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That sucks big-time but its good you figured out what the probable cause was. In the Netherlands - and many other places - Martens are a well-know cause of car damage by dedicated chewing through power cables. I once joined some colleagues radio-tracking several martens and we observed one...

I planned to get an early night today and your thread was the last one I was going to read before sleeping. :shock: Ended up reading all 25 pages of this thread (that's the bad of not checking for nice threads every day). :drool: [thumbzup]

Bombardier Illtis is basically a VW Illtis. I looked both up a bit more, the DAf I think is a bit lower on its wheels and the front fenders go further down and the front is lower than the Illtis. Not sure, but my gut feeling is that the Illtis would be the better on in terrrain, the YA 66 is...

Something like these camping trailers were very poplar in the Netherlands in the 70s and 80s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlkFcVz3-Y0&feature=player_embedded The first 1-2 minutes are sale blabla but then it gets interesting. This version has the sleeping area up high with all the other...

Seano11, those cooky-jar jeeps in your pics, ere they variations on the Dutch DAF YA66 yeeps?

Testing forums and website help together also? Mechanical upgrades can go up. To be honest, I really had to look for it where it was, hangs a bit lonely completely at the end. Next possibilities Tatra under Russian-east-bloc Volvo under other non-US Unimog under German OK with the rest of...

I found another pic of that truck, with a little bit better view of what is in the back. That 50 cal gun probably is a plastic replica. More about DAF and DAF miltary trucks you can also find on the website of the DAF Club of America. Most of that forum is dedicated to the civil little...

11Echo, where is the location CT W.R. Nice DAF Y126. Where was the picture taken? Not really important, but do you have any more details on that car? What interests me is that this car has a Dutch military license plate of a newer type (yellow color). The plates started with KL or LM and...

Maybe the easiest would be by continent with some historic or logical exception. Hence a few less German sub-forums but European MVs and maybe an Asian sub-forum (if there are any people active or interested in that part of the world). European could include all but the Germans? That is...

Let me open the new sub-forum with a line on this Dutch truck builder with some amazing achievements through the 20th century including some world-class trucks, the first and only factory car that drives as quick backwards as it drives forward. Last but definitely not least: an impressive record...

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If you have them or have time, could you post some pics on how the hydraulics for the dump bed work on Tonka (I like that name). From the second picture on your first post, it almost looks like part of a container hoist system. There is a thread on swappable dump beds and although your system...

Taking out the handles would give you four good holes, but you would need at least two or three more in between the support brackets. I am not sure if taking out the rivets holding the cross beam would be an option or highly illegal Please do, they help and I am too lazy to make them myself...

YES Keep both. The one you have as more civic and this one as a real original MV without any civic stuff. By the way, what the **** is a Danish engine doing on your side of the ocean? Edit: Your right, its not Danish but Norwegian, did not read your post good enough and was too quick with...

That looks good but... In the Netherlands, I am allowed only to drill in the middle zone of the side flange of the main frame and the bolts should not be completely at the lower end of the side-rail; more or less in the middle is the best. Together with the DoT, I looked at that idea for a...

First time I hear about the US having such rules as well. Drilling into the top flange was the problem, but because A: the holes where on the strengthening triangle\ B: the fifth wheel would have this spacer plate below it giving additional strength the Dutch DoT decided that in this specific...

Would be interesting to see what you come up with. :idea: :o I had some problems trying to get this to work. The main and insurmountable problem was that I had to get this truck road-certified and the Netherlands have very very restrictive rules what you can do in changing anything on the main...

Something kept nagging why I abandoned this road earlier for the M51A2 and I finally figured out what it was: the fifth wheel is as wide or wider as the primary frame. Zebedee, on your drawings if you look good, I think the sub-frame also runs to the outside of the primary frame...

With hitching the dump bed with king plate into the 5th wheel jaw. Backing up into stuff might not always be possible and lacks a certain elegance. What about using the winch or add a small dedicated extra winch to hook into the bed and pull it up tight, maybe even with an automatic switch-off...

An M51A2 has a double pto for that, with one axle going forward to the winch, one going backwards to the dump pump. It would mean that the last app. 20 inches of the the original subframe would stay on the truck, holding the pump and the reservoir. That might work but it would mean that this...