mrsmackpaul

Considering I'm a dumb ass we need to take thos back to basics

When you crank the motor over does it make smoke ???

Paul 

Looks pretty shmick

Paul 

So what was your findings Joey?

Paul 

Badda bing badda boom, vanished

Job done 

Paul 

I haven't heard them called cigarette pack sleepers before but I can see why they would be called that

Dunno the brand, all I know is they came from Adelaide South Australia 

I guess we need to remember that back in they the day, when drivers stopped they weren't fatigued, they were knackered, left and right if you know what I mean 

A very different breed of driver then than today

Paul 

Sounds like your all over this now

I doubt the worn S can bushes will cause any real concern in the next few months 

Thanks letting me take this a little off topic to learn about the automatic adjusters

Paul 

Finally found a sweets that is healthy and should taste good 

Savor every bite of this Bacon Bourbon Caramel Cheesecake - a decadent dessert that perfectly blends sweet and salty! 🍰🥓✨

Ingredients:
Crust
1½ cups graham cracker crumbs (9-10 full-sheet graham crackers)
6 tablespoons butter, melted
⅓ cup granulated sugar
Cheesecake

32 ounces cream cheese, room temperature (4 packages – 8 oz each)
5 large eggs, room temperature
2 cups sour cream, room temperature
8 tbsp butter, room temperature (1 stick)
1½ cups granulated sugar
2 tbsp cornstarch
3 tsp bourbon caramel syrup
1 tsp lemon juice
Toppings

Bacon, cooked to crispy and rough chopped
Chocolate-caramel sauce
Directions:

Crust: Blend graham crackers into fine crumbs. Mix with sugar and melted butter until moist. Press into the bottom and slightly up the sides of a 10" springform pan. Freeze to set.

Cheesecake: Wrap the pan with foil covering the bottom and sides. Preheat the oven to 300ºF. Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth, then add eggs one at a time. Mix in sour cream, sugar, cornstarch, bourbon caramel syrup, and lemon juice until smooth. Pour into the crust and bake in a water bath for 2 to 2.5 hours until lightly browned.

Finish: Cool to room temperature, then refrigerate overnight. Top with crispy bacon and drizzle with chocolate caramel sauce before serving.

Prep Time: 20 minutes | Cooking Time: 2 hours | Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes

Servings: 12

On R models in Australia there are two ways to mount the clutch cable

One angle is for a Mack transmission and the other is for a RoadRanger

I wonder if later models have the same deal going on

Apparently this makes a huge difference on the effort required 

Paul 

So with a 3 inch stroke is the angle of the slack adjuster set to 90° to the maxi can rod with no adjustment on on the brake and then once this geometry is set the brake adjusted as normal ?

You never know, I met get all modern one day and need to know this stuff 

Paul

10 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

we have long stroke brake chambers here, 3'' stroke. 

Joey are these type the same length as a normal slack adjuster  ?

If so with 3 inches of stroke they could very easily push the cam past were it needs to be

Sorry Im not try to hijack the thread, Im just curious about this stuff

Paul 

3 inches of movement, didn't know cans would push a rod that far

Anyway, maybe some modern disc brake job I have never seem

Certianly a type of slack adjuster I have never seen

Maybe check the adjuster is actually backing off and not the S cam just winding around and around from worn drums and shoes

This only applies with drum brakes though

I have had trailers I have bought were a combination of wrong sized rollers, worn shoes, worn S cam bushes and stuffed drums allow the S cam to just keep on spinning 

It is amazing how good things actually work when things aren't worn

The old swiss cheese effect, like on those aircraft investigation shows, it's never the wing falling off the plane, it's always a combination of a lot of small stuff lining up at the wrong time 

Paul

I use a old air tank off a trailer

Mount it vertically and half fill it with diesel 

Then a small 1/8th connected to a grease nipple fitting, Zerk fitting you lot will call it 

Anyway, compressed air in the tank and forcing diesel under pressure in to the slack adjuster 

Slack adjuster needs to be off the truck and clamped in a vice for this

Then on with the rattle gun and all the dry old grease spews out the sides 

This pretty much always works and then just pump full of fresh grease

Make sure the locking doohickie (collar) on the adjusting bolt is free to click in and out 

This should solve your problems 

If the slack adjuster is backing off it isnt locking in the collar

Paul

Not a bad job on the fence

Normally strain that style of fence from the middle 

Tie it on at each end and pull it tight in the middle 

Then just over lap a foot or so and wrap each horizontal strand around each other

Paul

Pull the rollers and cage off the bearing

Axle stand underneath on the inner part of the bearing with some weight resting on it

Then out with the gas axe, nice and hot and heat small area the, say 3/4" till nice and orange

Then belt that with a mash hammer 

This will make the carrier swell and slip off pretty easy

Not a lot of heat, maybe 30 seconds or so, then just into it with the hammer

The idea is to heat just that bit of bearing not the axle at all

If you don't wanna try heat, just big, like 1 inch high tensile bolt as a punch 

With the axle supported you should be able to crack the bearing case, might take some belting though

And wear eye protection, been hardened steel it tends to splinter a bit and these move quick and fast and puncture skin pretty easy

Paul 

Late to this 

Reckon you have a crook bearing on the high range gear on the main shaft 

If the whine is only there in low range, this is the only time high range is spinning on the shaft 

In low range the low range gear is fixed on the shaft 

If it was mine I would pull the transmission out and lift it apart before something goes kahput and big dollars are needed 

Two things to remember are

1 I am only going off whats written here

2 it isn't my truck, so I'm not spending my money 

Good luck

Paul

You can bung a amp gauge on each bank and just monitor that each side is charging 

Anyway the main thing is your up and running fine now

But to stop a battery failing in the future the batteries need to be monitored for charge as regularly as checking your oil and water 

A hydrometer can be used once a week

There are other methods but this is quick and simple and accurate way to monitor the batteries 

Paul

Must be budd type wheels as spiders don't have a left or right thread

Most truck parts places in Australia would be able to get what you need and even most bolt supply places out here would as well

Pull a stud out and take it with you as a sample

If you go somewhere and the bloke behind the counter asks for a vin number, your in the wrong place 

Good luck

Paul 

No mate, on the Prime net work in Australia , made in the U.S I would guess

I think Apple tv has it, I don't have Apple tv but Google tells me it's on Apple 

Try this link, 

Paul 

Bob, check out the series, she's pretty handy from the front

A very nostalgic journey for me watching it

Actually all the sheilas are foxes, oh yeah, the French bird, Collette is pretty dreamy

Not bad for a frog

Paul 

4 hours ago, Geoff Weeks said:

No, it is the other way around, you can't be sure of bringing cells in series to an equal charge. All batteries in parallel "see" the same voltage, but those in series are dependent on those below and above them in the stack.

 

Your incorrect Geoff 

In parrallel the current will flow to thru battery of least resistance on charging which is the highest charge battery 

The battery with the lowest charge slowly gets further abd further discharged until it's no longer serviceable 

Anyway I  offer my advice and that's all it is, advice

There's a good reason why almost everything we use has batteries in series and not in parallel 

From our mobile phone to the Tesla cars the hipsters drive today 

Paul