mrsmackpaul

https://fb.watch/o79u8kOKCM/?mibextid=adzO7l

Clickty click

Paul 

Okay, apart from the typo of 14 grand revs

Diesels need two things to work 

Fuel and air

At 1400 does the exhaust run clean ?

If it does your running out of fuel

If it's black, your running out of air

I can't give any further advice until these two questions are answered sorry 

Paul

1 hour ago, mattb73lt said:

I was over at my friend's yard today, the one that very graciously sent me several lifts to assembly my truck. He just took delivery of a 2024 Mack Granite Tri-axle Roll Back with a Century body. I couldn't help but park mine next to it to compare. Not even registered yet, with all the stickers still on it!. I almost passed out when he said it was over $300,000, DAMN!!!!! 64 years between the two.

There's some photos here that need blowing and in hanging in the house, possibly even the dealership the new truck came from

Some smarter than me could think of a smart caption comparing the two

Really great photos 

I'm impressed with both trucks

As for the price, you yanks have been spoilt with cheap trucks for 50 years or more, you wouldn't want to buy a truck in Australia, you'd all fairly die in the ass at new truck prices out here

Paul

I find if I use a die nut instead of a die they work better, I feel a die is to aggressive and takes metal off the thread, a die nut sort of just cleans it up and pushes the thread back into shape rather than cut

You blokes might not call them die nuts, you use funny names like zerk for grease nipples 

Imagine telling a shelia she gas zerks you could, oh never mind lol

Heres a picture of a die nut

They are only any good for cleaning up threads, not cutting them

Paul

Well the exact opposite has happened in Australia 

After a drought for a few years in a row we have had the best seasons I have ever seen in my life fir the last few years

The farmers out bid everone to restock and now Australia, at least the eastern half is over stocked and a drier year is predicted this year

Cattle prices have more than halved this year in the sale yards

Super markets are different, the meat price has dropped a little 

I'm not really a pork or chicken man but I  do prefer lamb chops, used to buy a side of lamb once 

As far as butchering a beast (cow or steer) you need probably at least one person that really knows what they are doing to break down the quarters and at least two good helpers to then process (make it into steak and mince roast, silver side etc)and pack the meat 

You then need a huge deep freeze and restack it eack week as it slowly freezes

It takes three of us all day to do a beast 

This doesn't include the day you kill it as the meat needs to hang for a week in cool room to set, if you don't let it set, butchering is a huge job as it just wobbles about

And yes I have done a few in my life

Anyone that says they can do a beast in a few hours isnt been honest and isnt including killing,  quartering, salting the hide, then butchering 

You can break the quarters down to cuts of meat in a few hours but definitely not butcher it

And you need a really good back to carry the quarters from the front end loader or were ever you killed the beast into the cool room

Is it worth it, with out a doubt in my mind it is but it's a huge job

Ideally we would find people we new quite well and swap meat about so we got plenty of lamb and pork and they got plenty of beef

Only swap meat with people you know well because if they haven't chilled it right you can easily end up crook and chucking meat away

We also run all the bones thru the band saw for the dogs later on and put the bones in freezer

Paul

No harry I've got no idea on the original owner, I would be surprised if it was ever anything but a heavy haulage truck or a truck built for extremely heavy work

The Mack dealer closest to me for many years (Townsville) thought maybe Papua New Guinea might of been it's original home

I was thinking maybe NewZealand with the indicators in the headlight surrounds

It has Mack Australia on the plates and was built to 115 ton from new 

58,000 lbs back end, double 12 inch rails ? Mack called them 12 inch but they only measure I think 10 inches deep

Looks like it's been upside down once

The doors don't match the cab or the bonnet when we sanded it back which was a shock

I wonder if L Arthur bought as a wreck and fixed it up ?

Paul 

My Uncle collected model T Fords years ago and stored them at Mum abd Dads

Mum cracked it one day and Dad pushed the lot into a gully with the RD6 Caterpillar 

All this stuff that got pushed into the gully

Dad was buying exarmy Indians and Harleys for next to nothing used them on the farm and they all suffered the same fait

Bloody criminal really but Dad couldn't see the value in this stuff

Paul

Dunno, my 81 Thermodyne is the same colour

Paul 

I found for tough going cobalt bits are the go

You can't sharpen them as the cobalt is a coating and once you grind it off the are back to a normal drill bit

I can drill hardox steel okay with cobalt bits were as a normal high speed steel drill just goes blunt in a few seconds

Paul 

PAI made these and as far as I know still do, as well as all the gears and at least some of the shafts

Paul 

I dunno about those brands, I generally go for Sutton which is a Australian brand 

Paul 

Nope sorry 

Most times the link bends slowly overtime

As long as the bag is fairly pumped with no wrinkles they work okay

Paul

As the others have said, lools great

Better than anything I could do, I  thought maybe gunna fill the screw holes as this would make it easier to keep looking schmik

And I  do like the idea of the emblem branded in 

Paul 

101 is a good run

Cities across the world are always in a hurry, I just avoid them if I have to

Paul 

Vlad I didn't know you couldn't get Facebook at the moment, I think thats what your saying

And like Vlad, I have to many projects on at the moment and Australia and the leftards running the show have made it almost impossible to import trucks into Australia as of July 1st this year

But yes that G model does look good 

Paul

Start from the middle and work outwards, slowly come up in torque over maybe 3 goes around

And no thats not in the book but just what I  was taught

Paul

LOL 

Yeah no proof reading done at all

Amyway a thong goes on your foot out here

Bugger me, no good at all

I always always always get thongs completely finished to a certain stage before stopping, my memory is not good enough to remember minor things so I have learnt by my own mistakes to finish things to point before stopping 

Yeah I know that makes no sense at all but I know what I mean lol

Paul

I would think the weights should be pretty close

Someone smarter than me will know for sure

I would hunt around a bit more for the correct piston

I don't really think mixing up parts like this on the rotating assembly is a good idea

Just keep on looking for the correct piston is my advice

Paul