mrsmackpaul

yeah mate welcome to the dog house hey Paul

price and parts its pretty simple we have bucket loads of R models and super liners and to buy parts from Mack Australia is like selling an arm and a leg so if importers can bring in whole trucks they get a bucket load of parts make a squillion and even the truck owners are happy because its cheaper than buying from Mack with out the smart ass answer from the spare parts person about some peace of old crap and the sales guy trying to flog you a new VolMack"O" piece of snot and these older Macks are tuff I mean real tuff theres no computers to let you down out the back of bum f--k and most blokes like these old trucks because they will pull all day every day day in day out and they just wont let you down OOP's Im getting off topic but I like these older trucks for real work and I guess as well as they were built they still need parts So easy way to fix the problem Mack need to start making real trucks again with motors with balls and well I guess then silly buggers like me might buy a fresh one maybe ???? Paul

Vlad you need a bigger pocket mate Paul

mate good luck with the sale if it was on the right side of the Pacific I would be knocking on your door right now Paul mate sent you a message

my heads in a spin what a shift pattern Paul

different part of the world different set of rules quite sad if you ask me that no one helps someone out for fear of doing something wrong just another reason why I love the wide brown land I guess Paul

Thanks for the information leon they sure had a big variety of Mack at the show Paul

I have had very little to do with road rangers as far as working on them if it was a Mack Id say check the air rams for a crook O ring failing that Id say pull the back off might have a whole heap of crap stuck inside the gear where sliding dog slides in the only other thing would be the gears are badly worn either way sounds like the back of the box needs to come off Paul

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