For all you V8 Mack Fans here is the Super Liner - LONE RANGER - Heading up the Toowoomba Range towing a 2x8 Dolly and a 5x8 Swing Wing Low Loader - Total Gross Weight approx 38 tonne. Check it out.....
Mate if mine use to own a black with blue red stripes on it. Originally from NSW that's where he got it ex Italian horse mover. He worked west farmers doing run Perth to Exmouth 3 trailers she beat kenworths. Sold because west farmers only aloud white trucks no way he was going to paint it white.
Some of you need to take the time & research the facts. The E9 was big in its day up against GM's, 3406B's etc so dont compare it to C15's, Signatures & so on. The E9@500hp only produced 1660ft/lb of torque not 1850 & 2050 like the newer 6 cylinder engines so grossing 38t with the drag of 48 tyres under float & dolly may steady er up abit. Beautiful, unmistakable sound & legends of the road.
@@blackflagqwerty Yeah I remember when Detroit Diesel Silver Series 8V92TTA DDEC came out with 475hp. In 1988 I nearly went halves in a secondhand W series KW with new a new Silver and I even remember the price being $60k. The engine had no mileage and was new. I agonized over the decision. I said no because the other half of the operation was a useless lazy bastard who relied on people like me to get by in life and I correctly reasoned I'd end up doing all the work. Added to that he had bad body odour which would have made me angry every day. I miss that I never drove a 2 stroke Detroit in anger though. Despite what all the RU-vid experts say about Detroits having a narrow powerband, in pull down tests Dyno Smith YT channel shows the torque band of these engines is very broad compared to even modern 4 stroke Diesels and not narrow at all, though to be fair less than the torque of modern 35psi boost inline 6s. A good Silver might just crack 1400ft/lbs but holds 80% of that torque from 1700 down to 900rpm. You'd expect that since being 2 stroke because they have double the power strokes. For example my (not mine but company) Sig Cummins has over 2000ft/lbs but the torque goes right out of it below 1150rpm and over 1400rpm, though the power of it incredibly impressive esp on hills. Fully loaded I'm astonished at what it passes on hills and not just crawl past at 1-2kays but like 30kmh.
@@ThePaulv12 I would have expected the two stroke to have double the power stroke. The Atkinson twin steer with a 3000 litre fuel tank and 2000 litre water tank integrated in body with 20 feet to spare I drove for Gorey and Cole Drilling had twin turbos and a super charger. 8v92TA (?) 22 Spicer and it hauled arse! I'd catch empty crates heading north through the hills from Alice Springs with two 40 foot flat tops over loaded with RC drill rods, mud mix etc. We got caught once by the scaleys, 30t over weight on the whole lot.
I used to drive those old Mack Superliners and in their day they were one of the most popular road train prime movers available. Everyone knew when a Superliner was coming from that great burbling, barking exhaust pipe note. The Toowomba Range was just one a couple of pretty daunting jump ups coming off the coastal plains of Queensland and climbing up onto the inland plains. The Drummond Range inland from Gladstone / Rockhampton used to make me turn the radio down and start concentrating and dragging doubles up or down the old Mingela Range in north Queensland was a real learning experience. Roads and driving conditions are just not the way they used to be and that's a good thing. I learned the transport game by travelling with my Dad all over most parts of Western Australia, especially the Gascoyne and Pilbara and it was a tough job back then. Coming up from Perth in those days, when the bitumen ended at Northampton and stayed that way for years, you had to be pretty inventive and full of initiative to get home some times. Floods, bush fires, dust storms, break downs and even tyre fires were just some of the problems old time Aussie truckies faced. My Dad and his mate once put out a tyre fire by smashing in the top of a wooden keg of beer with an axe and throwing the contents on the fire.
What mighty, mighty trucks the old Superliners were in their day. You knew you were in something special if you found yourself looking out over a bonnet that resembles the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.
What they're taking as grinding is the turbo's dumping boost and the Maxi-torque tranny splitting gears. If they never run a Mack tranny they'd have to learn how to shift all over again. I learned how to drive in a 93 Mack Super-Liner with a V8 and a 18 speed Maxi-torque. I'll never forget that sound.
