mrsmackpaul

Not likely in this wide brown land 10.00 x 20 are pretty much the standard Tape a piece of string on the tail shaft, drive one wheel revolution forward, hop out and count how many times the string has wrapped around the tail shaft Thats your diff ratio 5.14 will allow 100 kmh with a OD transmission Paul

Ha ha bloody ha you lot Okay simple answers for you lot The bonnet (hood) scoop on the first cool power jobbies blocked up to easily and quickly The dual intake thru the one air cleaner had similar issues Dual aircleaners were started on Mack coolpowered jobbies and pretty quickly most makes of heavy trucks in Australia did the same Halve the air flow and you get 4 times the life between services Sunvisors, unlike some that have visors for looks, the Australian ones are quite huge by world standards and back in the day before gay stainless steel drop visors that are probably more suited to a gay Volvo type of hipster than a propper truck driver Visors curl right around to block the rising and setting sun from the side on view So most of Australia's land mass is flat, very very flat, flat as a shit carters hat so to speak This means the sun takes hours to go down, whilst this is quicker than most women, it means we gotta squint for a hour or so So we need proper sunvisors and propper air intakes Oh and quality Macks like R and FR models built by Australians in Australia for Australians use the chassis number not the vin number Chassis number is behind the first drive axle on the drivers side So if you if you have a stainless steel drop visor, pad up precious you delicate little cup cake 😘😘🦘 Paul

The good NewZealand air I think, and I don't have to squint all the time Or maybe it is that I have my good town hat on instead of the crappy work hat Paul

Bung this up here Good a place as any Clickty click https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15NV4nxVFj/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Paul

The vanes are probably stuck, just pull it apart and soak in diesel They need a huge volume of air to force the fins out and spin them Or at least on the ones I work on Air goes thru the rotor part and blows the vanes out against the stator to seal them and then the rotor forced by the air as it is sealed up pretty good Rebuild kits are readily available in Australia as nearly every Mack sold out here was air start up into the 90's It is very rare to see a electric start Mack built up until the late 90's Paul

I am assuming that a lot of little parts got washed away as well Perhaps a metal detector might be the go Dunno about in the U.S. but in Australia it isn't uncommon for people with metal detectors to go looking over old mining areas Even old townships and were buildings and things once were If you can find the right bloke they may only to happy to spend a few days or weeks searching the river beds and creek banks looking for gear that got washed away All the metal parts wouldn't be to far away, maybe half a mile at the most Paul

Well done and lucky to find what was needed Good to see the ever faithful pooches are supervising proceedings back in the shed Paul

Still on the way home from plan B With all this crap weather of late, a mate from this forum Timothy Maikshilo and his family are visiting his family in NewZealand So a quick 3 1/2 drive, jump on the kero kite to Christchurch in the south island and meet Tim and Kasey at the airport Saturday afternoon Have tea and a few beers last night with them, stay the night, breakfast and lunch and get dropped back to the airport Tim's son Max and wife Jordan were wonderful hosts and put up with this Aussie bum that invited himself into their holiday For those that don't remember Tim, was from Vermont and had a farm like me, except of heat and 10 billion flies he had 6 feet of snow and 1 million flies Tim was on this forum and thats how we met I dunno what happened, but some how Tim lost his log in credentials and I have contacted Barry about this, might be time to annoy Barry again Great people and a great time had Still a hour of flying and 3 1/2 drive Should be home by midnight Paul

Well it's still raining, raked the hay again Wednesday morning And more rain yesterday evening This is the longest I have ever had hay down in my life So plane B, shoot through for a couple of days I'll report back on how plan B goes Paul

Try looking at a bus front axle, most of the buses in the last 20-30 years are air ride front and back Town and city type buses have a kneel function, pull into pick up or drop people off and flick the switch and the bus lowers down nice and low to make it easier to let people on and off Paul

Started life as one yes, then got stretched out to take a 24 foot tray as all road trains were body trucks in the beginning I shortened it up a bit maybe 30 years ago and turned it back into a prime mover (tractor) Paul

No it was a Cummims HB 600, 150 HP Thats just gear sitting on its back, small bridge cranr from a shed and tractor parts I think Paul

My first big truck I ever owned was a Federal 604 Still have it today, 671 in it these days awaiting me to rebuild everything when I get a moment putting the 671 motor in it It still runs and drives There is some old footage on video, before smart phones, possibly before mobile phones of me zooming about in it Young and full of hopes and dreams back then Paul

Unusual to have spiders like that on the drive axles, only see that style of spider on trailers in Australia Swishman, heres one for your wotzit thread down under Paul

Not my photos and pretty sure it was in a wreck Same truck but different paint job Truck owned by Theo Jurgens in Wanganui Trevor Jones photo Paul Carmine photo Paul

Thats a big undertaking Great work going on there Paul

I dunno I have never had dual exhausts Im guessing just a 'Y' connector and some elbows and a bit of flex Paul

It's coming up a treat Paul

Tyres really are cheap now, they are cheaper now than 30 years ago I remember back in the late 70's on the news in Australia a bus/coach in the U.S. had a cap come of and it punched thru the floor and killed the child sitting in the seat above it Now this was big news, no internet back then and we heard about it in Australia, really is kinda scary Even clean skin tyres do a huge amount of damage when they let go The faster we go the greater the chance of it happening Drive tyres on a hot day are to hot to hold my hand on Paul

Those last couple of lines gave me a chuckle

I dunno about your math, a lot depneds on how long the time is going to be for recharging Paul

Dunno about 16V92, have been around plenty of big GM 2 stroke stuff in quarry's and the like, never been a die hard fan of them like every second person seems to be today Saying that I don't recall anything vibrating except my ears I think they are still ringing Paul

Yep, as Joey sez We don't buy any of this quality gear because it makes sense I know it's selfish, but stick within your budget, you dont have to fix it all over night Hell, I spent maybe 10 years slowly collecting parts as I could afford it for my bucket of bolts And then I was kinda sweating a bit as I made the first cut in the rust Even now my bucket of bolts isn't a show truck by any stretch of the imagination, but it is mine and mostly done by me, my mate painted it I do things as I can afford to and have the time to do them It really is up to you, but if you can stretch it to buy it or something similar, I would, they are only getting thinner on the ground, as they say, "if not now, then when ?" Anyway don't let me talk you into it Only one more thing to add, we reach the end of our journey in life very quickly, I'm a lot closer to the end of my working life than the beginning As the years roll on I am loosing more and more mates Don't wait to long to bite the bullet on a toy Paul

I dunno were or what your doing, I do however work in power generation and regularly work on 66,000 volt 100 MW transforms and beside under and around them while they are energized and under full load, never make any of me vibrate Worked 500 MW turbines and yes I can feel them, I do feel it is the 300 ton spinning right beside me that I can feel and not the electricity Was HV switching this morning without vibrating So either I'm vibration proof or electricity is different on the other side of the world Paul

If it is 55 MPH it must 5.73 or similar 35 MPH would need to be in the 7 or 8 ratio I am think a cut splice and ass end and rails is the Interesting that we plate both inside and side in Australia Years ago people would cut 'V's or Z shapes in the join, the thoughts were the longer the weld the less chance of breaking it However as technology has improved a straight cut is normal, this means lesd heat in the rail Anyway I am thinking shopping around for donor ass end with the desired ratio is go Paul