Mrs Mack

The paw print on the application should have been a giveaway.

Well not a lot to report, got new hoses made for the power steering

The return hose they gave me didn't even touch the barbs let alone grip on them

So back to the hydraulic place today and after been told that the fittings as in the barbs are wrong and we can just silver solder new ones on

Im going nah, this cant be right

The blokes getting pretty frustrated with me but I was sure something was wrong
Yes it was the same as the sample, but it had just been squashed down to nothing with those bolt style hose clamps

Well the boss man walked passed and enquired as to the problem and when the worker showed him the boss looks at me and says, " power steering off a truck ?"

Yes it is

"You'll need this 'Trucker hose' " (yes that is what is written on the hose)
Anyway it fits perfectly and to me was worth the time and effort to chase up as it really is the only oil leak the truck has apart from the winch

Lost the best part of a day sorting that out

Got some new S cam bushes for the front axle, ordered the new hub seals, tried so far unsuccessfully to order the compressor, called Gleemans and for the first time ever found them pretty useless and the fella almost abusive or rude maybe, tried the local to me Mack dealer and was surprised at how useful they were

A lot has to do with whom you get at the counter, the bloke that I first dealt with did the standard "vin number please" after doing this for some years I have all this information on the phone in photos, stops all the "that number isnt right" or "your missing parts of the number" as the photo of the plate is right there in front of them

Anyway another bloke walks past and hears what's goung on and asks a few questions and wanders off to return with the said parts

He was a youngish fella as well so I was quite impressed

So all in all not much progress at all, day 3 of the week is starting and it's getting warmer, so that will add to the excitement

Paul

Mrsmackpaul wrote: , called Gleemans and for the first time ever found them pretty useless and the fella almost abusive or rude maybe,

You're wasting your Time even trying them Now Paul.
They've been bought out (& had a name change) by some Mob who only retail New Truck parts The wrecking yard has (Or is in the Process of being) Closed..
Very sad to see the end of such an Iconic Business ..

gleeman.com.au/

Thanks for the heads Seed

Paul

Hope you got the name of the helpful young bloke for 2 reasons. You ask for him next time and let his boss know how good he is.
Sounds like you may be supporting the local Mack dealer a bit more now.

Cobba no name yet, gotta go there tomorrow hopefully if parts arrive as planned
Will see what I can learn then

So got the hoses on as far as I can go
Hayseed was right about Gleemans so I ordered a new rebuilt one from Wollongong so hopefully it turn up ok

Got all the front end back together except the wheels and hubs as the new seals havent yet arrived

Funny looking brake shoes, look different than the old ones and actually line up with S cams properly
Also rebushed and re sealed the S cams

Notice the two speings on the lower puns of the brake shoes, normal just a pin with a bolt or a couple of circlips, very fancy and took a while to get the first side fitted



So onto the tip turbine, its all apart and ordered new bearings tonight



So looks like other fun things for tomorrow, my parts from Mack should be in
Also have had some other non truck related stuff turn up so will be kept busy doing other things, fitting automatic sliding gate motors and the list goes on
The floor can be pulled out and the lid lifted off the box
Always something to do

Paul

Mrs
m80
Gr8 info n pix
keep m cummin
R those new brake shoes marked leadin and trailin shoe linings?


eye also notice U run 3 oil filters
this normally depicts ESI motor (Extended Service Interval)
they take a huge amount of oil
we changed the huge sump ovr for a convetional one n do the service wen its due as the same of our other trucks
problem with the huge sump they found the oil twas loos n too much heat they even tried putn a pad in the front of sump to try n keep the heat in
probly more of a problem in nth merica in winter

keep @ it
cya

Swishy wrote: Mrs
R those new brake shoes marked leadin and trailin shoe linings?

Not that Im aware of, I'm pretty sure they are all the same, I'll check tomorrow and report back

Paul

the edge of the linings have different colors wiff sum writing on m
cya

Yeah I'm pretty sure thats just cause the shoe is flipped the other way and the writing and different colour is against the backing plate

Will look into it though

Paul