Sometimes shit happens and you deal with it and learn. You probably miss less shifts in a lifetime than I will in a year on two wheels! When you see a truck driven well on a hard road it’s pure art.
What great old honest trucks the the Super Liners were. Very basic but functional in the cab with a great gearbox and power to burn. And what a view from the cab over that huge bonnet...like looking at the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. If you were on the ground when one went passed, you'd know it was a the big 500 from that wonderful crackling exhaust note. A bit like listening to a Manx Norton motor through a megaphone exhaust pipe. Lotsa memories there.
Yes!! I'm a Mack V8E9 fan!!! These superdogs(superliners) used to dominate the construction & heavyhaul industry back in NY where I used to live!! If I was a truck driver, I would love to be behind the wheel of these high horsepowered beasts!!!
my name is william and im a truck driver from oklahoma and i love that truck of yours im a big v8 mack fan and proud of it. bull dogs are the king. to all truckers out there much respect brothers. stay safe and ill catch ya on the fip flop.
That's a beautiful truck, That's a beautiful sound. I love your work mate, Thanks for posting the video. This is what aussie truckin is all about. These machine's, and the men who drove them
Gonna take my dog for a run, Gonna take my dog for a run, She runs on 22 wheels and weighs 42 ton, Foot's goes down, she's a whole lot of fun, 500 horses make this Bulldog run. I'm gonna take my dog for a run
Truck looks great and sounds great but I would get bumfuzzled in it. Gosh darned the wheel is on the wrong side of the cab.Great video and thanks for the ride!😎🇺🇸
Great sound and to all the truck drivers I have total respect for, I live in Toowoomba and usually bike ride it every second day and 99% of the time they give me plenty of room.
I lived in Wangaratta in the 1980's and there was a great semi that ran albury - melbourne hauling dog food ingredients for uncle Bens. Big Mack thumper running through Wang. God it was good!
I recently saw an American Mack "Anthem". Sorry, fellas, but this old dog walks all over that truck, in my mind. I've driven an E9 Superliner and I'd jump back in one in a heartbeat. They aren't the most powerful trucks any more, but they possess more than their gross weight in character and are both acceptably economical and reliable if driven by a good driver, like this one here.
I rode with you the entire way... thanks for the post, now I don't have to wonder what the sound and feel of the "whispering giant" is like when up against a challenge.
This was a HHA truck right, passed another Mack b-double around the one minute mark. Love the interior and wraparound dash in these Superliners with the tacho and speedo right in front and all the gauges to the left. Happy new year 🎇.
absolute beautiful memories of a sound of power putting traction to the road used to hear this sound all day and every day contracting pulling logs Kinleith forest on the off high way to the mill. E9 V8 18 SPEED MACK BOX RT 62 180 ROCKWELL DIFFS MAGIC TRACTION AND TORQUE whether on h/w 48 tonnes or off h/w rigged 110 tonnes. By the sound of this driver could double shift with me any time using every ounce of power economically Mint clip...
great vid... i've pulled some big loads up and down that range with my b-double at 62-68 tonne gross in my argosy with a C-16 600HP CAT. Take's a lot of balls to pull that monstrous range...
I once had my V8 Superliner 400 pegged out with every gauge at the red getting up the range before rolling into Springsure QLD. Man it was hot that day!
The first V8 Mack I seen and heard was a Superliner with a faded dirty paint job and rusty bullbar and heaps of black smoke from the stacks I thought it looked like something out of a horror movie and that's how I came to like Macks it was pulling a double axle trailer which was also white faded and rusty with a 2003 ba falcon on it wrecked
That was freakin great man. Nice shifting, nice turbo, good shifting to make engine speed increase at right spots, great sound recording made for entertaining video. I love it....right up there with some Scania V-8 sound vids. thanks for great video Joe from Canada
Some of the superliners's had air operated throttles and were very challenging to drive with a spicer. Very reliable at 400 and 440 hp but hand grenade's at 500 and above. Especially breaking head studs pulling 2+ trailers.
That’s like saying the Wright Brothers plane is superior in every way compared to a 747. You can think that but sooner or later a windowless white van will kidnap you off the street and take you to the nut house, where you clearly belong
You could seat 10 people around that bonnet for a top feed and a few coldies .........and talk about trucks all night. Great video and nice driving, thanks.
