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Vladislav

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  1. 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".
  2. Try to contact our member Alex G on this matter.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Thanks on the advices. Will try some more efforts in the future. My second tank is in the waiting line.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. But at the same time we would like to
  10. Welcome to the forum! Vlad
  11. Some folks overhere use home-made devices. Actually it's like a thin tube oil goes through by gravity and fall onto a frypan (usually an actual kitchen frypan!) All that is put into some housing, a kind of big pipe installed vertically with a pipe at the top for smoke. What I saw was a terrible view of really dark black smoke from the exhaust. A lot of heat was produced though. One guy who used it one got fire. He had some ventil in the oil supply pipe to get correct amount of it when burning. He put a bit more than needed and didn't do observation as he used to every half an hour. The oil got over the edge of the pan and leaked outside spreading flame. He had his device in the foundation with concrete floor and walls so no loss excepting smoke, big black oil spot and emotions. Seeing such stuff I lost any intend building one for my shop. Some other guys use factory built units and they work good. My need is a boiler since I have water pipes and radiators. Those I checked out some years back were expensive (starting from $3000) and also required an air compressor which was not included.
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  13. That's damn unbelivable! On my side I can not tel it's better in my own country. And too probably will not be in the distant future. But I too wish you Americans to get things correct way soon. One thing I always sure - working people must not be a cow only milked to feed others.
  14. Thanks for the explanations, guys. I remember we talked about that setup in the past. BTW pretty interesting style, nothing like that overhere to be seen.
  15. Welcome on forum! Very impressive looking truck you have. Anyone might get blind of so much chrome on a sunny day Vlad
  16. Sad story about your friend's wife. Maybe someone else on here will put more info on the truck.
  17. Congrats on the purchase. The truck sure needs love but I suppose they will cost like gold in some years. Great looking superdog!
  18. At least the oil pan gasket is the same.
  19. Might be not a hell of a job. On the other hand start from relating the width of the frames. CH has it different than RW. You will need the axles with equalizer levers and to-rail brackets, air bag suppor crosst tubes and also two rear frame crossmembers to put on your truck. Looking the crossmembers and equalizer brackets you might see spacer plates which compensate the difference between different frames. If you can not use the crossmembers in your frame or if the distance (width) between the lever brackets is less than on the CH the deal might get failed. Swapping just the pair of diffs seems much easier and too probably trouble-free about the job. Vlad
  20. I like two big Mack trucks no less than the holstein. Wonder what did they have as a tail?
  21. I would grab that one and put on my second R's chassis if it's closer or easier to ship. On the other hand it seems attractive as such a crasy deal to do. Easier to go - less fun
  22. I have T2090 with 5.02's in my R688 with E6-350. You can cruise 60 mph (100kmh) with no trouble. The top speed I could achieve was 125 by speedo and 119 kmh by GPS at the same time. Unfortunately my tacho is dead so no ideas on the revs. I just noticed the engine didn't increase revs at some point so I supposed it was governed that way. Forgot to add, I rode 11R24.5's.
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