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A big pistol, rope, shovel, sack of lime, panty hose, rubber gloves, 3 hand grenades, rolling papers, duct tape and ear plugs. randyp

I think you left out chloroform.

Does any body know if the six rod suspension out of say a CLR will fit into a series II Superliner???

Thanks

When you say 6 rod I suspect you have the Renault hub reduction axles on the Renault 6 rod suspension. The frames are the same but I guarantee you will have to drill new holes in the Superliner to bolt it on.

i am assuming those are bunk houses on the back of them??????????

Yup! They haul through some desolate areas so they just live right in the back of the truck. Pretty hard core stuff.

If you make her move too fast she'll take to sweating. Then the fun really begins.

Really is too big to roll in flour.

Rob

Slip n slide?

Found this today,need some heavy hauler expertise,looking at the cab,looks to be mid-fifties KW? my best guess is KW/DART...no further info was provided with the picture,just "big truck" No shit! LOL!...................Mark

Those bad boys are Canadian Pacific P12W3's originally built for the South African Railroad and Harbor. Those trucks now belong to Rotran Engineering and two are still in operation. They are powered by 500HP Cummins engines and have an automatic behind them. I believe two still in operation and have been upgraded to 800HP. Pacific made some real tough trucks, they even had a camelback like suspension as well. Pacific is my second favorite brand behind Mack.

Here is an amazing collection from Bob Dingsdale on Hanks site, he received many of those pictures from Pacific itself. On page 4 you will find an extensive photo collection of the S.A.R.&H P16's P12w3 including detail shots of the chassis and assembly.

http://www.hankstruc...b_dingsdale.htm

And the Dennis Childs collection (Works for Rotran):

http://www.hankstruc...com/d_child.htm

It does look like one of those 3/4 scale toys.

Speaking of toys l just made this post from my new phone. This Droid X is great.

I gotta get me one of those phones.

I always thought the oshkosh was about the toughest looking military truck out there,only downside i see is that they were detroit powered!....AM general builds one hell of a truck as well!......Mark

Barnhart has an Oshkosh M911 that they upgraded with planetary axles. It is not much bigger but those axles give it a tougher look.

WHERE DID THIS TRUCK GO? An export model perhaps? Front driven axle, 14.00R24 rubber and from the picture it looks like it might even have 8 spoke 80k rears. What a beast!

The truck in your post looks like one of the ones NYC Department of Sanitation used a Fresh Kills landfill.

They are. This is one of the strangest dump body gates I have even seen, and I have never seen one like it anywhere else. A lift gate is used as a tail gate. Pretty unique and I have seen one of those DSNY dumps not too long ago when some moron dumped about 6-8 cu-yards of dirt across the street from our business. I called it in and a big front loader and the funky dump truck came over to clean it three days later.

Torbo,

Do you have a hanks truck pictures forum account? Plenty of guys would love to see these pictures over there!

Thats a very nice looking superliner.. but that trailer...um,a...yea

Seriously tho... you did a great job on both models.. I have a small collection of 1/25 and 1/24 Semi trucks as well. mostly macks... I use to buy all my stuff from a company called spalding trading and shipping? they delt with lots of aftermarket parts from all over the world. I think the internet dug into their buisness as last I checked they had very few parts or models in stock

trent

Trent, that is a European style dump trailer. They do look a bit odd with the super singles and fenders but that's they way they get er done on the other side of the pond.

I like the Combo.

Hi,

anyone knows if any truck from white line fever are still alive? I know replica of the Blue Mule have been made but i'm looking to find an original one from the movie..

I did a search over on Hanks Truck Pictures forum and found a little info. There were three trucks, one was destroyed during filming and the other two were sold off. An O/O in texas is believed to have one while the other was sold to a company, it might have been scrapped.

Merry Christmas everyone.

The dates for Mack Days 2011 at Gerharts are Friday September 30 and Saturday October 1. Check out pictures from last years event on our website.

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Thanks for the heads up! And tank you to everyone at Gerharts for hosting such a wonderful show.

There is a crash test standard for Euro cabovers. It was first introduced in Sweden (surprise surprise!). Its pretty rigorous and I would imaging so seeing that just about every truck in Europe is a cabover. I don't think they would drive around in death traps. Europeans are no slouches.

When you hear the term cabover please realize Euro cabovers are very safe, not to be confused with North American cabovers which ceased evolving in the early 80's (save for the Argosy). They are not the old fashioned tin boxes of yesteryear.

HE NEEDS TO DO HIS HOMEWORK, HE SAY'S THAT THESE ENGINES WERE NEVER PUT IN SEMI'S

GG2

I think he said rarely. Though, either way he is still wrong.

Is this truck located in NY or NV? Looks like NY.

I want a set of snorkles to replace my bonnets on top of my external breathers on my Superliner. I put the cowcatcher bumper on back in the summer and I think the snorkles would really look go. It will give it the Austrailian look. And of course they need to be chrome or stainless. If anyone can help with some part numbers I would greatly appreciate it.

Wow. At first glance I thought it WAS and Aussie Superliner! The snorkel arrangement has a tube from the top of the breather with I think three support brackets running from the outer diameter of the breather towards the top of the tube. Then a plastic or chrome metal scoop mounted at the top. There is also a second style that has some funky looking tube with no brackets. I am sure you could go to hankstruckpictures.com and look up thousands of pictures of Aussie rigs. Plenty of Superliners on there too!

