Vladislav

Is that WW2 White or Brockway at the right of the pic?

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Tim, good luck on the start! And I would say you like winter

Cool pics! B,L,R... They are awesoome!

I would say they look High-tech. My personal preferance is a stock look although it's much better to have it carefuly customized than poor or ruined. My like is under the pic

Congrats on opening the season!

Beautiful !! I will need to build a cargo body for my military Mack in the future so I keep my eye for any stuff built and figure out the amount of work. So I can see you've done alot to get this look.

Randy, no I didn't. Original manual for this engine tells just "press out" and "press in". With a portable press using stock bottle jack. So I measured carefully the original liners and the bores in the block. Than gave the figures to the shop guy. He couldn't keep the size from liner to other absolutely sharp although the bores had some difference either. So I "played" with new sleeves placing them with about equal tight. I would use thermo effect but those parts were long and needed a while to be in place. So they would balance temperatures being in contact so long. And as it seems to me, newer Mack engines such as E6 have much slighter fit in a block. At least I was told so from the man who owned my R and made inframe overhaul.

Those new tyres are as cool to see so I just feel the smell of them Do you have a hub piloting on the RW?

Paul, I'm not young enough to feel the need of fixing when got on the road. And hate to find out I "should do" something when I "could do". The bore/stroke is 4-3/8 by 5-3/4. Actual sleeves are long, here's the draving of castings I requested when ordering.

So I had new pistons and the sleeves in the block. I brang the block to the shop and they bored and honed it.After it was done I found out I had to machine the top surface also becase they cut the sleeve tops not perfect. Had to bring the block to the different shop since the first one nadn't a milling machine large enough to do that. Ughhh... To be continued

Got the block washed with gasoline for some days. Many times it looked quite clean but when you spray some other deep corner with gas it started spreading black fat stains. The cooling passes was another story. About 1/4 of the level was filled up with a kind of rusty clay. Nobody knew what it was exactly but the most of you know how it used to be. Bought good amount of bottles with shitter cleaner and filled whole the cooling cavit. Kept over the weekend and washed out with water flow. The original plan was to fabricate new cylinder sleeves. Some while before that story I payed some interest to and was told "no trouble to make any liners, there are ready castings for sale locally. After I got measurments and called the guy he said "nothing for that long with that small bore". I recheked different ready liners for heavy trucks but had no luck. Everything was shorter or much wider. That conclusion went into solution to order custom iron casting. I googled that matter and found out no less than 10 facilities. After calling them all there was a rest of the two. Both in 500-1000 km away. But there was no need of a travel, they could send the stuff to me. I ended up with one of them since the others asked about 3 times more for. I was promised for a week but it was turned out into 4. Pretty usual overhere, no matter you like it or not. The castings came at the time I was on the vacation in Normandy selebrating D-day so I could continue 2 more weeks later. I brang them to the machine shop to cut them off on the outside to get the correct size for pressing in. Forgot to mention, before that I pressed the old ones off the block and measured their OD's and the fitting bores in the block to get a correct sizr for the new ones. Got ready sleeves from the shop and pressed them in. 20 ton machine made the work done being not far from it's limitations. The same getting off the original ones though. Being in Europe I visited my Dutch friend and dug up hs stock. Got 6 NOS pistons, oil rings, and crank bearing shells. Had some luck with those shells but not at all. My crank had mains needed grind off and the cranks good. At least I found no wear I could see with a micro gauge. The shells I got were STD cranks (perfect) and 2nd stage mains (very good, I wasn't shure I could go with the 1st stage). But there was a trouble. One of the shells of the middle main bearing was lost. I had exactly that journal good but was wondering what the shop guys will say to grind not all the mains... It became much later though.

I took the heads off and found out all the sleeves were rusty to death. Removed the attachments, layed it on its side and got the oil pan off. Damn old black and heavy oil overthere, looked more as bitum than motor oil. Got the crank off. It was of the stamdard size but had rust traces either. Mostly on the main journals, the cranks were Ok. Had some labour hitting the pistons out. Had to hit them first to the inside (down the liner) with a piece of wood and a big hammer. And only after they made some move I drove them out hitting the rods (with a wood stock). Just after it was done I found out in this type of engine I could got them off from the crank shaft side. The bores were small enough to clear up the pistons between the main bearings. It could be much easier. Found out some rust on the cams, lifters, and teeth gears. Not extremely hard though.

It's a long story. Actually it's just a part of my WW2 Mack resto project. I started putting my hands on it about 12 months back although hadn't much good looking images to show out. Now I'm near a middle of this story and realized there's quite of a matter to start talking about. I got that engine off the chassis long ago. Although didn't start working on it since I was busy with the chassis and other things. About a year back, in the winter, I finally resolved to take it apart. From the man I bought the spare truck with that engine from I was told it got stuck by rust.

Tim, please don't forget to. I also might be interested to move my a$$ to the South if the things are so magic up there. Just kidding though Forgot to mention, the KW looks awesome! Seems like you'll have enough to do job with love.

I agree with Ken. The trim, yellow U-model and the nice lady who offered bananners near the swing. And everything else is cool to see.

Red with light gray looks like an old school indeed Rarer than a B school bus?

Tim, my hat's off and best of luck on the entertainment Really, no words, just as said above.

Best wishes and best regards to the family!

All tells "a good spent day". EH van or bus??

Many thanks for the pics. It's pretty cool to see a native environment from different parts of the globe with big Mack trucks in a scenary. Your rig is one of my favorite R-models Did you go by that water fall with the load?

The condition I got it in.

Recently I found in the net the picture of my MH when it was in service. I would say it was made in St-Petersburg, Russia. No, that's not the city wich comes on the mind of the most of you American guys. The plates attached to it are signed in the registry papers as the previous owner's ones. The most matter of fact is the grill was solid and the stock headlights were in place. You can see the difference to the current condition showed on the below pic. Currently I'm on the way to bring her back to her normal look. Thanks to Ken (Farmer52), he suppied me with the grill and as follow got me into some job story

Raji, Thank you for sharing with us Macks from your area. It's too interesting to see them from different parts of our world. Sad those R's came to the junkyard, I hope someone will save them. I myself did that with the pair of R's in my country. By the word I heard the things aren't too easy in Algeria nowadays. Are they? Vlad

That seems like a small world for those who haul big yellow machines. Thank you for the neat pics and video.