mrsmackpaul

interesting enough Swishy I seem to recall reading somewhere bought a new KW with air start and was a Mack system I seem recall reading that on a post somewhere no doubt Swishy will be along fairly soon to put me right As far as batteries go they were fairly crappy up until the 70's or early 80's then they went real good and in the last 10 years they have gone crappy again I feel Paul

Just pull some leafs out if you arent planning on carrying a full load Paul

HA HA I can see why you fell in love with it It's big and its tough and its Mack 3 out of 3 what more could you want mate theres most likely not much wrong with it just a bit of time and so common sense and it will most likely go again as long as the motor isnt seized Paul

thanks for the replies fellas the reasons you all give make sense to me I just couldnt understand how they would be any good for cold start but then again I have never lived anywhere real cold so I really couldnt say Paul

good job going on there that tank looks really neat now Paul

And more than that Timmy them Yanks lazy buggers that they are years ago their steering wheel was on the same side of the road as ours but when they pulled up in their towns and their dirt roads were all mud they pulled up on the wrong side of the road so they hopped out onto drier mud but the problem was to many were having accidents when taking off because they sat on the wrong side so pretty soon some yank had the bright idea to put the wheel on the other side and only the passengers got out in they dry mud or at least that was on a documentary once on TV sought of makes sense to me who knows though now Paul

I was recently informed by someone over in the states that air start was a cold start feature of a Mack and only used in colder parts of the US ??? I was surprised at this as almost all Macks in Australia say from the mid 50's till the lat 90's had air start and I was always under the impression we had air start out here for all the heat and vibration as batteries never lasted long out here and fail at the drop of a hat even today Is there a feature for shutting down the air start tank??? I had never heard of this are the air start trucks in the US plumbed different than out here ???? The Mack motor must be a good starter in the cold climate as you only 10 seconds at the most I was surprised to hear that they start that well in bellow freezing Just wondering if anyone knows about what air start really was for ??? interested in any thoughts on this Paul

no no you have got it all wrong we put the wheel on the right side you yanks are so funny LOL Paul

Im fairly sure there is something there to let those rails slide out enough but been a while since I have had one apart and have done what your about to try just make sure you get all the selector fork bits out Paul

It all looks good to me will ride smooth as silk now Paul

dont use to much silicon as it squeezes out on the inside and can drop down and get in between the high low sliding dog then the whole box has to come out maybe lable the air lines as drop them off but if I can change them anyone can LOL Paul

Might like HUH forget like Im in love pure porn on the computer screen there now if Mack still made these Id be there on Monday morning cheque book in hand Paul

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM the worlds gone mad Paul

yeah great yarn gotta love a happy ending Paul

the old cruisers as we call them out here I came home from hospital as a baby in a FJ45 lv FJ wagon and spent my child hood growing up in them we never had normal cars just cruisers we went all over Australia towing the caravan on family holidays Dad never went above 80 km/h - 50 M/h 3400 km to Perth a bloody long way 2900 km - Cairns good old days Paul

bugger me he wont do that again

keeping coming Swishy Im laughing with ya mate Paul

looks like your getting all hot and steamy Ha Ha something different thats for sure Paul

good to hear you have it all sorted now life seems to throw us all plenty of curve balls at times I hope you and your wife have a great trip with out no break downs and the lady you bought it from enjoys seeing it again Paul

We have the ambulance chaser lawyers out here dont worry but Australia is set up a lot different than the US in the way we run better in some cases a lot worse in others Dunno if your implying that Australian medical is sub standard but I think if you do a little bit of research we have some of the most advanced medical facility's in the world not saying we have the best but for what it is and size of our population its pretty damn good and even if we dont have somethings the government will fly Australians to were they need to be to get the treatment they need most times Paul

Swishy I cant un see that now you have scarred me for life Paul

We dont have these problems in Australia big business iss trying its hardest to get us all into health insurance but most Australians dont have any its called free public health and for the most part it works fairly well Paul

sounds like you have air leaking into the High Low part of the trans thru knob might just need a kit in it sounds like the air isnt getting cut off properly or maybe the air rams have are binding and its not coming out of gear Paul

5.8 MPG pretty darn good I would have thought confirms what I have always said these new trucks are no better than a well maintained coolpowered Mack that has electronic problems I am like a stuck record arent I Paul

Nah you blokes have it all wrong check this out it will help to explain what you all dont quite understand Paul