Vladislav

Paul, There's just a matter of knowing about something in general or to dig deeper. It requires some time and labour to pay attention so seems to me worth of that when having an interest. Luckie the most of us overhere have a lot of to Macks. So... There were many modifications of Mack NR at all. Better to say there were 20 of. NR-1 to NR-20. All of them had the similar chassis and the engine - Mack ED 519ci Lanova diesel. Of the outer look the very first serie NR-1 stood apart from the later ones. It had the ealy style cab, the same as Mack BX of the pre-war time. Later models until NR-8 wich was introduced in 1942 had all steel cab of a L-model style. Starting from that moment the cab lost its roof to became a military style cab with the soft top. Like the one posted above. Important note - all those trucks before NR-14 of 1943 had single rear tires. That setup looks strange to me but they all had 24's in front and 12.00-20 on rears. There were 2 spares of the different size either. The situation has changed in 1943 when 14th generation came into production. The most large in number, about 8000 units of 16548 built at all. It's special feature was dual rear wheels. Starting from that point NR's were 11.00-24 all around. I would say those vehicles became looking almost like a commercial LJ's but I can't. They were about that but all had open cab instead.

Yes, the housing is bent for sure. After ovserving the axle shaft pay I resolved to pull the shafts out and saw a pear shape. As I can see (and you can see it either on the last picture) the housing is bent to the rear and up. Still wonder how the center axle could be hit so hard with no effects to the other parts. I would say the tubes are both straight. Seems like the banjo itself is deformed. As for the bearings and hubs I've just put new sets of Timken's into them with new seals. The hub(s) turned freely. Until I drove the axle shaft in and tightened the flange nuts. Right at the moment I have absolutely no lust to get the axle out and so on. I also have no press I could put it in to fix the issue. A plan is to get the truck running by the easiest way. BC, Putting the rear diff into the FR housing is not the way since FR is bent. I could change the axles but this doesn't seem worth the labour. Getting the interaxle locked together with the semi shaft off might put that baby on the road. At least temporary what would be quite enough for me at the moment. I have the divider with interlock in the DMM and could put it on the MH. Just don't want to mess up the stuff wich have enough issues of other kinds. Thank you for the thoughts folks.

673 ci engine is about 1 metric ton. TRD 10 speed tranny is nearly 600 kilograms. 18 speed might be heavier. You will not go over 2 metric ton anyway.

Thank you for sharing! My feeling reminds me Vinnie's reaction when any new U-model is posted. Mack NR is sweet! Hmmm... Now I can see something wrong with it. NR-10 must have closed L-model cab and single rear wheels. A one with double ones might be starting from NR-14. Uncorrect description or a parts swap? The best answer could be done by the chassis number. What it the chassis number??

I started a play over my MH the other day, was going to put the hubs and wheels wich were laying painted for a while. Did all 4 and got the jack shafts installed. When putting the flange nuts on I noted I couldn't fit one of the shafts almost in place. It touched hub's mating surface at some point and there was still the gap of 3-4 mm (1/8") at the opposit. To my big surprize I found out that contact point didn't turn over together with the hub but always stayed at the right of me - the direction front to the vehicle. That gave me a thought I wasn't glad to have. Took the hub back off (and the opposite one) and looked through the housing... I sure know i should swap the axle and I will do it in the future. Probably together with that strange "new style" Neway air suspension nobody could determine what it was. Although it's just a hobby truck. And the one I haven't planned to spend alot on in the nearest future. I see no trouble about tyre wear since I planned to drive it for nearly 100-500 miles a year. But I'm afraid it will ruin the jack shaft. Any thoughts on how quick it could happen? The B plan is to remove the jack and drive one axle only. I need to lock the power divider for that. But it's a stock one, with no interlock. Does anybody know an easy way to lock it? Vlad

Some pics, sorry the parts weren't cleaned up.

Your right. Vyborg doesn't look so post card nicely.

Cool!!

His tail looks great on the #3 picture. Tom, good shots, hope nobody was hurt

How did he do that?

The matter of the trick is weld pulls the stud walls to its center when getting colder and makes a stud thinner that way. So after welding a nut a stud comes relatively free. It's too difficult to weld inside a deep hole starting from its bottom though.

Congrats!! I wouldn't say everybody of a man might boast of celebrating his 75 and exactly in a place he had his life started.

