Vladislav

Looks like a great environment for a vacational trip. Just drooling on cruising such roads with a truck. Not sure the weather is that beautiful all the time though. Thank you for sharing this part of the world.

The B is B e a u t y!

Welcome on board! And also what they said about pics !

One extremely rare beast. Thank you for sharing. Once some long while back AC Mack of the same company showed out on here. Was in a very good shape for its age either.

On a side note - why did you need a wrecker to work with asphalt ??

So does this means a Vision of 2003 had Mack frame rails and of 2005 Volvo ones? Or had they been produced in parallel for some while being offered as an optional choice?

Starting from which model? Pinnacle with MP engines?

That's a really cool story! Paulk, thank you for posting it on here. I sure saw those images on the net since they were NR-related but haven't read the article.

If you check evil bay there's plenty of repair manuals for CRD92/93 carriers which should be installed on your Superliner if the axles are Mack.

Hope no damage excepting your wife's sleep termination

I would say you have everything about Ok. Actually your alternator gives 14.8. What I would say is a bit much. As I remember from theory the optimal charging voltage is 13.8-14.2. To explain the matter of your issue I have to lay out some theory again. Any current goes over a circle. Here we speak about the charging current. Starting from "+" pole of the alternator it goes to the "+" of the battery terminals, than passes both batteries (parallel), passes "-" terminal, follows through the negative cable to the chassis and the engine block to the alternator's body where alternator's coil provides it to the "+" pole again. And from this point to the next circle. So you noted the current passes every cable and connection included. Every part of the cycle has some resistance. The current passing a particular part affects loss of voltage. By Ohm's law I=U/R, so U(Volts)= IR.. As you can see the loss would be more if the resistance is greater. Or if the current is greater also. Taking this to attention we have: If you measure the voltage at the alternator's pole (and it's body) on a test bench you see 14.8V. In this case the current from alternator goes through your tester only and is minor. The voltage loss is minor either so you see full volts. Than you attach the alternator straight to the batteries. The resistance of the circle consists of those straight (and good) wires. So there's a drop from 14.8 to 13.2. I'd say the cables you used in that case were not fatt enough. When you tested your truck originally with the stock wires (and long unserviced connections) you got 12. Than when you disconnected both the batteries (and interrupted current through them) you saw 14.8. About neither current went through the alternator excepting very small which passed the gauge coil so you saw almost all what alternator could produce. There's one more point (if you still have some power to follow my brain-burning tale). Your tester shows voltage (or a loss of voltage) exactly between the points of the circle you put test wires to the ends of. What this mean. When you put your tester onto the alternator you see the alternator's voltage (actually including its internal loss on it's coil). But it produces so you see all it produces. When you check on battery(s) you see the voltage loss on it (the part of alternator's produced voltage which actually PROVIDES CHARGE). Talking formally this voltage is also a loss. Just a useful loss. If you put your tester between the battery pole and alternator pole you would see the loss along that part of the cables. Interesting question is where the stock gauge is attached to. Usually closer to the battery poles to show how batts do. But if you pretend to know WHAT IT ACTUALLY SHOWS you should learn the points it is attached to. One more side of the story. If you look again at Ohm's law you can see voltage (loss of voltage in our case) depends on current either. This explains for example why you see a drop on V gauge when batts are discharged. Alternator produces more current to charge them up and they're "hungry" to accept. But all the charge circle has its own resistance of cables and (poor) connections. Having existing resistance and higher current at the same time the voltage loses more on those resistance. As a follow you see lower Volts at the batteries - the rest of what alternator gave minus those increased losses. Sooo... If you'd like to see higher number on the clock check out all the wire connections along the charging circle. Including connections of the alternator to the engine block. Minor but important note. If you noted I mentioned battery's internal resistance. As long as the current goes through a battery, there's some voltage loss in it. And it gives some drop in what gauge shows. So you will always saw less Volts on your gauge with batteries connected (and being charged) as on a "naked" alternator. Now on a positive note (from which I started) - there's not such hard matter of the issue. When you batteries are good (and being not deeply discharged) they don't require strong charging current. Less current means less loss of voltage. So as higher the batts are charged as less meaning in the low voltage you observe. Hope you haven't damned me seven times reading all that this can help

Might be missmatch of hoses. You should look well over the piping diagramm to count out the issue.

