mrsmackpaul

Ok I only have started reading this has any thought that perhaps some bits of the main bearing in the days leading up to it chucking the bearing ended up going thru the turbo Because if your making black smoke fuel isnt getting burnt so your not getting enough air to burn the fuel properly Paul

And Paul we Aussies were in both gulf wars Afghanistan Korea and just about any other scrap that has been going on around the world in the last 120 years We must love a blue or maybe we like to try and stand up for those that cant stand up for them selves either way we always seem fairly keen to stick our hand up and try and help Paul

This is saddest part of today in all the free world people dont seem to love their country as once they did and no longer do people as whole put their country first and them selves second I find in todays world I think people as whole have a lot more worries and as such I do a lot of reading and I tend to read a lot of books about the WW1 and WW2 and truly believe we have well and truly lost our way in the last 30 or 40 years I am reading a book for second or maybe third time about the coast watchers in the Pacific you know the blokes that saved JFK and countless other airmen sailors and soldiers And a bit more once Pearl Harbor was bombed Australia welcomed the US with open arms so much so that we all worked together with Macarthur running the show Australian families would take US troops home to their houses to give the troops some sort of formality when on leave complete strangers welcomed I guess the questions we should ask our selves would any of us do all this today Dont get me wrong Australian and US troops brawled from one of town to the other when on leave but also fought together died together and lived together Men from a different time when we werent as selfish as we are today To all the men from then and the years that followed thank you for not putting your selves first and put the good of a country or countries first Paul

Today, well actually tomorrow for you lot in the US as you are a day behind us, was the day Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japs. Don't know if the US does anything for this or not, but I will and already have taken a moment to think about all the men that died that day and how that day changed the world for ever. I often wonder in today's fast paced world have we really missed what it is all truly about these young men will never know and I'm afraid people of today have forgotten how quick our lives can be turned upside down. As a Boy Scout says "you should always be prepared". I think we are all slowly forgetting this. Paul

Yeah right I can just see farmers everywhere rushing out to buy this $120,000.00 ute Paul

yeah mate I have no idea but I would think the lightning bolt normal would mean the alternator is not charging how is the brushes in the alternator are they free and not worn out maybe they stick when you first start for the day Paul

I wonder why Australia can produce special low volume trucks as our mainstream trucks and charge a packet for them I would guess one these would be around $500,000.00 and there is a waiting time of over 6 months Yet Volvo Mack USA keep building things people dont want I have spent a lot of time for a farmer running around delivering hay up and down the hwy of late and still the most popular B double truck I see in this part of Australia is the Mack Trident axle forward they are every where Surely the parent company Mack Volvo USA can see this ????? I would think if you want a bigger slice of the pie you gotta start making what people want Sorry Im like a stuck record on this but I hope someone some where in the US will sit up and pay attention And as far as KW Australia and their new jigger go I hope it goes for them as planned Paul

The Southern Cross was a fundraising truck series auctioned for a charity I cant quite remember now but I did put the link up here a year or two ago Mack Flyer - Goldie for Charity.pdf hope this attachment works ok Paul

I agree a crazy price and what are they really any good for especially out here the bloody steering wheel is on the wrong side A few years ago bought me a little Kia Ceres 4 x 4 for a couple of grand has a cab a tipping tray diesel does 100 km/h drive it town if I want and goes anywhere on the farm cost 2 tenths of stuff all to run and yeah its uncool and looks a bit different but its better than one of them side be side thingy's Paul

It snows all the way up to Queensland on the great divide. I have known it to snow as far north as Mount Perry QLD where the red marker is. Australia has more acres of snow than Switzerland I was taught as a kid, and our snow is very heavy as in half as much again the weight of the northern hemisphere. I'm not sure as to why. Now it's been many years since I went to school and I doubt they teach any kids these things today. But I don't think we use salt on any roads here. I may have that wrong. It snowed for a few days each year on the farm I grew up on in SW Victoria, nothing like in the US or Europe but it was snow and to us kids it was good fun while it lasted.

