Vladislav

Jim, no, I haven't heard your comment!! I know I don't need it !!!

I would too like to see the finished result. The most restorers I checked out just fill up cracks and than paint a wheel. What seems to me not nice, especially after some runs when you worn a coat of paint through. A local company made a silicone form to cast a new body on an old carcass of epoxy resin. But they have made it for only one particular (and popular) classic Russian car. I asked to make a custom form for my Mack wheel and quoted for nearly $1000. Not ready to tell I was happy to hear that figure.

Looks excellent!

Rob, which spacer?? Above the axle beam??

Cool purchase! A couple of runs over a willage on a sunny day and you will start loving it with all the sticks it has. What does it have of an engine and rears? Double frame?

Very impressive huge units. Thank you guys for sharing the facts about.

Since Macks in Russia are too scarce I would count as a crime hiding my recent find. It's in nearly 5000 km from my location, sells not for free and I hope will find a new owner without my business. So no plans to bring it to my propery (at least so far) Seems like an ex-oilfield rig, too probably was imported from the States with some equipement on. Don't know what's under the hood so far, looks like an automatic shifter in the cab. Maybe will make a call to learn more about it. https://spec.drom.ru/noyabrsk/truck/prodam-gruzovik-mas-50783698.html

Mack has "automatic" power divider. Which is actually an interaxle differential. Just of a special design. Some of them have optional "complete" lockout. That's what you see as a switch to do. Seeing no other ones means you have no axle (between the wheels) diff locks on your truck.

Sorry to hear. But sometimes we better should be clever than end up with something stupid. BTW I have never seen the mixer detailedly and more pics might help in finding a good home too.

What a reat story of the truck and your family you posted! Honestly I read it some weeks back but still missed a chance to comment in the thread. A whole plenty of facts starting from that you're not a boy and the reason the project is executing for are highly impressive and take my hat off. Now I see the signs of the progress and it's a pleasure to. Unfortunately I have neither spares for E-model to help you, nor I'm far away to. But I wish best of luck to get the job done fast enough to be in the time frame and do it smooth and easy. Will follow your thread and keep it in mind. Hope to see more job done soon and you doing fine. Vlad

Really neat truck you have purchased. E7 is a very good option to it either. Wish you good luck with it and hope to see its look freshened up soon to match the proud of the fleet.

I have never had experienced with involving elves' labour. Just might be afraid getting some gramlins instead of them and the job ruined.

Looks like it was sprayed over with red on a quick basis.

Seems like too many different country officials should hide facts. So it must be a big game if we try to imagine it such way. As far as I remember local media didn't spread info flows of any facts Russian radar or satellite system located and American authorities denied, as they use to do recently sharing any event as "Russia provides very good and Americans are bad guys at the same time".

Try to contact our member Alex G on this matter.

I have done it such way, onto the concrete floor. Got a small oil leak after that and had to hit the pan back in shape during the engine rebuild.

That rocker arm is a piece of art.

Swedish folks will engeneer to give it ready to American people. Unfortunately not for free though. And as it seems to me as further as way far from free.

Thanks on the advices. Will try some more efforts in the future. My second tank is in the waiting line.

Guys, my trouble with that tank was in a different ball park. It was never polished before indeed. And lots of pitting as a follow. Starting from that point I ordered one of my boys with a grinder to sand all off. He started from 120 grit but had to step back to 60. Spent no less than 3 days getting tonns of alu dust until the most of cavits were gone. Probably sanded off something like 0.3 - 0.5 mm of the wall thickness. Than he followed with all sand papers step by step. That time I went for a trip for a couple of weeks. Found him still sanding when back home! Finally he ended up with 2000 paper having almost no scratches, pitting and so on. But when it was a time to polish that aluminium showed its character. I couldn't do anything with it by common "green" stuff and applied the mentioned above 3M paste I had very good results on Alcoa wheels. It turned out as good as you can see. Nothing better. You have to apply the paste with a piece of cloth. You start rubbing it and found it gets brighter. But the paste becomes to be a black stuff at the same time. So you have to remove all the rest of it until it dries. If you dont it sticks to the surface and the only way to remove is 2000 sand paper. Just a nightmare. Sure I made research on the materials to polish aluminium which are in stock overhere and found nothing to work better so far. Going to try order something else from the States or other country. But there are difficulties with importing liquid stuff.

Timmy, it looks outstanding Observing what you have done with the truck on my 'puter I'm really impressed. Of all the stuff I could find locally the best result was achieved with 3M Marine Polisher, and I'm not satisfied with it. Not bright as hell and difficult to work with. Hand polishing is the only way. So I will try to put my hands on something more successful.

Some months back Barry had to update the site sofware and that forced changes in the interface. Many daily visitors were gone after that moment. Or got scarce. I suppose that was not mostly a matter of the change itself. Probably many got upset of being here for a long time. So additionas troubles dealing with the site made a kind of hit. Previousely that day you usually could see "collapse" in the "members online" count at the top of the page. Facebook makes its work either.

But at the same time we would like to

Welcome to the forum! Vlad