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mrsmackpaul

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  1. This terrible news for all, I don't know anything about ships, boats, tug boats floating in a inner tube etc

    I do imagine that once you loose power the current takes control and pushes you about however mother nature wishes the current to flow

     

    Easter is going to be very different and a sad occasion for a lot of families now

    The whole situation is terrible 

     

    Paul

  2. I have welded plenty of fuel tanks, so I  don't think a larger tank is any different 

    Put plenty of air flow into it, leaf blowers etc to really vent it out well and while the venting is taking place, air still blowing, hook in with the gas axe

    Make some big holes quickly,  4 foot square size holes and then just break it down

    And I would make it the shape and size that doesn't resemble a tank at all

     

    Paul

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, RoadwayR said:

    There was a point in time during the mid-80's that Detroit Diesel was talking to Deere about forming a joint venture.  Deere was involved with the development of the 60 Series and Detroit was looking to market the mid-range Deere diesels as highway engines.  From what I understood at the time things were going well between Detroit and Deere until Roger Penske made GM an offer for Detroit Diesel that GM couldn't refuse.  And that was that.

    BTW, Paul, were Chevy medium duties common in Australia in the 70's and 80's?

     

    no mate, they sold well to begin with but the Japanese Isuzu was the beginning of the end 

    I know of people that bought them new in the 70's and had and used them up until their death in the early 2000's

    They were okay for what they were 

     

    Paul

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  4. Mechohaulic I never realized that anyone cared for these trucks either until a few years ago when nostalgia kicked and I thought, wouldn't it be cool to own one

    Turns out a lotta people in Australia thought the same thing

    As fast as they came up for sale they sold

    First few I thought was a fluke price but then it snowballed and prices headed north

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    One of my old ones, shifting a hay shed on the farm nearly 20 years ago 

    Thats me up top chaininga truss onto the digger 

    My old blue cattle dog down bellow watching proceedings, and the young bloke holding the post up (leaning on the post) is the digger mans son

    Digger mans nic name is Poodle, he is nearly 80 and still drives diggers most days 

    Look at that sky, not a cloud as far as the eye can see 

     

    Paul

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  5. I believe we are talking about the same wheel on the Kenworth Vlad, smooth dome shape with 5 big holes thats for a tubeless tyre

    Those in the link are to my untrained eye, a undrilled normal Alcoa rim that had 5 larger holes drilled, sort of the wrong shape for me but might suit someone

     

    Paul

  6. Only bendy bits are really along the Great Dividing Ranges that go from the tip of Cape York to South Australia 

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    I guess it is the Australian equivalent of the Rocky Mountains 

    The rest of this wide brown land is predominantly very flat and same same

    Not uncommon to travel 10 miles without a single bend

    Some roads are 60 miles or more with out so much as a bend 

    So yes we are flat, infact we are the flattest country on earth and have areas were theres not a single tree as far as you can see and you can see the curvature of the earth, don't tell a flat earther this, their head will explode

     

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  7. 2 hours ago, Vladislav said:

    Interesting info and interesting style.

    But they look wrong or at least in a wrong direction speaking style.

    Looks like the producent took classic 10 round hole design as the basis but eliminated the number of the holes to 5. On my mind they would be much cooler if the edge around the bolt holes is removed and the surface goes to the outer circle by radius. Simply to say as those vintage wheels were made.

    I would agree Vlad

     

    The style in the link above are much better suited

    Apparently no demand so were only made for a short while 

     

    Paul

  8. Mechohaulic, it's a Superliner with a long long sniffer

    Does it make it a Superdooperliner then

    The owner contacted me some time ago after watching me rebuild my old bucket of bolts on youtube 

    He explained a lot of details, both the owner and the truck are retired now

    The 375 endt 866 went kahput and the E9 was still under development so a substitute was found

    A huge tropical radiator was shoved in and the chassis extended  to accommodate all the mods

    The owners  words "a lot of fellows are aghast at the extra length, I personally don’t give a f**k" 

    Anyway, it's not my story to tell, it sure is a different looking truck and has served the owner well for many decade's 

    Paul

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  9. Length I reckon will be the issue

    Here is a pic of a R700 a bloke in Australia owns and he put a 3408 in it

    Bonnet is severely modified to make it fit

    And remember it started outas a R 700

    With the 375 as made

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    Much later, same truck with a 3408

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    Paul

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  10. I was stunned to learn that 453 T was sold in them new in the U.S. 

    Only option was a 292 Mexican 6

    I was thinking along the lines of a 3208 or tripple trouble Cummins

    But that's a way off yet

     

     

    Paul 

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  11. 2 hours ago, Geoff Weeks said:

    As far as I know Detroit two strokes are the only common diesel that returns to below fuel level. It done so because the Detroit system is just a loop with a restriction. Cat and Cummins and I assume Mack (I don't remember looking at a Mack tank) all return to the top of the fuel tank and  are open to air so are an "air leak". There is no check or other valve that keeps air out of the return.

     Air in the suction line will make its way to the highest point in the fuel system and can cause a no start. the return line is always open to air (except Detroit 2 strokes)

    The only diesels I have seen that don't return to the bottom of the tank are Cat

     

    Most have a pipe inside the tank that returns the fuel to the bottom of the tank

    In rough going this pipe can crack and when the tank gets down a bit the motor looses prime when not running 

    The rubber hoses between injectors are a common leak point on the return to tank side on a Mack 

    But as they say "wadda I know"

     

     

    Paul 

  12. If your losing prime when it's not running you have air leak in the return to tank side

    White smoke means air in the fuel

    Grey smoke is burnt oil

    Black smoke is unburnt fuel

    So you have white smoke and no fuel, takes a lotta cranking

     

    So get some rubber inner tube and a tyre valve, a big hose clamp

    Tyre valve thru the inner tube (might need a large over size washer on the valve to stop it popping thru the inner tube

    Hook up some shop air and crank the regulator air pressure diwn as low as 15 psi

    Crawl about underneath looking for leaks

     

    Paul 

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  13. Evening everyone, late reply, been busy

     

    Snowdog, Im pretty sure the dash is reversed, except for the cluster

    292 is carby with electronic ignition 

    The last one I had I bought a offenhauser 4 barrel inlet manifold in from the states and had it port match to a head that was taken out to a Yella Terra stage three 202 head specs, this done by "head stud  development" Melbourne 25 years ago, had a set of rods shot peened and balanced with the crank

    Block had liners pushed in, and a set of forged flat top pistons, 10-1 compression and on lpg

    Only got that far and all these parts are under the bench Im pretty sure waiting for someone to pull his finger out

    The 292 is really pretty gutless for this big a truck but still, it's different 

    Sorry I took my owm topic off the rails, a bad case of Joeyitus lol

    Swanwater is as described, a area town sort of

    Most of the exhaust manifolds never last on big sixes in Australia, we put extractors on, like your headers only longer sleaker and tuned to length

    Trying track down a overdrive box for it at the moment and I'll see were I go from there

     

    So on spicer trans mission, to decode the transmission

     

    First numbers are torque rating

    Then the next number is the number of gears

    The number after that is the material the transmissions are made out of

    And the letters at the end are the gear set, direct, over drive and so on

    So does any of this soundcorrect, do we have any Spicer experts on here ?

     

    Paul

     

     

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