mrsmackpaul

Only bendy bits are really along the Great Dividing Ranges that go from the tip of Cape York to South Australia I guess it is the Australian equivalent of the Rocky Mountains The rest of this wide brown land is predominantly very flat and same same Not uncommon to travel 10 miles without a single bend Some roads are 60 miles or more with out so much as a bend So yes we are flat, infact we are the flattest country on earth and have areas were theres not a single tree as far as you can see and you can see the curvature of the earth, don't tell a flat earther this, their head will explode

I would agree Vlad The style in the link above are much better suited Apparently no demand so were only made for a short while Paul

Not a thing to do with me but maybe someone might think are just what they need Paul

Very cool stuff, both the truck and the weather, brrrrrrr 🥶 Paul

Mechohaulic, it's a Superliner with a long long sniffer Does it make it a Superdooperliner then The owner contacted me some time ago after watching me rebuild my old bucket of bolts on youtube He explained a lot of details, both the owner and the truck are retired now The 375 endt 866 went kahput and the E9 was still under development so a substitute was found A huge tropical radiator was shoved in and the chassis extended to accommodate all the mods The owners words "a lot of fellows are aghast at the extra length, I personally don’t give a f**k" Anyway, it's not my story to tell, it sure is a different looking truck and has served the owner well for many decade's Paul

Length I reckon will be the issue Here is a pic of a R700 a bloke in Australia owns and he put a 3408 in it Bonnet is severely modified to make it fit And remember it started outas a R 700 With the 375 as made Much later, same truck with a 3408 Paul

Yarnall, thats a good looking truck, looks like new Paul

I was stunned to learn that 453 T was sold in them new in the U.S. Only option was a 292 Mexican 6 I was thinking along the lines of a 3208 or tripple trouble Cummins But that's a way off yet Paul

The only diesels I have seen that don't return to the bottom of the tank are Cat Most have a pipe inside the tank that returns the fuel to the bottom of the tank In rough going this pipe can crack and when the tank gets down a bit the motor looses prime when not running The rubber hoses between injectors are a common leak point on the return to tank side on a Mack But as they say "wadda I know" Paul

If your losing prime when it's not running you have air leak in the return to tank side White smoke means air in the fuel Grey smoke is burnt oil Black smoke is unburnt fuel So you have white smoke and no fuel, takes a lotta cranking So get some rubber inner tube and a tyre valve, a big hose clamp Tyre valve thru the inner tube (might need a large over size washer on the valve to stop it popping thru the inner tube Hook up some shop air and crank the regulator air pressure diwn as low as 15 psi Crawl about underneath looking for leaks Paul

Evening everyone, late reply, been busy Snowdog, Im pretty sure the dash is reversed, except for the cluster 292 is carby with electronic ignition The last one I had I bought a offenhauser 4 barrel inlet manifold in from the states and had it port match to a head that was taken out to a Yella Terra stage three 202 head specs, this done by "head stud development" Melbourne 25 years ago, had a set of rods shot peened and balanced with the crank Block had liners pushed in, and a set of forged flat top pistons, 10-1 compression and on lpg Only got that far and all these parts are under the bench Im pretty sure waiting for someone to pull his finger out The 292 is really pretty gutless for this big a truck but still, it's different Sorry I took my owm topic off the rails, a bad case of Joeyitus lol Swanwater is as described, a area town sort of Most of the exhaust manifolds never last on big sixes in Australia, we put extractors on, like your headers only longer sleaker and tuned to length Trying track down a overdrive box for it at the moment and I'll see were I go from there So on spicer trans mission, to decode the transmission First numbers are torque rating Then the next number is the number of gears The number after that is the material the transmissions are made out of And the letters at the end are the gear set, direct, over drive and so on So does any of this soundcorrect, do we have any Spicer experts on here ? Paul

Yeah Brocky, there is bendy bits here and there, they are definitely the exception not the norm Paul

Had a couple of these years ago as farm trucks They really are pretty crap as trucks, but are kinda cool I reckon Seem to be in big demand these days and sell almost as quick as they appear Always reckon it was a mistake to sell them anyway a mate sends me links to them as he sees them on Facebook So I bought one home for no particular reason Starts, runs and stops, that'll do for a while Tipping tray with a grain bin 292 cubic inches of Mexican 6 cylinder power (if you can call it that) 5 speed with two speed diff And so super special 10 stud Chevy rims Ruddy marvelous 😉 Paul

Birthdays come but once a year, hope she had a good day Good job on the walk Paul

Looking really good Paul

Iseki are built by Isuzu and bigger tractors had truck type motors Dunno if Isuzu is big innthe states but in Australia they are huge Their medium sized trucks are most popular trucks in Australia and outsell everything else by a long way Paul

You best not come to Australia then, it is mainly straight flat and very same same Sometimes little changes for hours Anyway hope you all had a good one Paul

Thats the way to fix the problem for ever Paul

So yes the green truck is the Australian made Atkinson And yes that is cab suspension, help smooth our not so quite smooth roads out It is a good gathering, I was working this weekend so couldn't make it I made it to the Muster a few years ago and haven't made it back yet Paul

Looking like it's all systems go, I have a little Massey Ferguson which is really a Iseki rebranded It has the 4 in 1 bucket and linkage and is 4x4 I dunno that as a farm tractor it would be much use But as anything else, it's very handy and manoeuvres into tiny little tight spots Paul

It could be, he is starting to get a 6x6 Mack collection Paul

A de accelarator pedal perhaps ? Lots of industrial machines have a de accelarator pedal Set the hand throttle and use the pedal to control revs Paul

That's impressive rate of work It's all coming along nicely Paul

My older brother was a bit of a late bloomer in the Mack department He only in recent years has succumb to the good influence of the Mack world He has a couple of ex army 6x6 Macks He was asked to do a job of ferrying guests to and from a wedding ceremony What a classy limo Paul

So you should be🤪🦘 Mack bonnets mad out here have wood inserts as well, as did fiberglass cabs I reckon it was a soft wood like cypress, not pine though as the grain was wrong to be pine I reckon treated pine would be the go as it won't rot if water gets in If metal was to be used I would use stainless or aluminium, just so it can't rust and screw the whole show up on you Aluminium would be nice and light I reckon theres a lump of wood on the fire wall end to help keep it's shape I wonder is a Superliner and a R 700 the same as they are longer and would need more lifting effort Paul