Vladislav

From looking this lot of very nice pictures it seems to me you have fun doing the job. Wish you to keep this way as long as you can. Work might remember at any moment that work isn't a holiday so I keep my fingers crossed for you

I saw this truck at Matt Pfahl 2 years back, remember it had rears wich didn't look as an old Mack. Glad to see it has been restored and got a new owner. Looks impressive, good color choice.

She's pretty Thanks for sharing.

My old Mack book (1945) tells "turn the nut up to the end than loose back for 3 notches" It comes about 1/8 of a full rev. I was also searching for the correct way to pack the bearings and was told from the axle factory specialist that with modern grease you need just to pack bearings well and it's enough for 100000 km. Everything else you put in a cavit will just stay there.

What are you gonna use to get the old paint off?

Far from to be called a nice day but I think your chiefs must be proud having you as a driver. Shure repairs weren't turn out for free although you have it all arranged in one day and the truck (and the driver) was almost ready to go on the next day. As a different story the rig could be stopped on a shoulder waiting for a wrecker and an extra truck to pull off the trailer.

Tom, a lot of interesting in the continue of the post, thanks. I like the Ford truck, it's one of my favorits. It's surprizingly to me ram meat is a kind of exotic on your side. The way of barbequeing we here have came from Kaukasus and Middle East. Most of those folks are Muslims and they don't use pigs as food. It's a part of their religion but conteins very hard sence. South-East areas generally have a hot climat so pork gets out of condition quite fast. Ram is a different story, much less chances to hook up any infection either. Shure this way of things was formed in the past when people had no fridges and so on. Nowadays pigs are popular due to higher productivity and easyness to eat. Ram meat is a bit harder and has a smell if you make it not right. But if you want a real Kaukasus or East way of barbequing it must be a ram.

Good Greendash pictures Tom Nice to see the goat in the place it used to be. Good catch of the bridge, sorry the weather wasn't perfect to make a high art.

Larry, I am sure not informed well on your alu welding skills but the way of doing it has many tight spots. You have always a trouble of leak in the end of a seam. Once I asked a friend of mine who had a welder (and some experience) to fix up my bike's clutch cover. He had it 3 times redone and there's still a fatt spot on it. As for the tanks I found a shop locally who put back in place the buffle inside my R-model aluminium tank. The weld broke down and the baffle was just laying on the bottom inside the tank. Those guys told me they gonna remove the end cap to get to the baffle and than put it back. I said "no" knowing the way things used to be and we ended up making cut out in the back wall, the frame side. Being in their shop I saw a lot of alu tanks re-done for European trucks. They're aluminium but not round ones, rectangular with smoothed edges. All those tanks were pretty deformed along the seams where end caps were welded to a main wall. To my ask the guy answered "Yes, it's always that way and we can't do it better looking". I noted that was a local shop. But I meant it was the only shop who did it I found on the net over the 12 million city, wich is the capital of the country. There's another place wich makes tanks nice but it's in Saint-Petersbourg, 700 km away. I'm going to go there to work out my second tank. And it's damn far more than 7 hours of drive.

Welcome! Feel free to ask questions, a lot of experienced people on here. Vlad

You are right Paul but the fitting is under construction Taking to account the amount of MoS2 lithium Castrol grease I put into almost clean bearings I think the fitting's life will be wonderful and easy.

R.I.P.

Water pump. Took it apart, removed the shaft, lapped the mating surface for the coal seal. Put protection onto the areas I didn't want to damage, than sand blasted and got to the paint shop. I use to collect some parts to be painted the same color to blast them together and paint as a lot. This way it cost reasonable. Cleaned up all the hardwear with a wire wheel than gave to a friend of mine for galvanizing. After everything was done I took a moment to put the stuff back together. Greased the bearings well, put the shaft in and installed NOS seal kit (thanks to my Dutch friends). Then made the gaskets and had the rest done. Filled up the pump with coolant and made some turns over for a check.

Update on the project. Put back together some of sub-assemblies wich were took apart, blasted and painted before. Oil filter housing

They're pretty tight. Tighter than main caps. About 200lb-ft if the memory serves.

Both Mack diesel and gas Thermodynes have the same oil pan. And generally the same block. I have Mack NM 6x6 with 707 in it. It has the pan reworked to clear up the front axle and different oil pump with the drive from the front end of the crank.

Damn lottery tickets! You always buy a correct one and than can't find a spot you had it keeping...

Too interesting, many thanks for sharing. Glad you came home smooth after all that airport disappointments. And the sleeper on blue Pete - I have a feeling I saw it somewhere before... Probably in someone's yard. Not in person though.

That sounds pretty bad. I was in waiting to see you getting H-63 in your yard. Arden was not a young man so anything could be. If anybody will hear anything about him I'd be likely to know that.

As said above. (Just ran out of likes).

Happy Birthday!

Tim, Many pics you've posted look so nice so I'd say you might think to try a movie maker or a camera man job You've got so many changes in your life recently so looks like a zero troubles to a bit more

I like the way you took it apart. It will be not cheap to fix it up but you now exactly know how bad the things are and how well it will be done. Not a one day job although I myself would be glad to catch such a trailer for reasonable. Nice to spy Mack stuff in the background on the first pics. Good luck on the project!

About the same owerhere but people just use to build something having a ready and registered vehicle as a basis.

From what they show out there I think it must be perfect for a sleeper. The question to Ryan - is it black or any other color? Thank you for posting.