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OK, made it to the Netherlands friday night, 900 km in 11 hours, with a few hours of legally driving 160 km/hour (100 miles/hour
). Hopefully the road back will be very very slow and noisy.
The owner was out already, so we will do the paperwork monday. Had another look a the truck saturday (no camera, sorry). Some damages I had not seen yet, but most I had.
The simple things: cabine
Passenger side front window with cracks
Passenger door window shot at (litterally it looks)
Both doorlock systems busted, passenger door locked with rope, driver door with padlock outside and sliding bolt inside
Both door have some serious rust and rot in the front lower corner.
(how much does a door set you back in the US?)
Some interesting moss species in the cabine and a nice swamp in the dump body![Smile :smile: :smile:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Softtop top part rotten, back part ok. This town is full of people working on and with old sailing freight ships, so repairing canvas top should be no problem and probably cheaper than buying a new one.
Some holes in the exhaust pipes
Batteries dead. Off course the battery box only takes two nato standard or US standard square batteries, not two of the normal elongated batteries standard in Europe.
Four tires (11.00x20) about 40 - 60%, but with cracks in the sides, the rest way below up to slicks and showing steel, also of different manifacturers. BUT, and you won't believe this, THERE IS A BRAND NEW TIRE in the spare tire rack
probably 37 years old. Getting a good and cheap set of 10 used tires will be a problem, new ones I cannot affoard
Winch without wire
Front bumper rather busted but easy to straighten.
Main fuel tank (driver side) with top, but white corrosion around the filling hole
Secondary tank (passenger side) with a paint can lid to keep the water out, both tanks almost empty.
The one maybe worrying technical thing that I could see for now was that on the driver side, around the back part of the front spring, there was some dark wetlooking grease (pictures tomorrow). Have to see where that comes from.
For the rest, I talked with those guys some more, and found out later that a friend of my brother had worked there and knew the truck.
Technical hear-say
They always used standard road diesel
They never did real maintenance, changed any filters an such, but at the beginning of each sumnmer season, they topped off the oils and coolant systems.
The last two years, the batteries were dead, so they just started it by pulling it with a tractor, no problem starting it like that.
For the rest, the truck always ran, no probs.
Hydraulic system and winch always worked, winch cable broke when they were trying to unroot some too big trees.
Tomorrow the paper work and hopefully cleaning it with high-power waterhose, then the real work starts. Hard to keep myself back, but I will not try starting it untill I checked and cleaned the fuel system.
Look for updates and new pictures, I'll keep you posted
![Driver :driver: :driver:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/driver.gif)
The owner was out already, so we will do the paperwork monday. Had another look a the truck saturday (no camera, sorry). Some damages I had not seen yet, but most I had.
The simple things: cabine
Passenger side front window with cracks
Passenger door window shot at (litterally it looks)
Both doorlock systems busted, passenger door locked with rope, driver door with padlock outside and sliding bolt inside
Both door have some serious rust and rot in the front lower corner.
(how much does a door set you back in the US?)
Some interesting moss species in the cabine and a nice swamp in the dump body
![Smile :smile: :smile:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Softtop top part rotten, back part ok. This town is full of people working on and with old sailing freight ships, so repairing canvas top should be no problem and probably cheaper than buying a new one.
Some holes in the exhaust pipes
Batteries dead. Off course the battery box only takes two nato standard or US standard square batteries, not two of the normal elongated batteries standard in Europe.
Four tires (11.00x20) about 40 - 60%, but with cracks in the sides, the rest way below up to slicks and showing steel, also of different manifacturers. BUT, and you won't believe this, THERE IS A BRAND NEW TIRE in the spare tire rack
![Mr. Green :mrgreen: :mrgreen:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
Winch without wire
Front bumper rather busted but easy to straighten.
Main fuel tank (driver side) with top, but white corrosion around the filling hole
Secondary tank (passenger side) with a paint can lid to keep the water out, both tanks almost empty.
The one maybe worrying technical thing that I could see for now was that on the driver side, around the back part of the front spring, there was some dark wetlooking grease (pictures tomorrow). Have to see where that comes from.
For the rest, I talked with those guys some more, and found out later that a friend of my brother had worked there and knew the truck.
Technical hear-say
They always used standard road diesel
They never did real maintenance, changed any filters an such, but at the beginning of each sumnmer season, they topped off the oils and coolant systems.
The last two years, the batteries were dead, so they just started it by pulling it with a tractor, no problem starting it like that.
For the rest, the truck always ran, no probs.
Hydraulic system and winch always worked, winch cable broke when they were trying to unroot some too big trees.
Tomorrow the paper work and hopefully cleaning it with high-power waterhose, then the real work starts. Hard to keep myself back, but I will not try starting it untill I checked and cleaned the fuel system.
Look for updates and new pictures, I'll keep you posted