mrsmackpaul

CMAAC was released in Australia in 1983 as far as I  know, most things get released in Australia a year or two after the US

A bit like the Anthem, theres been one or more out here getting modified and tested but none released for public sale yet 

So to me it is very probable that this is was released with this motor 2V and CMAAC as I believe 2 valve motors were still available 

Fabulous stuff Vlad

Paul 

Fantastic stuff Vlad, Im sure it will be well worth all the effort

It always amazes me how how I read on the forum that in America people wont buy something a few hundred miles away as it's to far to travel yet you and I will travel thousands and thousands of km to what most in the US  would class as rubbish 

Fantastic story looking forward to reading the rest of it

Paul 

I reckon you can still get parts for them pretty easy, just not in the states thats all

That to some might be a drama but most of us have smart phones and credit cards so it's not the big drama and is only a click or two and a week or so wait to get stuff from the other side of the world 

The midliner( with out the bonnet or hood as you blokes call them ) are pretty much the same truck and cab as the coe midliner the rest of the world know about 

So dont throw the towel in just yet

Paul

I wonder about all of these clean green companies that are building cars and trucks and the like to save us all

If you spend some time on Google do some basic research into them 

They all appear to be run by young smooth talking hipsters that dont have any real world experience, it reminds me so much of the 80's 

Don't get me wrong, I  think we need to clean up our act and clean and green is the way to go and the way forward but these hipsters who aren't even spending their own hard earned cash can do a huge amount of damage and cost our economies and us billions 

They need to be kept a close eye on as they are so reckless with money

Or maybe Im just a tight and dont like taking needless risk

Paul

I would guess they would go to the rear end as it wouldn't work if you had a hydraulic failure and I'm pretty sure they are meant to be fail safe 

Paul 

Well Im feeling left out, it wasn't even a show when I was a kid

Only narrator I new of was Ringo, when my boy was young

He tells me it's been wrecked by all the computer generated stuff on screen today

Paul 

My guess is a F or R model, would look the part in either of those

Paul 

Sadly I  am expecting a lot of other companies to follow suit in the next 12 months 

Paul 

Not much for me to say, video says it all

Paul 

On 7/18/2020 at 12:53 AM, storkmack said:

Love it!  I have always liked these.   Can’t imagine what it’s like riding along with the Cummins stuffed in the cab with you.  

Peaceful 

Paul 

5 minutes ago, Quickfarms said:

I know that an 80cf scuba tank will last about an hour at shallow debris.

So I  take it the tank doesnt last as long the deeper you go ?

I have no idea, just curious thats all

Paul 

King pins will be fine and well and truly strong enough, might need new bushes

Power steering should be doable and will make it easier to handle with the big tyres

Paul 

 Petrol motors need back pressure to stop  them burning  valves so you no doubt will need a muffler of some type

Paul 

Dunno and dunno 

Think lots of us have tried to work out how to clear our attachments and never worked it out yet 🤔

Paul

In Australia we have a internet site called loadshift and on that site you just put up what you need shifted and were and (owner operators generally) the phone starts ringing with quotes

Even though I own my own trucks a lot of the time if something is on the other side of the country its far cheaper to get it sent home this way

 https://www.loadshift.com.au/

Does the US and Canada have a equivalent site ?

I dont mind using it and sometimes you get mucked about but I  have always had people deliver 

Paul 

I have managed to miss this thread somehow

Whilst reading thru it I was "what dogs breakfast this will be"

I was pleasantly surprised at how neat the splice of different size rails was 

And I have no doubt after seeing the photos thats the way to go 

Paul

21 hours ago, 41chevy said:

Happened on mission take off. The missile accidentally was launched from an A4 on the take off line when the arm/launch switch was accidentally bumped. The video is made by the U.S.N. from on scene footage from multiple cameras used to review prep, take off and landings for training and such. Approximately 3 minutes in you see the missile launch from the aircraft in the take off line Seems that after the pilot became a Senator from Arizona  the story got "amended" a tad.

