mrsmackpaul

13 minutes ago, Truelove said:

Ya I'm  going to drive something with expired everything rotten tires and hasn't moved in 20 years half way across the country. 

Sorry mate, you and I are clearly worlds apart, anyway thats me, just a tad different than the normal these days

Stick it on a truck if thats your cup of tea, I'm not judging 

I just wanna have something more to think about when I'm all buggered up in a nursing home than all the adventure I wish I had of done

Paul 

What a difference a coat of paint makes, maybe get pin striped and scrolled and sign written like your old truck, it's almost there with it been the "Red Rocket" and all

Mexican food I no nothing about and dont think I have ever seen a Mexican restaurant in Australia, though I have eaten Taco's and Tortillas, mind they are probably an Australian version and apparently our taste buds are pretty boring compared to those of the U.S. and our food is pretty bland 

Anyway trucks looking good, you went all out with your Christmas decorations

Arthritis I dont have but the skin is getting thinner and lumps all over it from been in the sun all my life I think

Todays useless triva, yes I am full of it

In Australia Queenslanders call people from New South Wales Mexicans because they are from south of the border

Queenslanders call Victorians Cock Roaches because apparently the only lower than a Mexican is, I let you fill in the blanks lol, and yes it isnt serious and we are all full of cheek out here 

Stunned by the F truck transformation 

Paul

That's the go, got your dream machine, should be lots of fun to be had with it 

Paul 

Yep, run a muck while your still all young enough to 

Have a great 22

Paul

That's still getting warm, I have never seen my old Mack get over 140, I  had to convert that 60C even in 100 plus weather pulling a road train 

Might have to rod the radiator core when you get a chance 

Paul

4 hours ago, Swishy said:

This arrived in my email

True or False?

cya

 

Swishman apparently it's false as we are reliant on coal and renewable energy isnt gunna work, but what would I know

Paul 

2 hours ago, mowerman said:

wait a minute now it looks like second and third trucks collided going opposite directions 

Im pretty sure thats whats happened 

Have seen similar things a few times in recent years (not quite on this scale though)

never took any photos as I was busy looking after the people involved 

Each time one of the drivers had fallen asleep with cruise control on and drifted into the on coming traffic

The person they hit could do nothing as you can only get a big truck so far off the road and out of the way 

Paul

https://fb.watch/adfFbhhim4/

A picture is worth a thousand words they say, guessing video is worth a bucket load more

Dont think you need Facebook to view

Paul

Sand blast and paint, it's in pretty neat condition from what I can see

It's air ride so your not gunna achieve a huge amount of improvement no matter what you do 

Paul 

27 minutes ago, mowerman said:

ok finally found the post...oakley tank lines complete restoration ending on page 87 classic and antique section entire process starting in 2014 check it out...bob

Do you have a link or something, I  dunno what to look for for what page

Are you sure that it is assembled correctly, I  have never seen a drum brake were even if the lining is missing the steel part of the shoe still reaches out and grabs the drum fine 

Actually that isnt correct, I have seen miss matched drums, shoes, s cams and rollers on s cams that under heavy brake application can go past the high point on the s cam  

It sounds like it isnt put back together correctly, or maybe it never was put together correctly when you got the truck, I have no idea on the history of this so cant offer any more advice than that 

Maybe check part numbers if you have access to a parts book and confirm all parts are correct 

Paul

21 hours ago, Mark T said:

This guy's a tease....he's making us wait way too long for more info and pictures of this truck 

Building the suspens, it's working, almost on the edge of my seat, nah not really, it's gunna be great build I'm  sure, we are all just a little busy this time of year so maybe taking a while to get back to us 

Paul 

3 hours ago, 67RModel said:

All good comments and thoughts. However, no, I am not assuming that all the leg work and analysis has not been done on the pros and cons of EVs. It has but to decry they are better for the environment and/or reduce overall CO2 output in markets like the USA or Australia is foolish. This is why I say the EV sector (at least here in the US) is driven almost exclusively on emotion, image, and perception. They do not reduce overall CO2 emissions and the dollars and cents side of it, as you say, does not remotely add up to being the cheaper alternative. People either do not understand or do not care to factor in every single input and output of the equation. The gargantuan cost of a massive paradigm shift to EVs is just spinning our wheels. All that effort should be laser focused on renewable electricity generation, which unfortunately it is not.

