Vladislav

Thank you for sharing the story and the pics. Too interesting to put an eye on the land I have never been to.

If you read whole the thread slowly and patient from the start to the end you will find the answers for your questions.

Looks clean. Nice job! I'm not ready to tell anything about a B-model interior color but painting insides of the doors (so far) of my R-model I also notices original gray metallik color was semi-gloss or semy-matt. I made it gloss and liked the result. Restored truck may shine, it should please an eye of beholder. And you always get a shiny paint dull just by time passed when it covers with dust, finger prings and so on. So keep the project going this way and we promise to like it

Nice solid R. 250 geathered with 5 speed seems too much for a calm ride though.

No, no! They aren't too bed!! Just swap the lower shells with the upper's and that thing will fly!!

Mate, thank you for pointing me out. I just used to see AC passes under the middle of a dash. And this time describing your driving conditions you forgot to mention scaring bahjeebers outta ya

Beautiful scenaries! Rocks are pretty to catch an eye on but make troubles for those who live there.

It seems to me the bed is long enough to move some trailors, not only trucks. Nice looking rig!

The road on the cover needs some flattening indeed. At all the brochure looks Ok.

Wow! Thanks the great for sharing. I was off my computer the day it was posted so missed it to my big shame.

Good collection of old trucks spotted this time. Diamond-T wrecker is a beast. And sorry to hear you found out there was someone behind your back who might be looking for an arse foot printing.

Nice looking rig. And seems not expensive along your costs. What is the unit with air shutters under the dash at the left? Additional AC evaporator?

Looks well-built on the pictures. The most interesting question is how long it would last. I used to hear that Chinese producents increaset quality of their vehicles to a good level during the decade although together with noticable increase of costs. Last years we have planty of big dump trucks on the roads and I noted some tractor units recently also. Suppose they're about twice cheaper than Scania's. Paul, Holden Cruse and Holden Spark... I wouldn't thought I ever hear anything like that. Just makes shivers up and down my spine.

Cutting the bushings seems as a trouble. Those I have are welded over no less than a half of their surround. I tryed to find out how they actually fit offset and couldn't see much of play by my eyes. On my mind if you're going to attach brachets to undrilled frame area placing them with clamps with some movements to follow would work smooth. In my case I will attach them to the existing frame with old drillings. If I use the ones I currently have on my truck I would just mark them and put back in their places. But I see too long story to go through and hardly dislike to part the truck out early. Having an extra set of rears and other chassis parts my plan is to prepaire as many as I can before that day.

Attractive offer. lucky I already have one on the truck and one as a spare. But as Leversole once said... (could be Google-translated)

I suppose it wouldn't be enough to set the brackets only. If this works no need of those offset bushings. Seems a factory do it this way playing with bushings and that's the correct way. If we want to go our "shop" way installing used parts there seem two choices to me. 1st (and more correct, and probably easy) - cut off the bushings, buy them new. Align and set brackets, put new bushings e t.c., align axles and weld. 2nd - assemble axles with everything including brackets, put onto the frame with temporary bolts and check the distances. Than try to align moving the brackets (and correcting the holes) or playing with the brackets swapping them. It the brackets fit different than they were larger bolts might be required to cover the holes increase. The point I personally dislike with welding is I prefere to sandblast and paint brackets separately. And I have it almost done. Welding good painted parts when on a chassis makes me cry. The matter of the question is not a today need to me so I have a bit of while to keep figuring out. So sharing your experience is strongly appreciated.

I'm going to remove a set of Neway's from one frame to another. One thing bothers me. I read in some Neway bulletin (on the net) that steel bushings you can see welded into the lower ends of the frame-mounted brackets are originally excentrical. So after you have the brackets on the frame rails and attach equalizer beams together with axles you can turn those bushings checking the axle alignement and than weld them up in place. I'm not going to cut off those bushings and it has me scratching my head. Seems like a temporary attachment of whole axle assemblies with the brackets onto frame rails might be required. Or anything else. Vlad

Very impressive! Don't remember seeing anything like that on the road.

As said above

Happy Birthday to Lucerne Tractor, Mack Man, Jocko and the rest of the gang!

RW-II and a soft nose L-model. Too difficult to choose from so many outstanding designed trucks.

Welcome on here! That's a right place to get what you want. Just keep looking over the threads you're interested and at some point you will surprize of amount of info you keep in your mind. Be careful checking "Trucks for sale" forum though. This might get you out of storage place and $$ pretty soon Vlad

That was the first I was going to say! Cool double-Hahn picture and the two Superliner pics either. GMC is the top notch! (Hmm, did I say anything about a notch?)

Looks fine! Wonder how things will go with the curved parts of the tank..

Great! Let me know the secret of how to get such a nice B-model by just swapping an engine in a MH?