Vladislav

Glenn, that sounds unbelevable! To my sorry, nothing like that here. If I try to send the axle to overseas trip it might be missed in between the coasts

Randy, thank you for sharing the facts around you. The T-short is cool. And the turd What was the story in Beirut? When I was a kid I remember there were some talks about war in Lebanon.

That sounds optimistic. Might be depending on the degree of out of shape. The hub on the bent spot turns heavier then the others but I can spin it over by two hands with no trouble. I noted also one of the axle shafts is of the different style by its flange end form. Looks like someone had to change it in the past, too probably due to a failure. What I am really afraid is a shaft's break down wich will result me sitting in a middle of the road. Especially nice if it happens on a railroad cross wich are everywhere around. I can spare the shaft off my second R though. Any ideas on how fast the shaft could be gone? I understand this question is a kind of dumb one but maybe anyone had experience? This truck was towed for 700 km to me when I bought it and I'm sure that wheel was turning all the way.

Ummm!...

Incredable! A man's will has no limits.

Nice trucks! Thank you for sharing.

At least it looks much better than salt. Hope they use it on ice roads and not everywhere.

Unbelevable! Tim, by the word, how's food overthere? Anything extremely tasty or just a common way?

Isn't that thing related to one of our members? That light green color looks familiar. Nice truck with good wheel base.

Paul, that's quite interesting. I have never put my hands on them yet, so they might be of a friction type indeed. The links look similar to hydraulic ones, hope my images can help to figure out the general design.

Thank you Tim. It was the point of observation. That's city of Vyborg, 100km North from St-Petersbourgh. It was Finnish city Viepoury before 1940 when Russians occuped that part of Finland. After the end of the war this land rest to Russia due to Finnish cooperation with Germans. There's one more pic in my 'puter of that trip. She was my personal guide last year

Paul, There's just a matter of knowing about something in general or to dig deeper. It requires some time and labour to pay attention so seems to me worth of that when having an interest. Luckie the most of us overhere have a lot of to Macks. So... There were many modifications of Mack NR at all. Better to say there were 20 of. NR-1 to NR-20. All of them had the similar chassis and the engine - Mack ED 519ci Lanova diesel. Of the outer look the very first serie NR-1 stood apart from the later ones. It had the ealy style cab, the same as Mack BX of the pre-war time. Later models until NR-8 wich was introduced in 1942 had all steel cab of a L-model style. Starting from that moment the cab lost its roof to became a military style cab with the soft top. Like the one posted above. Important note - all those trucks before NR-14 of 1943 had single rear tires. That setup looks strange to me but they all had 24's in front and 12.00-20 on rears. There were 2 spares of the different size either. The situation has changed in 1943 when 14th generation came into production. The most large in number, about 8000 units of 16548 built at all. It's special feature was dual rear wheels. Starting from that point NR's were 11.00-24 all around. I would say those vehicles became looking almost like a commercial LJ's but I can't. They were about that but all had open cab instead.

Yes, the housing is bent for sure. After ovserving the axle shaft pay I resolved to pull the shafts out and saw a pear shape. As I can see (and you can see it either on the last picture) the housing is bent to the rear and up. Still wonder how the center axle could be hit so hard with no effects to the other parts. I would say the tubes are both straight. Seems like the banjo itself is deformed. As for the bearings and hubs I've just put new sets of Timken's into them with new seals. The hub(s) turned freely. Until I drove the axle shaft in and tightened the flange nuts. Right at the moment I have absolutely no lust to get the axle out and so on. I also have no press I could put it in to fix the issue. A plan is to get the truck running by the easiest way. BC, Putting the rear diff into the FR housing is not the way since FR is bent. I could change the axles but this doesn't seem worth the labour. Getting the interaxle locked together with the semi shaft off might put that baby on the road. At least temporary what would be quite enough for me at the moment. I have the divider with interlock in the DMM and could put it on the MH. Just don't want to mess up the stuff wich have enough issues of other kinds. Thank you for the thoughts folks.

673 ci engine is about 1 metric ton. TRD 10 speed tranny is nearly 600 kilograms. 18 speed might be heavier. You will not go over 2 metric ton anyway.

Thank you for sharing! My feeling reminds me Vinnie's reaction when any new U-model is posted. Mack NR is sweet! Hmmm... Now I can see something wrong with it. NR-10 must have closed L-model cab and single rear wheels. A one with double ones might be starting from NR-14. Uncorrect description or a parts swap? The best answer could be done by the chassis number. What it the chassis number??

I started a play over my MH the other day, was going to put the hubs and wheels wich were laying painted for a while. Did all 4 and got the jack shafts installed. When putting the flange nuts on I noted I couldn't fit one of the shafts almost in place. It touched hub's mating surface at some point and there was still the gap of 3-4 mm (1/8") at the opposit. To my big surprize I found out that contact point didn't turn over together with the hub but always stayed at the right of me - the direction front to the vehicle. That gave me a thought I wasn't glad to have. Took the hub back off (and the opposite one) and looked through the housing... I sure know i should swap the axle and I will do it in the future. Probably together with that strange "new style" Neway air suspension nobody could determine what it was. Although it's just a hobby truck. And the one I haven't planned to spend alot on in the nearest future. I see no trouble about tyre wear since I planned to drive it for nearly 100-500 miles a year. But I'm afraid it will ruin the jack shaft. Any thoughts on how quick it could happen? The B plan is to remove the jack and drive one axle only. I need to lock the power divider for that. But it's a stock one, with no interlock. Does anybody know an easy way to lock it? Vlad

Some pics, sorry the parts weren't cleaned up.

Your right. Vyborg doesn't look so post card nicely.

Cool!!

His tail looks great on the #3 picture. Tom, good shots, hope nobody was hurt

How did he do that?

The matter of the trick is weld pulls the stud walls to its center when getting colder and makes a stud thinner that way. So after welding a nut a stud comes relatively free. It's too difficult to weld inside a deep hole starting from its bottom though.

Congrats!! I wouldn't say everybody of a man might boast of celebrating his 75 and exactly in a place he had his life started.

O-ho! When I build it I had a shortage of info either but had access to the real unit. The ruined one though. Those day there was no ZIL cab in model. Excepting Italery 1:35 wich was not perfect. Now I'm packed with the blueprints totally. Just have nothing of time. PM me if you want to re-freeze the old work.

The sun shine, grass green and blue Mack MH single axle lots of nice old trucks! Looks like a beautiful day! Thank you for sharing.