mrsmackpaul

I wouldnt worry to much Mick they have got a ex president still looking for weapons of mass destruction Paul

You lads dont carry chains ?????? out here we would just back on down and hook on and help a fella out Im guessing mate ship runs a bit deeper in Australia then the rest of the world even if we didnt have a chain with us it wouldnt take us long to get the word around and get old mate back on the road guess we are all a bit different Paul

funny you should say that a bloke I worked with years ago went overseas with a mate and they hired a car in the states he reckons every time he tried to do a racing change he'd open the door Paul

Well bullo for your president why didnt the rest of the world think of such a simple solution maybe not the same swat team hey Paul

I'll stick with what I said before I dont no if your people at the top have thought this one threw ??????????? It's begining to look like Im a fortune teller as if you lot over there dont have enough problems your now bring it in by the plane load !!!!!!!!!!!! And before you think Im been a smart ass this wide brown land isnt that far behind you lot I swear we all gotta get a job in pollitics you stuff up all you want and get away with it thats enough from me for the today I'll leave you blokes to sought the mess out GOOD LUCK " I feel you gunna need it " Paul

Now im not as technical as the rest of you but I do believe theres is a much easier way to check what ratio you have step 1 park the truck some were level and chock the front wheels leave maxi brakes off ie as no braking applied step 2 tape a piece of string to the front drive shaft and jack up only one front wheel step 3 rotate that wheel one complete turn and count how many turns of string are on the drive shaft and divide by two step 4 return wheel to ground and remove string from front drive shaft and tape to rear drive shaft step 5 jack a rear wheel and rotate and divide by two what this will all show is what ratio's are in the front and back diff's with out pulling anything apart and it is easy to do on your own so no need to wait for a mate to show up hope this is of some help Paul

you might have to translate for them all in seppo land

Fantastic Vlad thanks for the pictures I sure am surprised to see so many Macks over your way it would be something I would never have thought I would see in Europe Paul

well I wonder if the motor half of the bell housing is aluminum or cast iron if it is aluminum perhaps some time earlier in its life someone over tightened the bolts and streached the threads and now they keep coming loose no matter how hard they get tightened Also a hightensile bolt is only strong when it is at the correct tension so once they are all tightened to the correct tension if they start to come loose just a little bit they wont work properly and shear and I guess once one bolt is gone it loads the rest up and then just snowballs I guess if this is the problem the threads could be heli coiled on sugar cane harvesters loctite wont work any good and araldite is used instead have to let it set over night or longer and the bolts wont come undone without help you need to heat the bolt and it softens the glue then comes undone ok I dont think its the driver these bell housings will take a fair flogging with out giving any problems they handle a lot more power than the motor been used and to think that the problem only started with change of the motor should tell were the problem lies both surfaces have been machined so an alignment problem is unlikely Anyway hope some of this waffle helps a bit Paul

to my under standing but I am most likely wrong all those Fordsons were made in Cork Ireland the home of Henry Ford and then sent around the world they were very dangerous tractor as the draw bar hitch point was in the wrong spot and the tractor would rear up right over it self in a matter of seconds so ford added those big back mud gaurds to try and stop it as said above they made hundreds of thousands of them even with henry fords backing of cash ford never seemed to quite get it right with farm equipment he made lots of stuff cheap and flogged it off but once we got to the 1970's other tractor people were making stuff cheap and better designed and as they say the rest is history Paul

was it a motor swap or did the same motor get rebuilt and put back in ? If it was a swap is the old motor still about ? Paul

you blokes have got enough to keep you going for a few years yet I reminds me of one of my Dads saying " a man can never have to many sheds " and by the look of it you blokes need more sheds the good news is your not alone Paul

I think as long as you keep an eye on it or more to the point an ear or a hand if you can here the battery bubbling you over charging if it gets hot to touch like just over body temp I reckon it would be getting to hot and if any of these happen disconnect for an hour or so thats my thoughts anyway Paul I have never seen a 8 Volt battery might be why all yanky stuff was such bad starters back in the day as we only ever put six volt batteries in them

