Vladislav

Ok boys and girls. This is what took me busy for a really looooooong time. And with no worthy turn out in the end. End??...

Sorry no part# in my inventory and it probably wouldn't help you much since those old parts are usually NLA. In your case I'd look for the drum ID and shoe's width. Than try locating a modern drum of those sizes keeping in mind it must be for a stud piloting / ball seat hub. The ones used with hub-piloting wheels have larger stud holes and wouldn't seat proper on your hubs. I had an idea to spice the hole sizes difference with small tubes made by lathe but have never done it. And not sure it's good.

Beautiful truck!

A friend of mine has old Scania with V8 14 liter engine. The basic block is the same to what Mack used in 865 or 866, never mind. He said me that his engine had spin on filter to supply the turbo only. The main oil filtering system utilizes a centrifuge.

Money?

I remember from news in the past that John Travolta donated his big Boeing to some Australian aviation museum. If the memory serves it was 707 or 737 and it was originally in service in some Australian company. David - that little project seemed little indeed. Until you see it loaded on a low boy Hope you didn't need that special tool to remove the wings.

Good thing i couldn't get to Gerhards show this year Haven't you make a picture of that R700?

They drive quite nice in case you enjoy owning the truck. Welcome to the site and we all here too like to see PICTURES!!!

From looking the avatar picture I can tell the truck is in Saskatoon. Or at least it was there and it was there for a quite long while. As long as there's a picture of the truck(s) made in 1988 and posted in Bart Vanderveen's book. Actually there were 3 Mack NR's there. One blue and two green. All were recabbed with after the war all steel L-model Mack cabs. Once the trucks were posted for sale on e-bay if the memory serves. And we discussed it on here. The engines were original WW2 Mack Lanova indeed. 519 ci 131 hp pre-chamber Mack diesel. In fact it was the 1st series production Mack diesel introduced in late 1938. Sure would be cool to learn more about your truck and the purchase history. You are very welcome together with pictures more to come Vlad

Thank you. Just don't remember seeing before. I had some ideas on that matter but was ways off from being sure. Now will keep it in my mind.

Looks like a driver profession is becoming an operator of a truck, not a driver. Such person costs cheaper. But sometimes it turns out into a ten times more worth.

Yes, that's what I thought. And probably the same thing was used on GPW (Willis) during the war times.

Can't figure out what that black mascot on the hood means.

Jim, I'm afraid Winfall brand is already a copyrighted thing. At least so much time and efforts were spent into its grow up. And if it's even stll not copyrighted if you (or anybody else excepting OD) would try using it anybody would feel it's not a genuine product. Tom, thanks for the pics. The tree which is a truck is increadable. And the cats have such faces like they knew who took all the furniture away but would never tell.

I would bite a bullet and end up with the exterior paint. Maybe in the spring, not now. Overall a nice looking B.

A good thing there's not only the part number but also a good quality picture of the decal. For a case if someone will want to draw it and than print a new sticker.

Quite a common story. I can appreciate when anyone takes a pile of parts and than try to get something solid of it. But much usually a guy takes some quite solid or complete vehicle, butcher it up along the way of his fantasy and than later runs out of cash/power/interest.

As said above. The only thing would be required is to paint it Olive drab with some white stars. Sure a cool thing to have in the yard.

I didn't note you said it was straight 6 4.0L. Only later series XJS had straight 6. That's why I thoufght it had V12 5.3.

Are you sure your service brake lights (at the rear end of the truck) are working? I can tell you a small switch on the firewall just behing the engine rear head is what activates the service brakes light. And they light on when the parking brake is applied either. Sorry can't tell about the particular switch you're asking about. From my memories it is attached to one of the dash brake valves behind the dash face panel. But I'm not 100% sure at the moment, didn't tinker with.

Those Western battery box bottoms don't suit Eastern covers, no matter aluminium or steel. Two batteries would be quite enough to start and drive your truck, especially in your warm region. I have two batteries installed in one Eastern box which looks smaller than yours. The only and important thing you should insulate the terminals in the other box very well. Otherwise some inside the box welding or a blast in the other inside might happen. No ideas on the matter of the device atop of the filter. Pretty sure it's an aftermarket thing. Could be a water sensor if the filter is a fuel one. The location of the filter itself doesn't seem familiar to me either.

Do you currently have some V8 under the hood in place of original V12?

Nice looking R and the crane/flatbed combo is sure always handy. Is that a Hayward built unit?

Yes, the bear was very strong and pissed off. And too probably shocked. The guy who was telling about a knife was too probably shocked either and didn't know WHAT he was actually going to do. At least it seemed to me that way. Don't know where those folks drunk or not. Maybe not, just too much emotions hitted them. And I'm pretty sure the event took place in a far and low-habitated area of the country. Bears along with much other wild life are scarce in the areas people live. Too much of illegal hunting took place in the distant past.

Yes, they were. Honestly I had expectations on what I will hear but have to state I'm not ready to type everything of their speach on here. The start words with 2 or 3 repeats were "We must kill him right now". Than "give me a knife and I'll do that". Than later woman's voice starts screaming "the bear is about to get out, guys come into the car ASAP." Needless to say 60% of the speach is "what the f***ing hell" and so on.