mrsmackpaul

Could also measure the front and rear sides as well 

I feel all four measurements should be the same 

Paul 

Well that would of added some excitement to the day

I wonder if the truck needs a bit of a drive to settle in 

That been said you could easily run a tape measure at the top of the wheels and at the bottom and the measurements should be equal 

Paul

Looks the goods to me

I can't imagine anyone having a wooden tilt tray in Australia 

I doubt a wooden tray has been used on a heavy truck in Australia in the last 20 or 30 years 

Steel is normal now on everything these days

Tray looks really neat and tidy, you've gotta be proud of the result

Paul

They had some impressive gear

Paul

Mech, I'm getting concerned about these hairy chested Aussie shelias mentioned earlier

Now you mention trans and drag, perhaps Crocodile Dundee was onto it years ago when he checked the tackle before chatting up a bird 🤔

Paul

Thanks Brocky, I'll do some digging around and see what I can learn

Paul

A different P word came to my mind Joey 

We've spun this topic off into the ditch

Paul

Australian Macks are a bit different than Yanky ones, a little more hairy chested and less Tesla like lol

Australian trucks sit higher and have more exposed none slippery stuff like gay mirrors on the bonnet that all U.S. trucks seem to have

Even the Anthem doesn't have all gay pride crap that the U.S. ones appear to have 

Paul 

Base model Superliner has the MP 10 as standard 

The blasting cabinet really is a good thing, I bought one some time ago and promptly modified it

Better lightning is a must and Ill change the crappy perspex screen for a laminated glass screen I think next 

They really do help clean things up

I also bought a small one on wheels and it really hooks right in 

My son got me onto a big ass compressor from where he works

It's 2500 km away but I figure it's a good excuse to go for a drive and say hello

Paul

Looks really neat Joey 

It takes a lot to get them looking good but well worth it 

Paul

Looking good Joey 

Paul

17 hours ago, hicrop10 said:

Have a question for you all.My 79 r model when the key is turned off should the volt meter be reading anything or should it be reading nothing?

Yes it should, they are wired this way from new 

Paul

This is standard for R and FR models I have ever seen 

Paul 

Welcome to the dog house RUFF RUFF RUFF 

Paul

I gather when you say your screwing the boards down you mean a nut and bolt type of screw not a self tapper

I remember my first attempt at a wooden tray

Air dried timber, cut the center board custom for a neat fit and bought another center board for when the wood shrank further 

Just nailed it in place 

It all dried and I closed up the gabs and fitted my spare center board

Screwed it all down

First lot of rain it saw, the boards all swelled up and popped out everywhere 

Had to wait for it all to dry again to jack all the warped timber back into place

Nut and blots this time

When carting cattle the boards would swell right up tight and sort of buldged here and there but worked fine and no further issues

A few rookie mistakes were made by me there

Paul

Can anyone tell me what model this truck would of been?

Can people tell from looking like with other makes ?

Thanks in advance 

Paul

I tracked that down

Yes I am suitably impressed and quite jealous of this truck, jealous is the right word but I would like to own it

Very very impressed with it 

Paul

A bit more useless none accurate information 

I reckon back in the day when Mack was on top of the world in road train sales, 8 out of 10 road trains were pulled by Mack, later it probably dropped to 6 out of 10 in the 90's when Ccummins and Detroit caught upto the E9 hp, this when the E9 was well over 600 hp in Australia 

A well tunned E9 will destrot a Mack 12 speed on road train work pretty quick, the road train work is a unbelievable endurance run for any truck, full power shifting huge tonnage for 12 hours straight, it really sorts things out, thats why I never chase  more hp, it just won't last under those conditions 

I would maybe 3 or 4 out of 10 road trains are Mack now, the Kenworth maybe has about the same, maybe slighty more, then the European makes and Volvo would be the most popular 

Paul 

It should run with out the turbo, block off the oil lines and it should run

It will be smokey umder load but should idle pretty much the same as if it was turbocharged, the motor wont be making any boost at idle and stuff all boost until it gets some revs and load 

Enjoyed the video

Paul

There was only one Superliner sold with a E6 in Australia 

A few had Cat  motors, dunno if any had GM 2 strokes and probably a Cummins or two

The rest were E9

The E9 was the most popular big powered truck motor in Australia by a long long way

None Mack trucks had big powered motors

8V92 GM's were probably next, a few K19 Cummins, only a few, as in less than a handful of 12V71 and the same for the 3804 Cats

Australian requirements are very different, much bigger tonnages at not as higher speed 

That been said the blokes on the Hume and Newell hwy would of given any U.S. truck driver a run for their money

The Hume, and the Newell were high speed interstate runs that probably peaked in the mid to late 80's

I reckon the Pacific hwy was a rat race until a couple of big bus (coach) accidents that killed and mamed a lot of people 

I never traveled the Pacific or Hume much so can't really comment them much

Come to think of it I reckon that was what made the government change the laws and stop booking people for rubbish and started cracking right down on the industry 

Sort of the begining of the end of all the owner drivers 

Way off topic now

The first E9 I ever heard was in western QLD 

Pulled up on the side of the road and all's quite, next thing I heard, bop bop bop bop that slowly got closer and over the rise appears a Superliner with double deck crates, just bop bop bop past me standing there with my jaw on the dirt

Probably only doing 50 - 55 MPH gross out at maybe 130 ton, no weight limits on volume load trailers

Made a little 320 feel positively out of date 

Was between Longreach and Winton and I was heading west, made the hair on back of my neck all stand and gave me goose bump type of deal 

Dont think I'll forget it 

Paul 

1 hour ago, BOBWhite said:

I'd like to see one of those 6.7 or 6.6 high output motors in something like a tractor and keep a load on it for 14 hours or so.

Absolutely correct

The old 320 coolpower can be on full load for a million miles and not skip a beat, I dunno about these high HP little motors 

All that been said, my old bucket of bolts is factory built and rated by Mack on the plate 115 ton or 253,000 pound in yanky talk

And it will pull that all day long up hill and down 

People's expectations are pretty much up a lot further today than they were 40 years ago

These od trucks will get you there but not at break neck speed

There is no substitute for sitting in the seat driving the truck 

Paul