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Does this happen often and we dont see it or is it fairly rare Paul

There yah go, all sorted and you uploaded it and all Well done Perhaps these jokers dont know they gotta down load it first and then play it on their phone or computer or what ever they use Paul

Yeah Brocky your right What I guess a lot of people in the States dont understand is just how hard it was to get good trucks for many many years after WW2 in Australia and even more so NewZealand The Kiwis really were the masters of custom rebuilding of trucks for many decades, NewZealand was broje after WW2 and there was like Australia huge import duties for countries out of the Commonwealth Pommy trucks never quite cut it in the colonies, so ex army US trucks were used and rebuilt and modified for at a guess, up to 30 years of age Paul

Snowing and rain, not on your Nelly, 40C or 100 and a bit in the old money We have breeze this morning so thats a welcome change from yesterdays hot still air My mates truck bogged a few years ago in south west QLD Goldie reckons the supplier of wheel bearings and seals was pretty happy with him 😃 And not my video But this is when I picked the boy up at mid night to surprise the Princess for her birthday, we hadn't seen the Curley kid in nearly 2 years thanks tonthe China virus Stopped for fuel at 4am, was a long night and yeah the Princess was shocked with the freight I had collected, but she did forgive me for the lies leading up to her surprise Paul

A tripple in flood water And yes it's not my photo Paul

Yes it's true, I am officially jealous How cool is that ? I'll answer that, bloody cool Thanks sharing Paul

No fear, I gave a good solid thump thump thump as I new he would be sleeping, took a while and when the driver appeared I said "HEY MISTER CAN I TAKE A PHOTO FOR THE FORUM" 😂 Passed him later in the day at Gunbower Paul

Sounds like a ground connection problem, or as suggested water is in somewhere it shouldn't be Paul

That was the one I was thinking of But maybe I dunno my ass from elbow Saw this little road train parked up this morning whilst out and about in the wee small hours Baxters from Berrigan Baxters are becoming quite the sizable operation for by Australian standards, well over 50 trucks now Paul

And todays offering Paul

Surely they have heard of Mount Saint Helen as I have as I reckon most people I speak to in Australia would of heard of this big bang or series of big bangs Paul

And now for something that isnt mine and has nothing to do with pies and rhubarb A video thats not mine and not from my country but flogged borrowed and shared for all ig your enjoyment Happy days everyone Gunna be well over a 100 in the old money today here Paul

Healing quick and still a serious frown, maybe someone one has put you in the naughty corner and you have the sulks Paul

Well I'm not gunna say much as I don't know bugger all I think getting truck to run will be easy but getting everything else to work is it should, guages etc is gunna be a headache and a half But if it is not gunna do much road work is that gunna be a concern? Good luck with it and keep us posted Vee belts can be a fair bit missaligned before theres huge issues, plenty of farm machinery has left the factory nor even close and belts doing a full flip to run the next pulley the reverse direction You've got this Even just get some cheap mechanical guages to get you moving and sorted Speedo can be a phone gps type of deal Tacho you dont need Oil pressure and water temp and amp guage really is all you need to get moving and sortbthe rest out in the future Paul

In the South Australian captial Adelaide as the young bucks stagger out of night clubs and bars heading home after a big night they would get a pie floater to help sort them out for the journey home A pie floater is the normal upside down meat pie, which no one is sure has actual meat in it Anyway it is served upside down on a bed of mushy peas and covered on tomato sauce, just the ticket to set you right after a big night on the turps It looks better in the photo than it does coming back up on the foot path at 2.00 am I have been told Happy days everyone Paul

Never heard of rhubarb pudding but rhubarb and apple stewed and sevred with ice cream , now that's the ticket on a cold night or hot night or anyother night Plum puddings out here are steamed and had on Christmas day with brandy custard these days, should be as heavy as lead and sit right your stomach Paul

Normally I put the genny circuit into the shed to keep the noise away from the house 100 feet is pretty long and you'll need a lot of cross sectional area on the cable to eliminate voltage drop Go big and them some for your lead as suggested or if you can run the inlet to the shed were you wanna sit the genny Ive run big long aerials on cattle stations (ranches) maybe the longest would be 1000 feet but voltage drop makes it pretty dear out the other end Voltage drop will burn motors out pretty quick so keep any eye on it if you can, 5% is the max by law out here, would assume the states are the same Paul

