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@UNIMOG-GUY yeah I might have to say that for small diesels vw and toyota are probably the first choices (mind you I didn't mention toyota before because I don't know how well it would shoe in physically beside that I rarely seem to have ever heard of toyota engines in non-toyota vehicles as far...

might be a bit too "apple and orange" but what of older vw diesels? I mean they had 5-inline motors used for the transporter's too

agreed with @kendelrio theres still a lot of 24v bulbs for most purposes out there just as well, considering that various highway trucks often run on them as well (even 24v round/rectangle markers can nearly be found anywhere, just noting)

haven't really seen these type of people for myself personally but @Bill Nutting in one 'stories on the railway' book I have - basically in one particular chapter the writer for that story pointed out that at the time he was a relatively new fitter himself at the shop and wasn't shy to call the...

@kendelrio this is offtopic but when I noticed your saga I thought of an unrelated but similar headache-ish from my one trabant book..turns out that they fit the "raw" duroplast door panel onto a car then sandblast it to exact size hence since every car is 'bespoken', 30+ years later taking the...

welcome @Guzzlebelly and mm well I would say to look up the technical manuals shared on this forum for the 813's, as your wipers are very likely air-operated ones so you're going have a particular air valve relay to look at (it may work again after some banging&cleaning or not..)

not sure of a specific location other than that this was somewhere on the prince edward island itself around the early 2010's and especially just in case the more technical part of the display placard is of any interest to anyone else too (well..I mean that as in eg you could produce 200 trucks...

@zebedee not to get offtopic here but I have to say that when I saw that I kinda started thinking of 'our' T-800 (robot acted by arnold schwarzenegger) driving that thing as it would be perfect with the extended hubs to play "paint trading" with any parallel vehicle aside to that umm well I...

maybe @patracy should have a bit of fun sitting in a centered driver seat? I'm just being a bit silly of course but even then there really is such a truck in west canada tho as per https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W3llB4WZYUE/maxresdefault.jpg

thanks everyone, I seriously thought it for sure was not specifically my computer but I was like "ummmmmhhhhhh???" for a while there tho you know anyhow hopefully there might be better news about this soon but mm lets just wait a little bit to see

sorry about not being quite sure where to ask this but is anyone else basically lately seeing the entire forum categories/threads list being centred instead of left-justified? (and strangely I thought to indeed check the preferences but theres nothing in there related to something like this)

regarding @GeneralDisorder you know what, some people can say the same thing about these old furnaces that came "bundled" with steel mesh filters instead of being expected to use separately purchased throwaway paper filters .. the former requires a good deep soakwash to be "refreshed" to use...

normally if it was one or few tires at fault I would had suggested caging the offending brakes and limp carefully with limited brake power from the remaining tires, but since the entire system isn't able to air up in the first place this won't apply. in that case yeah, short of pinching off the...

future troubles? that include having a bad day trying to make noodle but nothing ever comes out straight?? (sorry to be silly! a particular stereotype when one thinks of italy food-wise) welcome to the forum either way *grin*

@Heander well I don't know how their actual reliability is but many people seem to own the old ones without any issues nevertheless so .. there is always the highroof-spec mercedes sprinter from 1995 onward, as long as you perhaps opt to only look for diesel ones torqueoutput-wise