mrsmackpaul

Fully hot rodded !! Looks like it's had some work done to it over the years, but what old truck hasn't Should be quite race car running around bob tail Paul

My other hobbie is Caterpillar crawler tractors and bulldozers And what is ready for the scrap heap in tthe US is still getting used in Australia Even our Mack trucks, even though a lot more plentiful in Australia than Russia we are using them commercially a lot longer than they get used i the State's I think it's the cost to buy them new is great compared to the US so we wear them out a lot further Paul

CMAAC was released in Australia in 1983 as far as I know, most things get released in Australia a year or two after the US A bit like the Anthem, theres been one or more out here getting modified and tested but none released for public sale yet So to me it is very probable that this is was released with this motor 2V and CMAAC as I believe 2 valve motors were still available Fabulous stuff Vlad Paul

Fantastic stuff Vlad, Im sure it will be well worth all the effort It always amazes me how how I read on the forum that in America people wont buy something a few hundred miles away as it's to far to travel yet you and I will travel thousands and thousands of km to what most in the US would class as rubbish Fantastic story looking forward to reading the rest of it Paul

I reckon you can still get parts for them pretty easy, just not in the states thats all That to some might be a drama but most of us have smart phones and credit cards so it's not the big drama and is only a click or two and a week or so wait to get stuff from the other side of the world The midliner( with out the bonnet or hood as you blokes call them ) are pretty much the same truck and cab as the coe midliner the rest of the world know about So dont throw the towel in just yet Paul

I wonder about all of these clean green companies that are building cars and trucks and the like to save us all If you spend some time on Google do some basic research into them They all appear to be run by young smooth talking hipsters that dont have any real world experience, it reminds me so much of the 80's Don't get me wrong, I think we need to clean up our act and clean and green is the way to go and the way forward but these hipsters who aren't even spending their own hard earned cash can do a huge amount of damage and cost our economies and us billions They need to be kept a close eye on as they are so reckless with money Or maybe Im just a tight and dont like taking needless risk Paul

I would guess they would go to the rear end as it wouldn't work if you had a hydraulic failure and I'm pretty sure they are meant to be fail safe Paul

Well Im feeling left out, it wasn't even a show when I was a kid Only narrator I new of was Ringo, when my boy was young He tells me it's been wrecked by all the computer generated stuff on screen today Paul

My guess is a F or R model, would look the part in either of those Paul

Sadly I am expecting a lot of other companies to follow suit in the next 12 months Paul

Not much for me to say, video says it all Paul

Peaceful Paul

So I take it the tank doesnt last as long the deeper you go ? I have no idea, just curious thats all Paul

King pins will be fine and well and truly strong enough, might need new bushes Power steering should be doable and will make it easier to handle with the big tyres Paul

Petrol motors need back pressure to stop them burning valves so you no doubt will need a muffler of some type Paul

Dunno and dunno Think lots of us have tried to work out how to clear our attachments and never worked it out yet 🤔 Paul

In Australia we have a internet site called loadshift and on that site you just put up what you need shifted and were and (owner operators generally) the phone starts ringing with quotes Even though I own my own trucks a lot of the time if something is on the other side of the country its far cheaper to get it sent home this way https://www.loadshift.com.au/ Does the US and Canada have a equivalent site ? I dont mind using it and sometimes you get mucked about but I have always had people deliver Paul

I have managed to miss this thread somehow Whilst reading thru it I was "what dogs breakfast this will be" I was pleasantly surprised at how neat the splice of different size rails was And I have no doubt after seeing the photos thats the way to go Paul

Thats amazing footage, how lucky the rest of us to have that footage That may appear to be a strange comment, the footage shows just how quick things can change and how even when people think they are trying to help they can be making it a lot worse The ole Swiss Cheese effect right in front of our eye's Most of us (me included) cant fully see at times how quick things can get out of hand and how much our own actions can make a bad situation worse Paul

If I understand this correctly you want a double over drive box on 3.79 or 3.98 and you want to pull 30 - 35 tons Unless its down hill and the load is very flat, as in sheet steel I doubt it would be very practical Or maybe you have 700 hp and 3000 pounds of torque Working gearing out on paper is a lot different than using it everyday I feel I would get sick of changing gears pretty quick and would much prefer to have the revs up a bit and just keep on poking along for a extra 1/4 of a hour each day Cummins used to have really good formulas for working this out and it took into account the height, the like terrain and the speed you wanted to travel at Im sure there must be some program or formula still out there to work this out Paul

I have this to be the same in my experience as well Paul

I was working at one of the major power stations in Victoria Australia when a signal fuse to Melbourne a 100 mile away was pulled in the switch yard The snow ball effect from one tiny fuse was instant and irreversible The emergency power batteries were out of action for maintenance at the time This caused a unbelievable chain of events Coal fired power stations need lots and lots of water to get going and to shut down They also need lots of oil pumped to the turbine bearings No power at all and the second biggest power station in the state dead, complete black out, all steam released nothing at all and no hope of getting it back on line within 12 hours The reason I mention this is, from one tiny thing wrong or missed this could and does happen and may well of been whats happened here Like watching those air crash investigation shows, every time its a whole series of small things at a certain time that cause things to go horribly wrong I believe its called the Swiss cheese effect You can have plenty of holes in a block of cheese just as long as they dont all line up at once Paul

Oh, well, um, yeah Im lost for words Best find a family doctor by the sounds of things Paul

I wonder the same thing, I just cant understand how it got this out of hand,surely the area were the fire is could of been sealed off with water tight doors shut and then that area flooded To my untrained brain even if it was oil floating on water and it prevented flooding the use of foam or powder of some type could of been used to fill the compartment or compartments Gunna be one hell of a bill for this mess Paul

Gotta agree with Hayseed, and as ,uch as it pains me to say it they rode better and were much more comfortable to drive than a R model And with big Cummins motors 350-400 they were just as good as any E6 Mack motor They also had those high torque Cummins with I think eith a Eaton or Spicer 6 speed to compete with a Maxidyne, I dont think they sold many though But for many years the S line and it's unidentical twin the T line were everywhere in Australia Paul