Apple pie, phtttty Try some good plum pudding, that'll put some lead in your pencil and also has the possibility to make you some coin Paul

My only advise here is to test all of this out before you need it Just to make sure it all works as expected as electricians are usually hard to get in a hurry Paul

For seamless transfer you need a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) not the pony express These are normally fitted to places that have a critical need for powet, hospitals, fir stations, police (some might suggest they have to much power already) controls for big plants, trains traffic lights and on and on But these are only fitted to the circuits that need these, they have enough battery back up for 3 or 4 hours and this encasethe genny doesnt start it gives the m3chanic a few hours to get things sorted Paul

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Joey Im not gunna tell any joker what they should or shouldn't do So the common way of doing things in Australia is a change over switch, no one does what you are doing any more, to complicated for most people to fully understand The electrical trade is a licensed trade in Australia and it is a jailable offense for unlicensed people to do their own electrical work, rarely does it ever get that far, but plenty of people get fined each year So a couple of things to think about when Im yammering away here is our voltage is higher in Australia than the US so it is less forgiving when things go pare shaped Now to generator change over switches, so the way things are done The power goes out, you plug in and start the genny, open the switch board and flick one switch only, the switch is three position "MAINS" "OFF" GENERATOR" The switch is on mains, you simply push the handle down going straight past off to generator You now have power and lights running on generator in your house, there is no need to turn anything off, you cant feed back into the grid, the main switch stays on as does all the other breakers The supply is restored to your house from the grid, you simply go out to switch board and push the handle on the change over switch back the other way thru the "OFF" to mains The house is now fully on mains, the genny is still running, idle it back to let cool down and if it's petrol turn the fuel off and let it run out (Joe, you'll know all that part better than me but this how I describe it to people that I have just put a change over switch in and am showing them how to use it) Once the genny stops, unplug and roll the lead up, no need to switch anything else The limiting factor in running a house on a generator is the plug on the lead, 15 amp is the biggest type of plug we use in Australia for domestic type of situations, so that would be a 30 amp lead in the States as your voltage is half of Australia's and NewZealands Our power circuits are on 20 amp breakers and lighting is on 16 amp breakers We instal a breaker on generator inlet circuit of 20 amps, this to stop people over loading and melting the plug, even though it is rated at 15 amps running a 20 amp breaker allows for a short over load to stop nuisance tripping when electric motors start If people want more power for thier house we can install extra plugs and a three phase change over switch and they can run 15 amps per lead then which is more than most people will ever use This most importantly keeps it safe and it also keeps it simple and makes it idiot proof as well Even if I know how to switch the right switches and do it in the right sequence, what happens if something happens to me, when cyclone Yassi came thru in 2011 I ended up in hospital with a busted back and wrist so Princess and the boy were left to run the show So by having it simple to operate they can easily restore power and or carry on as normal if things go tits up else were Once again Im not saying Im right or the Australian way is right or better, this is just how we do it out here So a cyclone is the same as a hurricane except it spins the other way, like the water going down a plug hole, it spins the opposite way in the southern hemisphere, Yassi was big like Katrina all those years ago Paul

Im not gunna knock you for having a go at this build Keith, I think its a great idea Charm and romance Bob is in the eye of the beholder Keith youve done a great job, wondering why you mucked about with the hand brake when it would be easy to fit maxi cans to the back axle, not only easier but far more reliable and better holding power When I was looking thru your pictures of the back axle and oil seal the bit you thought was part of the oil seal is called a grit guard, it is a option on the Mack axles We use them in harsh conditions in Australia if we still run the original style seal, most people dont though and have changed to a different style of seal that the rubber grips the axle housing the rotating is done in the seal so axle never wears a groove http://www.newtruckspring.com/wholesale/mack-drive-axles-stemco-392-9094-grit-guard-wheel-seal/ Not to worry as your past that stage now Dont be shy to share updates as I enjoy different things including this ype of stuff I reckon most blokes on here would of changed to air ride back end when they had it as far apart as you did, much smoother to ride in Great build Paul

Yeah you can only advise some people As my mother says, "can't reason with someone thats been unreasonable" Not so many years ago we only switched the active in Australia but now change over switches must be double pole and switch the active and neutral Paul