mrsmackpaul

Well Joey I'm not Mech but I 100% agree with what your saying Paul

Everything mentioned above Forget trying to buy a new one Should be able to get the seperate parts for inside Some times the ball and tapered cone in the pitman arm gets a groove worn in it This ball can be replaced with one with a nut on the pitman arm instead of it been riveted over Pull split pin out, unscrew the cap, and drop it all apart, clean everything up, check for busted spring and badly worn parts Replace parts as needed, re assemble America is different than the rest of the world, everyone goes to the local spare parts place with a vin number Go to a place that wrecks trucks with the parts in your hands and some tools and wander about looking for what you need I enjoy wandering about the history as much as finding a part Paul

I was as well, so bought two copies, one for me and one for my mate Mine will get shoved under the tree, my mate will get his Christmas eve for his birthday when we are getting shit faced 🥳 Paul

Way way back in maybe 1989 or 1990 I was driving a D9 G direct drive pulling 65' trash worker sowing sorghum on 30 inches centers Sowed 5000 acres in 14 days I felt like the king of the world up in the 9 I reckon it took over 4 hours to complete a lap at the start, the fella that owned it, took me around to his brothers family, they had three 9's sowing over 15000 acres. Ooo it was a very manly experience for a young lad Here's a video of a Washington State farmer If your not a farmer you probably won't get anything out of it, if you've grown grain or farmed for a lot of your working life you might enjoy it The family in the video is still farming and still using Cats Paul

A D9 I visited recently, they are big machine and appear a lot bigger when parked inside Another little crawler of a different colour in the same shed Some more yellow things in the shed A ferral pussy flexing it's scrawny muscles Paul

That would be appreciated when you get a moment Paul

A good thought there, I was working on my IH farm tractor AC and put the drums of the fan on backwards I know, what a dick The fan shifted air, not a huge amount though, and was loud to boot Put the drums on the correct way and it was a changed tractor Paul

Do you know what the letters all mean Joey ? Paul

Do E7 have a number system like a E6 E6 Thermodyne EM6 Maxidine If so, what did the Maxicruise have ? Paul

For my Chev C60 I bought a while ago, can't get small overdrive boxes in Australia, so needs must Paul

Mate, you are at the top of the class You answered everything 100% correct Sunday morning 6 am, having my first coffee, Miss Molly the border collie is fast asleep on her bed maybe 4 feet away It's 1°C outside and frosty, or as we say out here, "it's as cold as a mother in law's kiss" The Princess might appear in a couple of hours and I will then be allowed to make noise, maybe ha ha Late night Friday night, I picked up some gear boxes that I had just imported from the States And yes, exactly what was just said Still looks better than a big hole Paul

I think it's a fire truck Bob Paul

Never heard of a super 10 transmission Was this a Mack gear box ? Paul

Thats go Swishman, just the thing for Christmas stocking You know these Mack dealers, if they were smart would have these on the service counters leading up to Christmas time Might sell like hot cakes Paul

So you need to not pick up the phone or the TV remote, other wise it will be bugger me it's Monday again and I got stuck watching the telly Have a great weekend Bob Paul

Thats fairly light, not that I know anything about these Paul

I have not heard of it until now Let us all know what you think of it Paul

I dunno how good they are, I imported one to Australia a couple of years (maybe 5 if I think about it) for the AC The R model cab really boils me alive, but to this day it is all in boxes waiting for me to get my priorities right I read about on here that these provided the best in cab cooling for a factory fitted style look Now convert that price to Aussie dollars, then add a couple of gorillas for freight And think I have to cut it appart and change it all to make it RHD, I really am a idiot Just as well the Princess doesn't read this forum 😉 A good mate of mine and myself argue argue about which of us is the bigger idiot His wife reckons we are such idiots she made us tee shirts IIdiot "I" and idiot "II" Australia day a few years ago Paul

So these Maxicruise motors were like a Caterpillar motor in a Special Application crawler In certain gears the Cat injector pump opened up more to give better lugging in the paddock Special Application is the Caterpillar name for purpose built agriculture crawlers When using a farm tractor, farmers dont want to stop and change gear in a tight spot when working a paddock Companies like IH and John Deere made semi power shift transmissions, Cat made the injector pump open up a lot more in higher gears to pull thru tight spots So am I correct in thinking Maxicruise was for when cruise control was fitted to trucks, possibly when cruise control was on and (possibly only in some gears ?) it allowed more fuel to make more power to pull over rises etc ? I guess cruise control might work a little along the lines of, push the clutch or brake pedal and it switches off If it does then it might be pain in the bum Climbing a hill and you need to drop half a gear, you can't split a gear because even if you flick the switch on the stick the go pedal wont back off to allow that gear to release So you flick the switch, turn cruise off, the gear changes, then your foot is used to get the power down, then push the cruise button to finish climbing over that rise You pick up speed then you need to repeat the process to get back into top gear If this Maxicruise added say, 30% more power in top gear it would probably allow most hills to be climbed without dropping a gear So looking more closely at the brochure Maxicruise horsepower curve hangs on a lot longer in the revs, but has a lower power rating overall On the left it shows the transmissions best suited, as expected, Thermodyne needs plenty of gears Maxidyne needs only half the gears And Maxicruise is in between Very interesting everyone, Im a lot more educated now than I was a few days ago I had never heard of a Maxicruise motor until maybe a week ago Amd just look at how low reving a E7 is compared to a E6 The E6 is up near tje governor all day, the E7 is 500 rpm off the governor Thank you everyone, really interesting stuff Paul

I saw this brochure for Australia the other day The three options for the Australian E7 Thermodyne Maxicruise Maxidyne I have never heard of a the Maxicruise Was this in the U.S. as well ? Paul

A Mack back end doesn't have a normal power divider like a Eaton or Rockwell or any other brand This is why Macks are so good off road The power divider locks and lets go, sort of, check out this link and it will explain better than I ever can https://www.roadtrains.com.au/tech-tips/how-a-mack-power-divider-works/ So the up shot of it is, when you rotate tyres about you need to measure them, this isn't some hair brained skippy the bush kangaroo I have been in the sun to long bull crap, it is true So measure your 8 tyres on your back end Now match the into the closest matching sets of two you can make up So smallest set goes on the left rear, the second smallest set goes on the right front And of the biggest goes on the right rear and second biggest goes on the left front What this allows is, because you don't have a true interaxle power divider, this allows the diff centers to compensate for this Before bogie drives had power dividers at all this was a standard procedure Hope this helps Paul

Actually I kept on searching and some photos do load up, so get on the Google and have a look see Paul

There was a thread on the Cat forum mamy years ago called "steal track farming" lots of cool Cats on that As I remember, it was mainly from Washington State area ? I just googled and it was "Farming with Steel tracks" I cant get the photos to open up on my phone, here is a link https://www.acmoc.org/bb/discussion-d72/5309-pictures-farming-with-steel-tracks?start=0 I used to be fairly involved on the ACMOC forum for many years If you can get the photos to load up it's well worth the look Some screen shots of a search I just did, but when I go to open the link the photos aren't there Paul

Is it a Mack back end or something different ? Paul

I think your right It has landing legs, I don't think quick release turn tables were very common then, I don't know if the even existed Pneumatic tyres would of been pretty none existent on big trucks at that time All photos of tanker trailers of that era are rivited together None the less, this is a very cool little trailer and would look right at home hitched to something from the late 30s onwards Paul