C8AX Tac Sign

Ausmick · #1 01-07-10, 03:33

Thanks Rupert from Perth!

Picked the spare tyre up this morning and bolted it down. Your a life saver having that 6 stud rim for me as I found heaps of 8 studs. My son carried it from flight to flight Perth to Dubbo and got it here (Qantas staff always thought the worse when he dropped down a box with 22kg of metal in it!)

Got a guy doing the canvas canopy now.

warren brown · #2 01-07-10, 12:29

Just a great job - congratulations, really inspirational.

Ausmick · #3 02-07-10, 01:03

Thanks Warren,

I have so many people to thank for their participation and advice in this project that are members on this site. I have received advice and direction from not only members around Australia, but many part of the world.

I have a new camshaft from America, things from Holland, parts from Belgium, Canada and England. (Learning about the euro)

Will plan on a big thank you to all when my project is finished. Just waiting on the canopy to be fitted and then throw the WW2 camo net over it - then have to do a few last pictures and a ‘big thanks’.

Oh – will sling Geoff a bit for the site as well! I haven’t forgot!

Mick

Ausmick · #4 06-09-10, 03:30

Have not been on line for a bit.
Finally got the truck just the way I wanted it and took off to the Alice Springs Truck Show.
Left home and one of the two good looking ‘old’ tyres on the back blew out, so two news ones in Narrabri on day 1 – also – at Moree the 6v pulley broken in two and went into the radiator! The pulley had a hairline crack in it, maybe where some fool in the past had hit it off with a hammer, or fatigue? I hitchhiked back to Coona and pulled a radiator out of one wreck I knew had a good one, and found a new pulley on another wreck beside it.
Got going and didn’t have another problem – well one – till I got home after driving the old truck 5600km up through Queensland into the Northern Territory to Alice Springs, back into South Australia to Broken Hill to home.
Other problem I had was the earth strap not doing its part properly – which it is now.
Left home with 110 litres of fuel in her tanks – 500 litres in drums in the back - $400 dollars worth of tucker – generator – cloths – spares – and most important, 10 cartons of beer.
The parade on the Sunday at Alice was 8 km long having 900 old to new trucks lined up, went for three hours through the outside of town.
You wouldnt believe it but on the day another C8AX got in line behind me!

Bob McNeill · #5 06-09-10, 05:05

Was there ever any doubt, its a CHEV, well done.

aj.lec · #6 06-09-10, 05:14

Well done Mick

Looks good and you had a few stories to tell at the end of it all

Hopefully you will be posting a lot more photos of the Alice run

Mike K · #7 07-09-10, 02:40

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Originally Posted by Ausmick

Have not been on line for a bit.
Finally got the truck just the way I wanted it and took off to the Alice Springs Truck Show.
Left home and one of the two good looking ‘old’ tyres on the back blew out, so two news ones in Narrabri on day 1 – also – at Moree the 6v pulley broken in two and went into the radiator! The pulley had a hairline crack in it, maybe where some fool in the past had hit it off with a hammer, or fatigue? I hitchhiked back to Coona and pulled a radiator out of one wreck I knew had a good one, and found a new pulley on another wreck beside it.
Got going and didn’t have another problem – well one – till I got home after driving the old truck 5600km up through Queensland into the Northern Territory to Alice Springs, back into South Australia to Broken Hill to home.
Other problem I had was the earth strap not doing its part properly – which it is now.
Left home with 110 litres of fuel in her tanks – 500 litres in drums in the back - $400 dollars worth of tucker – generator – cloths – spares – and most important, 10 cartons of beer.
The parade on the Sunday at Alice was 8 km long having 900 old to new trucks lined up, went for three hours through the outside of town.
You wouldnt believe it but on the day another C8AX got in line behind me!

Christ almighty what a feat ! You deserve a medal .. or a trip to the local funny farm

MIKE

Ausmick · #8 08-09-10, 06:46

Does anyone know

On the drivers side floor where the steering column and brake/clutch peddles go through.........what covered these holes originally.....or....what have people used now? to help with water/wind/noise entry........rubber/canvas/felt?

Rob Beale · #9 08-09-10, 09:32

I've seen remnants of canvas boots around the levers on the floor, but I've not seen anything around the pedals on the trucks around here.

I assume it will be the same as Canadian produced vehicles overseas. It certainly needs something to stop the wind whistling up your trouser legs!

Well done taking your truck on such an odyssey Mick. I hope your fuel consumption was lower than the 15cwts! Amazing to see another one too.

Rob

Phil Waterman · #10 08-09-10, 18:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ausmick

Does anyone know

On the drivers side floor where the steering column and brake/clutch peddles go through.........what covered these holes originally.....or....what have people used now? to help with water/wind/noise entry........rubber/canvas/felt?

Which model truck and which manufacturer because this is something that seems to have changed and evolved. A photo of the floor boards around the peddles would help tell if there is something missing.

I understand from old comments that it was not uncommon for drivers to cut up pieces of carpet they "found" make the holes for the peddles more air tight.

Cheers Phil