mrsmackpaul

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

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

Dunno if this is the same truck or not as the add Logging in north east Victoria, Australia, Peter Nichols photo I believe

Deboss garage from Canada ?? Youtube channel mechanic bloke Anyway, some ford thingy, hang on I'll have a look Have a look, may help or give fresh ideas Or maybe just waste 5 minutes of your life LOL Paul

If there's any metal to hook a earth lead to weld a nut on Wet rag to cool the area immediately after welding Paul

I reckon mid 80s you could still buy them in Australia Notice the R model tipper shown is NewZealand built Paul

Looks like a nice day for making a movie Paul

Most times a drill bit breaks off in a lot of hole I find I can get it out with just punch and gently farnarkling about Tap tap tappity tap, this way and that on whats left a the bit lets go Paul

Paint stripper will be your friend with spiders After all the castings aren't that flash, I wouldn't waist my money on sandblasting them Drop them off, if it needs a new drum drop t he drum off as well If no new drum is needed then paint stripper and pressure wash, then paint and they should be like they left the factory Paul

I got mine rebuilt maybe 5 years ago I tried myself to have a go and made a new seal for the sweep/paddle thing inside and shoved a heap of Vaseline in it, no bloody good So off it went for a rebuild, I feel it was a few hundred Australian, so that's probably a few hundred U.S. today with inflation Finding a place to fix it is gunna be the challenge Paul

Bob, if I remember correctly, I think I cut a slit in the fiber glass from the rear and man handled the fiber glass out Then I seem to remember I got a piece of 3/16" stainless plate and drilled and tapped threads on the correct spots and slid that in I know the stainless bit is correct, and I got some 2 pack resin type of deal and stuck it all in place Mal had already painted the bonnet and was thousands of km away when I discovered the threaded bits were stuffed, so plan "D" or "E" was needed lol I just sort of made it up on the run and it has been fine for 100's of thousands of km since Paul

I think but do not hold me to this that as long as it has the right amount of studs and is a two valve head off a E6 it should be okay If the injector is stuffed as it probably (definitely) is now and you reckon the head might be as well, just take a die grinder to the remnants of the injector and carefully get stuck into it with a bur bit in the die grinder If nothing else you will learn a bit about it Dunno about changing the whole motor with another second hand motor You dunno what your buying, no matter how well intentioned the seller may be Everything you do to this motor now is a known quantity, chucking some other unknown quantity in is like throwing good money after bad to me Anyway thats my 2 cents worth Paul

Most people in Australia just clean the spider up when it is still on the axle Easier to rotate and handle Plenty of people used to buy rag tyres and store them for 12 months to harden up before using them, much better wear Dunno, it's all getting exciting as things progress Paul

Turn the knob back, as in twist I never new this as it rarely rains were I live so I just the wipers were rubbish for decades Sent the motor off to be rebuilt, refitted it and no different Phoned the bloke and he said to increase the pressure "Mate the trucks not gunna go any higher than a 115 psi" Turn the knob I was told, he had to really explain it to me What a result lol Paul

Cracking there is common but not normally a concern, don't over think this until you hear back from the place with your head, almost anything is repairable and the U.S. has a lot more heads than Australia ever had and I wouldn't be concerned about tracking one down in Australia Paul