mrsmackpaul

we have a few dirt roads all main highways are sealed bitumen Australia is very flat with a long way between towns once you 150km in from the east coast 100's of km between towns But Australia has a bigger area of snow then Switzerland !!! a fact I only recently learnt Paul

lazy axels arent very common in Australia all suspension must be load sharing and I believe (but could be wrong) that back in the days of lazy axles and the load sharing requirement too many trucks would get stuck in driveways as lifting axles werent allowed because the load sharing part of the rules wouldnt have applied and since those days in the 70's they have never really caught on a few got sold but not many maybe 1 in 50 or 1 in 100 trucks at the most Paul

aprons are always handy I reckon you can work on stuff out side hose stuff before it goes into the shed and helps to keep the shed nice and clean as well at least on the floor Paul

looking good there Jake you fellas are pretty handy with the spray gun top work Paul

maybe some crap out of the jerry cans went in the tank and is blocking the line or the filters got blocked as it sucked the dirtiest fuel from the tank when you almost ran out Paul

first you got work out what the problem is I agree sounds like its sucking air have a real good look along all fuel lines for some damage maybe something has come off the governor inside the injector pump but I would check the obvious things first If you cant find a air leak hook a small drum of fuel hang it up high and try to see if you can get it to run like that Paul

Well today been the 11th of the 11th is a solemn day in this wide brown land we as a country gave a higher percentage of men than any other country involved in some rural communities whole generations were wiped out over the war to end all war Thank you to all the men who gave so much to help to keep the world free

you know when we milked cows they told us if the poddys keep you awake at night you havent worked hard enough LOL how them poddy calfs got out and back to their mums some nights I'll never know Paul

NAH "YAH CANT FOOOOOOOKIN LOOSE" LOL I wondered what I had been doing wrong for all these years just what I need a good laugh in the morning about to run out and jump on the tractor I cant loose "Sugar it grows in canes cut it off and theres me sugar and it comes out of the the fooooking ground" Paul

welcome Stina plenty of Scania's and Mack's in this wide brown land I reckon Scania started coming out to Australia in the early 70's and have been used everything from road trains to inner city delivery trucks and are held in fairly high regard Good looking ride you have got there Paul

Tim could you get rims with a different offset dunno if it is possible but would solve a lot of the problem Paul

well you will never know if you never try Tim Paul

Thats what they do over here and it seems to work really well as I have said perhaps they could learn something from their Australian cousins Paul

and the eye candy continues keep them coming Josh Paul

I was speaking to a bloke that goes over to the states quite often and he reckons there are more Macks running on Australian roads than US roads and I think he may be right they seem to be everywhere over here he reckons you hardly see any new Macks in the states Maybe the US can learn some lessons from their Australian cousins but I doubt that the powers that be would even listen to what goes on out here Paul

Josh grouse looking R 700 and trailer Paul dunno if you blokes use grouse might be Aussie slang http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grouse

well Its in everyones hands in the US to either buy a new Mack and make the company grow and show Volvo its better or dont and Volvo will have the excuse they need to shut the doors remember once those doors are shut we all have no one to blame but our selves just saying Paul

is it coming out the joint or thru the casting or steel housing ??? might need to paint the inside of the housing or casting to seal it Paul

Welcome to the forum could be a number of things but I would start with simple things first is the air regulator hooked up the correct way ?? did something get in the air lines when the box was out and cause a blockage ? if you apply shop air strait to the air ram on the box does it shift ok ??? Paul

keep them both LOL

welding heads was once very common in todays throw away world not so common you would have to find the right place most head reconditioning places should be able to point you in the right direction Once a head is welded if you really cook the motor again the crack will open up I think it has to do with different expansion rates of materials but if you dont cook the motor they last forever depending on were the crack is it is very common on cool powered Macks to have cracks but they still work fine As to your question dunno the answer, looks no one else does either might just have to try it and find out Paul

Fantastic stuff looks like driving to Australia heading down the page LOL Paul

I was looking at V8 Value Liners today still wrth a bit of coin even now for a good one Im sure there is a lesson in there somewhere for Mack Paul

I wonder if the exact opposite will happen as trucks with out all pollution electronics on them become harder to get the demand might go up like so many things in the future are unknown till we get there and even then we arent real sure stranger things have happened Paul

Like the video top stuff of a better time I feel Now I'm no sports man at all don't follow any sport but have picked a few tips Dont ever play the other man's game you will always loose Play your game be good at it and nine times out of ten you will do ok Now these rules I apply to my business in my own world don't worry about what the rest are doing do what I know to be right or least what I believe to be right and nine times out of ten it works ok Yeah I'm only a small two bob cane cocky but we got here on our own princess and I started with a set of clothes and a dream the clothes have changed but the dreams still there My point is, if the Princess and I can do it so can Mack Volvo what ever you call them they need to get back to what they are good at and stick to it just my 2 bobs worth Yes once again top video Paul