

They appear to be a impressive well optioned truck Air ride front axle and yet Kenworth still only offer springs in their front end on COE K220 Air ride front axles have been standard on interstate buses since the late 70's early 80's in Australia It would probably sell well out here Paul

So you sprayed and let it soak in really good, nearly a weeks worth of soaking Summer is about half done Winter is just around the corner, just letting you know that Anyway, I'm guessing the progress has been so great you haven't had time to stop and share So how is it coming along, anything to report ? Paul

And yet our close neighbors in NewZealand had a bigger range of Macks as some were Australian based and some fully imported from the U.S. RHD Seems to be no rhyme nor reason to how it all went Anyways, back the build Oh I think 675 was the biggest power output of the E9 offered in Australia Paul

And even before the Maxitorque box was around, pretty much everything had a quad box and very occasional duplex I have never seen or heard of triplex or simplex (think that was the name of Mack 5 speed) in Australia Paul

Im fairly certain 285 Maxidyne is a air to air intercooled tip turbine job A 300 Maxidyne is series air to air, so water cooling and tip turbine intercooled job A little more fuel and a more efficient intercooling and 300 Maxidyne was produced after 285 In the Thermodyne it was the same and 320 went to 350 hp We never had the range of motors, transmissions and backends etc that was available in the U.S. So I have never heard of a 315 or a 295 hp motor Even gear boxes 5, 6, 10 and 12 speed None of the other numbers you blokes mention Paul

Usually have to check the king pins with the wheel on and pinch bar amd a block of wood I think the extra leverage of the wheel and extra weight helps Paul

Good luck with this Paul

Yep, as the others have said, lift the lid and have a look Hopefully it will be something simple Don't use silicone sealant type of deal when putting it back together Just use gasket goo and some gaskets if needed Silicone types of deal ooze out and break off and end up blocking oil galleries and getting caught in the sliding dogs, then the whole box ends up apart to clean the mess up Good luck Paul