Vladislav

NR has neither pre heater, plugs only. Of course I haven't inspected all 16548 units were made but books told me. On my mind they're not really plugs. They aren't inside combastion chambers, in the head air inlets, heating an air before it gets in. Wonder how they are really efficient.

Happy B-day! Best wishes!

Media makes money from any sensation. It's food for them. Although a media is a social product. Regardless we like it or not.

Good luck on your way

Something new for me. My R's have double metal bumpers with stainless outside. They both are of the original look and seems to me from the factory. I asked Rob and he told me he has never seen stainless R bumpers. I purchased brand new one yet from Watt's. It's chrome plated steel but thiker than on the trucks. Has OEM sticker on. Hope I'll have it without rust if I don't drive the truck in winter. It's for a hobby.

Glad you keep working outside. I have -20 day time at the moment.

I too hope Mack inc. would continue to support the Museum as the great brand name keeper.

My Lanova has heating units those fitted betveen cylinder heads and intake mainfold. There are electric spirales inside them with fat electric supply cables. You need to warm them up with a dash button before cranking. I heared these engines do not like cold start but can't say anything about my one because it's stuck now. Hasn't turned over probably since 1983. Heater plugs are typical for most pre-chamber engines as Mack Lanova is. Intake air is warming up for a fuel blow up when a piston going to it's upper point. Pre-chamber with main chamber (cylinder) have more cooling surface in relation to a single chamber. That's why these engines require more heat to start and usually use pre-heaters. Putting some bits of oil into cylinders is not a bad idea to prevent linings and pistons from dry scratching.

If you say it's blowing but not cold enough it looks like a low gas pressure. I had an issue with a fridge when a compressor fault. Local service man came with a new one, tools, can of gas and propane jet. Made it up in 1 hour and it works till now from 1989 brake date. The guys who work at my shop use it for keeping their midday foods. 18 years is not the age for a fridge. I had an older one that worked from early 60's having original 127V. Needed to use transformer 127/220. It ended up nearly 2000 because of dry cracked door rubber. There were no chances for OEM one

Granite looks good in the smoke due to it's orange cab

I like the colors, looks bright. Glad you have her got fired up. Be careful driving while sitting on that plastic cage. I had experience when the same thing broke out right under myself when making a turn. I hooked of the steering wheel with no chances to break having no point to react. The vehicle had no doors also so I started to fall out still hanging on the wheel. She turned to the left instead of right into direction where people walking the street. Some moments later I got my balance and everything vent good. Uhhhh..

Extremely attractive looking rig!

You must be too lucky with all these papers. I see museum people are great! Hope it warmed you up with your nice truck. Thank you for the fresh bunch of pictures, like to see a truck in work.

You have one axle unspringed while try to run the other only. Not a smooth way but can be resultive. Try to fix the axle with straps for load. They're more flexible, can absorb shocks while running. Use them more than one on each side. Lock one axle with brakes isn't good. You force the interaxle diff to run with double speed instead of keep unmoving or turning over slowly while the truck makes curves. Better is to lock it and than remove semi axles of rear propeller shaft. Of course be too careful making these things.

If it's Lanova you need to press first a button HT (heaters) to warm up plugs. Than next ST - starter. I have Lanova 519 ci but it's ED,not END. Looks different than on the pictures.

That half would be new though, it's good. Hope it would be the most important half. I see you moving to the nacked karcass. Is there snow now?

Important sidenote indeed

Very pleasurent looking unit. Clean and have neither rust if true from Arizona. Does E6 2V has 350hp? Same as 4 valver? Or does it have more cubics?

I'm shure the things we sorrow have their roots from low child discipline, not enough attention that modern parents pay for their sons and doughters, Holliwood violence demonstration and so on. I have a son of 12 yo, he lives not with me but with my ex-wife. Looking around his life I'm taking to solution that modern life is far different than me and my parents had. Reality is of another kind now. We have info flows of times and times wider and faster, we have consumption level more well than years ago, as the follow the life needs and values changed. And continue to change. Too fast. Too fast to understand how to fight new social problems on the field of modifying sorround.

I'm quit the same way.I was born in 1975. Every units of '75 and younger were took by me familiar. Everything older seems famous and needs more serious approach.

Nice collection Farmer, I'm glad you have enough old and new iron although in perfect condition.

Looks good. Hope you have got it for reasonable money. By the word - is the Superliner II stock front bumper still avalible?

B model wrecker looks solid. Dirt roads are something new of what you usually drive over.

Terrible and sad thing... The tragedy in Norway. Don't want to say the name of the killer. The tragedy in Budeonovsk, Russia, some years ago - terrorists in a school with machine guns... I can remember the shooting in Germany in school. F**king bastard with a pistol stolen from his father - victims and the killer's suicide. No reason of where on the globe the things of the kind go on - they're terrible. I agree with most of written above - Hollywood and Medias. I personnaly ignore public media, have neither TV, so I learned about happened in Newtown just half an hour ago on a e-mail web page. Much strength to the familys and everybody who was envolved. Just can't imagine how to stay with it. I'm not religious man but all my thoughts are with them.

Nice looking equipement carrier! Paint seems to be fresh. Vlad