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KRAZ 255b
Mine is for sale now. It IS the one on utube "slab common heavy vehicle trial"
Yes It is fantastic to drive AWSOME sounding engine! and deisel petrol? I run mine on CLEAN contam..no problem. same as my M series multifuel trucks. (heres the link) and dmetalmiki on u tube shows other...
My recovery adventure
here are the phone videos shot on the journey to my recovery collection and the "mid journey" good samariton bit! man that was some pull! wheel spin on my M62..but we one.
So, I see a tender coming up at my "militery shop" and go view an ex US army ambulance. hmm I rather like that thinks I...As I allready have one it would be good to tinker with or for spares (as the ash tray is full on the other!, (joke I do not smoke)). So I get my lad to take a day off work...
too much strain
In the hieght of summer waste oil might well work. in winter? never! and the (poor old ) intank pump is now probably burnt out ..bit like trying to pump treacle through a living van water pump. NOT made to do it. In any case there is no mention of cleaning or filtering..if that...
sprags
yep that's the sprags. Check underneath when a buddy shifts from 1st to reverse and back again ..you should hear the piston operating the sprag. if not check the filter ,piping and operating cylinder. (seals)
eeezy peezi
no cost no short circuits. use a spare 12 volt battery. easy to "hide" and charge infrequently as you are not transmitting for hours on end! (my battery is under the passenger seat)
should go ok
Should be no problem at all (as long as!!??) everything is kept (nice and) clean. tidy. in good order. well maintained lubed..painted seviced everything bolted up tight and correct..the list goes on and on and on and on..(and) on.. like the vehicle in the atatchment...
absalutely not
dust7..Not from a movie (well I never saw it) I have carried out EXACTLY this proceedure in the British Army as a revovery mech. (active service). And I must have done it at least 6 or 7 time here in the U.K. with many of my past collection exploits. (I mind once long ago (60s)...
CAN DO but a lot of work
Get some buddy assitance. then dig a "dead man anchor" some way behind your truck (not too far say two truck lengths) and place a substantial gun plank cut down phone pole railway sleeper(s) or the like..(VERTICALLY) .in the D.M.A. hole. better if it slopes AWAY at an...
ok here's the more info
CHAD is when the truck was in action in the bosnian conflict with darfor. It was purpose built for the french and later irish S.A.S. There were only some 144 ever built and non were suposed to be in "civy" possesion apperantly. (like the hummer was?) However the dealer...
ok here's more info
CHAD is when the truck was in action in the bosnian conflict with darfor. It was purpose built for the french and later irish S.A.S. There were only some 144 ever built and non were suposed to be in "civy" possesion apperantly. (like the hummer was?) However the dealer...
Edit errors
lost all the pics trying to edit. so should read " the lady says if it's over 1 meter (and some bits of a meter!) then It would cost 300..etc (not 99! ..(err..welll UALL guessed right here...(nudge nudge!))
I will take some pics of the engine later as i'm maxed out on pic posting...
Its its its its here
Well I travelled hollyhead wales to Dublin southern irsland.after bus and train ride..(got to the train station just as the train pulled in) then 3 train changes and the ferry. (""what is it "" (says the lady taking the details to ship it back the day before booking it in)...
Well early tomorrow (6-15 a.m. to be precise)..I have decided to go get "this strange ugly but charasmatic vehicle from nothern Irsland. thoght about it hummed and har'd then decicided to (yet again) turn on the motivation engine and travell by car train and boat to go collect it. I WILL take...
just an idea
Reading your " asked for" suggestions..would it be practical in having a "select" (menu) page ( for one of the forums or sales classifieds as appropriate) that is designed around a vehicle dash? there are enough intstuments in the M series dash panal for 10 or 12 menu selections...
you will be pleased
with a simple and quick fix of that problem..FREE off the (propshaft) external contracting handbrake and you (it) are good to go. common fault that on the MB's.
Had and armstrong MT500 wich was a brute to start and allways required the timing dot to be in the engine case window to start it!!?? (imagine the scenario..You out on patrol..enemy comes over the hill Shooti'n SO you shout "hang on a mo' I NEED to get my white dot in the window" ..I spose they...
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