mrsmackpaul

Very impressive truck, recovery, the lot 

Thanks for sharing

Paul 

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

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

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

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

Not a thing to do with me but maybe someone might think are just what they need

Paul 

Very cool stuff, both the truck and the weather, brrrrrrr 🥶

Paul

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

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

Much later, same truck with a 3408

Paul

Yarnall, thats a good looking truck, looks like new

Paul 

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 

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 

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 

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

Yeah Brocky, there is bendy bits here and there, they are definitely the exception not the norm

Paul

Birthdays come but once a year, hope she had a good day

Good job on the walk

Paul

Looking really good

Paul

Iseki are built by Isuzu and bigger tractors had truck type motors 

Dunno if Isuzu is big innthe states but in Australia they are huge

Their medium sized trucks are most popular trucks in Australia and outsell everything else by a long way

Paul

On 3/16/2024 at 11:24 PM, RowdyRebel said:

unless they're just straightened out to remove all of the bends, twists, turns, and hills to provide a more direct route...but then they'd just be straight, flat, and boring. I like the narrow little hilly twisty curvey fun roads. 

You best not come to Australia then, it is mainly straight flat and very same same

Sometimes little changes for hours

Anyway hope you all had a good one

Paul

Thats the way to fix the problem for ever

Paul 

So yes the green truck is the Australian made Atkinson 

And yes that is cab suspension, help smooth our not so quite smooth roads out

It is a good gathering, I was working this weekend so couldn't make it

I made it to the Muster a few years ago and haven't made it back yet

Paul 

Looking like it's all systems go, I have a little Massey Ferguson which is really a Iseki rebranded 

It has the 4 in 1 bucket and linkage and is 4x4 

I dunno that as a farm tractor it would be much use

But as anything else, it's very handy and manoeuvres into tiny little tight spots

Paul

It could be, he is starting to get a 6x6 Mack collection 

Paul 

A de accelarator pedal perhaps ?

Lots of industrial machines have a de accelarator pedal 

Set the hand throttle and use the pedal to control revs

Paul 

That's impressive rate of work

It's all coming along nicely

Paul