Vladislav

Interesting display! And I like that RD aside. Have Anthems became common on the road in your neck of the woods? Thanks for sharing.

A long while back, 4 or 5 years ago, Ranchhopper on here was offering for sale a pair of seats of thart style in a good condition. Sure I'm way not sure he still has anything.

Agree. The mounting flange and the pattern look very similar to what I had off my engine. But I didn't take any measurements and the offset may differ too.

Isn't that the same part as was used on Mack engines? E6-350 particulary.

It may worth starting paint works from smaller parts then. What I did with my R was an air cleaner housing first, than two doors, than... etc. So being you I'd complete the fiberglass job, than put primer on the hood, put and sand filler to a shape you're satisfied with, cover up with a final layer of primer all over and than put it aside. Than take the filter housing, prep and do paint over it. Easy to redo if not perfect by the 1st attempt and also possible to switch the color if you not almost like it after seeing an actual part of the truck.

Good plan on that. I guess the result will be fine if you have experience with paint works. The cab isn't really large if you first paint the interior, than the roof, than the cowl and the back wall as separate steps. Doors are much more seen parts but it's easy to spray at them positioned horizontly. So the most dramatic story with paint is the hood. It may also be divided for areas above and below the curved edge along its sides. The progress over the house looks good. But I don't see a girl on a ladder picture.

Wish you both speedy recovery! Covid can not be that same agressive as it was in 2019 and 2020. And really great to hear the truck is running now! I didn't keep the track on this thread for a while while I was off computer down the road in the East.

Although women can make plenty of hard works when they want to the hood is too heavy for her hands if you plan her to accompony yourself. I would better ask those construction guys to spend 5 minutes after their shift to pull the hood off the truck and bring it into the garage. And give them a 6 pack. I don't know how does the such work in your country but here it's pretty common. If the crue is construction workers you usually may offer a small fee to make a certain amount of additional work done. And if you need a 3 minutes help it's in the most cases enough just to ask and 3-4 men comes with no negative and no pretensions for any pay back. By the word do you plan to paint the hood yourself? Or bring it to a paint shop? On my mind you would need to have it off the truck in the both cases. P.S. And good point in having a spare hood is you wouldn't need bothering the truck while tinker with a hood for it.

Doesn't it worth a try to ask a guy or two of the crue to hold a patch of fiber in place for a few minutes while you're applying another one?

I don't know if Cat engines ever installed in a L-model.

This is a great find! And almost the style you need for a Cummins version - with front extensions and the cut out. I also keep my eye on a set of good L-model fenders and didn't see many (if any) offers during the years. But my interest is for Mack engine fenders. And the set I have is not really bad so I plan to try fixing them first. The doors and the grille look really nice!

...So did you end up gold plating the emblem??

Affairs from aside always come into the line. My approach is keeping one task as the main deal and when I have to get off of it I than get back to it again as soon as other deals are complete. I mean to that same main deal, not to anything else. But honestly my case is even more difficult and complicated. Since I usually jump from one affair to another when a good appartunity shows up for a certain affair. Say when wheather gets allowable for something crytical to it or a person shows up who's ready to work out a deal you planned to complete with his envolvement. Speaking the hood it's much easier to apply epoxy on a horizontal surface. So I had my hood removed and we fitted it on one side at a time for a few bondo's than turn on another or over. Actually that's not a really hard deal if you have a spare pair of hands. Having my truck in a yard (no hoist or so) I put a stake of pallets in front of the truck levelling its top with hood hinges. Than opened it so the front layed down on the pallets. Took the hinge bolts off in that position and than two people can lift a hood and carry it into a shed. Three men is better though.

Many thanks for the wishes! Came back home already.

Very interesting and about unbelivable nowadays. Wonder what was the matter? Were those Middle East countries under British control those times still? That would be I'd say the greatest journey driving that route! The only alternative I can imagine is driving all three Americas from the Northen to the Southern points. Yes, to our sorry we now can only hope for better times to come in the future.

Yup, definitely. Cracked or added a section with no weld. Funny I didn't notice that either.

Passed along the lake of Sevan. Looked at a very old Christian chirch built of stones.

Saw many old Soviet trucks working there. Same styles may be found in Russia too. But getting scarce nowadays.

Took my back way over Armenia from Iran. The road was 90% serpantine with many many really tight turns and steep elevations and declines. But very scenaric for the most of its part.

With the condition of tyres those trucks rode on they wouldn't pass roadworthy inspection in Russia too. But I guess if the frames and axles are Ok, lights operational and good wheels they would have chances to get allowed to works officially.

But would be interesting to learn of which rail heigth and thickness. All R600's (not RB, RD, RS, RL) had 9" high 1/4" thick channels. Could be a single frame or with 1/4" inserts. Later RD's (along with RB's) had 10-5/8"x5/16" rails in standard configuration (could have 1/4" inserts too) and 10-3/4"x3/8" optional rails. But I don't know what early year's RD had.

Catched whole two Jungee cement tank trucks at the last days of my travel in Iran. And saw a tractor with a cement semi-trailer which seemed as Hayward built RS600. But it was driving down the highway and I only passed over it than stopped on a shoulder and made a shot.

That's an interesting question I learned answers partially so far. Read somewhere, too possibly on BMT, that after the US put sanctions Canada hasn't done that for 8 or 10 more years. And that was the way. Than later Iranians bought plenty (the majority?) of used Macks in Europe. Mostly from Netherlands and also Germany, France, Belgium. Than also as it looked to me and some other persons Iranians scratched up all Macks from Turkey. That isn't known for sure yet but Turkishes had qute many Macks in 80's and early 90's and now (and 14 years ago when I cruised Turkey extensively) there were no Mack trucks overthere. So seems Iranians used multiple ways purchasing trucks and had some luck with that. Aside of these early 90's RD relatively many MH's can be see in the country and also a few CH's. I saw 3 or 4 but wasn't able to make a pic of. Also guys in the shop told me there were some with a V8 what means CL not CH.

Yes, all those were working trucks. Those parked in a raw were in a closed yard nearby a work shop. I asked to look over and was invited to but also took a tea and later shared a mill. As I figured some trucks were waiting repair and the rest were just not in work at the moment.