mrsmackpaul

Okay, I take it is a huge show but like a lot of things these days, they are all full up and selective Paul

Does this they only want certain trucks or styles of trucks ?? Paul

I wonder if it's not leaking out side, is it leaking into the motor? Through the compressor or timing gear ? Paul

Need to get the chief cook and bottle washer to have a look at your exhaust if you can't see it when starting So it sounds like your loosing fuel completely If it was mine I would pressurize the tank a bit, wind the pressure down on the shop air and have a really good look for leaks It maybe leaking were you can't see it If you block the tank vent off and pressurise it a bit, it should i theory hold air pressure Have a fiddle and report back I'm busy playing with a different type of horse power at the moment Paul

Trying pumping the primer a few times or until it starts to bypass, before starting and you can then see if it is actually loosing prime or not So back to the basics here, you've only been working on the truck for a few weeks so refresh my brain encase I have lost something over those weeks Things to check When you go to start the truck, does smoke come out the exhaust immediately ? If it has smoke, you still have fuel If the smoke is not there, you have lost fuel in the pump If it fires and then farts and blows white smoke, you've lost prime Paul

So there's a few truths we all agree on In Iran in 1979 university protesters took over the embassy According to the video of news reports from 1979, the student rioters did the taking control of the embassy stunt after hearing a speech from the Ayatollah I gather that some time before this the Ayatollah asked or perhaps demanded the U.S. leave and the U.S. stayed and most likely was hoping to maintain some sort of diplomatic relations with Iran I'm guessing that the U.S. was hoping to sort the mess out and return the Shah to running Iran This certainly isn't how it ended up I don't think what happened in 1979 was a act of war based on the burning of the flag, there's been plenty of U.S. flags burnt on Americas home soil in my life time by over excited protesters and rioters that has made it on the news back to Australia It certainly is a sad and sorry mess over there with no good answers The Shah may of been corrupt but Iranian people as a whole had a very good standard of living Paul

I thought Jay Leno and his car/truck collection was based in California, I wonder were he is based as I would think most of his gear would never pass emissions Paul

I don't think this is exactly correct, the country the embassy and the embassy still belong to the host country As long as things remain amicable between the host and guest things are fine It's when things don't remain amicable is when it all gets a bit difficult When cultures collide as it often does, different standards and expectations are challenged If the host wants the guest to leave and they don't, things get even worse When the guest is forcibly removed, it's really going pare shaped To be very clear, I am not defending any country here or blaming any country Things could of possibly should of been done a lot different in 1979 But we can't change the past And I feel the Middle East has been a mess by Western World standards since the beginning of time Paul

A dream machine there, but a heck of a price as well I reckon these are the best looking Macks ever made Paul

Some good ideas there Brocky

If you lived in another state and had a R model Mack and then shifted to California you couldn't register it ? I guess rules are rules A bit like Australia and importing classic and vintage vehicles over 4.5 ton GVM, they can no longer be registered in Australia What is already here can be registered but recently (last 12 months or so) imported can no longer be registered in Australia Paul

So if Australia wasn't happy with something the U.S. was doing and through the U.S. out of the U.S. embassy's in Australia that is a act of war ??? And then that gives the U.S. the right to invade and bomb Australia ? From Google "Establishing an embassy requires consent from both governments. If diplomatic relations are severed, embassies are closed." If Australia removed it's consent to any country having a embassy in Australia it doesn't automatically mean we have declared war on that country I guess it's a bit like if you have guest's over to your house and a guest drinks to much and starts making a dick of them selves and you ask them to leave and they refuse to leave, you grab them by the scruff of their neck and physically remove them from you home, that doesn't give them the right to come back around give you a beating and take over your house And then tell everyone that they are the victim here Paul

I agree, big loads are exhausting for me as I'm on edge the whole time Even if I can drive okay, there's always a lot of people in a urgent hurry around me, and we only have a tiny population compared to the U.S. Paul

That is amazing that a diesel isn't offered, so much more fuel efficient I wonder if a truck called be purchased in a neighbouring state and then registered in California ? Paul

The Drake trailer shown is a 50 ton or 110,000 pound trailer with a dolly, or jeep or converter dolly or what ever it's called in the U.S. And thats a 50 ton load, so still a heavy duty trailer Our low loaders have a lot more ground clearance than the U.S. style and we don't get stuck on railway crossings but drivers occasionally hit a over head bridge as they seem to in the U.S. as well 5.4 meters (clearance sign on bridge in the video) is 17' 8" in the old measurements 4.6 or 15 feet is as tall as we can go with a normal permit, so old mate holding the steering wheel has some explaining to do I have shifted much higher than 15 feet but there's a lot more paperwork and I need to measure the route myself and check it myself and accept full responsibility myself I think near big cities in Australia the rules get even stricter, Swishman will have the good oil on that Paul