mrsmackpaul

Sounds like a good base to start from These blokes on here like photos so dont be shy to share Paul

EBay is the go for manuals, a lot of the manuals are reprints but I find they are okay they are pretty simple wiring Paul

As Roy and HG say, "when to much excitement is not enough" Happy pooches everywhere Paul

Just putting some motion lotion in the ute a the bloke at servo said it is apparently the coldest Easter in 80 years in Australia Looks like global warming has forgotten us all, I believe the northern hemisphere has had a winter as cold as mother in laws kiss and looks like we are about to do the same Stay safe everyone Paul

Yeah easter is about buggered for this year Easter is a 4 day weekend in Australia, last good weather before winter, everyone leaves the city in droves to go camping and running a muck for at least 4 days, lotta people pull a sicky and make it 5 or 6 days Traffic is flat out with everyone heading home after the long weekend Cooling down very quickly this year Everyone have a safe one Paul

Wont be a center bolt, they would slide forwards and backwards I would thibk more than side to side However I feel that the elephant ears may well be allowing the springs to walk around a bit How about the trunions, I assume these are rubber or nylon To me I would start here, there is nothing as far as I know to stop the springs fanning out like this so it must be a result of two much movement Paul

This something I would be interested in as well Last thing I would want is to get put off the road because some over educated femnazi snibeliberatarian has escaped the city to tell the country people how to live My understanding is turbo technology has moved in leaps and bounds over the last 40 years so there's a fair chance we can make these bucjets of bolts run a lot cleaner and more efficient with out turning up the pump or even chasimg more power This I am interested in My turbo technology is 50 years old and it is good but a lot has changed in 50 years To my way of thinking, the quicker it spools and makes boost the cleaner it runs as the air fuel mixture is in the ideal zone from a much earlier revs Turning up the pump would do little but increade EGT's and wreck my motor as the loads I shift often require full power all day, as in no hills and no letting off the go pedal Paul

Have a great day Vlad Paul

Vlad the R model chassis was used on all Australian built Macks well into the 2000's All except the Renault based trucks and the BigFoot It was used lobg after the R model was finished Paul

Yep have tjat calander as well I believe the UPS 4X4 is back at Mack getting restored Pretty sure I read that on here at some stage Reckon it is also youtube Nope I was wrong On Facelessbook https://fb.watch/jMbcLXW-E4/?mibextid=YCRy0i Anyway, calander was interesting Paul

I think it is only to help support the load of fuel tank and stop the brackets cracking Paul

While waiting about twiddling my thumbs I did some googling Have you tried this mob http://www.wholesaledrivetrain.com/mack-transmission-parts/ They reckon they have all the bits for all Mack transmissions Paul

They are a good looking truck for a modern truck Paul

Happy birthday OD Hope the head ache isnt to bad Paul

I realize this but with dept our countries carry and are still falling head over heals to get more of I don't see it will end any other way Lots of people talk about it is all planned, and new world order and on and in they go But just like when people roll all their depts frpm credit cards into one bank loan or one cheaper credit card, it rarely works It almost always ends in even more dept and more credit cards Our respective governments and our respective fellow country men will never learn if we keep on bailing them out This needs to stop and people need to learn to fail as does our governments That is how we learn, there is no free ride I dunno, I don't see it ending any other way Anyway, America if I believe everything I read has more than a mass shooting everyday, dunno if thats true or not What I do know is our countries are ending up in a mess Paul

I have heard of blokes running as low as 55 psi in drive tyres on trucks going that are only hobbie type of trucks Smooths the ride out to know end apparently Steer tyres look a lot bigger diameter than the drive, might a optical illusion No matter this the story of the week for the forum, very very cool story indeed Well done on getting the truck back in the family Paul

The couple of times it's happened to me Swishman I was off road and couldn't get enough traction to unlock So I just jacked up a drive axle and shoved blocks of wood under Gave the truck a boot full of power and got a bit violent with the clutch and was off in 1/2 a hour Paul

Ive been saying for years we need another great depression I think it is the only way we will all focus on what is important, been a good productive decent human This airy fairy crap does nothing at all to benefit anyone, not even those pushing this garbage I rarely talk political stuff at all but the world is loosing the plot and it needs a bloody good shock to make it stop and think Paul

Well done America, hope your proud We'll I'm a bit speechless by a lotta stuff from the States these days You lot had a mass shooting the other day by a male dressed like a woman amd the US media reported it was a woman I dunno, I have been told Im not subtle wnough for today's world, if I sa6 it like it is isnt that just telling the truth Or are we meant to just lie Paul

I take it you haven't got the box apart at the moment Maybe some quad box gears are the same A lot more quad boxes sold in Australia than Triplex, have no idea about the US, am thinking a lot of the gears were shared between the two but really dont know If this is the case, the quad boxes xould be a sorce of parts maybe Paul

Having a flash digs doesn't make people happy Been happy with what we have is what it really is all about The rego bills coming in each year is bloody shock as is insurance bills Paul

We call them 2 bob snobs, 2 bob is slang for 20 cents in Australia Paul

Pretty much what Im doing Seed, has been a slow process but I'm getting there Paul

Yes have seen the same thing happen myself Unscrew filters and check if the old o ring is stuck I have had a gas leak LPG type of gas bottle on a house Anyway the flare on the fitting must of been hung up on something, one day I started changing bottles a lot quicker I checked and looked with soapy water a few times and couldn't find anything One day I could smell something and the nut on the flared fitting was loose, I mean not even finger tight and I had checked these I can only put it down to the fitting was hung on something in the nut It was air tight for a long time and suddenly was loose I wonder if maybe you have a fitting like this on a suction hose Sorry for the long winded yarn Paul

Dunno about keeping the cook happy, it's a bloody challenge these days I can tell yah 🤔😁 Anyway the Princess would of liked a new brick verneer Mac-Mansion but there was no way that was gunna happen, not a bloody chance The old parts of country towns in my part of Australia are all big old houses with big verandahs and big tall ceilings Big trees for lots of shade in summer and nice big blocks You cant build character in a Mac-Mansion as much as they try to bling them up with theater rooms and stuff At a guess it's about 90 years old which for this part of Australia is pretty old Should do up into a nice pad, there weren't many two story houses in Australia until maybe 20 or 30 years ago when when they started building the Mac-Mansions Oh what I call a Mac-Mansion is like going to a MacDonald's restaurant, everything is super sized and over the top Paul