Now time for a real dumb question are all these RD's the same width ie 8 feet wide as I go and do some ivestigation into what might look good over this side of the pacific WELL A BLOKES ALLOWED TO DREAM HEY Paul

Well you make sure you look after my dream machine now Im only joking welcome to forum mate I had my eye on that there truck but the 10 days for removal was a problem from Australia she looked like a good bye to me even after being converted to RHD make sure you show us some pictures of it when shes back at work Paul

of course it looks out of whack some clown has put the steering wheel on the wrong side whoever did that in the factory needs a good kick in the ass Paul

Some days we should just stay in bed !!!!!!!!! we can all say heaps after the event but most of us have had some major stuff ups and most of us have got away with it phew!!!!! Paul

Mate Aussie value liners all had set back front axles when they came out , around the time we started making "B" trains or as they are called here "B doubles" to try and get more weight over the front axle and reduce turning circle which was one of the requirments for B doubles the front axle weight laws changed around the time of release .Some people love them some love the standard R models better as the ride is a lot smoother. Valueliners out here were used for just about everything GCW up to 115 tons for road train use 350 hp maxidynes which might sound like heaps by US standards but at the time roadtrains had to geared 85km/h around 55 mph 5.73 was common gearing with 12 speed OD (they still have 90 km/h limit now) then some time in the 90's they put a sloping bonnet on and you could get the with E9 400 hp I dont know weather the 500 hp was ever standard in the Valueliner I dont no what its like in US but out here on roadtrain work in a R model the floors get that hot you cant let any part of your skin touch the bottom of the cab steel as it will burn reel quick so I think they limited Aussie Valueliners to the 400hp out of the factory I think most now that have been rebuilt would be done as 500 hp or more I think the superliners were the only trucks that went over 400hp out of the factory for the heat reason alone as there bonnet is a lot bigger a lot of operators would lift the cabs 3 inches which helped a lot with heat Most truck drivers back in the day wore thongs shorts and singlets to cope with the and by thong I dont mean G strings a thong in Australia is I think what you blokes call flip flops or some such thing I know I have gone to hop out of the truck on hot days and the center bit of the thong has let go when Im standing on the fuel tank and I've ended ass up on the ground going WTF and then thinking I hope no one saw that !! and more than once hearing some smart ass comment like "ENJOY YA TRIP" lol I stand to be corrected on all of this Paul murranji you bet me to it I was still typing with two real slow fingers lol

If it was a little low on lube I wouldnt think it would make much difference because the oil is fairly flying around the box once your moving that fast if it is only one gear I would lean towards a crook bearing in the box however I would check the uni's and make sure the yokes are tight (as said above) before I would get all keen and drop the box out could also have a crook carrier bearing perhaps ? You see I have always found that with drive line harmonics??? sought of can give false indications of were the problem lies and quite often I can spend bucket loads of time looking in the wrong direction Paul

I got to thinking I know I shouldnt but one thing that occured to me after posting is you might have to machine a groove in the spider like they had on a K5 or K6 inter on there back axle's and you clamp a band around so that you could run singles by putting the clamp then the spacer and just the outside dual hope this makes some sense as other wise the wheel wont sit right and our tight on the hub Paul

I was sent this today to cool not to share http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op8p8peMGTs enjoy Paul

does it have a watch dog a lot of industrial motors had them being an industrial type of truck it might have had something like that fitted ? Have you got some photos of the injector pump and bits and pieces ? might help to get everyones grey matter work Pump

Mate these are common as this wide brown land we put them on steer axle to give us more capacity ride grip and they look a lot tougher Paul

yep mate if there all rotted away here in Australia were the weather is much kinder than there they are defenitly gonna be stuffed over there I would have thought Paul

Vlad your are doing a top job there mate I wouldnt even try to do something like that because if I did it it would look I had done it thanks for sharing keep it you will be asleep in the bunk in no time Paul