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Anyway onto some happier stuff, actually loosing Grandma isn't sad as she lived a full life pretty much right up to the end, anyway I digress Watched this video of NewZealand trucks in the 80's, if you can listen to some of the cometary as the bloke filming is talking about the 500 hp Mack Superliners, and even if you cant hear it you can sure the difference that 500 hp makes Now if you have never been to NewZealand you cant imagine just hiw windy and steep the roads are, doing 60 MPH for and distance over a few mile is virtually unheard of, no run ups to climb hills, it's just a long hard slog Have a great day Paul

Well what a day, hot as all get out Lost my last Grandma last night, she was a Great Great Great Grandma, she was the one we grand children ran the wooden trucks into fridge and plaster work and so on around the house Her husband, my Grand father was the one that built the toys and drove the old ex Army Mack EH log truck The end of a era, Grandma was the last of that generation in my family This year also marks 200 years since my family came to Australia as free settlers, we were the first white (thats a bad word in Yanky land but Im not a Yank) and up in the Victorian high country to graze sheep from the station in the Riverina district of NSW Gunna be a big year for my family Paul

By now everyone will know and be shaking their head thatyou cant push a piece of wire down to the cam Your a dick Paul Anyway everyone must be feeling generous as no one has called me out on this How ever, Im sure there must a easy way of checking what cam is in there, it's just I am not smart enough to check this Sorry for the bum steer Very little sleep over the last 24 hours and it's hot as all get out, only excuses I have except for Im a dumb ass 🤔 Paul

So from what I have been able to learn and opinions of myself and others On a E6 there isnt a lot of difference between Dynatard and Jacobs It's a small motor so the compression isn't as good to help slow you That been said, I know of people (very few) that tell me Dynatard works as good or almost as good as a 14 litre Cummins with Jacob brake when the Dynatard is working as it should My experience is that Dynatard is only good for dropping revs quick for changing gears However this really doesn't answer your questions at all So I reckon a piece of wire pushed down from top of the head and measure from the top of the lobe, the rotate the motor until the lobe is on the bottom and measure again should give you a good idea what cam shaft you have Yes this is very farmerish or perhaps in Yanky terms (red neck) but it should give you a idea of what have Paul

Boost leak, wrong turbo, air restriction? Paul

Gave me a chuckle

That is so true, if we aren't careful we are gunna loose a lot of our history Paul

Is that after the big bang ? Pretty sure that was the mountains name that exploded in maybe the 70s Paul

Well I'm gunna keep my eyes peeled for this movie Was given a card thing, memory card for a digital camera that someone had put all of my Grandrafthers slides on Thousands of them apparently ???, my brother and I loved staying at Grandma's and Pa's as he had this magical wonders of wonders called a projector and we could occasionally watch these other wonderous things called slides Not only was Pa a truck driver he loved travelling around Australia and did several times before it was all sealed 1000s of miles of dirt road in just a normal sedan towing a caravan The slide nights are what really cultivated my brain into dreaming about just how big the world is at a very young age Anyway I must find out how to now turn these into photos Paul

Struth, your looking very classy there I never scrub up very well at all the Curley Kid and I with our first ever poddy calf Me pulling tits, maybe 26 years old Young Curley kid helping his father check the milk level in the vat The Curley kid gving his father a driving lesson on the D7 Paul

MooWell yesterday was interesting, my Grandfather made big wooden toys fir us Grand kids to play with There was two trucks, a low loader, a dozer, forklift and some other things Well it finally got all split up between us Grandchildren So new to me but maybe 50 years old and still looking good is a tilt tray truck, reckon you lot in the State's call them roll backs or some thing like that This truck had the low loader instead of the tray to begin with but us boys were a bit hard on Grandma's walls cutting corners Pa made a dolly for the low loader and turn this into a tilt tray Pa never worked with steel and the diffs or axles are all turned out of wood on his lathe There's a "T " handle that goes on the front that we pull them along with

Need to remember when putting sealant on things like this not to over do it as th e sealant will get forced out inside and the gets pumped thru oil galleries in the box When this happens the whole box needs to come apart and the sealant needs to be removed from everywhere Just clean it up spotless and wait for it to dry and run a bead around the out side as best as you can, wait fpr that to cure before adding oil Paul

Something a little different Paul

Did you jokers know this May 1943. Newly delivered to the RAAF, Lancaster Q for Queenie was doing promotional flights around Australia for war bonds. Upon arrival over Sydney the pilot dived towards the harbour and, at full speed, beat up along the water right under the Sydney Harbour bridge. It remains the largest aircraft ever to do this and was totally unplanned. Well if you didn't you do now, go and have a beer from your very on fridge Oh hang you lot from over there wont have a clue what I just said Go a get a beer out of your refrigerator 😁 Paul

Yeah I reckon it must of gone right over on it's side while the half was upright It is amazing what can be fixed as good as new if you have the gear and the know how The work ethic and desire to do a good job helps as well Paul

From the Curley kid (aka my boy) from a while ago now Untwisting a twisted one Paul

Yeah mate, I hear you, for the most part all of the years I have been involved here it has been plenty of laughs and I even learn things to boot Life doesn't get much better than this Paul

Bugger me, five grand You could to talk underwater Joe 🤪🤪 Paul

I think most new trucks are built with them these days I reckon the brand of them makes a huge difference They can be really handy in tight spots but can also be very frustrating to get to seal Also need to make sure you dont mix metric and imperial fittings and lines up as they look pretty much the same to my eyes however they aren't forgiving like compression type fittings So my suggestions are Buy good quality brands Buy brass fittings Buy good quality nylon lines that are the exact size your chasing, possibly buy the same brand airline as the air fittings and they should match and seal perfectly And as already suggested by myself, Bendix Westinghouse Good luck Paul

If you are replacing these because they have failed I think you have the answer to your question Paul

Way out of my depth here on a modern motor so everyone laugh your head off at my stupidity If soot is getting into the fuel I would think combustion is leaking into the fuel If injectors and cups have been done and didn't leak soot in before hand surely that would suggest were the soot is coming from Dunno I'm a bit lost for words after reading all of this again Paul

Im stunned you all shop online with Americas population, truck parts stores should be within 50 miles of most people in the State's In my part of Australia most people try hard to support local businesses Anyway Bendix Westinghouse has been around since the beginning of time and are US based Im pretty sure So I would expect they are fine Depending on what your chasing, I use Ryco a Australian brand I would be surprised if Bendix Westinghouse was crap as I do use them as well and have no dramas Paul

Sadly if only it was as simple as that, I'm sure someone else would soon start fighting over that dry bit of dirt I have never understood it at all The other 41 Chev Paul lived there with his new bride after Vietnam He tried explaining to me once, I never quite got it Paul

Alex given that part of the world and the past few thousand years of history I doubt any peace of any kind is about to happen over there in my life time Paul

Landing on my feet may be a huge over statement My ass and my left shin look a tad different now My boy (shouldn't call him a boy, he's a grown man) anyway my boy sends me some photos of the work he does Probably shouldn't really share them on social media but this is Big Mack Truck forum and hopefully not full of wankers When trucks come in looking twisted out of shape he massages them back into shape He has obviously not paid a huge amount of attention to his father as he has it neat and tidy Paul