The one scene would make a lot more sense if Max was only carrying two gas cans, one with 5 gallons of diesel and one with 5 gallons of high octane. 10 gallons of liquid X about 8 pounds per gallon = 80 pounds, tough for a guy using a leg brace to carry, but certainly more believable than 160 pounds worth of juice.
Quote: Originally posted by Foxtrot X-Ray on 09 February 2007
Yeah, but How much Gas did they send with him?
Might've been five gallons of Diesel & 18 gallons of Gas.
(Those were 6 gallon cans, right?)
I'm actually thinking they put two & a half gallons in each can to distribute the weight.
Plus the added bonus of a couple more Jerry cans to Stash & come back for later must've crossed his mind.
Watch Gyro when they arrive back at the area where the BoB and Copter are parked. He lifts the cans off his shoulder and drops them to the ground with TWO FINGERS. And they sound completely empty ehen they hit the ground.
"I am the chosen one, The moghty hand of vengeance sent down to strike the unroadworthy"...
"I am the chosen one, The mighty hand of vengeance, sent down to strike the unroadworthy".. SIN CITY MFP 2173
Quote: Originally posted by March Hare on 10 February 2007
Watch Gyro when they arrive back at the area where the BoB and Copter are parked. He lifts the cans off his shoulder and drops them to the ground with TWO FINGERS. And they sound completely empty ehen they hit the ground.
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like you said REDD, i'd love to hear ANKLECRANKER's opinion on it too, he knew a thing or three about trucks.
And thats right HUMVEE, we could use the novel for information, they explain huge road rigs being hijacked in that by the 'Armalite gangs' - the MFP woulda had to know something about driving turcks.
I am 90% sure the R600 mack had two gear sticks! alot of truckies cringe when they think about having to drive one of these. but in saying that its a truck and buying a new truck is like building a mssle car! you can order them with any running gear you wanted, twin chassis,s all kinds of goodies depending on what work it was going to do, how ever it was a movie, so max would have had all kinds of skills, or maybe not if he couldnt reverse a mini!
Quote: Originally posted by Big Bopper Bart on 11 February 2007
The RD Mack in the Road Warrior did had two sticks.you see them right before Max leaves the compund in the chase scene ending.
5 speed primary gearbox with a hi-low or high-mid-low selector giving 10 to 15 foward gears. The Mack probably had a 5 speed made by Spicer. ( linked to twin Rockwell rear drivers on Hendrickson 50/50 springs )The second stick was rendered obsolete with the introduction of air shifted splitters. Air split also makes it possible to shift your higher ( 3rd + ) gears clutchless, just "click" and back of the pedal when the tach tops off. Depending on the load/road conditions, an arm reached THROUGH the steering wheel and shifting at the same time was common with those twin or triple stick trucks.
"I am the chosen one, The mighty hand of vengeance, sent down to strike the unroadworthy"..
"I am the chosen one, The mighty hand of vengeance, sent down to strike the unroadworthy".. SIN CITY MFP 2173
I believe one of the sticks in the MACK was the parking brake handle in the close-up shot of him shifting then letting off the clutch...before his "gauntlet" run. Both of the MACKs used for filming had silver bulldogs, which meant they could have any drivetrain under them, allowing any number of combos. A gold bulldog means the truck (outside of the tires) is completely built in-house in either Allentown PA or Darwin.
One set-up that I've seen, was a guy had 50 gears in forward and up to 16 in reverse because of all the different shift combos he could do with the twin shifters/trans/rearend. It was in a 1953 "Needle-nose California Hauler"" Kenworth (KW) conventional. Pretty wild setup.
My dad and I never knew the reason for all the cans either. We speculated he could make a sling and carry the fuel in two 5-gallon Jerry can as a backpack. We used to go camping and hiking in the Rockies with packs that weighed 50 pounds no problem. So between 40-60 pounds of "deezil/guzzolene" shouldn't have been a problem for him even with his bum knee.
He only asked for five gallons of "deezil" and some high-octane "guzzolene." To me, that's less than ten gallons. The high-octane juice was probably to prime Gyro's 'copter to get it started and back to the wreck site, with enough to get him back to the Compound. The deal with the gyrocopter, is the fact that it's only rated for about 250 pounds total. The two-seat comment and the load capacity and hover functionality was "Hollywierd-ized."
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