Spiny Norman said:

Kingy said:

Spiny Norman said:

At least the fuel tank doesn’t seem to be leaking.

Yeah, but there doesn’t seem to be a replacement in WA. It’s likely to come from Melbourne.

Both our trucks have had a hard life, the 4.4R copped a grader to the face during the Yarloop fire, the 3.4U cab got hit by a falling tree and spent 6 weeks at the panel beaters, the transfer case broke, it’s on it’s 3rd gearbox, and the 4.4R is on it’s second gearbox and that one is leaking oil onto the station floor. Both of them have had the rear axle come loose from the chassis, plus a regular list of minor ailments that I have to update the shire mechanic about.

Neither of them have reached 30,000km yet.

Fark.

This particular model Cab/Chassis had a gearbox that was faulty from the factory. After a lot of complaints they did a factory recall and replaced all of the gearboxes.

Both trucks had the rear leaf springs gradually wear off the paint on them to the point where the shackles began to move.