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Cattelrepairmen, you are absolutely right. I drove with an old VW "hippie" van 5000 miles to the Sahara and back to the Netherlands with an out of line flywheel. No prob. My late brother had that car a few hundred miles and wrecked the engine. His engines blow up, my engines last. The highest I...

I'll try to find that engine tag. If there, it would solve a bit of the problem. Why higher weight. The problem is, none of the papers show a real Gross Train Weight Rating (GTW) like the Dutch DoT wants to see. I can pull 30 000 Lbs WHEN FULLY LOADED. It does not say if I can pull more with...

Ducan, thanks, the DoT threw out the mirror, as you mentioned. More pics and details later, but things definitely are progressing. I am back in the Czech Republic, but we made some serious progress this time. All the back brake lines were replaces and the system flushed with new fresh DOT 5...

The Dutch DoT has a few rules and formula's for calculating Gross Train Vehicle Weight limits. They always use the lowest number that comes up. Being a 6x6 according the Dutch law, that is no limiting factor. The new fish mouth and fifth wheel coupling are specified for weights way beyond any...

The SECO website has for sale an "M51A2 Continental Multi-Fuel 185 HP Diesel Engine". Do all these people just make up numbers or was there really this confusion and amount of different engines in these multi-fuel lines?

Doghead, thanks for the sheet, from which manual or paper this comes? The sheet mentions in the third column an LDS 465-1 engine with 175 Hp, in the last column it seems the same engine (??) with 175 Hp. Any explanation for that? Maybe the one in the 3rd. column is a deuce version and the one...

:|:| No answers in over a week, so I'll bump this one up again. Nobody? :?::?:

With the Dutch DoT I am recalculating how much I legally can pull and tow with the new European fish-mouth coupling and with the European 5th wheel coupling. It is clear from the dash ID shield, that I have an M-51 A2 w/w. It was built in 1973. AS far as I learned here, it has a LSD 1A...

:grd: If you would spare it out, you would complete quite a lot of the horrible parts of the restoration process, that is, getting the old stuff off and free. Then in stead of selling the parts, just clean them, repair where necessary, clean and repair the rest, put everything back and bob's...

Take a nice 5-ton truck. That 12K price needs no further comment, in a few years you can buy it for scrap because he has no takers. I now read and learned a lot on this forum :not worthy: (and a bit elsewhere as well). Visited the different dutch scrapyards (pictures to come later) and saw...

Got the flushing finished Sunday afternoon, all coming out nice and blue from all cylinders, and man, without engine, that peddle sticks high and has a lot of pack behind it not.

No. This shop was the only that has it on stock, nobody has these nut for brakelines, nobody has US size threads on screws or bolts etc etc. A real pain when you have a US MV

Flushing completed, everything blows out blue, but by then it was getting late, and we did not manage to complete everything in time for tomorrow. #@#$% auaauaaua:hammer::mad::cry::cry::shock::sad: But the truck looks nice with a fith wheel on it.

Did anybody actually installed a split brake system or dual brake system on a 5-ton M-39? I see a lot of stuff on the topic, but focusing on the Deuce. I am looking for stuff on the M-39 series, preferably the M5x-A2s. Not the 809 and higher, not the Deuces, just M39. I am wondering if anybody...

With the 5-ton, only flushing the first lines already took about 1/3 gallon. By the time I am ready, it will be about 2/3s or more (about 2 /12 to 3 liter). I raced out Saturday afternoon to get two more liters to be sure I have enough. Lesson (which I keep forgetting): when you finally are...

phew, that had me worried, thanks mate[thumbzup]

Replaced and flushed through my M-39 (in my case M51A2) brake system today. I had to replace some brake lines and thought it was proper time to do so. What I did: All but the right front line and hose were removed. Basically, each brake cylinder was disconnected from the main brake line. The...

That's because in the USA you have to have the normal ones for normal cars and your own funny old types in non-metric ;-) I love the American independent not-follow the trend but setting it mentality, but you do can take it too far, you know. Non-metrics (including Fahrenheit) is just taking...

Tomorrow I will be flushing the system. All but one line are new (they did not have enough material and the line was ok). I have 2 litres of new DOT 5 (at $40 a liter) - I will pump out the reservoir and remaining line BEFORE reinstalling the new lines. Also try to empty all cylinders by...

:jumpin: what was not poissible in the big towns a local garage will do. Very friendly people, full of advice. I bring them the old lines and they will make the new ones within a few hours inbetween normal work. Both rear axles will set me back about $ 50 at most. Biggest problem, get the nuts...