ThaddeusW

Does he sell em or collect em?

I was just on Hanks site and found something very interesting. Among the photos of a new gallery added the 12th were a bunch of photos of a few good looking Macks. I dont know if it is or isnt a junk yead but the captions say so. H, B's and L's. Some fire equipment too. Click for the site and scroll to the bottom. Anyone know of this spot?

Mack looks to be the only company down under that makes a line of trucks specifically for road train operation (Trident, Superliner and the Titan). Raised cab for better airflow to keep the cab cooler, well placed air snorkels with filters under the cab (or hood I forget). And a large oversized hood and radiator to help with cooling. Tri-drive or tandem planetary hub end reduction axles from Renault help with the 170+ ton loads. The only other two American companies serious about road trains are Western Star and Kenworth. The Europeans and Japanese aren’t anywhere on the radar except for smaller B train or tandem operation. Mack is the top selling road train truck followed by Kenworth and Western Star last I herd. Once the MP10 arrives I am sure Mack will be another step ahead of the competition.

Sweet. Glad you have her together! Looking wonderful so far, be sure to get us some pics of it workin!

You need an ammeter to measure the drain current. The battery voltage will drop but its not the proper way to check for the leak. Try this get a 12V bulb and disconnect one of the main battery leads (make sure the series parallel switch is in 12V.) Put the bulb in series with the battery leads. If it glows or lights with the ignition off you have a leak somewhere. Try that and pull the fuses one by one until the lamp extinguishes, if that doesent work then your going to have to dig around and disconnect wires till you find the leak. You can use a volt meter to probe around for power while the ignition is off (leave one lead connected to a good ground point). A dead short would melt any smaller gauge wires. IF the batteries die in one night then its a major leak as 4 12v truck batteries dont die so easily from obvious things like lights or radio left on.

Great pictures. Looks like you snuck an Autocar and Scania

Its a central tire inflation system. Some have the air line through the axle some have it external like this.

David just saw your reply and you are incorrect about the tire revs changing. The radius changes from the rim to the ground under load BUT the over all circumfrence stays the same. The circumference is what determines the revs per mile. The radius has nothing to do with the circumference because we just multiply the diameter by pi (3.1415…) to get the circumference. We also dont know his tire size, I just used 11r22.5 as an example and guessed 12.00r24 from the revs per mile he gave me.

I really like your pops R model, what year is it? And you need some high resolution pictures of your superdog and dads r model! Great trucks

Glad to hear you got the money ! Was about to suggest getting a bat and a few friends and pay the guy a visit LOL .

Wow what a pretty looking F model, and great lookin Superliner too! Is that Y pipe on the Superliner stacks for indoor truck pulling?

Dayton wheels are spoked hubs. Here is a picture of a B with Dayton wheels I found in the gallery.

OK everyone calm down. Man for some reason this topic really got some people worked up. Every truck manufacturer in the world measures wheelbase the way HK and I described. If you sell your truck by measuring the wheelbase the wrong way it will appear longer to others looking to buy. We were just trying to inform everyone. What goes on paper is what rolls out the Mack plant.

Thanks

How exactly do you remove the drum off the end of a dayton style spoked hub? It looks like the drum has the studs and you have to remove the whole hub assembly off the axle to get at the drum and shoes.

HK is right. For a tandem you measure to the CENTER of the rear axles. With a single axle you measure to the middle of the rear axle of course. With a tri-drive you measure to the center rear axle hub. Any other way is WRONG. The extreme measurement used in bridge formula is called Gross wheelbase, which is front most axle hub to rear most axle hub. If any of you doubting Thomas’s want more proof here is a picture strait out of a Mack CH brochure:

Found this great story online a while back, thought you guys might want to have a look for a laugh. This goes to show you what goes around comes around, the scammer gets scammed. Bit of a read but well worth it.

LOL just a funny thought. get a wrecked Mack with a good frame and drive train. Get a good pete cab and hood slap it on and you will have one of the most reliable petes on the road lol.

Trent I agree on the part of having an understanding mother who lets you have a little freedom. The tighter the lockdown parents keep on there kids the more likely they are to try to rebel by doing what they cant. My mom let me not only have a shed full of old tv's vcr steroes and lawnmowers but also fill half the basement as well. Worst part was my father helped me find the junk too! Mostly today its computers lol. I will admit I sometimes go out and drink myself silly or MAYBE share a joint with a few friends but I do it all in moderation, and keep it safe. Always a designated driver or crash at a friends place when im too whacked to drive. Never had a problem. I Dont touch the hard stuff, thats how my friend got hooked on coke, tried it once and kept doing it till he was hooked. He came up to visit right after christmas and man he started to fein so bad he was shaking and sweating begging me to find him some.

Woa! 10:02 for the both of us ! Lol!

Thats why so many are turning to automatics.

Wow your 15, freshman or sophmore in highschool? I hear ya, I am 25 but remember the BS back in high school. Thing is it has always been that way, it has always been "getting worse". No matter what school you go to there will always be the dope heads, trouble makers and kids who got nothing to do but party and try to get laid. Ignore them and anything they have to say to you. I just did my thing and said screw em, I got better things to do. Wanna know what the key to avoiding the dregs of society and staying strait? HAVE A HOBBY! All of the messed up people I know/knew never did anything creative in there spare time. You have your nice Mack. Fix her up and learn as you go along. You will find that after you really get into what your doing its a high in all its own. And once its finished, you will have a real good sence of accomplishment. You will also find you stoped caring about the problem people and their BS Do your own thing, be your own person! And I can relate with the problem you have with your friend. One of my closent friends since high school moved down to Flordia 2 years ago with his fiancée. Well he met this stripper, started to fool around with her, His fiancée caught him and dumped him. He is now living with the stripper and devloped a crack/coke habbit. Sad really, especially when I call him and he has to put me on hold while he does a hit. I have tried to help him out and talk to him but he just wont stop. Talk to your friend, he might not stop right away but if you persist it just might work. My brothers friend started to smoke allot, and my brother literally yelled at him till he stopped .

Ok, let me see if I have this right. Synchromesh means that each gear has a synchronizer that brings the countershaft up to speed before the dog teeth engage the gear right?

Um.... I hope your jokin Rob ! Its funny how life insurance policies can go up to a million bucks (maybe even more). Think of it if you made 50k a year and had a 1mil policy it would be worth 20 years of work! I was watching this program on TV once and this woman slowly poisoned her husband and killed him. She collected the 375,000 or so dollars and became so greedy she started to slowly poison her own son too! They caught her after they found out she was using cupric cyanide she stole from her place of work (plating company) when they tested her husbands exhumed corpse. Some real sick f**ked up people in this world.