Vladislav

No, that one was of a line of vehicles to recover descent devices with spacemen after landing. Those rigs were designed to operate as a convoy of 3 or 4. One should be for transportation of personal including medics and cosmonauts but the one on the pic seems to load and haul the descent device itself. That's the reason for the crane mounted on. Russian version of DUKW looked really close to original GMC's. Had some good upgrades though such as openable read gate. But it was made later, starting from 1949 so the improvements were done to the original design. It was not a complete copy but sure difficult to find differences in the look.

Sounds funny about the horse and the steel ball. Probably wasn't that funny when out there. Good they allowed you to use your camera. Very impressive load of a rail road constructing set. Looks enough if you'd like to build a track from your house up to the main road. Oh, a set of rails was not included Oh, and Everest... That's only the beginning, right?

This is also one of onknown to me units. Looks like made in the US but I'm not any sure on that. Sorry no Winfall kind pictures from me. Hope it could be covered by our professional posters in the different thread.

These khaky-painted WW2 units were found at Kurilskie islands where they fought Japaneses in August and September of 1945. Tandem GAZ and ZIS are extremely rare so such an avanture of 10,000km travel with a boat trip and nobody knows how gotten permit to visit those near-the-border islands was involved to acheve these examples. Sure a full restoration was done to them since the trucks spent 70 years outside on a small island with hard winds, snow etc. I was too impressed being told the fact. A rare GAZ-72 Pobeda car in 4x4 version. Someone found them two and did a perfect job. Not sure those were original, could be rebuilt using a common single drive Pobeda.

Some experimental off-road truck of 50's or 60's and a pre-war time GAZ-AA

There were also some American firetrucks which were imported from the US in the recent years by private collectors. No Macks here (as always) so I can't tell anything about them. But expect descriptions from BMT firetruck guru's .

Two nicely restored pre-war ladder trucks - GAZ-AA (Russian Ford-AA version) and ZIS-5. A hand-driven water pump built in Moscow in the very beginning of 20th century

This ladder truck has an interesting background. The ladder unit was a German made one and imported to Russia in 30's mounted on some German chassis, Mercedes-Benz or Krupp. During its service the chassis had been beaten to death but the ladder stayed good. So it was reinstalled on Russian built ZIS long wheelbase chassis to continue the service. Many were redone that way in the late 30's. This one is the only known surviver and ZIS tandem chassis is an extremely rare thing too since the most were lost during the war. The other big truck with a tank is 7 ton YaG-6, a pre-war predecessor of YaAZ trucks (the one on my avatar pic). These are extremely rare because not many were built and all before 1941 so the war took the most of them. This one is the 1st I have ever seen in person. I mean a truck at all, not particulary a fire version. The one with the hood open is a 50's UralZIS. During WW2 ZIS plant was evacuated from Moscow deeper to the East, to the Ural rocks region. The trucks built there were rebranded and that particular pre-war model was in production during 50's. Its roots go to some 30's or late 20's Autocar model which was bought as a license to produce ZIS-5 trucks in Moscow.

Recently a regular Oldtimer show took place in Moscow which i used to attemd. This time I found out a big exposition of firetrucks represented there. The reason was a 100 years anyvessary of fire guards service in Russia. So there was a 2nd hall full of units painted red. Along with some other trucks put to the show by different people the event looked like a truck show a little bit. That surprized me since you don't use to see a truck-specified meeting as a common practice here. To my sorry my camera ran out of power so I rested it home relying on a stupidphone. Just didn't expect to find out much interesting to make a pic of and stepped in a pool. The trucks represented were taken from different collections and museums for the event. These are GAZ (smaller ones) and ZIS engines of 50's and early 60's.

Thank you for the advice. I'll try that for a practice. I found one of such carriers in my shed apart from the axle housing and could read the markings on the bearing cup without removing it. Didn't write the # on a paper but those are not the ones I need.

Sounds very promising. I don't drool about a birthday in April since I have one myself. But Macungie this year is a second reason to keep my fingers crossed. Let's see. On the other hand a life should make turns to a good side sometimes. Just remember to steer smooth

Basically they're quite similar to what was installed on tandem L or B models. The banjo shape was slightly different and neat-looking axle bumpers were used to limit their travel up to the frame rails. Those were a pack of spring leaves attached to the lover side of the rail, the same spot you can see a bumper on a B or even R/DM. Looked like a common spring pack cut in halves and one such half is installed above each axle end. Sorry difficult to describe and probably more difficult to figure out. I just don't have a pic handy. There's a book with green cover of Mack historical series describing early F-series trucks. You will find detailed shots of those bogies there along many other amazing photos.

Great old pics! And what is interesting to me they brings the feeling of the time. A pleasure to see people doing job, not just spending time enjoying some stupd things. And it's not difficult to count out my favorit one. Yes, I like pouring concrete too Thanks for sharing.

Best of luck! And I will keep my fingers crossed for you

All those finds seems treasuries. And Mack firetruck is beauty. Or a beasty. No matter, it just brings emotions

Great pics, really enjoyed to see. Along the bike fest report I was impresed with the tree through the roof shot. BTW was all the show dated to St Patric's day? And I'm just afraid to ask on the matter of your new avatar meaning

There were EM6, EM7 and even EM9 Maxidynes. I just not sure were there EM-6 with 4 valve heads.

Best B-day wishes! Hope no scratches or flaws today

3.Torque adjusting nut (while turning wheel) to 50 lb.ft 4.Loosen adjusting nut as needed to align the adjusting-nut pin with a hole with anti-rotate thing When loosening the adjusting the nut at the last step you get the bearings free a little bit. For hub bearings that snug is used to compensate a parts heat "biggereizening". And this is typical for hub bearings mostly, probably because they have high spinning speeds or cool up less efficient than gearbox or differential ones having no such extensive oil circulation. I can't tell the reason for sure right at the moment. Bearings you fit with preload is alomost another story when assembling. First of all you must have a distant tube to put between the inner races to stop the outer bearing from going in. You need to put a load (the preload) on it so it shouldn't be movable inwards. The tube could be of a hard desingn and you grind it into the size or add shims to make longer when setting preload. Or it could be deformable (usually on cars) so you're torqueing up the nut until a sertain number of lbsft to deform it sufficient to get a correct preload. This style of a bearing unit is usually utilized in carrier pinion assembly. And you don't need a lock nut in those cases since you torque the (only) nut up to stopping against the outer bearing inner race. Which itself stops against the distance tube, which stops to the inner bearing inner race and than to the sfaft's step you put the inner bearing up to when installing. So you tight up the nut really hard with no need to lock it additionally. Just secure with a wire or a stich press from vibration. Slack bearings fit is another story. You put the ajusting (1st) nut slightly loosy (turning it back for a couple of washer notches for example). This way the nut has no lock from turning off. So the 2nd (lock) nut is applied. Or the 1st one could be made a way to be lockable itself. For example it could be made with a split and a lock screw to tighten it up over the shaft.

Permanent magnets became much more efficient in the recent years. That's also the reason modern loudspeakers utilize magnets of much lesser size than before.

It's KHA 5444 P10 on CRD93. I have another one of the same time frame but that one is impossible to read. But I can tell for sure there's also P10 in the end. The banjo stamping is 1QF51218P6 S441C, just for some reason.

What kind of hub bearings preload are you talking about guys? There's no preload, there's slack.

Google Renault Midliner, thoser cylinders must be the same. But overseas purchasing might be involved and some parts lists might be found written in French

Larry, air in our world is still for free, right?

Any luck recieving them felts? I tried googling 2795-120002138L and 2795-120002137R but saw neither results.