Some pictures to get you started:

Here is one with the odd bracket-less snorkel:

And another (Notice the Renault planetary hub reduction axles):

Yeah, i know its a fake (looks good though!).....i agree,if she'd just shut the @#*k up..........i doubt she knows where korea is! i just read something else that bothered me,a recent poll of college students showed 19% ages 18-21 could NOT find the UNITED STATES on an un-marked globe of the world! pretty effin'sad as far as i'm concerned!................

I remember way back in college helping this girl out with some geography homework. She had an unmarked map of Europe and was asked to find where Ireland and where the river Rhine ran. Well I am not saying I am a Geography wiz but I knew right away where Ireland was and what country's the Rine runs through (Germany mainly but originates in Switzerland and runs through the Netherlands to the English Channel).

If you are a US citizen or interested in becoming one you dam sure better know where the USA is on a map! How that one slipped past the 19% is a mystery. Who made up the sample set they polled?

Does anyone know of a good turbo and manifolds for a 711? I know it's probably not worth it, but I've got a B-61 10 wheel dump truck with an awesome running 711 in it. I know they're prone to blowing head gaskets, but I still want to try. The motor i've got is the later model with more head bolts so maybe it will last a little while...

The 711 was not meant to run a turbo. Something about lacking fire rings comes to mind (if they blow head gaskets without the turbo I would hate to see how easy it would be to blow one with the extra boost). Also the pistons lack the necessary oil coolers present on the 673 Turbo motors. I have heard of it being done but your are going to eventually ruin your perfect motor.

David - The nice little stack of 24 inch wheels and rims I bought for you at the auction are sitting right here. The last time I walked by, they whispered that they were hoping to get sent back into action! I told them to calm down, they don't realize what it could mean for them to have to haul containers in the Carolinas. Hanging out on a cattle farm ain't such a bad gig.

I noticed that one of the wheels has a 25 inch tire and it had a spacer rim inside it for when it was used on a truck with 24 inch wheels - was that some kind of off highway thing? I have never seen it on a highway truck. Several of the wheels are Euclid puke green. Strange stuff!

25 inch? That is a tire size only found on off highway equipment. The ones I have seen are fitted to demountable rims that mount to a 24" hub. I am curious as to what size it is, 25's come in many sizes but the smallest I have heard of is 14.00-25/14.00R25, which are almost identical in size to a 14.00-24.

So you are correct in the off highway assumption. And it might have very well come off of a smaller Euclid dump.

Interesting modification.

I like how Mack waited until the late 90's to finally enter the Industrial/Marine engine business, just a year or so before Volvo bought them out. They should have been doing this since the 50's.

I'd be curious to know how they word the local reg's to exclude Duallies from being "acceptable" vehicles in the city. Hell,if they did that up here,we'd only have about a quarter of the current number of trucks on the road. Granted,even up here,if you lose a mudflap or your tail lights quit working or if you nose it into a space short enough that you block traffic,they'll jump you for it,but as long as it's a legal truck in the rest of the free world,they can't keep us off the streets here. And targeting you because you're driving a Duallie-well,they can't do that-that's profiling,and that's illegal!(I wonder how far we'd get in Court with that defense...)

Maybe we should work up a legal defense fund and fight this harassment!

Speed

Here is the strait dope from the NYS DMV website:

Choice of Registering as Passenger or Commercial:

Pick-up trucks with an unladen weight of 5,500 pounds or less, that are used as a personal vehicle, may be

registered in either the commercial or passenger class. In either case, you will pay a commercial registration fee,

along with any commercial use tax applicable for your county (form MV-202C).

Modified Pick-Up:

If the pick-up truck, of any weight, has been modified (that is, the truck bed is completely and permanently

enclosed by a camper top, and has seats, seat fittings or camping equipment mounted in the truck bed), it must be

registered in the passenger class. You must pay a passenger fee, along with any passenger use tax applicable for

your county (form MV-202).

Pick-Up Not Modified:

If the pick-up truck weighs more than 5,500 pounds and has not been modified, it must be registered

in the commercial class. You must pay a commercial fee.

So a dually could be legal but only if the bed is completely enclosed. BUT I see 2500 and 3500 diesel pickups with no cap and passenger plates. Hell just the other day a very nice dually Silverado 3500 diesel pulls up next to me with no cap, a tool box in the bed, some junk in the bed and passenger plates.

Looking up the curb weight for a 2009 Silverado 3500 it caries from 5800 to over 7000 for the dually. So its a legal no-go for passenger plates.

I have all the schools needed for sailing chief engineer and spent my time in school calculating termal efficensy of diesels with variations in operational conditions. It's a nice understanding that helped me understanding alot, but I have no interest in ending up behind a desk(again)

A simple engineering degree doesn't mean you are desk bound but it gives you some options and a possible fallback. A two year associates degree might not sound like much but its a good thing to have under your belt regardless. College education always has a nice ring to it, especially for prospective employers.

The idea to remove the blower is quite old. It's been done on sulzer and B&w engines for 50years++.

To be honest I'm disapointed that detroit stoped the development on two strokers since both the tiny twostrokes from bombardier and the large ones from sulzer can compete both on emisions and efficensy.

I figured the idea of using an electric blower is quite old. Detroit stopped the 2 stroke development simply because they gave up on the emissions problem. And I also bet it was around that time that the demand for 2 cycle detroits for Marine and industrial use began to drop off. Maybe they saw the writing on the wall.

Old, (real old ~40+ years) Lincoln red buzz box stick welder. I might add that it is a complete pile of crap. I would love a wire feed welder, smallish Lincoln or Miller unit. TIG would be nice for detailed work.

Anyone here have an opinion of flux core versus gas shield MIG? I see the cheap flux core units at Home Depot and sometimes I am tempted to get one and try it out.