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I was hoping to learn from your experience. I am getting busy with it now; the truck has to be drivable soon, in any case before winter starts.

Starting again to get my steering in order. In short, left turn is without problem, right turn needs two persons to haul the steering wheel around. Hydraulic oil according TMs and recommendations here replaced and should be without air. Adjusting nut tightened to get rid of free play; worked...

Reviving this thread; I am looking into the same problem. Left turn without problem, right turn in begin was difficult, now I need two persons to get the steering wheel around. This thread ends without clear answer on cause and solution (unless I missed something). Memphisdoug, did you manage to...

Thanks for getting us back, spent a few days supervising an exhibition, so a lot of free time in an out of office situation, thought to catch up with SteelSoldiers...sh#$%$#t. No criticism, just technical interest and trying to protect our own sites against something like this. Shouldn't a host...

Sounds good. Your earlier pictures show the exhaust just in front of the right rear wheels. Never liked that place. If you would be passing a cyclist while getting up speed, you would either suffocate them or blow them off the road (or at least paint them a bit black :wink:)

That's one heck of a nice truck, :drool::drool: but I am missing at least one nice discreet (green) exhaust stack sticking up, two would be better. Wouldn't mind doing something like that but the M51A2 is too short for that kind of tricks. Have to find me a long-bed truck

now its revived, what about a few pics to show the "final" product of this thread?

Just came across this article about decommissioned aircraft on CNN, thought it might interest some aviation enthusiasts here. :drool:

Since October last year (adding anti-freeze coolant)...... :sad: :sad:. ...... NIC ....NADA....NOTHING........:cry: :cry: and its already mid June. Getting very frustrated here. Would like to say a lot of things about it, but the moderators would bleeb every second bleeping word...

Two brothers in the Netherlands (both well over 70) bought lots of old surplus stuff when it was still cheap. The brother buying the European surplus is still buying. However, he now is buying the newer stuff coming free and after some modifications, virtually all of it is going as drivable...

Looks like the bumper hit the tree, pushed the truck to the side and then the tree caught the tire and forced the truck back into the tree, messing up the hood and fender. The truck bounced backwards and got hooked by the bumper. Does not have to be that quick to get that damage.

TehTDK, you are right off course with the side curtains. For max visual effect, the "narrow overlap crash" (outside of the trailer frame) shows a car going under the right side of a trailer, with the driver getting the full impact (and being decapitated). More realistically, the car would...

With a big butt like that, one or more camera's surely is a good and needed thing. Just sensors would not work in this case. As a short side-step on safety, in EU countries, you would need to have an under-ride guard at the "real rear end of your truck". These under-ride guards prevent that...

I would go for backup sensors like the are now installed in most modern cars since the early 2000s. Let's you be more focused on what's happening to the side while not worrying about the back. The sensor gets active when you hit the reverse gear, and bleeps increase in speed the closer you get...

We often have students in our blacksmith workshops for getting experience (we are not a static museum but trying to keep traditional crafts alive, also commercially. One guy disregarded our standard safety instructions and used a flex-grinder without glasses. Got a rebound piece in his eye...

Bump. Spring took a step forward and two back but is coming up again. So I am getting ready to get the truck into the repair shop. To repeat: how do I get a dump bed off a dump truck while leaving the sub frame and hydraulics attached to the truck WITHOUT functional hydraulics? We can raise...

These runners also have holes in them to allow space for the rivets on top of the main frame. Without them, the bed would actually rest on the rivets and wear them down. That could end up like your frame falling apart :wink:

They really are impressive! Nice video here

We got a 1971 Atlas shovel with a Deutz F4L 912 air-cooled engine together with our M51A2. These engines are indestructible. Thirty years old, two year's outside not running and almost empty fuel tank. Some ether in the air intake and a heavy battery and off you go, no problem. The linked...

Both the guys tracking the martens and the guy I was working for said somehting like that. I decided to believe them without testing:popcorn:. We did, however, tasted the Canadian culprit and I can tell you that the meat of an old male porcupine is not really on the top of my "must try again"...