Vladislav

I liked the note of how they (big tires) "help out the ride" and "help the over all performance" Tom, thank you for the pictures! Just ran out of likes already.

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What gears are you going to get rid of? I'd be interested in a set off a B model of about 5.5 - 6.5. Any speed is a trip per time. Your wheel makes a trip doing a turn. Every turn it makes it's overall outside diameter x3.14. Or just turn a scale over the tire, more sharp. You need to convert inches into miles. An engine turns wheels. You can see revs. The most gears get them to wheels slower. So you need to divide engine revs by gear ratio. First divide by a gearbox gear used, than again by an axle gear. Those revs are still per minute. Multiply with 60 to get them per hour. That is how fast your wheels turn, revs per hour. Multiplying wheel's revs with the wheel's 1 rev trace we get miles per hour.

The second picture shows out chromed bumper wich couldn't be recognized on the first one. The grill and the tank seem getting polishing regulary. I'd say the owner not only use it for work but do it with love and pride

Wonder what temperature was outside when the fighters worked on the incident? Pretty interesting and impressive picture. Thank you for sharing Karl.

Congrats on the purchase! Hope you'll continue moving on Mater and have this new toy just to cheer yourself up so far.

Sometimes I think to myself every part of an old vehicle may keep its history. With that we may rest some damages not fixed completey. It either seems a bit of difference of restoring and building a replica.

Guy, That's pretty interesting that many people still remember driving them. Overhere I just heard the stories from some folks who remembered seeing them driving down the streets. There were not many of them supplied to the SU at all, an undocumented figure is nearly 700 units. With no parts supply during a Cold war and having troubles with SAE bolts and nuts Lend-Lease vehicles were gone probably to the end of 60's. I myself remember seeing anything in the streets starting from 1980 and nothing of so old rigs was showed out.

Ufff... I tell you a secret - I didn't do that Haven't blasted and painted brake shoe bases either. Just pretty sure no one would see those areas and nothing bad about any technical issues. Sure you should do things the way you're completey satisfied of. But it seems to me sometimes I should achieve satisfaction of 90% only. I should go ahead and can't afford redoing some things twice or three times just because I'm not 100% happy of how it's done.

I have Lund(s) with no brace. They were made of fiberglass and seem no cracks of being deformed by wind. No less than 1 million miles on each of the 2 trucks for sure.

It seems it was one happy day for the driver - he survived with the tractor. Not sure how it turned nice to the engeneer.

On the pictures they look double and new. Or near that.

I replaced one rail. And some of the cross members. So it's better be called combined two frames to make one. Alot of rust in between, both trucks were built in 1945 and probably didn't catch a day under a roof. Glad to hear you have gone through the frame rebuild story, hope you'll not stuck on that with the B. Sure if you will see a need of such a rebuild. A frame doesn't show out much being under a tank body.

Congrats on the work done Jake! Looks unbelivable!

Wow! Need to dust off my christal ball (check out the book). Ok, the book tells that one above could be NR-5, 6 or 7 of 1941-42. Might be a earlier NR-2 or 3 either but those seem to have no additional side boards. Everything all over the truck on the picture look original including the wheels, body and the over the cab sun reflector. The only exception is the grill added - neither NR had a grill from the factory. But they had a military style protection grill at the front. That one is gone and we can see bevel support rods wich it was attached to. Any more facts about the truck? Do you have a serial number?

That makes me thinking the amount of both snow and garbage is increased in your town. Not sure about the tractor purpose. Just kidding. Nice to see brand new Macks in your neck of the woods

Being not much educated about English concepts I always thought it was the way I did it Reading about your front hubs I'd say you have nice chances to examine it yourself

I damn like that color scheme! Don't remember seeing many of such ones for some reason.

That's a true way. Just long a little bit

How about when one side of a front rear axle is up and the other down? The edge of the outer tyre might get higher than.

Timmy, If you'd be able to show us how the hood is attached to the frame on Aussie RW2 I'm two thumbs up to see it.

Thank you Phil. I have many things done along that project since the frame post was shared but not much of what looks interesting enough. Going to put some assemblies together and than show them out. You know that kind of work doesn't go fast though.

That's cool on my mind. The only thing I'd like it much better if it looks like a truck.

Ken, That's good you put the part ##. I should share some of them with Santa.

Got through all the thread. Just missed it at some point earlier being thinking you still replace the rear panel. Alot of interesting work and solutions. I had thoughts on lining the dash with leather but was told it wouldn't be nice from the upholstery guy. Would like to see your interior ready. Glad to see the progress on your truck. Great job and done right