I suppose nobody would argue that Aussie have a taste in trucks. Neat ex-WW2 Canadian Chevy converted into a firetruck. Many thanks for sharing those eye candies.

Have a Great Day and many many more!!

Tom, thank you for the pictures. I missed some issues in the nearest past but hope to keep the track. Along all the laps red Superdog is a nice catch. Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July America!

Thank you for the reply.

He even promises free shipping. Excepting Havai and Alaska... Worth to make a call??

Jim, where did you spotted it? The truck at the left (to the right to the U) is a nice looking R I saw a picture of once. But I don't remember showing it out in anybody's reports along the East coast.

Have a Great Day!

Ocassionally I bought Mercedes 500SEC in 1999 with dead engine. Bought 4 door sedan to do a swap and than ran the car for 7 more years. Parted out 7 or 8 coupe's and about 50 sedans during those years. The one on the picture I bought from a friend of mine in 2008. Run it at summer times, especially nice for long trips. It makes 200-240km/h easily and more if you want. The nearest place I can do it legally is Germany though. In Russia it's possible also sometimes with care. BMW's made my mooth water this time. The dark blue 6 series was M635CSI. People call it M6 on your side of the pond. One of the Alpina's was imported from Monaco a couple of years back. Stored for 10+ yrs there but outside. Good climate there though. The other one was a stock 6 with some Alpina additions made later as i was told. What made me really glad to see were 2 E9 CSI coupe's. It's a well-known car in Europe but nobody imported any to Russia. And now I could see the whole two! I had a back thought to bring such one from Europe since it was such a rare beast overhere. But you can't get all your plans moving. And now no need, someone have it already done. So one more headach off my mind

Sorry and maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't look like stainless.

That's a good question and I surprized nobody put it up before. Those "trackked boxes" are for collecting turf, along with all other eqiupment there and the very railroad. It's a kind of a harvester machine. Turf exploration is provided by plowing a slim layer off the ground and keeping it still on the ground for some warm days to dry. Than those tracktor-pulled buckets came in action to scrape dry turf off the ground and roll into coils.

Hi Billy, sorry, I'm mostly off the 'puter and the net recently due to the job and other headaches entertainments. Haven't googled Edmond Fitzgerald so far but I will. Pretty interesting. It's both a tech story and a story of our life. Yes, you're right on the MH grill. It's aftermarket and was fabricated by someone because the original central part was broken in the accident. I happened so I saw that truck about 2000 year for the first time. There was no grill than. And the bull bar also though No, it seems mostly untypical to hit a deer/elk/hog on the road overhere. During Perestroyka years because of low policemen activity lots of outlaw hunting were provided (and still continue). So population of wild creatures went down. Honestly I had been surprized seeing on this web-site results of such "meets" in the US. For Cuba I heard many talks on that overhere because Russians make flights there for a holiday from time to time. Can't say it's too popular direction because of the long way. My father visited Cuba in early 80's a couple of times along his job. He was to Havana. But I haven't heard of old American cars overthere from him. Of what I remember he told me how they rode a Lada car owned by some Cuban man with a speed of 30 or 40 km/h along a straight and wide highway built by Americans. Being questioned on that slow trip the driver said that he removed 2 pistons of the 4 cylinder 1.5 liter engine to save damn expensive gas!!

Hi JT, Nice to hear from your side either, it's a long time since we discussed last. Here's a couple of shots specially for you. Last weekend we had a small meeting which was called "Classic coupe day". Mostly MB and BMW. So you might enjoy