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  1. ducky698
    The Argosy is a nice prime mover, it has loads of room, the down fall is it kicks the hell out of you and if your two up it kicks you out of the bed, we have massive lenght restrictions here, but most north west roadtrains are running bonneted trucks, east-west is mainly cab overs and mainly Kenworth for some stupid reason! I enjoyed the Argosy we had wich had done a million kms with a 550hp detroit and a spicer gearbox. the engine had never been rebuilt. if the length restrictions are capped on trailers alone I dont see cab overs lasting to long here either. Grant
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    Hi, the frame on my Flintstone has been cut in half and extended by 3 feet, it must have been done atleast 20years ago and has been pulling roadtrains and been put through the roughness of a mine site and its still together. I have to do some more work on the frame and have an engineer next to me, his advice to me is grind out the frame on a 45degree angle where a crack may be and then heat metal a little then weld it and let it cool down as slow as possible. all my cross beams are split and have to be done, then I will add a fish plate as per the mack specifactions. regards Grant
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    The 69 flintstone i just pulled down had aeroquip braided lines and lots of copper lines. I was surprised to see so much copper! I just put it down to when they made trucks back then, they were made to last unlike today. Grant
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    Hello, the second set in maybe???, there out of the 69 flintstone and are the same as the front set, ratio is 5.32 the front ones are a 5.13, still wrong ratio for what I need, but they will get it going for now. Grant
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    Hi, ive known it as the crows foot mounting, the 69 flintstone has it and the 75 FR700 i wrecked had it, see pic. and the 76 R600 water truck I scrapped had it also. its beeter than the other system i have been told. Grant
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    The first one took all day, the second one 2 hours once we had foundd a system that worked. now i have to straighten the one we bent! Grant
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    Will do, am hitting them today with a needle gun, them get them blasted! I nearly bought brand new rails yesterday if these didnt come apart, new ones were 13,000 aud for un drilled 343 inch long rails that were just under 11 inches high, these rails are only 9 inches. the price stopped me! Grant
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    Got them apart! tried by driving them into a 20ft container weighing 10 ton and failed, then welded 2 nuts half way down chassis and used a bolt to push inner rail out of outer rail. now for the clean up. what paint shuld be used to stop them rusting? Grant
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    http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?showtopic=8743 go into this link, it has pics, if link doesnt work its in electrical, then dash gauges r700 or something like that, last post on it was 28th march Grant
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    Hi, they were made in 1969, so not heat treated, I will avoid heat, today they got a gallon of phosphoric acid to break down the rust, still no luck but tomorrow am putting it against a 20 foot container and putting a forklift thru it! dam thing! the rust is not bad compared to most I have seen, but I do have to split the rails, not stopping now! Grant
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    Its gone about 60inches down and stopped, am now worried about kinking the channel, will find a wedge, need a long bar tho. thankyou for suggestion. Grant
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    Hello, any one split a R model chassis? the one with inner and outer rails. I have this thing stripped and cant get the inner rail out of the outer rail, it does have rust between the two but am surprised to see it still together after 3 hours of argueing with it. pic attached is prior to cross beams out, i now have the two rails laying flat next to each other, would like to see 4 tho. are they hard to get apart? any specific techniques? any help would be great, thankyou Grant
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    i just pulled that off mine, big messy thing! thats it to the left. Grant
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    this one was a six! atleast it was still on the road.
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    From the album: Road trains

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    From the album: Road trains

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    Penrith truck show NSW was pretty good last week, no R models tho. but there was a B model, 2 flintys and a old 1940s Mack plus new Macks, Peterbuilts and way to many Kenworths. have some pics in Album. Grant

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