Vladislav

Good scroll on the eye candys!

Great truck! Glad to know someone could afford the expenses to own and keep such the beauty.

Thank you for posting. Beautiful trucks I don't remember seeing any of them (pics) before. And too doubt I would soon have a chance to visit that show personally.

Nice pics, thank you for sharing. As Paul said above. Out of likes for today.

Good comment, Timmy! Tom, this week's report turned out of a big size. My favorite is red RW now. The Kelly Ripper set of pics is just a piece of art. The emotions on your face are absolutely true. Sure the same as the pics themself are Good score on red Macks too. And the smoker is a killer! Almost compensate the shortage of stacks on that last pick-up truck.

BC, I still carry this crazy idea on my mind for real. Once I was pretty close to that but there were too many things to do at the time (as usual) so i had to limit my entertainment to roaming Turkey only. Made that trip from Moscow to Holland first and than crossed the most of Europe entering Turkey from Bulgaria. Ending up on Mediterranian coast. Hope Iranians don't have much of plans to keep me in their country. They are friendly to Russians. At least I heard that

Cool to see Turkish folks talking truck tales Following your idea of Turkish Macks outside of Turkey - The first Mack I ever set in a cab of was F-model tractor wich hauled construction materials to Moscow in 1991 or 1992. It was Turkish company and Turkish registerd truck either. With nice Turkish driver who could only say "Max" in English

Great movie! It shares those day's life. Surprizingly seeing mixer and dump trucks racing. And so many trucks racing either. Just only Phantom 309 along worth watching it. Many thanks for posting.

Looks great! My hat's off to the amount of squaire feet you put your hands on.

Do you do that on a constant basis cruising highways either? I still haven't get the truck on a road this year so no response. Rains, rains, rains...

Wow! It seems like I missed the latest updates. Cool pictures of DM's Turkish company use for contstruction in Algeria. Once about 5 years back I had luck to cruise Turkish roads with my motorbike. No lees than 2000 km at all including Istanbul, Ankara, main highways and small local roads either. During whole 2 weeks I saw the only Mack there. It was DM or R-model wich passed in opposit direction on the highway. I was going nearly 140 km/h so only could see it was Mack. Had an idea to make a U-turn and follow the truck to talk to the driver but didn't do that. The highway was a toll road so I should reach the nearest exit in something like 5-10 km, pay for the way I did to the moment, make a turn, check in on the entry and than try to get to the truck. So it could take up to 50-100 km of the back way with no garanty of the result. Seemed like Macks were rare in Turky. On the other hand there's still Turkish company in Russia which builds objects in Moscow. They used to operate 3-4 Mack DM's in middle and late 90's. One of them was could be seen on the road just a couple of years back. As far as I could learn one truck is still alive. Here's a couple of pics of them from the net.

Beautiful! The way the fenders were done is nice to look over. The body style is cool too.

Beautiful thingy! Seems to me though like just a sleeper off some modern truck put onto Superliner. Nice done job though.

Long ago one of my clients had a car with carburator. He had it loosing power when accelerating. After couple of weeks of search he got to the issue. Someone before him fitted the rubber fuel hose to the carb inlet pipe. Making that he cut a piece of rubber from the hose's inner side by sharp end of the inlet. So something like a small flipper was formed. It didn't block the line completely but moved when the fuel stream was increasing and shut down the engine. Who would have thunk thought...

Try to blow out the supply line FROM the primary filter to the tank with compressed air. Seems like there's something that doesn't allow the fuel to go. Didn't you notice any difference on how quick it ran out of fuel pulling harder or going slowly within idling?

I would agree a radial tyre becomes elliptical but ellipse doesn't mean longer circumference. It used to have the same overall length as a circle it became from. Not to continue to argue, just like to figure out the physical matter.

The slippery road switch idea seems good to me. I would redo the info plate on it either with something like "parking brake apply/release".

Impresive animal. Front hubs look of the same style as Mack NR has.

