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Exhibition We made a very small exhibition in our museum as part of the 30 year end of Cold War activities. Unfortunately, we were not able to move the truck to our location, so we had to do with the shield and a lot of talking about it. It is in Czech language, but most of the text is also...

Actually, quite a lot of nice pics about the dump-tractor conversion can be found on page 5 of the August MV of the Month. Almost all of the pics on that page are of the M51

My truck at the forge, so it counts as canvassing.:whistle: ;-) Steam hammer: early 1900, from the former steam locomotive repair shop of the Franz Josef Railroad. The hammer is now working on compressed air from the holder behind it' steam would be too risky and problematic with authorities...

Some more pics coming up. Did I already mentioned that the truck is modified to be Truck - Dump (M51) and Truck - Tractor (M52) whenever whatever is needed, and legal on papers as well? This is how it looked after the first visit to the DoT. Their remark: no protection over the tires and...

And put your favorite supplier-scrapyard-paintmixer in the European scrapyard thread even if its not a US MV shop. Don't tell me I am the only one trying to find parts of MVs in Europe.

Milwaukee Milwaukee M18 Fuel 1/2 Cordless Impact Wrench. Brushless motor, 1491 NM nut-busting release torque, 950 NM fastening torque. I was thinking about the 3/4 or 1 inch as well, but that would make everything unnecessary heavy and expensive. The 1/2 with adapter does the job as well, and...

Star 266 and 660

With grand kids now, away from my pics collection. But some nice history and video from our truck are on our museum site.

The boats are house boats, former working boats that are rebuilt for living. Most of them can still sail if need be. My late brother was living in a 1900 Talk, a sailing cargo boat. He had made it completely independent self-supporting. I tried to convince him to put the sails back also, but he...

No pics from the hood, but a nice video of me driving along the Dutch channels to the DoT for getting the truck street legal.

You can still get them in the Czech Republic. I was not sure if GAZ has a good name in reliability but the 66 seems to be OK. My son had a modern version, something like a big long Ford Transit with double cabin and double tires in the back. Bought in 2009. We had to replace the drive shaft...

Keep them rolling and keep them coming, a few more contestants please. Although when they throw in trains, competition is going to be fierce.

I vote YES. Maybe if you win, as award the big chiefs will finally start the railroad forum

Keep them coming; so close to Veteran's day its time to make an impression.

Front hub removal M51 A2 I will do a detailed write up later, but here some pics that might help The hub with cap, ready to be taken down. Middle how it looks after you take the grease away, right, the cap full of grease but nothing else. Looks promising. Then ... :shock...

Other thing, if its the last nut with the wheel on, the wheel will be at an angle also frustrating your efforts. Put a few nuts back, at least one opposite of the bad nut and two on each side of it, tighten them good and try again, both directions

When getting the bolts from the bumper free, we had two people, hardened power sockets and connectors, and a 6 foot and thick steel tube on it, one person making sure the wrench stayed in place and hammering on it, while the other was hanging on the tube. Still was a problem, and caused some...

I saw Kenny busy with it at the 2014 GA Rally. After having to wait for a second person and then using 4 foot pipes as extra, and breaking tools, still without getting bolts free, I decided I needed one. But ... too expensive here: $ 870. Then I went to a tool day from one shop and the had...

Looked like an emptied fishpond Czech style to me :beer:

Thanks to advice of Kenny, I now have a brutal 1500 NM Milwaukee Power M18 Fuel cordless impact wrench, and thanks to Mike and Swamp Donkey, I also have the full set of power sockets including both wheel nut sockets: 6-edge and square. Man, its just pure fun to remove bolts and nuts just for...