Vladislav

I'm with Hat this time. Also like the grader's leaker motor.

Deutz produced trucks. With their air-cooled engines in them.

That too might be not a missprint. In this discussion we missed one fact so far. If you look over the tyre sizes there are 11.00's and 11.00 R's. This means two mentioned sizes exist(ed) in both bias and radial design. And according to the chat above they have different sizes. Actually it's difficult to suppose exact dimentions of some tyre taking to account so wide variety of them. But from my practice 12.00R24's (tube's) I put on my WW2 Mack are really huge. Sure larger than 12.00R24.5 I have a pair of in my yard. And talking closer to the matter of question they are noticably bigger than 10.50-24's (!!) which my truck rode when was purchased. The truck had two tyre sizes from the factory in different years - 10.50-24 and 11.00-24. As far as i remember reading in different sources in the past older (bias) tyre sizes had the first figure in their designation as the heigth of its profile. So when you put that heigth twice and add the rim size that would mean the overall diameter. But for radials (or just newer wheels starting from some date in years) the firs figure is the profile width. When you have a profile share (/75, /60 e t.c.) marked, the higth might be count as the percentage of the width pointed behind the slash. And when you have it NOT, you should count the profile higth as 84% or 100% referring to different sources. Taking all that into a sum we can explain all those differences in tyre sizes we use to deal with together with difficulties to recognize an actual wheel's measurements. And getting further that's the reason I keep alot of scepsis to different tyre calculators and chats and trust the most to an actual size I can just measure with a bend.

As I remember from the talks on here they did. I have a couple of Oakwille RW VIN plate pic's saved somewhere. Just can't find them right now.

I once bought alu wire and filled correct gas up. Got sh*t. You sure might try it too. And better do. To have no doubts. I just shared my experience.

Thank you for keeping in mind my interest. Not much of need to make better pictures from my side, I have the most things understood. Currently I have some parts of my R-model interior in the upholstery shop and going to reproduce them as close to the original style as possible. My truck has level 3 blue color inside. The seats are with cloth on the main surfaces and vinil on their sides. The door panels are vinil with carpet at the bottoms, no cloth. And vinil headliner of perfarated material. I generally like blue but see no clue to have it combined with light green body color. So resolved to go with dark grey. Just had an idea to make doors of vinil top with something different in the middle. Maybe perfarated vinil or cloth. But it seems to me resonable to use the same material on doors as some other parts utilize. For example the same cloth as the seats do. Now I see Mack did different way and I generally dislike it. As for the seat cloth itself I hope to save my original stuff just combined with new vinil sides. So no spare seat cloth to put onto the doors if I want to.

Broky, depending on what do you mean as the replacement. I once found ocassionally that removed tyre of the size of 12.00-24 had almost the same inside central diameter (where tyre seats on a rim) as 11.00R24.5. I don't think though 12.00R24.5 has the same outside dimentions as 12.00-24 or 12.00R24 (tube type). The last ones look really large.

Such news aren't close to what might be called "nice". It's a big shame on my mind. Sems the locals have no respect to Dutch, American, British or Australian sailors who fought Japanise there. Frobably it looked like a "no their's deal" to them. On the other hand, respect to men who died and found their graves at the sea bottom is a normal thing to any civilized people over the globe. A very big shame is getting coins from a someone's grave. Lots of examples of that in the world though. Sad it's really difficult for British or other authorities to organize constant protection of such ship wrecks. The ocean is too large.

Not much of success with a wire welder for aluminium. Better to go for TIG. On the other hand (and on my mind) battery covers would turn out better of SS diamond plate. You can either weld them with your wire welder using SS wire. And that's what I'm going to do myself.

Seems it will be easy soon for American guys to buy a used KamAZ truck as an addition to collection

Josh, Minor question. Does Level 4 have the headliner and the doors lined with the same cloth as used on seats? Or another simiar material? Unfortunately I don't remember a chance to observe it in person. And thanks for the detailed explaining of the matter

Cool set of pictures, I like 'em all! The limit plate at the front of the covered bridge gives me decission that the FWD could pass it. Or has it already done that trick? And such space zig-zags - from Lehigh Walley to Florida passing Winfall Gladys by the way - was that possible just using a correct road? I mean was that all you needed just to start the trip passing the bridge?? I sure know that might be a secret matter and I souldn't question it in the open forum. If so PM would work

Congrats!!

This seems to me as a possible matter of what goes on in the economics. Although I haven't even noted any talks on it in media's. So seems like eclological issues are used just as a mask. What is really bad having those environmental problems of so serious grade.

It's always seemed to me (and I always said that) that the most of those environmental requirements were created to force people to buy newer vehicles (and other stuff such as TV's or washing machines etc). And not to really make the environment cleaner. If you try to count how much garbage is produced by wasting used things (for real quite unused in many cases) and at the same time how much of emissions and heat is generated making new (more "green") things, you would get to opinion on lowering the number of different things to consume by people. And not to advise and forse people to buy more and more newer stuff. Sure newer things are designed to be cleaner. And that's good. On the other hand there are methods (as old as our world) to make things better with small worth. For example, the most expensive part of a car is its body. And it doesn't make pollutions. So you may make a body to be good for a long. And just modernize engines and swap them. But what we can see instead of, for a modern car or truck, if we get some small part to break down, and go to a dealer, they in many cases say that we must buy a whole unit for a fix. My question to you (to anybody): does it seem much of the reason to make our current rig cleaner? Or forse us to buy a newer and cleaner rig? Or just to ripp our wallet more efficiantly? With no care for the environment.

Off any E-model Mack I suppose. And maybe off a A-model too. Not 100% sure though. Too doubt any other vehicle would bring you what you need.

Sorry to hear...

I'm easily satisfied with just well dried quarry sand.

The position of most any hood colud be corrected. And the same to any other body part. It's just a question of amount of labour you'd care to spend. And sure body man's skill. I'm not ready to tell you which way a RW hood position on chassis could be set or corrected. On a R-model the front hinges might be moved forward/backwards and the ball joints allow you to get it a bit up and down.

Larry, Don't you see those alu plates to cover them grade 8 bolts?

Maybe just to buy a used one and paint it? If the truck is supposed for work.

When I bought my original (Russian) NR it had a Russian kind of 6-71 under the hood. The truck is basically similar to LF. And has almost similar hood. The earlier versions had closed L-model cab either. The reason I'm posting that is the folks who fit the engine had to cut out the front chassis cross-member (the radiator support) to clear the crankshaft pulley. So I would expect seeing the same "customizing" in that LJ. The tag tells LJT 1D which means single drive axle. Looks like someone added a tag axle (or pusher?) to it.

Wow! That's a collection! Increadable number of tractors and steam engines! And seeing this makes me think of how industrially developed America already was in those older years. Thanks the great for posting.

Where's that landfill? Do you have anything left off that cab? I'm in interest for lower airbag brackets and some parts off the gear shifter.

A fabricated housing should be weldable. I would do it as usual. Drill holes in the ends, cut out along the crack and weld. Better try to do it both sides. Unfortunately I have almost nothing experience on how long it would last. Hope other folks will point you out on that. Four years back a rear housing on International Harvester 9400 had a crack along the cenrtal hemisphere where it was welded into the banjo. A guy cut the crack on the outer side only since the axle was on the truck and filled with oil. He welded it and no troubles so far. I don't know the real milage the truck has done to the moment, nearly one tyre set is gone from that day. With the road conditions couldn't be described as smooth and easy. I have an extra 44 cast housing laying in the yard. Come and get it!