Vladislav

Neat Christmas gift!

Will remind about a job or hobby every time you get out of bath

Here's what I had dancing around.

If the memory serves I used an oxigen torch and a puller.

Hammer doesn't count.

Actually when you heat up it's too important to warm up fast.

This way an outer part expands before much heat is transferred to an inner one what follows with its expansion also.

So as more powerful a torch is as better. But don't overheat

I'm pretty shure every thing with 5th wheel overhere has them.

Both my R's are not an exception although it's their Canadian heritage.

Drooling,drooling,drooling...

I need to put some amount of fuel on my $ card, spent all the reserve on Winfall wimmins truck parts.

Need to go to a bank and buy them $$ wich became 1.5 times expensive recently.

Although the most trouble is 20 cm of snow fail from the sky yesterday and it's so nice to tackle with Lanova engine in the warm shop.

The evilbay page tells "1 bid" and "reserve not met".

Interesting they wrote in description the origial owner was an owner-operator.

Wonder how did he own 63 rigs being operating them personally

Too might be B&D truck by the colors and the short wheel base.

Although that one is #63 and of 1988 and my one was #31 of 1991.

Mark,

Nice work and the good truck.

I also agree with other's opinion on the color choice.

Glad to see you could spend the time required.

That's always a problem with modelling.

Those look like a nice stuff!

Thank you for letting know.

I'd fit a puller what I currently have, pre-load it and hit an arm by side near the shaft. A counter support with a big hammer is a good option.

Make 3-4 good hits, if no luck apply some heat but not much. About paint will start burning off. If no luck repeat all that with a larger puller.

Wow, beautiful scenaries!

Mountain passes are neat to make pics although it's a different deal to cruise them with a load in winter.

By some reason I missed the point when you swapped the rig.

Nice looking T600 of the color of snow.

Thank you for sharing.

Nice little truck.

Sometimes I think you guys used to see things too straight.

Isn't it a bad idea to buy such a toy and than make a holiday trip from coast to coast?

I have some doubts everybody goes from coast to coast every summer or at least every other.

Just a thought with a bit of kidding.

That's relly nice looking beast

Best of luck with it!

That's great!

Congratulations Mike!

Very glad to know that.

Nice

This one is sure of that bunch.

Nice to see the results of your job.

Overhere there were few XJS's imported during earlier years and they used to be top expensive.

For about last 15 years you have to pay import taxes of near $6 (or 6Euro) per cubic cm of engine size. It means 5300x6 so nobody do it.

The local ones show up from time to time for 25K if nice and 12-15 if crap. Cabrios go higher.

Additional happiness is a tax to own a car. If more than 250 hp it's about $1-1.5k per year.

As for me I own 1987 Mercedes SEC coupe wich is a car of the same kind as XJS.

Don't have power and time enough for too many projects. As the most of us

This makes me thinking about to start collecting them

Any ideas on the best way to preserve those roots?

Just dry them exposing to the sun or put into cans and penetrate with vodka ?

I see the Jag is of the late serie with long rear lights.

And I too like this graphite color for it.

During about 15 years I had no less than 10 attemts to buy any but always missed it by some reason.

Yes, Mercedes G-wagens is my deal, I mostly just part them out.

There were a lot of them imported aside of the customs and paperwork fired up later.

By the word they are very popular overhere due to the hard city traffic and lots of snow in the streets.

The white one in the picture was originally G300/OM617 NA, with no turbo. It's not mine though but the guy's who worked at me. The one with a saw on the pic. It's 1983 and has 3rd body on its frame. The original one was burned off by a fire when he bought it and the second was crashed.

Some years ago in-action pic.

Looks like a well done job.

How much time did you spent primering/sanding/spraying?

I keep my eye on them XJS's during a bunch of years but still haven't catched up one.

Once bought that poor cat to cheer muself up.

Vlad

Tom, nice to see the pics.

Thank you.

Looks good.

The only trouble I can't see "Overdorp" written on it

Merry Christmas BMT!

Congrats!

Jake,

I just failed in love with your green RS!

Pretty nice setup with the bunk and I too like the color.

Have a ball with it.

I just missed the thread by some reason.

Hi,

That chassis number means the truck is NR-14 and was produced in 1944.

There were 7080 NR-14 produced at all during 1944-45, about a half of all NR's.

If you're interested in more detailed info the only way is to contact Mack museum.

I did it and they sent me back the factory record with the date of production, original engine/tranny/axle numbers, make of tyres etc.

They also used to supply a copy of truck's manual but I said them to not do it since I already had it.

Very warm and friendly people.

It usually takes time, up to two monthes because they're too busy answering about 100 requests every day (it was told so on here).

They don't ask any fee for but there's a good practice to make donations back to the museum.

If you have any special or technical questions feel free to PM me.

I work extensive on my NR restoring it during four years to the moment and learned a lot about.

Vlad