mrsmackpaul

Welcome to the forum The Renault Macks never sold real well but I find most Mack dealers reasonably easy to deal with in Australia Not knowing what part of this wide brown land your from I can't really help you Depending on the vehicles age will depend on whether the chassis number or the vin number is used when chasing parts, would be thinking yours is most likely the vin number Depending on what your chasing will depend how you go, you have the build sheet and that is probably all you will get A workshop manual probably never existed, from my small Mack knowledge in Australia Mack used the next closest thing to a manual and there is all different manuals for different bits of the drive line etc I reckon Ebay in the UK would be the best place to start for the Renault side of the truck and to get a English version I would imagine for a cab over it will ride pretty good been a European based truck Paul

Rear axle, jack it up, grease up a long flat bit of wood, undo the nuts hold the axle, give it a whack and it should come loose Slide the axle out Back the brake off fully Lower the truck so the wheels are just touching the greased bit of wood Undo the bearing nuts Slide the hub, drum and wheels along greased up board as one whole unit Then pop the seal out, remove the grit guard if fitted and source parts To fit is the reverse Front hub I reckon you pop the cap in the center Paul

That's impressive So now this land fill is full, how far does it have travel now to a land fill And I guess it might sound huge, but 3000 acres and it lasted roughly 50 years isnt to bad if 20 million people were contributing rubbish Keep the photos coming, I mighten comment much but I really do enjoy seeing all of this stuff Paul

So they are building a big hill ? Or filling a big hole ? Either way it sounds huge I remember back in the 80's a bloke I worked with told me NewYork had roughly Australia's entire population in one city It might of been New York state, dont know Either way that's a lotta people with a lotta rubbish For those that don't know, I grew up on a farm and spent most of my working life farming My brother is also the same, in the early 90's he went to the U.S. and Canada and reckoned L.A. was a horrible place but reckons he could easily live in NewYork, both those things were a shock to me from a country boy Keep the photos and stories coming, I really enjoy learning about different places and how things work Thank you Paul

They had some big gear, were does all the rubbish end up 19 million Im pretty sure google just told me, is a lot of rubbish Some big Macks and other cool gear Paul

Never heard of anything like that Maybe some much older tyre place, anyone that jumps on the computer when you ask probably wont be of much use A tyre place that has been in business since the 40's with the books from them Maybe ebay for old tyre books may be the go Finding the right book is gunna be the challenge Paul

So you can't drill and tap the broken bolts Or is there something we all can't see going on Even just drill right thru and bung a big flat washer on the back and a nut Must be more to this than meets the eye Paul

I did see this the other day and thought the same thing And even at the end the blokes drinking at the pub and then going hard out of the car park are in a Mack That been said it is good to see some people been professional Paul

Your a movie star now I'll check these out Paul

I think this sums up most of our own little lives at times As the saying goes "I'm flat out like a one armed wall paper hanger" Just drop in when you can, glad the trucks are been enjoyed, even if it isn't by you at the moment, they deteriorate quickly if not getting driven at all Paul

Good luck with it all Keep us all in the loop with how it goes, we are always up to follow along a build Paul

Looks really good Paul

Well it's a start, your moving forwards Paul

If you look to the lower left you will ser they talk about the coolpower Mack motor This is not my photo, was I believe taken at the Brisbane truck show ???? But I wouldn't hold me to that This when Australia changed from Tip Turbine to Econodyne or chassis mounted cooler in front of the radiator

I would be guessing that is what is been spoken of Coolpower Mack motor was the offical Mack name in Australia for Tip Turbine Worked well and were a game changer when released to the Australian market, just like the Maxidyne was Paul

That's the one thing I have just learnt today, I always thought the Boral was just a Australian company, I wonder were else they were in the world ? Paul

So good to hear some fun is been had now And the truck that had the crook block, is it still behaving Paul

Neither are my photo But gives you the idea of what I am talking about Paul

You won't loose that in a car park Sure is bright, if it was in Australia we would think it was a Boral truck, there trucks were all green and yellow Paul

Do these bolts go thru with nuts on the other side ? Or was this different in the U.S. ? Paul

Macks in Australia had very similar brouchers but different letters and numbers We only had, R 600 and R 700 Everything else was sort of added later I wonder what NewZealand, Europe and the middle east used when they sold them new The pictures on Australian brouchers was the same as was the colours Back in the 60's we were still imperial, feet and inches and pounds Things were simpler to work out than metric amd in most cases still are Paul

On 21 July 1969, Francis "Frankie" John Hunt was on patrol with 3 Platoon, A Company, 6RAR, when Lieutenant Peter Hines stepped on a mine, which activated and killed him. The explosion injured several others, including Hunt, who was standing closest to Hines. Hunt was air-lifted to the military hospital in Vung Tau and then evacuated to Australia for further surgery at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital to amputate his severely injured legs. He spent 19 months in rehabilitation in Australia. In 1983, musician John Schumann wrote and released the song "I Was Only 19" which was performed by his band, Redgum. The song references Hunt and the mine explosion: "Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon" and was performed onstage in the Domain for the Vietnam veterans' reunion concert on 4 October 1987. Image: Frankie onstage at the Vietnam veterans' reunion concert in the Domain, Sydney. Photographer: Michael Bowers, PAIU1987/272.28 Paul

I'm gunna say yes but I really don't know Paul

WOW, that's a impressive looking truck I imagine that the wrecker part was fully custom built and not a off the shelf type of deal Paul

Ball race turn tables or fifth wheels would be by far the most common in Australia More stability, less movement and so on All a matter of what your used to seeing I guess Paul