mrsmackpaul

mate this is exactley what I mean once you are taught how to use ropes you will never go back to your ratchet strap ropes are so quick just as tight adjust to any length around any shape if its to short there easy to join its a shame because it is a lost art like tarping a load up until the mid to late 80's everything was shifted on flat top trailers in Australia and I reckon it was only the late seventys that trucks came with gates drivers new how to load stuff so it didnt fall off sad to say it but its too late now there wouldnt be enough blokes left to teach people now you need to learn to do a truckies knot as it is commonly known out here I think the proper name is a half shank you put a couple of these on top of each other and you can break a rope it gives you so much pulling power this fellas almost got it right have a lookiesee might even give you something to fill in some time on the week end and I guarantee once you work out how to do it you will throw them straps away it is so much quicker and a lot less chance of things falling off Paul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drkcOzCjuuU and Im not having a dig at anyone it is almost a lost art and it is good to learn this stuff from our not so distant past its all part of our history we dont want let it go by with learning it

dead sexy Paul

I reckon Micks getting pretty close to what might have happened if we can cast our minds back to the late 80's we need to remember we were coming out of a recession and lots of things ie cars trucks tractors werent selling any good for years and companys had huge stocks of parts so models were geared towards what parts they had to many of or at least thats they way it was in Australia Ive got no idea about the rest of the world but I reckon the whole world was bit pear shaped back then Paul

yep I would only use chains on some thing like that I reckon straps should be banned you get no feel as to how tight they really are like you do with ropes . I think the only reason they are trying to ban ropes some might (say they already have) is because most people dont know how to use them anymore and rather than people been forced to learn they just give them these poxy straps .Same with dogs they try and make us all use those poxy ratchet type dog instead of the older over center lever type of dogs because blokes just dont how to use them any more (I think you lot over there call dogs load binders ?) Paul what you fellas call a head board we call a hurdle out here

Paul

all this reminds me of an old song Shame and Scandal in the family " your Daddy aint your Daddy but your Daddy dont know " talk about confusion these days a Cats a Class which is a lexion which is a Challanger which is Agco which is woops Im lost again back to start Paul

yep Im pretty sure the cat is a rebadged Lexion and all Challanger ie Cat farm products are Agco The old ford Im fairly sure is a rebadged or made under licence Class combine Im buggered if I know how anyone pays for all this flash gear ???? Paul

man theres a lot of work gone into that cab and thats just taking the paint off keep up the good work Paul

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