Vladislav

Those pics with sand environment makes worth to sell the truck and build bungalow of hay near that place.

Very good score on big Mack trucks this time! Some of those shots put me in a worry though. Good you explained that later, I was wondering who drove the red KW while you was doing a pee stop. Cool Silverado. Looks nice in red.

That's all very intersting, thank you for explaining. Being grown in a metric part of the world I even had some casualities with SAE fasteners. Or "inch fasteners" as we used to call it here. Some special bolts and studs, oil seals and plugs are used in SAE. On Russian produced vehicles and other European countrie's either. Such an easy thing as a drive tool you fit a socket on to run a bolt has 3/8, 1/2, 3/4 and so on. Regardless sockets are metric in a set. The reason I asked about Mack frames is what I met as a trouble (not a great one though) along my restorations. The most of SAE fasteners you can buy here. Or order from US. Copper pipes for brake air lines seemed to me a problem but I found them just in a sonstruction supermarket, they are used (by some reason??) for air conditioning. Don't know why to use SAE pipes having all stock of cooper pipes of sizes 6-8-10-12mm everywhere. Something more extraordinal I found later. For the first it was thickness of sheet metal. Here you can buy 0.5-0.8-1.0-2-3-4 etc mm thick. But you can't get it of 3/8. Working with R-model door I wanted to fresh up the glasses. Could order them from Watts but it's a long story. I was going to just order them in a glass shop but found out the thikness is 5.7 mm. Here I can deal with 5 or 6mm. 5 seems slim. 6 would get snug. All in all those English system things makes my resto adventures more colorful. Happily I don't need to hit a concrete wall by my head along a job.

Swishy, that's a good point the fender bottom line is about clear up the tyre. So hood together with cab seats higher for sure. Would be nice to see the cab mounting brackets. Many thanks for telling about RB model. I figured for a long while what those trucks were. Were NZ only produced 'em? I mean with that hood style. Looks good on my taste.

Thank you for posting the great stuff! Wonder what did they mean showing out "standard" and metric frames? Was there the sheet metal thikness SAE or metric or they just describe the same stuff with different scales? 3/8" is not exactly 10mm.

Paul, Any guess or suggestion on that matter from your locaion has better chances to be true than from other parts of the globe. Looking the pics above NZ RW's don't look built in the US since have bumper mounting bolts pattern similar to a R-model. American R-model though. So seems like R-model frames were used.

Wow! That sounds as a great idea! I haven't thought that Australian and NZ Macks might be different. That means though they must have different cab mounting brackets either. There's a question to our down under Mack specialists - were Australian and NZ Superliners produces at the same factory or there were different locations? Thanks the great for those Superliner brochures you posted. I have never put my eye on any of before.

I'm not absolutely sure about that angle but it seems too possible since the hood has differences in its shape. Hadlight heigth from the ground make sence indeed. Too probably that's the reason.

Upps. I wouldn't have ever thunk that thing was a factory option. Learn something new every day and every night.

Welcome!

Whiskymack, Hmm, I agree. Those with higher lights, I'd say American style hood looks sitting lower. But they all look RWII. Any chassis difference? I don't count it as a shame but I still can't figure out completely what chassis style Australian RW's were used.

Swishy, Your 2 cents are very appreciated. Those 50th annyversary green giants are absolutely looks stoppers!

Ok guys and blokes, look at this two pics: Green lines - distance between the headlight bucket lower edge and fender reinforcement strip upper edge. Red line - wheel arch lower edge related to the headlight bucket position. Hope now you can see - that's not illusion. I'm sure both styles are Superliner II. Doubt there was a square headlight hood before Superliner II production start. There are no side marker's on the "low loght" hoods indeed. So any suggestions? Just one more Aussie hood option? Or early production style?

Wow! Very interesting. Worth to put in the Wiki section. Don't you have anything like that for 80's years by a chance?

That Worcester thing is a candy. Wonder how many persons will try to get it keeping in mind its actual condition.

Uffff, I missed this thread by some reason. looks like it was a great season. Best of luck to the continue!

Hmmm... Now i'm in conclusion. Do you mean a hinged access door as a lower part of the grill as yellow truck has? Or any other door I can't see on the green one? Sharp looking RL by the word.

The talk is only about Australian RW and only RW II. Being watching a picture of Superliner with a bullbar I noted that the head lights looked some "cunning". Or better to say more cunning than usual. I looked over many other images and found out interesting fact. Notice the heigth of head light units on the first pictures and the last ones in relation to the fender lower edge. The last style seems to me the same as American but Aussies have both of them.

Welcome on board! Here is what you're looking for. Both the best place to learn about Macks and increase your English skills. You can trust me in that! Vlad And we all like pictures, that's true.

Thank you for the explanation Mike. That was the old question of the kind you would like to get the answer but always miss a moment to pay attention to.

Good deal! Unfortunately I miss this year. Too many current difficulties. Say hello to Rene.

Good point on a drive shaft Timmy. But the folks I was told from meant more about the load capacity.

Yes, the gates roll to a side, and I have a power drive for them with control on a key hanger. Fences are traditional overhere. Earlier years wooden fences were common. The most people who live in a privat house prefere to have a strong fence and a dog inside. Police doesn't use to come in minutes after call so you better keep your doors closed in the night. Guns aren't easy thing to have here either so not everybody has them. It's generally calm recently but you can't be sure some one not steal just aluminium parts off your property to bring them to recycling for a bottle of Vodka worth. By the word I'm not in a country. Just 10 km from the city of Moscow. So it's something like 5 miles from Newark airport.

Very good thing to have for sure. How are they easy to fit/remove? I saw such stuff offered new overhere, about 20 grand. But was told they're good only to hook a truck by its rear end, not front. Any suggestions why and is there any sence in it?

Don't know what the trip worth but seems like a good find. Especially if those guys don't disturb the frame much removing the engine and rears. What is that grill style? Early series RS/RL or something else?