mrsmackpaul

Thanks JoJo, I'll look into this, have never seen such a item on a trunion in Australia Have seen plenty of cracked caps from been greased from the wrong end Im guessing Paul

I was told the painting of castings was to stop oil seeping thru possible porous spots on castings This was on big industrial gearboxes, is in drives maybe 4 feet high I assumed it was correct what I was told However after reading freight trains comments I am wondering if I was fed a line as young gullible person The reason I say this because the inside of my Macks fuek tanks are painted with red stuff like the block That block looks amazing, what is this dremel flexible head wire wheel doohickie mentioned, it does a impressive job as did the hand holding the dremel thingy Paul

Im thinking everyone's comments are pretty spot on Guessing as others have suggested the bolts were stripped when the trans was put back in Someone maybe just done them up with abig ass rattle gun some how and the bolts were cross threaded, we can only guess now as to how or what or why Need to remember just how mjch of a pizziling a truck takes on high speed off road use in plenty of spots around the world and the bolts dont break after years of abuse so a love tap from a little car like that is like pissing in ocean and watching the tide rise I just dont see it's gunna happen, but I probably am wrong Paul

Whats this bleeder you mention Joey ? I have only seen grease nipples or zerks I think you blokes call them on the end caps Paul

Gotta agree Joey As time goes more and more people will choose EV's but some never will I reckon the same thing would of happened when motor cars replaced the horse I dont reckon we should force anyone to change at all If these are all they are made out to be we will choose them anyway Paul

Dunno Bob I reckon on city delivery there will be plenty of demand, government departments and local councils and shires or what ever you blokes call your local governments will be falling hand over fist for the latest gizmo Personally it makes a lotta sense to me for city type of businesses to buy these, cheap to run, short hauls and so on But as Swishman says "Wattadoeyeno" Paul

Stainless steel sleeves are the go out here Last for ever, longer than a new wheel cylinder does Paul

I have heard of blokes jacking up one back wheel, putting the truck in top gear, wrapping rope around the wheel and a couple of blokes grabbing in and giving it a BIG PULL putt putt putt vroom Paul

I find this very interesting as well It appears that different Mack factories even in the same country built vastly different trucks of the same model Paul

Spot on, we have no idea how long this may of been since he got stuck, may of been only moments before hand Dunno if we should be arm chair experts on what happened as we weren't there But, hang I'll make that a BIG BUT we can all learn from this I have got hung up a few times with my old float (low boy) and always when I'm off road No fangled adjustments, a jack and blocks of wood and we are soon on the move again I just jack the drive axles up and stick blocks of wood under and back out of were I was Thats me and as far as on road, our trailers are higher off the ground than the U.S. trailers as I think we are allowed higher loads 4.5 meters is normal thats 14 feet 9 and a bit inches in the old money 4.6 meters for stock trailers, thats a poofteenth over 15 feet 4.65 with a permit you just down load and so on Dunno what the U.S. is as in height amd axle loadings but they are very different than Australia's rules Paul

I reckon your spot on, very hard to say what any of us would do in that situation Paul

Sorry but this is to modern for to be of any help Paul

Cat trucks in Australia had the C15 and the C13 until emission dramas They then re badged the Navistar and called it a CT 13 Or at least thats my understanding Paul

A bad day at the office If the link works https://fb.watch/j4vt296VlS/?mibextid=NnVzG8 Paul

Everyone I know just uses the same starter with no problems at all, as Seed suggested it actually starts better because it's spinning faster Paul

Roche, NewZealand TV series that had a R model as the main character Paul

The blue lightning Big ole Superliner pulling tripple trud herding Watch were you park a plane Let me know if the link doesnt work Paul

Hope you had a great day

Fantastic stuff

This is as best as I could do at short notice Had her rolled up with a couple of other sheilas keeping a eye on the trucks Paul

My father always said "wood is only good for keeping you warm" Wood really is a issue in Australia as our white ant (termite) population is such that it destroys most woods at a record pace in most parts of Australia unless the wood is treated Australia never went thru the last ice age and as such the glaciers never took all the soil away while carving out new mountain ranges, apparently we have more white ants than rest of the world combined Anyway back to the topic Paul

Cat pulled out of truck building because when they got in was when the U.S. entered it's "Sub Prime Mortage" crisis which inturn caused the "GFC" global financial crisis Cat stopped selling Cat motors to other manufacturers as the Cat motor was and still is well regarded thru out the world Cat believed that Cat motor lovers would buy Cat trucks just to get the motor Bad timing was the issue more than anything else Cat trucks were mainly sold in Australia and NewZealand and the ones that couldn't be sold in North America got sent here to be converted and sold I guess the Aust/NZ market was less important to upset than the north American market Paul

And probably before the cab Paul