This not remotely true. Per the Australia federal government's own website: https://www.energy.gov.au/data/electricity-generation the percentage of renewable generation is only 24%. Give it another 20 years and you might be close 50%. Fossil fuels may be on their way out (albeit slowly) in places like the US and Australia. However, they are increasing in use in many areas of the globe, which leads back to one of my original questions.

My final thought on this topic is Duracell cars are not the answer to our (USA) immediate or intermediate term problems, to which we have many. In countries like France where they will actually have a major benefit they are an excellent option.

As a side note from looking more into Australia's domestic energy policies I was very surprised to learn the country / continent does not have a single nuclear power station while at the same time having over 1/3 of the world's uranium reserves.

I have thought about how to try and respond, to educate, to try and explain how the Australian energy market and energy production actually works and is applied in Australia,  after all I can not comment with any degree of accuracy on the American energy market or it's production as Im not at all involved in American electricity production 

I never realized that finding a government web site made you a expert on that countries electricity production, learning things every day

And this is the very reason I dont go into this with people who just want to have a knock down drag out fight to prove a point, it makes little difference to me whether you believe me or not, whether you want to learn or not, my life ticks along exactly the same whether I choose to become involved or not in this type of discussion  (even this comment you could start a argument about if you wanted)

My personal opinion has little weight if any in the grand scheme of things as does yours and as such the reward for me is very little, unlike talking about Mack trucks, that has a huge impact on my happiness, even old machinery and old stuff in general 

So I'll leave the worlds energy production problems to you, make sure you take care of us down under as I want that light to come on when I flick the switch and the compressor to start when Mrs Mack needs her air start tank filling 

Have great day 

Paul 

Bugger, thats kinda sad how things have become in the U.S. with security 

Hopefully it sorts itself out soon and life gets back to what I would call normal, mind you I have no idea what normal U.S.A. is as I have never been there but I would expect it to be a lot like nornal Australia

Paul

8 hours ago, 67RModel said:

 

Sorry but no. The answers to my questions are not at all simple and require a tremendous amount of work and research across many different industries and markets to conclusively answer. Also, the actual answer to some of the questions is always a moving target because of how quickly public policy and market forces can shift.

 

I guess your making the assumption that a lot if not all of the work you suggesting hasnt been looked into and the answers haven't been worked thru and answers given 

The end of the day dollars and cents will dictate the end result, not climate change, greens and the leftards kicking and stamping their feet with a temper tanty or people that love to burn fossil fuels and deny climate change even exists

Money talks and bullshit walks, dollars and cents will drive the change in our enrgy usage, it really is that simple in free markets of the western world 

I guess you need to consider that Australia is probably more dependent on fossil fuels than most other countries including the U.S., fossil fuels are one of our biggest exports and with out that we would go broke over night,  BUT DOLLARS AND CENTS WILL DICTATE WHAT HAPPENS 

And I can tell you from what I know fossil fuel burning for power generation is on the way out at break neck speed 

Already Australia produces nearly 50% of our power from renewables 

Dollars and cents not emotion drives this and coal cant compete, not even close on dollars and cents and reliability 

Paul 

How cool is that, dunno that flash tubeless tyres will help with the ride lol

Neat old truck, mouse house and all

Paul 

Yep, as Alex and the dealer said 80/90 for the diffs, thicker oil maybe if its really hot and hauling really heavy weights for long periods and really heavy I mean over 200,000 lbs  and in 100 degree heat for 12 hours straight, but I doubt it this is your situation 

Paul

Inline 6 are perfectly balanced were as a V8 is always out of balance

Inline 6 has more bearings to support the crank

V8 is or was a smaller physically size to fit into tighter spots than a inline 6 for the same power to weight

