Vladislav

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.

Superdog, thanks for posting it. My son collecting Hot Wheels so should be good to keep one like this. Vlad

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

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

Good artwork. You can look on it anytime and dream about the moment when all the U will be seemed the same beauty

Nice video, Larry. Although I'm warrieing sometimes about the frame of your pretty B61. Hope, you have tighten the bolts well. Vlad

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

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

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.

Don't you mean Rob, that's a reason of not using U's in Australian service? Vlad

Olive, you have to make a present to our U-person as the edition with off-set letters

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.

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

If so I think yes. By this way 3-axle U looks quite like DM and a single rear comes more definit.

Do you mean the same production of U's ?

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?

Uhhhh....

I understand it Vinny and don't like that way. But it is your Mack and your sound of music. And you described the reason of. Big job has done though how many are waiting for your hands? I'm working on my tandem bogie and it requires a lot of time and activity. Did the U has camelback? Vlad

EP is 160-bhp 611 cid, EY is 707 cid (5 x 6 in.), 170 bhp. I have the last one though in militarized version with an oil pan modified for 6 wheel drive. But if I'm not mistaking EY as it own is a militarized version of EP with cubics and power increased.

Two-axle tractor will looks good with a one-axle trailer. Imagination is a nice thing though you have to imagine both how to provide a painting and lots of different little works - the mirror carrier e.t.c. Try to keep productive imagination. And make some jobs from time to time. Constantly moving to the result. Don't hook on an empty imagination how lot of us doing.

During WW2 Soviet Union recieved an amount of 4-71 engines for use in track artillery tractors. Also equipement was bougt for a reason to make repears of these motors. By using that equipement a production of 4-71 and 6-71 engines was organised. They were installed into 2 and 3 axle trucks of MAZ and YaAZ. And early KrAZ. Production came to early-sixties when 4-strokers got his place.

Tandem tractor U looks like no one other.

Flying 6-71

I have a two-stroke engine now at the yard. Somebody put them in my WW2 Mack NR truck. I didn't try to start them because it was stuck hard. Though this one was made in the USSR. Vlad