mrsmackpaul

Well fuck me swinging this will be my last post for a while as no doubt I'm going to jail I guess the difference is while some are out reading the rule book and saying alsorts of what I should or shouldn't be doing I have done it Then again I'm old fashioned and out of date and rely on common sense that thing that ain't real common no more Anyway to many fun police here now And will someone please mail me a hacksaw blade seeya Paul

Dunno Seed I have run over size loads on road trains in NSW and QLD and never had a drama, but I have always been told you cant run over size on a B double Maybe I miss heard but no one has ever stopped me and told me otherwise Im about to head thru NSW with a over size load again on a road train so I hope the law man isnt watching Paul

Ok that stuff has never made it out to Australia I stopped using any of this type of stuff because someone had used it on a gear box and when it ooozed out inside the box it traveled thru out the box blocked oil galleries and stuck in the female halves of the sliding dogs Anyway long and the short of it is I changed to a Loctite product a purple flange sealant and we have never had another issue Making videos is a lot harder than most people think, or at least I find it is but just keep on plugging away at it There's a bloke from Canada that has been making videos for a few years and it took him a fare amount of time to get many views and I think he has 40,000 subscribers now just keep plugging away at it and you may be surprised were it ends up Paul

that gizmo for the permatex tube to squeeze it in single handed looks like just the the thing and would be much easier than a calking gun I use Paul

no LJ thats one of Australias very first Road Trains after WW2 and I have owned her for many years It's a Federal Army tank transporter that has been chopped and stretched and shrunk and maybe even stretched again LOL 6 71 GM, Clark box, Spicer joey and Timken ass end

It was another quiet morning in tropical Northern Australia when the rarely mating ritual took place As the brown and cream truck positions itself for the impending insertion of the yellow truck The Yellow beast aligns her self from behind for the mating game to begin and slowly and surly stalks her prey And so ends another successful mating seeya Paul

I dunno how good they last when cranked up I think a lot has to do with how hard they work, if you pull big tons all day long and are on full power most of the time I think their life would be pretty short If you are just driving around town with shortish runs and not pulling big weights I reckon they may last a lot better No matter what you do have fun as I reckon thats the most important thing Paul

I have always been led to believe that no US vehicles trucks etc that were sent over seas during the war were allowed back to the US after the war to stop the home market been flooded by cheap ex military stuff The only gear that ever made it back was way after the and maybe a mining company or a company drilling for oil etc bought some gear back when they finished in a country over seas So I would find it unlikely that this Dodge went to Africa but not impossible Dunno about filling the fuel thru the floor in the back, the things gunna always smell of diesel as I always seem to spill the odd drop Not a bad jigger though, would wanna be pretty flash for $250,000 US Paul

LOL well when you live in the tropics and do physical work every day you can tend to look a bit shabby and frazzled at times, hang on most of the time But as they say "thanks for the feed back and I'll take it onboard" LOL Paul

As Seed says and road trains are 90 kmh there is very little point in going much faster than 100 anyway, fuel economy goes out the window

Those brackets are the standard from new from Mack Australia

Swish man that front hub leaks out the welsh plug thing in the end of the big cone I was in Mack Townsville a few days asking is there a 'O' ring or something but no nothing press fit I have noticed one of the other cones has had the plug welded all round Now the rear axle same side always seems to leek, I have tried a few different seals with no luck, picked up another new seal from Mack the other day and it comes with a steel collar to tap on the shaft to make it like a speedy sleeve So will see what happens next trip in a few days Paul

some people are pretty skilled drawers and Im not one of them LOL My son took a photo of the Princess and I on Chrissy day I look a tad shabby beside the Princess and Mrs Mack but not a bad picture I thought Paul

Christmas is over now out here but hope you all had a great one Paul

Swishy she gunna be one long jigger with extra 20 feet and a turd axle and a dolly You gunna need the super short KW up front for sure Looks very impressive to me Paul

Well the freight in the trucks is gunna be shaken and maybe also stirred on arrival Bugger me I just dont try hard enough Paul

Fun times ahead for you at least you won't over heat whilst working on it

I have thought about making a video of a road trip but Molly cant hold a camera any good lol Paul

Swish man I wasnt even really trying LOL Looks like a folder for every occasion Paul

No not factory but that and the cut out in the guard (wheel well I think you blokes call it saves dropping the bar to do the daily checks and when the bug deflector is on you can't see the hole from the ground or the cab Parked at Bowen late yesterday arvo Bowen is were the film Australia was filmed and used as the prop for Darwin during filming

Keith we have a log book and I have always called it the book of lies I have never been hassled by any law enforcement person or anyone else for sleeping beside the truck We can do 12 hours on the eastern side of Australia and if you do some training course and get "basic fatigue" you can do 14 hours of driving Over on the West and in the NT it's still up to the driver I think Heading north up the coast to Mackay and back beside the Coral Sea, yep that same big lump of blue our men fought over 60 years ago, thinking about this sought of makes my dramas of today seem pretty bloody piss weak hey Rolling thru Mackay and a thought occurred to me that a lot of our for fathers yours and mine did their training before been deployed to the Pacific during WW2 So thought you blokes may have been interested in seeing it all The troupes trained all up the east coast trying to get them ready for the jungle I cant help but wonder what the young men were thinking from the northern parts of US and Canada and I guess other parts of the world Anyway rolled back into Ayr in the evening back over the bridge I headed south on the other day a few weeks ago Some useless pic's of stuff all but you may or may not And hear you go the dogs ass up side down or right side depending on what part of the world you are looking at it from LOL seeya Paul

Rolled back into QLD yesterday arvo , over a 100 in the shade and Miss Molly and I was a bit over it so stopped for a hour or so before heading north and calling it a night at Miles, slept like s baby beside the truck in the gutter after having a tub (shower) Welcome to Queensland lol Struck a blow at 5.00 am before it got hot again to try and get back to the coast before lunch for the sea breeze and a cooler day Back in the tropics now and about to launch it for homePulled up at Rockhampton as the book of lies told me it was time and more modern Mack pulled in behind Any way should be home tonight Paul