Those figures arent to far off here either if you took the exchange rate into it you can buy a lot of tractor for not a lot of money these days and still do a full days work with them day in day out air con cabs quiet power shift all the things you need for not a lot of coin Paul

I dunno about in the States, but farm tractors hold their value real good here. Even ones 30 years old are still worth good money. This will change as all the electronics on them will become the thing that fails, and we will end up with tractors parked because you can't get boards for them anymore. Sad but true I feel. Paul

Yeah mate, we don't wait for them to rust away we shake them to bits on on our roads instead but to be fair there's not a lot of real rust free R model cabs left that are pre gal cabs out here the one on my bucket of bolts is stuffed Paul

Were have you tried I get a lot of my Inter parts from Texas to Australia quicker and better than dealing with CaseIH in Australia Abliene Machine is the place I use http://www.abilenemachine.com/ they give me good service to the other side of the world better than CaseIH Australia I go and see the local dealer "Oh that old thing" they say I reply under my breath f--- you anyway good luck Paul

My crystal ball isn't real bright, but I reckon Volvo is in the shit big time financially and doing everything they can to try and survive. Serves them right. Wankers tried to takeover the world. They can suffer in their undies. The real shame is the small people these pricks will hurt along the way, the towns that will be destroyed when businesses close and are owed money. Then they can't pay their bills and it just snow balls on. When big business does this, it makes my blood boil. Anyway, with any sort of luck, something good will come out of it for Mack, the workforce and customers. They need to catch a break sooner or later and get back to doing what they do best, building not only world's toughest and best trucks, but the business that rely on the trucks as well. I've got my fingers crossed it will all work out ok for Mack and its people across the world. Paul

thats good news and bad news hey good news you know were the problem is now ,bad news it's not a simple $5.00 fix but you can work from here Paul one thing to always keep in mind I reckon is in Australia right up until the late 90's early 2000's almost all Macks were air start dunno why but thats the way we like them and with air start you only get one shot of say 10 seconds at the most to fire most likely only 5 seconds I know it aint long but these Mack motors when in fairly good nick fire first piston to the top even if they have been sitting for a long time they are real good starters every time so if you cant start it on a starter motor you got dramas !!!!!! .Air start soughts out the good motors from the bad in a instant seeya

The newer Macks don't have same sex appeal as the the R models or the old Super-Liners, not in my eyes anyway. Maybe I need new specks, the Trident looks better than the Titan. .

BERZACKLY

What about a bull bar that was made and or supplied by Mack Australia then it would be just be a factory option Vlad ???? Paul

looks great to me enjoy the beast Paul

dusted means has dust got in the engine somehow first things first when you very first wind the motor over does any smoke come out the exhaust, this will tell you if you are loosing fuel when you did the compression test did you squirt any oil in each pot to see if the compression changed it will tell you if its the rings or the heads you are loosing compression thru The problem when you are changing heaps of different things at once hoping to fix it you will never know what the problem is was as so much was changed When you had the heads off did you sit them on there side and fill the ports with petrol to make sure they were sealing well ??? I always do the the real basics first as 9 times out of 10 the basics lead me straight to the problem And please dont think Im been a smart ass here by been to simple good luck Paul

Just flogged this from Facebook for your viewing pleasure Big news for Mack fans today - a Mack World First ! The largest, and complete, set of one of every limited edition Mack conventional ever made was assembled in central Queensland. Spanning nearly 30 years, starting with the US-produced Magnum and Freedom Super-Liner models, with the Aussie BiCent, in its rightful place at centre stage, and flanked by a Centennial Trident and topped off by the biggest - a Southern Cross Titan. A very special gathering and awesome lineup ! .

I would have thought closer to or above 400 but if they are all around the same maybe thats what they should be Paul

This cancer thing can be real bastard of thing eat right do right and with any luck it will all end out alright Best of luck with this and will send some positive thoughts your way seeya Paul

yep its a challenge all right but I think its a lot harder to get rid of free loaders off your land out here than it is in the US Never ceases to amaze me that people want for free what I have spent all my life working for and in the grand scheme I dont SFA anyway or they wanna tell me what to do or how I should do it If they really feel that strongly about it by their own farm and do it them selves oh hang on I know they spent there whole life blowing every cent they ever earnt Paul