https://youtu.be/wJKSVj8ZvNQ

Thats amazing footage, how lucky the rest of us to have that footage 

That may appear to be a strange comment, the footage shows just how quick things can change and how even when people think they are trying to help they can be making it a lot worse 

The ole Swiss Cheese effect right in front of our eye's 

Most of us (me included) cant fully see at times how quick things can get out of hand and how much our own actions can make a bad situation worse 

Paul

If I  understand this correctly you want a double over drive box on 3.79 or 3.98 and you want to pull 30 - 35 tons

Unless its down hill and the load is very flat, as in sheet steel I doubt it would be very practical 

Or maybe you have 700 hp and 3000 pounds of torque 

Working gearing out on paper is a lot different than using it everyday

I feel I would get sick of changing gears pretty quick and would much prefer to have the revs up a bit and just keep on poking along for a extra 1/4 of a hour each day

Cummins used to have really good formulas for working this out and it took into account the height, the like terrain and the speed you wanted to travel at

Im sure there must be some program or formula still out there to work this out 

Paul

1 hour ago, Quickfarms said:

Unfortunately In my experience the paid firefighters do not take help from outside there community. Actually they fight it!

 

I have this to be the same in my experience as well 

Paul 

3 hours ago, Quickfarms said:

 

The ship is in the yard for work.

The crew was significantly reduced from 1,000 to just over a hundred.

The skeleton crew was probably occupied with rescuing the rest of there small crew and evacuation.

The fire suppression system was not operational due to maintenance.

Why there was not a significant fire watch on board during the maintenance of the fire suppression system is the real question or was that the duty of the crew that was onboard.
 

 

I was working at one of the major power stations in Victoria Australia when a signal fuse to Melbourne a 100 mile away was pulled in the switch yard

The snow ball effect from one tiny fuse was instant and irreversible 

The emergency power batteries were out of action for maintenance at the time 

This caused a unbelievable chain of events 

Coal fired power stations need lots and lots of water to get going and to shut down

They also need lots of oil pumped to the turbine bearings 

No power at all and the second biggest power station in the state dead, complete black out, all steam released nothing at all and no hope of getting it back on line within 12 hours 

The reason I mention this is, from one tiny thing wrong or missed this could and does happen and may well of been whats happened here 

Like watching those air crash investigation shows, every time its a whole series of small things at a certain time that cause things to go horribly wrong

I believe its called the Swiss cheese effect 

You can have plenty of holes in a block of cheese just as long as they dont all line up at once

Paul

Oh, well, um, yeah Im lost for words 

Best find a family doctor by the sounds of things

Paul 

I wonder the same thing, I just cant understand how it got this out of hand,surely the area were the fire is could of been sealed off with water tight doors shut and then that area flooded

To my untrained brain even if it was oil floating on water and it prevented flooding the use of foam or powder of some type could of been used to fill the compartment  or compartments

Gunna be one hell of a bill for this mess

Paul 

Gotta agree with Hayseed, and as ,uch as it pains me to say it they rode better and were much more comfortable to drive than a R model 

And with big Cummins motors 350-400 they were just as good as any E6 Mack motor

They also had those high torque Cummins with I think eith a Eaton or Spicer 6 speed  to compete with a Maxidyne, I dont think they sold many though

But for many years the S line and it's unidentical twin the T line were everywhere in Australia  

Paul 

Thats amazing how far its spread and still no stopping it, its in port so all facilities that you could possibly want or need I would of thought would be available to you 

Paul 

And the Tip turbine or Coolpower as they were called in Australia doesnt make it a Maxidyne, its the rack on the injector pump and the way it provides a flat torque curve that then enables the motor to lug from 2100 to around 1150 RPM without loosing power. I also believe Maxidynes had different stronger blocks with extra webbing cast into them and no doubt hundreds of other small differences but it was the same basic motor 

This meant  you needed only 5 gears to run semi trailers interstate up and down the biggest mountains and pull high heavy loads into head winds all day with out changing gears very much at all

Looking at that last photo I would say that series intercooling became available in Australia in in 1983 so maybe 1982 in the states

Plenty of information on how the Maxidyne works and the principal behind them

Paul 

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