Vladislav

Doesn't sound nice. I used to step in such issue since the most parts I buy go from overseas. Do those Aussie flares fit US RW well? Australian and American Superliner hoods were different of the shape of fenders/ We discussed it once on here.

He even said you hello

Very interesting, thanks. Never knew they were designed for army.

Upps, looks I made some braided ways to see your trucks. Once again, they're nice. Love the L. And welcome to the gang! Vlad

The final result of the party

This past summer I spent a good while removing a cab from the 2nd R-model and stripped it down to the bare metal. Cut off all the spots rust showed its presence. Also by a chance I purchased a pair of NOS rocker panels so cut the old ones off either. For further job some good cleaning was knocking on the project's door so i started waiting for weather. The other week cloudy and snowy times finally changed to a light freeze with a bit of sunshining. The forecast predicted only two lucky days following each other so I didn't waste the chance. When you blast at freeze the air humidity is low. Even much lower than on a hot sunny summer day. So steel doesn't catch rust. Another issue is when you bring your parts into a warm room cold steel catches humidity from the inside air and makes condensation on its surface. So for the best you should cover the parts with film or cloth until they warm up to the inside temp or bring them in a shop or garage with low humidity. The best way I use is bringing them straigh to a pre-heated paint shop. Not this time since further metal works are planned. And 2nd time blasting after they're completed as a follow.

I like it as is. And the RM would be a fun to work play with either.

Installing two carriers of different ratios is a crime. And the result would be disaster. Too probably you will learn what the divider is very soon. Sorry to paint the picture in such dark colors but if the things are of the way you described you will get into serious dutch pretty fast. The failure of the diff gears or the power divider (which is also a part of a differential) will happen. Vlad

No, I resolved to move my preference on the chassis color. The body parts are going to be painted metallic and look darker then SGT green being exposed to the sun. I didn't want to have the chassis lighter than the cab so vent darker. I made the choice a couple of years back when started painting some parts of the chassis. Than later, in this year I finilly could purchase the factory records from Mack museum where the chassis color was marked as "lime". I felt a little bit of shame getting off the original in that moment. But later thought I had an excuse since I have two SGT R's. So maybe anoher one will be painted original. Maybe by somebody else

FWD???

The locker housings are from your neck of the woods. The carriers are original from another SGT R-model parted out locally. Had to buy two sets of bearings the interwheel diffs are turning in because of hard pitting on everything I had. The color was choosen as Mercedes Benz "Laub grun". But later I found out it was similar to RAL 6002 Laubgrun. Probably John Deere didn't go far away from MB about that. And Land Rover has something like that as a color of the emblem.

NLA for a while. All the trucks which had that badge leaved the assembly line long ago.

Wow! Jason, I had no idea of the things being such interesting at you. Was thinking you was doing the same as the East Coast relaxing crue which had no snow since the only storm in November. Yes, your forecast is right, -5C outside at the moment. Quite comfortable for the season and the least point we had so far was -18C for just a couple of days. Nearly 40 cm of the white stuff is laying on the ground though and no one time of melting since it showed its presence in November. The heater is not planned to the R since it's future is seemed as a sun bathing lady, hidden in a garage for a non-show season. But the divider lockout will be on duty.

Thank you, read the other thread.

Seemed to me like they were just built in different years. Probably differences in the chassis either but impossible to state without observations. I also had that question in my mind.

Nice truck. Good luck on the progress and thank you for sharing the pictures.

Once I bought an extra hood for my R there were fender flares on it of the style as on the picture you posted. Specially designed and shaped to fit R-model fenders. But I saw plenty of R's/DM's were just a common rubber strip used on 4x4 was attached. Looked quite good being cheap at the same time and no need to make dealers scratching their heads.

Paul, no problem with that, c'mon here. Just dodn't forget to add a snow plow to the R for more fun

Jim, you nailed it! Good eye.

Wonder how to put together RWS and 1989. The one on the photo looks like RW2 though.

This makes sence. Thank you, I looked over some pics of those frames and got the things clear. I keep interested in the desing of RW/MH rails, hope to put my hands on such a chassis some day.

Were they from a bus?

Insurance? What insurance is?? Tom, great pictures and really nice seeing you spent that great time. The pictures of your snowy yard remind me very much of my feeling when I came back home from NJ 6 weeks back

Sounds like a deal! Locally I know some guys having Packards of those ages but definitely no wreckers

A bit large to prepair ground for planting potato.