mrsmackpaul

I bought a red dot under the dash thingy for my truck a few years ago Imported from the States Princess has no idea how much I spent and it will probably stay that way until Im planted Anyway after getting this marvelous bit of gear I have to chop it apart to make for RHD instead of LHD Should of just flipped the photo on the order form So god only knows when that might happen Apparently they are good units, will let you know in the next decade or two Paul

Your gunna so happy you've done all this extra work, and I mean that in the most sincere way It will give piece of mind for decades And as always, thank you for taking us all along for the ride Paul

We call them terrorists out here, short for tourists And the older ones are known as "Grey Nowmads" Paul

Joey I was watching a old government video on energy and the energy sources for the state of Victoria Video was made in 1981, brown coal was our main source of electricity then and power stations were still been built, Victoria has the largest brown coal deposit in the world 90% of all fuel (diesel, petrol, fuel oil etc) used came from Victorias off shore in the Bass Strait Also from Bass Strait was a almost never ending supply of gas Renewables were spoken of and we were big users of them But not in the way spoken of today by the woke tree hugging leftards of todays world Renewables were our forests, our dams, our rivers etc And even our coal I guess if we wait long enough But it was put like this, "the sun evaporates the water to turn it to clouds to make rain to grow trees to fill dams to generate power to irrigate farms etc" That wasn't the exact words but along that sort of a line of thinking What does this have to do with diesel utes and petrol utes ? Nothing at all except we just seam to be going around in a big circle and some jokers are making a lot of coin out of this mess Paul

The Titan and Superliner sold out here have the MP 10 rated at 685 horsepower as standard from the factory CH cab so I dunno what the issue could be in America Paul

Great video, I left a comment and gave you a like Can you explain more about the droop screw?? All interesting to me Paul

Air throttle was fitted to some E6 macks in Australia 800 and something the Australian Army had or still have Hunting like this is pretty standard I feel when the compressor is pumping The oil pressure will be a bit unstable at low revs as the governor chases the engine up a down Paul

I had the exact same thing happen a few years ago, remember that we drive on the wrong side of the road over here or is that the left and you lot drive on the wrong side of the road,no matter you get the drift Some passed me on my left (passenger side in Australia) and then attempted to make a U turn across the the front of me The first I new about it was the explosion of glass in front of me I couldn't see the car until it got pushed out the drivers side Lucky I was slowing for a red light The drongo gets out and his mum follows and she starts trying to blame me Cut it our lady, her son the driver was good about it and accepted the blame right away I was going slow and the glass was under fuel tanks and drive tyres The mum then lie's to her insurance company claiming she was driving Apart from a couple of scratches on the bull bar and a driving light twisted a bit there was no damage to my truck The little Rav 4 was stuffed Surprised me how silly people can be Paul

So let's try to get some more detail When you say it wont down shift Are we talking it wont split the gears, as in the air shift part of down shifting ? Or it wont allow the gear stick to shift into lower gears, as in change down manually between by shifting the stick Or is it both of these can not be performed Or maybe the range change is the issue I gather this is a 18 speed Mack ? If so, from what I understand these are built along the same line as any other Mack transmission, just more refined A main transmission with the range change and split been seperate section bolted on, two seperate gear boxes close coupled It would be highly unlikely that all sections have failed at the same time So if you can establish which gears aren't down shifting it can help establish what part of the transmission has the issue or if it is the transmission at all So is it the splitter on the side of the stick The range change on the front The stick it self Or a combination of two or more of these Paul

Sounds like a positive response then What has made it so much better ? A few more details on what has improved If you don't mind Paul

I like it,I dunno how you blokes get so close and just hell, we're going for a drive for icecream I know I would, but brains and trains and missing blah blah blah lol Looks fantastic Paul

Thanks Brocky I have no idea what it was or is like in the States, never been there I can only imagine that a country about the same size as Australia but with 10 - 12 times as many people must be a bit more crowded, as Brocky has been out here he would have a much better idea than me on this In this world I live in people are almost trying to make us ashamed of our heritage and make Australians and Australia like the rest of the political correct world, I tend to dig my heals with this train of thought So Slim and Joy were very Australian and once Slim found his feet he was happy to do what he wanted and in Australia things really took off for him He had a number on all major forms of music at the same time, yes number one with the young bucks and the old foggies and everything in between "Pub With No Bear" Anyway, enough waffle from me Paul

Thanks Brocky, it all shows up fine here Timothy Maikshilo used to have this drama some times when I sent him stuff Paul

Hmmm, this is quite the undertaking if you haven't done it before Im interested to see how this goes Paul

She was 93 Brocky To me they were very both very special people Slim and Joy lived a very different life I would imagine to any country singer from the States as Australia is very different as Brocky would know A lot less people and a long way between these towns, as hours Consequently the shows were tiny, but it was a life they both enjoyed I remember watching a interview done after they started singing about trucks and they were asked how they new writing about trucks and truck driving was going to be the next big thing They must of been on tour and had no idea their album was even successful, long before the internet was even thought of and you still had to book calls across this wide brown land To me they will always be special And who else could sign about been married to a Mack truck and have a song like it be successful Paul

Well this week we lost Joy as well, not a lot to add but the world is a lesser place with out them Two Australian legends gone forever, gone but never forgotten Paul

And now for a bit of history Something a little different Paul

Dunno about the puff limiter causing issues as I keep everything set stock standard All E6 Mack motors I have driven with low ratio diffs hunt quite a bit in first gear and deep reduction with the foot just on the throttle I dunno why, I have asked and been told it is very common as the governor try's to hold revs and over compensates and then over corrects If I put the foot down a little further it helps and if I shift up a gear ot helps I'm not sure if this is the same issue you have or not even close Paul

They are known as "Power adjustable variable track" You can adjust them with iut jacking up the tractor Pretty rare in Australia as we dont row crop much Paul

How high is your idle set ?? If the idle is to low they sort of chase their tail trying to maintain low rpm at a constant I feel idle should be at a guess between 650 and 700, no doubt someone on here quote the correct figure And another thing I have found is if compression is down on a couple of cylinders and a valve job is needed, can make them hunt really bad especially if the the cylinders are following each other Paul

These I believe were all built in the UK, like IH 'B' is for Britain or British Good little tractors has power adjustable wheels which is handy if you ever do row crop work Almost every part you could want is available so parts are easy as Paul

There is mob in the states that convert generators to alternators but they look the same as a generator when done They do them for old caterpillar generators so I would think a Mack truck one shouldn't be a issue Maybe sign up to the ACMOC forum and ask there or do some googling Paul

Just been watching "Hauling the Hume" A good little video if your into 2 stroke screamers or just old buckets of bolts A whole heap of old trucks do a run south on parts of the old Hume Highway in NSW Crawling the Hume is blokes heading north in Vic I may have that wrong, plenty of smarter than me can give you the facts on it The Hume is the main highway between Melbourne and Sydney I have never driven the Hume in a truck as I stay further west, but it looks it could be good fun Paul