mrsmackpaul

What sort of weight did you pull into the head wind? Diagonal wind across the front and flat open treeless country knocks the wind out of 320 with a tall trailer Back to 40 - 50 MPH until I reach trees or some bumps in the country side And yes that truck does look the goods Bob Paul

Sounds like a great result Paul

This is pretty impressive, just think at one stage a 100 Flying Fortress bombers were getting shot down each day at some stage 1/3 of all U.S. bombers crews never returned after each mission dew mainly to yhe daylight bombing strategy 25% of allie bombing crews never returned from each night mission With all our sooking amd carrying on these days, are we really living our best lives ? Remember every man lost had a mother that would never see her son come home, a lot probably had a wife and kids We need to add a tea spoon of cement and toughen up !!!!! Enough from me, read bellow FACT: Willow Run... by November 1943 they were rolling out a new B-24 every hour. At its peak monthly production (August 1944), Willow Run produced 428 B-24s with highest production listed as 100 completed Bombers flying away from Willow Run between April 24 and April 26, 1944. By 1945, Ford produced 70% of the B-24s in two 9-hour shifts. Ford built 6,972 of the 18,482 total B-24s and produced kits for 1,893 more to be assembled by the other manufacturers. The B-24 holds the distinction of being the most produced heavy bomber in history Paul

Burn them.on the ground and have a cuppa watching it all Cook some damper on the coals, some jam and butter, mmmmm, yummo https://www.agfg.com.au/recipe/campfire-damper Paul

Burn the planters while drinking bourbon watching them burn Nothing like watching the bush tv Paul

My new 300 Maxidyne is ordered and hopefully arrives soon enough Paul

Clearly that's the motivation you need Bob Time for the cook to inspire you ha ha ha ha Paul

Don't worry about stuff falling in the motor, thats what the oil filter is for 😁😁 You Im pulling.yah leg and been silly The older we get the harder it is to get motivated, especially when hot, doesn't get cold here But just turn the T.V. off and start seems to work, I think working for myself most of my life I have had to go out and do as no one else is here to do it Because I care I have a helper for you A different Mrs Mack than normal ha ha ha Paul

So do you blokes call the KW emblem a bug, thats what's known as im Australia Probably only by older blokes now Looking like your enjoying the new job Paul

If you drop the wheels off a normal bag trolly can be used or if your feeling fit enough just grab the hub and drum in your arms and lift it on and off, this was my normal way until recent years Sort of roll the drum and hub up on blocks of wood and just lift across So a few different simple ways have been mentioned Greasey board Pallet truck Hand trolly Motor bike jack, this works really good and doesn't take up much room Paul

I guess it depends on the country Australia and New Zealand use the standard R model cab on a Superliner Paul

Plenty of farm tractors used sae 30 oil in the power steering years ago Most farmers put what ever they used in the motor in the power steering I think the main difference with oils for hydraulic applications is how they behave when they get hot Motor oil doesn't compress as well as hydraulic oil when it gets hot, this isn't usually a drama on power steering Some oils frotha lot and then don't pump properly I use hydraulic oil in power steering, I figure if the seal does fail the small amount of oil added to the motor is like pissing in ocean to watch the tide rise Paul

7.10 am First cuppa coffee, let the dogs out for a sniff and a pee Mum called around 4 weeks and asked if I could collect her dog, so have a very old Kelpie with us as well Mums been in hospital pretty much since with Hoskins Lymphoma, they started chemo but had to stop as she's to crook for that at the moment Princess and Penny watching T.V. last night

Hope the Mexican was nice, not quiet snowing here 39°C or 102°f in the old money, no A.C. in the Mack, pretty warm none the same Coppers wheeled me not long after the photos coming home "Have you had anything to drink ?" "Hell yeah, water and Im out of it now" Anyway breathalyzed and sent on my way, think he just likes my truck LOL Paul

Delivering the hay Pulled up at the pub on the way Unloading hay Heading home Paul

It is amazing how much a good set of tyres improves the appearance Paul

A great result, all these older types when in good order are pretty stiff and shifting has to be slowed down until the oil warms up a bit Paul

Sounds like something is loose inside the pump or governor Mechanical diesels either run or they don't If it runs fine when it's running but suddenly won't and it isn't getting air in the fuel system it sounds like something is pulling the governor to far back and it's sticking Paul

I finally had a chance to watch the video's I have been a tad busy of late Fantastic job on the rebuild, great stuff all round and hopefully it will give many trouble free yeara of operation The oil pump plunger should sit in a eccentric or out of round doo hickie and pumps in and out as the shaft rotates On my 12 speed someone had sealed it up with aome RTV silicone sealant crap that oozed out on the inside and broke off, then this crap got pumped through the oil galleries and eventually got stuck on the sliding dogs Required a complete disassembly to fix And I think my box was dirtier than yours, what a mess Great work and a really impressive job you've done Paul

Satrans. John Canty preparing for his next trip. Paul

A similar thing was trialled in Australia https://pjv101.net/cd/pages/c561m.htm Paul

I wouldn't worry about number 2, unless you know what your looking at it will be just making things more confusing Start with, this part I think is a axle part, or a motor part or a brake part and so on Just gather them together in piles or area's Then just make a start, most things have witness marks, like were two parts that were painted as one came apart, just try assembling things like this, use different paint colours as a guide and so on Most of the gear will be pretty easy to find the answers two Paul

Some more to this story courtesy of LLib Enilom Is not my story at all Here is a truck built by Jack Ehret. The first picture is of it loaded with 27 tons of pineboard from Oberon to Townsville. The second photo is bulk wheat stuck on Mount Tomah due to lack of traction, it had a 50/50 pusher under it. The third photo is the poor old worn out 6.71 getting a new set of bearings at Cassilis after the oil pump failed. The last photo was taken just north of Lotus Creek, with 27 tons of Otis lifts and escalators for the new Woolworths store in Townsville. Some were in the Pilliga Scrub Rolling in a set of bearings near Cassilis Beer o'clock just north of Lotus creek 1967 Paul

Yeah, um, nah, sorry I got nothing FFS as the Swishman would say lol Paul

Hope it all works out okay Dunno why American trucks are so ugly these days KW 909 from Australia, looks a lot more like a truck should Paul