Macks E9 was not as reliable in the heads as their E6, why this was the case I have no idea, perhaps it was pushed into production 

However if compared to other brands of motors at the time the E9 was comparable to most and better than some

The trouble was other brands soon developed  just as much HP  and sorted out their reliability issues to the extent the E9 fell out of favor

The E7 came along and by and large was a better motor and made good power for most applications 

The E9 was eventually sorted but it took a long time to make it the motor it should of always been 

Thats my take on it anyway

Paul

No Joey, Iveco is Italian and Renault is French, I think the French government owned them for many years 

Iveco is the world's largest producer of diesel engines, I  believe they are also the largest producer of heavy diesel engines

Iveco owns or owns a large portion of Case a and Case IH farm equipment, they are huge 

Fiat, Unic, Iveco and no doubtba whole heap of other things are all owned by the same mob

Paul

BIG AL, welcome aboard

Images might be to many pixels and need to be reduced in size

I haven't been able to load pictures to the forum for some years 

I use Postimage and put a link up, took me a while to get the hang of this but it flows fairly smooth now

So it sounds like you might have s French derived Mack, some things are quicker to find putting Renault instead of Mack when Googling about if it is a French jobby

Paul

5 hours ago, 67RModel said:

I still can't get any proponents of Duracell vehicles to provide me with any data an/or science driven answers as to whether or not a shift to EVs is a net benefit to the environment. Their immediate, certain, and unscientific conviction is "yes!". However, when asked the following questions they look at me like I have three eyes and usually just say I'm cynical and/or a climate denier (whatever that is):

1. What is the carbon footprint of a complete shift away from petroleum based fuel? What is the impact of building a nationwide charging network on the scale necessary to make it just as easy for everyone to charge a car vs pump fuel into a car, and then subsequently decommission all the entire petroleum infrastructure?

2. Is the surface mining / extraction of Lithium on the scale needed to make enough batteries for the entire world any less impactful than petroleum extraction and distribution? Keep in mind the petroleum industry and infrastructure is already built out and mature. Also, Lithium mining is about the dirtiest (and dangerous) business you can be in. The amount soil and overburden you need to move relative to the amount of Lithium recovered is staggering. Lithium is highly explosive under the right set of circumstances.

3. How can the electrical generation and distribution systems be upgraded to handle a complete if not even a major shift to electric transportation? Who is going to pay for it?

4. How will road tax be collected in the absence of fuel pumps if I charge my Duracell car at my house?

5. The huge majority of electricity produced in the word comes from burning natural gas and coal. Is it ok to produce CO2 emissions at the power stations so long as there are none coming from your car? Its the same footprint its just wearing a different shoe.

6.  Why should I care to spend the gargantuan bill to switch if the rest of the under developed and developing world is going to stick with fossil fuels and reap the benefits of a much cheaper form of energy? The US will put itself at a huge competitive disadvantage by switching to EVs.

Unfortunately there is no free energy to be had anywhere. Physics demands it. About the only form of free energy is from the sun. However, there is not currently, or any time in the distant future, any practical means to harness and store it's energy on the scale necessary to power the planet.  I'm fairly educated on the subject and just can't see how Duracell cars are the answer to anything, or provide a net benefit to the environment. All they do is reshuffle the same deck of cards we are playing with at a massive cost to the consumer.

 

 

I can provide you a lot of the answers but have found every time I try and offer factual answers that apply to Australia people just want to argue so I tend not to enter into the conversation and put all of this in in the corner with the other tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists

However I can tell you that most of your questions have been well and truely thought out and the answers are pretty simple however most people just want to pick holes in tue answers and, well I just dont have that much effort to give trying to explain relatively simple answers to your questions 

Believe me or not, all of the the concerns you raise have been answered many times over and a lot of people just dont want to believe the answer 

Sorry, not a lot more to add here 

Paul

On Australian R models theres a dial on the dash for dash instrumentation lights, turn it one way the lights go bright, the other they go dull, when this gives up th er ghost you get no lights, I'm guessing the U.S. Macks are similar, maybe the place to start looking 

Paul