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Vladislav

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  1. I have to make a mesurement of my 24's, will do it tomorrow.
  2. 19 5 hole alcoa wheels, and well polished. Nice colors, nice look.
  3. Maybe this one was also unturnable right though I like how she looks. Vlad
  4. Joe, welcome to Russia! My trucks aren't looking good at the moment although I'm working on them. The NR originnaly has 11.00-24 but I spent a year looking on them. There is hard border taxing that makes used rubber import unable to me. So I had to by these new made in China. I prefere European or American brands but these I bought looks good. NR is not so high speed truck and will operates with no load. Vlad.
  5. Hello, I can't say about new Mack with though I bought 11 brand new tyres 12.00R24 with tubes just a couple weeks ago. Vlad
  6. Rob, thank you for attention. My wheel story is too long. At the moment I found 2 original alloys and that's all the rest of whole 40 wheels of the four R models of always the same kind imported in Russia. That 2 wheels saw alot of mud, sand and salt on roads. I started to send by Nr120 and continued with a sandpaper for wood. After half an hour working the same area I see deep corrosion in the aluminium, probably near 0,5 mm or more. Have spoken about machine cut them for 1 mm, waiting for an answer. I begin to seriusely think about buying new wheels, maybe the pair in front for beginning. But met the problem by this way also.
  7. Mack Man, I saw the Alcoa sticker on the front rim of LTL. Did you buy the wheel new or kept them during the polishing? Vlad.
  8. Superpleasure to see the Superliners! LTL is perfect! Yesterday I've tryed to sand one of my front alloy wheels of the same kind and see no light at the end of a tunnel still. Great looking!
  9. Both trucks are nice though I like stock. Readin' all I don't understand - how longer the Superliner hood is? I mean in relation to standard (late) R hood, like the yellow one has.
  10. Superdog, thanks for posting it. My son collecting Hot Wheels so should be good to keep one like this. Vlad
  11. Yea, it was very good looking truck on ebay some days ago. The time is always going. Nice story of the night hunting on the pedigreed beast
  12. Barry, this is unlucky question to answer it in the rule. Each era gived to us many different and very nice models. I like FC of 30's, EH, L & LT of 40's. Who can looks easy on W71 and H63? B is unremarcable. Both R and F of 70's are good-shaped. The Superliner is out of any comments. And CH is avesome. My favorit truck for the moment is L model. So I have to make a choice of "World War's Era" in your uneasy test. It sounds good to me as I'm a fan and have two WW2 Mack trucks at the moment. Vlad
  13. Good artwork. You can look on it anytime and dream about the moment when all the U will be seemed the same beauty
  14. Nice video, Larry. Although I'm warrieing sometimes about the frame of your pretty B61. Hope, you have tighten the bolts well. Vlad
  15. Glad to read a common sence in your words, Rob. Yes, we have the same opinion because working the same field. I'm not a professional trucker, my business is a workshop for disassembling Mercedes and selling used parts. We providing complicated repairs like gears setting or just changing units. I can be free (still) of general repairs and it makes me possible keeping a little shop with 3-5 persons only. Growing a business is not an easy thing on the territory of ex-USSR. I like old iron and like people who doing the same way. Restoring of Mack trucks is a dreamy thing for me, I had a chance to provide it in just last 2 years. I can't imagine the only thing how you can keep so great attention as moderating of the site? Suppose, you have to give a great value of time and this must be not a hobby for you. About "hot cowboys" - just have red about changing front springs separately... Vlad
  16. Of course a car is not a truck and a number of stupidity is less in professional service. Though I'm selling parts for a kind of a car that has 3 diffs with 3 diff locks. Too hard for a common brain to use it all correctly. Especially combining with 300hp engine. I also broke a diff one time but going deep inside a mud with oversize tyres by the way of an off-road trophy. So I keep clear all about common diffs though met an unknown beast with a name of Power divider. The fact of settling my R-model all the wheels in a clay after the winter heats my interest to keep the drive train unbroken. Vlad
  17. Powersliding is a good thing though how about peanuts in divider? I sell interaxle diffs for Mercedes G instantly to guys who like a smoke of tyres on a asphalt.
  18. The toughest truck endeed
  19. Don't you mean Rob, that's a reason of not using U's in Australian service? Vlad
  20. Olive, you have to make a present to our U-person as the edition with off-set letters
  21. The only picture of U I saw is on the page 177 with a bit of text. Although it's a very good book conteins lot of info especially about early models. Important sourse of general Mackology.
  22. Glad to see any progress on trucks. Green paint looks quite fresh polished! Just put an emblem by method of Superdog, spray tanks the color of the bumper and the truck would be ready for show Vlad
  23. If so I think yes. By this way 3-axle U looks quite like DM and a single rear comes more definit.
  24. Do you mean the same production of U's ?
  25. How I can see (not good) it was camel back. This name is due to the form of a spring - it looks like a camel - a hill on a top of a trunnion going down to axles. I like suspensions and like tandems. That's why I sorry about your rebuilding. I think U 3-axle was not a common type truck. 2-axles are more practical. It's a question of taste for me, I like 3-axle tractors best of all. Did your U has single tyres on the rear rear?
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