O-ho! When I build it I had a shortage of info either but had access to the real unit. The ruined one though. Those day there was no ZIL cab in model. Excepting Italery 1:35 wich was not perfect. Now I'm packed with the blueprints totally. Just have nothing of time. PM me if you want to re-freeze the old work.

The sun shine, grass green and blue Mack MH single axle lots of nice old trucks! Looks like a beautiful day! Thank you for sharing.

Funny............

Sorry, no info on Dornier. It was some thing imported from Germany. When in 1986 that thing was collapsed every thing was supplied there. And lots of people too. The local firefighters were the first. They had absolutely no idea of what they dealt with. No one is alive now. After that army came. Engeneers and constructors. Actually they put a number of tons of concrete into the reactor to plunge it. So the vehicles you see in those junk yards had different geography and purpose. And the same end.

A dozer unit was called BAT or BAT-M. The most agressive looking unit it the family on my mind. I drove the trencher. My dad has a picture when he was in the army, probably about the same time as your Vietnam entertainment. He's job was serving acid batteries for vehicles. In that picture he seats with other soldiers in front of ATT traktor. It's difficult to scale the size of the vehicle until you relate it to a man's figure. They're really huge. I'll ask him to copy that shot to share. About 20 years back when I was more enthusiasted to modelling I was going to scratch build ATT. I copied most everything of the drovings of it from the liabrary. So all the info is in my stock, probaly for all the modifications. There were other kinds of artillary traktors. Another nice one is ATL - the light ("Leghkiy"). Both ATT and ATL had a cab based on a truck one (40's International ) The other types had them of an industrial style, not so nice looking ones. The model of ATL was done. It was more than 20 years back and I payed for that job the way I could buy my first car. 20 y.o. Mercedes though It was scaled 1:43. Planned as a resin cast series but finally I just assembled two "signal" trucks. By the word the tracks were cast of white metal (by me) and were done of the separate pieces. Having drive spockets turnable you could move the model having all the track assembly moving as it shoud do. Still remember, there are 84 links in every track, whole evening to get the one assembled. P.S. We have all the talks on media about Ukraine and how America is agressive to us having its iterest of a slanz gas industry in Ukraine

Sorry I'm not a helper for a fire stuff, just want to say you work with the beautiful truck! Seems like a lot of job. Good luck on the project! Vlad

The last pic is a killer! Did you need to shift all the switches in the dash to get it moving??

Thank you for the pics and the story, too interesting. It's done no worse than by a profy museum guide. Yea, special thanks for the goat!! The optics work perfect!

No, I still have it just in plans. Not shure the relationship with Ukraine "warming up" adds an easiness to such an adventure. I was told some stories from the man who were told by the man who were there. Yes, not direct ones. Nevertheless I was told those vehicles were in the yards since 1986 and were complete units for a long while. Now you can see the most of aluminium parts are gone. That's due to local's activity. They took some gooddies off including iron pieces and add them into new produced steel and alloys. Nobody can find out minor quantities of. Or maybe can. The tracked vehicle is the one of my favorite units. It's called ATT wich means Artillery Traktor Heavy ("Tiajoly"). Basically it doesn't have a tank chassis, its drive spockets are in the front, not like on the most of tanks. Big V12 diesel engine is of the tank type indeed. The same about tracks. The production started right after the war and for about 20 years long. Don't know how long for sure though. Basical vehicle was a traktor with a multy purpose military body of the kind the most American military trucks of the WW2 time had. There were also 2 versions of digging machines. One to make a cavit to keep a big vehicle (the one on the pic Paul posted) and the different digger with a big rotor to make trenches for troops. The unit with a krane on its back you saw in the movie was a big dozer to build roadways for troops walking to their new positions. It could form relatively easy way through a forest or other hard conditions with a speed of a walking man (troop). The dozer blade could be formed straight or could be splined to right or left for snow ploughing. Or could be splined left part to the left and R to R to clear up everything in front of it building a road. I myself hadn't been drafted but got a military education as a part of the high school study. Those machines were the part of my military speciality (along with mines). I was lucky having a chance to drive it off-road. Too sorry only once but for about a couple of miles through the lap deep mud. The only thing I can say it worth all the study time!

Both dogs are nice but the super one has color brighter Congrats on the purchase.

We had some talks about it a bit earlier http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/41092-nju-on-cl/

Wineries with no grapes on? Winter...? Wonder how many people (with all their truck and other collections) could that land contein? Tim, great advertizement work so far

I suppose stories like that are going to be pretty common in the nearest future. Good shooter but right at the moment he's in trouble.