A pleasure to see. Both interesting as a sample of old days engeunity and just a view of the past. Good point about grammer school. The text is spoken so well and correct I could understand it 95% with no repeat. Should do it 10 times more for a lesson

Ok, now I totally surrender. The different circumference issue makes a lot of sence. Paul, thanks for finding that Bridgestone test bulletin. The only thing I haven't figure out so far is that radial tyres have their cord layed over circumference. So being spinned fast they don't deform along their thread area. Saying another words they don't became a bubble form as bias ones do. So getting greater tyre circumference means increase of breaker cord length. It seems strange to me. Although heat can make many things different. And I have no intend to doubt Bridgestone engeneer's skill. Checked out the pressure I had today. Found out 4 bar / 60 pci in the rears all over. Dropped them down to 3 bar/45 pci so far. Going to make a road test. Will do the other day. Currently I have my polished outer wheels removed for winter storage. Hope to put them on in a couple of days to get on the road.

Wow! That's a pretty cool place! Little museum with super clean restored rigs. And I haven't seen that yellow NR before. The second one wasn't shown in the video. I suppose it's a well known Aussie dark blue truck with yellow Cat dozer on its bed. Thank you for sharing.

Ok, the gerneral line is clean. Thinking on pressure "uneventy" I work out the idea of progressive suspension flexibility. The same way as multiple leaf spring works. When load (or road hit) is light generally main leaf deforms. And spring reacts smooth. When you inctease the load every next leaf goes into work. I just suppose if you deflate for example outers to the level they support the truck normally and then get inners to lower pressure it seems to me (in theory) that inners would just go with about no load. So no way to overheat them. As for uneven wear I agree it will became at some point. But what I'm planning is 2-3 thousand km a year. So I think brand new set of tyres will wear off for a decade. Deflating airbags seems as a story of the same kind. I would deflate the central axle to about zero. But what bothers me is possible wobbling and jumping of whole the axle having no load on it excepting own weight. Shocks might calm it down though. Anyway I'm going to start with 35-40 pci in rears all over (maybe 35 inners wityh 40 outers???) and see the difference. Too probably my highly complicated theories will get needless after some practicing.

G'day mate! Quite an interesting point. Did you do 30 pci with load? Or with an empty trailor? Sounds impressive anyway. I think your camelback was too pleased initiating horse riding Thank you for sharing experience.

Thank you for the suggestions gentlemen. I see I may drop pressure in rears well and it makes hopes to me. Forgot to mention I drive new tyres all around, not recaps. They are Chinese Aeolus though. Why do you think it's one bad idea to deflate the inners deeper than outers? I would keep the outers stronger to not loose the wall off the rim in a steep turn. A common conditions would just let the outers run and the inners to revolve with about no load. 4 normally pressurized tyres (nearly 4 bar / 55pci) should carry the truck with no overload in them. One more idea is to differ the pressure in the airbags making the rear rear axle hold the chassis only. The FR would require another level valve and could be set for a couple inch higer. Meaning that you achieve something like too long wheelbase single axle truck. Sure no load is planned.

The question - what minimum pressure can I put in the tires to not loose them off the rims? The wheels are 11R24.5 tubless Alcoas. The truck is tandem R-model tractor. It's far from a showroom condition now but I like to drive it from time to time. Going a good road it rides smooth and I feel nice in it. It's long enough, has Neway airride on Canadian spread and air suspended cab with air seat. Although when catching some washboard parts of the road wich I meet plenty of it shackes as hell and flips its hood if I don't slow down fast enough. Once I had to pass about 20km of dirt road and it took me no less than an hour to. I know some load could help but I'd like to keep it as a tractor with only 5th wheel on it. Being not a truck driver I absolutely have no idea on how deep I can deflate the tires. Currently I ride both fronts and rears with nearly 80 pci / 5.5 bar as the previous owner recommended. The fronts look deformed under the weight but the rears show contact trace in the middle of the tire threads only, just don't touch the pavement with thread shoulders. So maybe loose the nippels? Or at least deflate the inside ones? Any suggestions from guru's?