Vladislav

Paul, got it about them black buggers. At least one good thing seems to me with white flys - black ones have gone off a toilet for the freezy time. Currently we have a couple degrees above Celsias zero with forecast of warming up to +8 for at least a week. Quite nice for a late authumn. Pretty interesting to hear your grandfather drove NR's. So far I have never met a person in Russia who did that. Only some ones who remember them driving around. My Dutch friend told me he could do as much as 65 km/h with his NR on a motorway. I noted the most NR's in Australia rode on 20 inch wheels all over, probably 12.00-20, quite common tyre size, for the Soviet Union either. Suppose it could bring some top speed decrease relating to 11.00-24 factory wheels which were installed on the Dutch truck. But doing a count 36 mph is 57.6 km/h so not the speed you'd like to have reaching the stars anyway.

I would go for the larger radius since i see nothing wrong with that. The lesser radius might not allowing the bearing cone to seat completely up to the spindel flange. If it actually seats no trouble to use such one on my mind either.And from the 3rd point of view using a part with a correct factory # would eliminate potential issues and possible doubts and investigation of the matter in the future.

There's strange thing with that indeed. Some people selling Macks in the US have very short skills of speaking Dutch or Russian

Paul mate, Hope it's still warm and sunny over the Brown land and your neck of the woods particulary. Right at the moment I see some flys doing rounds over the outside pole light. And a strange thing, those flys are white in color Brrr! Happily I have a progress on them rear diffs. All NR's were equipped with 9.02 carriers from the factory. A book says there was some series of the trucks with 7.33 or so but those were early series bunch and a few in number and nobody knows for sure they ever existed. So 9.02. With a help of one our fellow member I could purchase 2 sets of bewel gears off B-61 rear diffs. Don't remember the initial ratio but when combined with my spurr (bull) sets the result is 6.34. It seems quite good to me or even fast. The calculations gave me something like 92 km/h top speed but I'm not sure the truck would ever reach them with its stock 131 horse stable. Let's see. The actual progress is that fast that I have one of the diffs (mostly) assembled and going to put in the banjo (the next spring). The 2nd one is in the waiting line. Anyway those gear sets are an important point to pass by since I couldn't finish the chassis without them.

Good to see you finally found the way to post images on here. Another thing I have difficulties identifying the content of this particular one. For sure everything I see on it was newer installed on a NR model from the factory Talking about the forum I spent many years participating on here and can state when you're familiar with ways to post and navigate no sufficiat issues accure to share and get info on BMT. Looking forward to see more of the trucks you have. And I'm currently not on a daily basis on here either. Like many other long time members as I can see.

The case was the forwarding company which helps me with parts shipped to Russia was up close to the gearbox location. Just 10-15 miles away. I will keep in my mind such offer was attractive. In my particular case there was not a really hard need since the truck is a hooby one. Otherwise I'd hang up the phone immediately Hope someone who needed the tranny purchased that one.

Interesting. Is that yourth? Or just close?

Sad to hear when such things happen.

Many members on here had troubles uploading pics during recent years. That concerned even me. Good thing the thing I had to do was deleting or resizing some of my old attachments to manage my upload capacity. The latter was found limited after 6 or so years of posting pics. But many others got issues of different kinds. And it seemed to me many long time members cancellled their participation on BMT because of that.

What?? Bridge??? Oh, hell!! It's still under construcrtion...

Ok, found one more thread showing out my truck. https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/31013-i-got-the-chassis-rolling/

You will probably not seen any notifications excepting cases when someone quotes your thred (as I do now) or likes it. From what you type of VIN numbers all the truck were produced in 1945. There were some later series of NR's either which were ordered during the war years but completed after its end when the militaries didn't need them anymore/ Those were named NR-18, NR-19 and NR-20. All those were directed to Western Europe to support destroyed economy. 150 trucks went to Belgium, 150 to Netherlands and 300 trucks (NR-20) - to France. The VINs were larger numbers than yours, starting from 16000 or so and further. My donor truck was from the French bunch and had its VIN of something 17000. As far as I know all NR VINs started with NR4D and had "D" in the end since it was a standard thing for Mack when it was Diesel. Of my truck you now can see a couple of really poor views of the original object (the one which was supplied under Lend-Lease to Russia? jr better to say/ what was survived) and the donor truck which was imported from The Netherlands and had its younger days serving in French army. Of what I have done to the moment is a mostly complete chassis with fuel tanks and all new piping. I also have a good progress with the engine and gearbox. But both aren't finished completely. The cab is on the list and the cargo body is drown detailingly and waits $$$ to be ordered as a set of wooden parts. The most interesting part of the story was posted here: https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29254-frame-is-ready/

A good way to go

Aren't you going to drive over Alaska and Russia? I like the front wheels. Don't remember any truck at Mackdag riding on such ones.

More to come, old Macks are always welcome

Wow! Looks really fresh and solid. Congratulations! Which side of Athlantic is it currently on?

Looks like it was a school bus in its younger ages.

Uups.. All is good with this one. Only the coast is wrong

This one showed up once on here 6 or 7 years back. If the memory serves the guy's nick name was Heavy Metal or so. He had a 1 mile long railroad track over his property with a loc and cars. Can't be 100% sure but from the pic it looks as the same vehicle.

A nice project but unfinished. It was shown up on here a couple of times during last years. I remember we discussed it Looks like a long story to sell as it usual for projects. Thank you for taking time posting all these links on here. Some offers look attractive.

Great to hear from you! No, the trucks are 1943-45 regarding to dual rear tyres. All earlier series rode on "super-singles" at the rear, 14.00-20 size. One of the trucks had a VIN plate on the dash as I could see from ebay pics. It was about 100 trucks away from my NR. I got info from Mack museum of the truck leaved assembly line on January 15 1945. So about that time your truck did the same. Loading pics became trouble to many members on here during a couple last years. Some issue with the site software. Try looking "Site related topics" at the bottom of the home page. There were multiple requests to solve such a problem. If you find nothing to help there try contacting Barry. He provides the site work, you'll be able to find his account in that "Site related" either. If you find yourself in trouble tinkering with your Macks or have a question about them feel free to PM me. To the mement I spent 8 years restoring my one and rest just a few bolts and nuts untouched in it. Vlad

I well remember pics of that LT posted in the gallery on here. Sorry not ready to say the screen name of the person. Too probably I didn't change the file names when saved them on my hard disk. So using them some search over the site could be provided.

As long as I can see this is a panel installed atop of the speedo-tacho cluster. Looks like a new part..Not for free but might be actual to someone. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mack-Truck-8MT520-Gage-Panel/142928425361?hash=item214732b191:g:AlgAAOSwEVpbkCIO

Look like 12.00-24 tubes to me. Nice and clean looking truck

A cool looking R! Or a hot looking R, taking the color to account BTW don't remember ever seeing this one.