mrsmackpaul

If I get time I will take photos of the hydraulic winch setup on my truck tonight Might give you some ideas Paul

I for one reckon this is good, can't even get young or old people to be an apprentice in Australia All to precious or something, dunno when I was starting out 1 apprenticeship had 200 applications Good on you all for running these programs, I dont have the answers on how get young people to understand that been a tradesman is a noble and proud profession If you work hard and have manners you can make good money To me there is no shame in doing a honest days work for a honest days pay Keep up the good work Paul

The turbine is a fairly fine bit of machinery and I guess due to that the air needs to be clean to provide a long life Also what about the air leaving the intercooler If air flows in it also has to flow out Australian R models have a grill under the front LHS guard were the intercooler is mounted to let the air out Paul

No idea Hans Might of been and Australian thing, I really couldn't say The Australian content was pretty high during the R and FR models Paul

Well I thought to myself, I reckon I have one of those on a tank laying about And well I thought right Has 1985 on the tank plate, was off a R model Mack No more details So I'm guessing it was near the end of R model run Paul

Apparently there was a 1 start, 2 start and a 3 start tank The single start tanks are really short Maybe only 6 to 8 inches of flat if measured length ways 2 start tanks are about 12 inches of flat 3 start are longer at a guess 18 - 24 inches I reckon on some old B models I have seen even longer again Paul

Yeah, he's good to listen to, a lot of this stuffs been going on for quite some time now I have listened to Paul Harvey for some years now, the first time I ever stumbled across him I thought to my self, wow, this jokers saying a lotta what I reckon we are all thinking Paul

Never known of a clutch switch on a Ferguson Sure the loom isnt get caught in a linkage or something and getting pulled a bit when the pedal is full pressed They are normally pretty reliable Paul

Nah, there's a hose with a fitting to drain the tyres to recharge the tank, three tyres apparently gives you enough to get here going Once your started you refill the tyres from the trucks compressor As I said a pain in the neck Paul

Yeah the old lung lollies are a bugger on your health but still nothing better than a good bourbon and a good smoke after some good action in the sack Needles to say I dont get any of the last one so other two are forgotten as well Hope you lot a good day over there A friend sent me this, she knows of my liking of Spam That's about as close as I get to your thanks giving stuff

Well you fill it up with air and try again I really cant imagine a air start is much good in a cold part of the world, the air valves freeze in Australia at -5 C which according to google is 23 F and it gets a lot colder than that in parts of North America I believe Apart from the novelty air start is a bit of a pain in the neck, battery technology has improved so much that air start has been made a non event even in tough going areas of Australia Paul

A little bit of airstart fun

5.73 with a OD 12 speed will give you about 55 MPH on the governor if you are on 11r 22's 5.73 was a common road train gear even with a E9 at 500 HP, but you are shifting 200,000 pounds plus all day every day As to a 350 in 1980, I was pretty sure that series intercooling came out some years after 1980 and that was when 350 HP was first talked about for a E6 in Australia Increasing the revs on a E6 will dramatically reduce it's life span, they are a genuine million mile motor but, I believe and so do most people I speak to tend agree they are at their happiest at about 1950 rpm, yes you can run them out to 2100 plus but they really arent in their happy place I cant see or think of any reason you would have to use the tip turbine, the chassis mounted cooler should be fine, I wonder if anything has to be done to control boost, the turbine controls boost on a tip turbine to a large degree Paul

Pretty much what he said, it really depends on what your plans are for said hot rod There's a huge difference between working something out on paper and going "it'll work" and the truck having any degree of drivability about Paul

A Foden in Yanky land, surely a sin 🤔 lol Struggle to even Fodens in Australia, NewZealand still has a few though Paul

Totally open to correction on this I believe this motor is still a Thermodyne Econodyne was a 4 valve chassis mount intercooled motor It may also depend on the part of the world each of us is from as to what we call them Paul

I dunno why you would unless there is some drama with what you have It wont give anymore power or anything like that The old tip turbine is pretty proven and reliable Unless I have missed part of the story here Or are you looking at buying a motor like this from a truck and fitting it into a different truck ? Paul

And I dont think two valve or four valve made much difference if any to the torque quoted by Mack 4 valves were more efficient and gave better fuel economy Paul

This part of your picture show a coolpowered 350 Series intercooled tip turbine motor Thats a good page of information you sharex there Bob, thank you Paul

The original Maxidyne's only had the 1 intake tube in Australia It wasnt until the coolpower motor came along that two intake tubes were needed, however in Australia the second intakecame from a second aircleaner for the turbine and the other aircleaner was for the motor intake Paul

Welcome to the forum RoadRanger A interesting life behind the wheel Paul

Is that a train or a tram, think you blokes call them trolley cars Mack looks tiny in front of it Paul

Mrs Mack is very slowly in between this atrocious weather getting sorted, she never had that much wrong but I started fixing one thing and noticed something else not right and so on A bit like the little old lady that swallowed a fly, well I hope I dont have to swallow that horse lol To make things right is lot harder than to just get them going sometimes Paul