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The operator manuals say that both are possible in the 176 inch wheelbase for the dump trucks

Exactly. That way all European members can be easily kept informed, find dates of events back, and meet with each other and infect new members. And not to forget, drive a lot to go to the meets:driver: If we use it also to post on the events after they happened, the US members can also...

Do they have the same chassis? Checking the manual, I found a few differences. The 817 is about 2000 lbs heavier, does that all comes down to the heavier engine? The 817 does not differentiate between off-road and highway, restricting everything to a 10,000 lbs max load, whereas the M51A2 has...

My 1973 M51A2 5-ton has no ignition key or any other key braking the electrical circuit, only the standard switch. That means when I am out, anybody can easy come in and play with the switches. Or I can forget to switch something off. Or something can get loose and drain the batteries while I am...

Sooo much new posts that this one is lost already on next page of new treads. :smile: Thought I bumped it up the list again, before all US addicts wake up, so the European members see it on top (for a short time at least).

Maybe not that interesting for the majority of the members, but it would be usefull to have a separate section on European actions. Now, I mostly read about it on SS after the event. The problem is, it is hard to keep check of all different MV clubs and their events in the different countries in...

Maybe this is a nice link to have a look. It's in German, but you'll get the guest of it. The first half of the page is about wrecking the clutch during a friendly meet. Then getting the truck home and then replacing the clutch. Sounds like a nice easy job for an empty summer afternoon or so ;-)

Maybe usefull against robbers as well? Jurgen attended me to this site, came across this rocket launcher (and several other trucks and trailers and parts).

You must have pretty good and smooth power steering, she does not seem to have any problem turning that steering wheel around. :not worthy: I can't manage that so easy (yet) on my 5 ton.

Maybe it's in the operating instructions, like with the M39s, that's where I got the info. I am designing and chosing material for the support legs for the dump unit, don't want to make them too light.

Does anybody know how much the dump unit weighs? I am talking about dump bed with sub-frame and hydraulics all together. The M51A2 weighs in at 21,986 lbs, the M52A2 at 18,560 The M52A2 fifth wheel assembly and some other hardware probably weigh in at about 550 to 600 Lbs. So I assume the...

Maybe there were several things together. My daily car (European Citroen Xantia) is known for one problem: bad grounding. You get just enough juice to let the lights go on (and your testing meter to show that you have juice), but when you put a heavy load on it, it fails to deliver. Bottem...

I think so on both counts, thanks for the pictures by the way. Disconnecting the slip yoke might be easy, while driving out from underneath it. Would not want to try back up into them, so flangs is the way to go, or just take apart the U-joint yokes each time.

Not really. Trying to find out the best way to temporarily and quickly disconnect the pump propeller shaft on the PTO side, so that the dump bed can be removed and replaced at will. Thought PTO's normally have flanges which you can quickly loosen, but here it looks it is different (and the truck...

Floatingly saw something coming by in a TM that the PTO for the M51A2 W/W has a special section, since it has a forward - winch - and backward - dump pump - propeller shaft. Can find back the stuff about disconnecting the dump pum side, but for the life of me, cannot find back details or...

I will have to get two newer (used) front tires (11.00 x 20). Commerce not only had loads of the standard US ndt tires, but also other European Nato tires including Michelin XL, Goodyear, and another special Nato type I don't remember seeying a manifacturing name of. Which would be better as a...

Jesusgatos, do you refer to the diagonal braking set-up mentioned in Jaxsof's post? Actually, if I remember my lessons well, this is the way its done on cars, at least was done so on European cars in the 70s and 80s. It's anything but asemetric. Well, in a way it is, but under normal...

Maybe we should make a poll asking people what was their oldest vehicle bought through GL, might be fun reading. Even simpler geting the winnner. Ranchhopper, your truck was 57 years old when you bought it at GL. Anybody can beat that?

We did some work finding the genealogy of one of our friends from there, and later looked over their place and the place their ancestores put their stake for a homestead. This is in the Wilson KA area. So we got interested, dug a bit into the history of settlers on the Great Plains and drove...

It's late here, so it took me a bit to see the underlined greencard in my post quote. Had not thought of that. Can't they vote at all, or only local (I can vote locally, but nothing regional or national).