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The 2 in OR were on a farm and street registered, light blue with grey driveline frame, bought by another farmer, this was around 2003, have not heard about them since then. There must be others ???
Wrong place for this, I will be uploading manuals pages photos etc,
But to answer your ? Their were several VVN 8x8 ( and poss 6x6 ? ) brought back from Desert Storm later sold to the public, 1 in San Diego area, couple of 8x8 tippers in OR were private import in mid 90's. My TP will be shipped...
I am Rig Mover up here and I will be using Tatra 6x6 as heavy hauler, I been working up here for several years.
Wabesto or Espar coolant heater, so it will start and be warm + reduce engine wear.
Lizard Skin coating, thermal / acoustic coating inside cab, check out www.heco.com for acoustic...
Thought I'd share some info that is not commonly known:-
Winch
In the US winches are rated by lbs/weight they will pull on 1st layer of cable, Tatra uses force which is not 100% interchange because it's mass/accel ie kg mass x m per second, so you would have to test US winch via EU std, also I...
Just received my special order " Instruction for attendance & maintenance " ( owners - operation book ) on CD from factory via ATH, very happy except the price due to time it took for scanning / PDF file creation $400 but that not out of line re Unimog etc, now ordering parts book, though most...
Anybody no what the steel tubes are for which are stored / mounted on the sides of a P50 trailer. Do dome searching seems they were manufactured in Churdim CZ anybody no the manufacturers name and if they still in business ?
I'm looking at a couple dif' P50's for sale to go behind my TP6...
Only oils to use either Chevron Delo 400 15w/40 or Shell Rotella 15w/40 only oils designed and tested for 1million miles Caterpillar Cummins etc anything else is just comprise i.e short engine life, cold weather just follow factory dilution chart, just do google search you will see all the...
The military had some T815VVN that I believe came via Desert Storm which were sold in US, BLM in UT NV & ID have some ATC / Tatra Terrno2 6x6 S&S fire trucks, I spoke with someone back in 02 who had just purchased 2 T815 8x8 dump trucks from a farmer can't remember either OR or WA.
I will have...
Just returned to the States, anybody looking for T815 8x8 ? 2 units @ Excalibur, 1 92 @ Roudnice & 1 north of Plzen
Since I just bought a T815 TP 6x6 I am starting a new thread re 815's
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Been mainly speaking to Stanislav who speaks very little Eng, yesterday I spoke with older grey haired man which we conversed in Russian, so that Stanislav fully understood my parts order. They have ordered a special printing of spare parts catalog for my T815 TP6 going to cost est' $450. Manage...
I am bringing in container to East coast USA, I'm @ ATH Praha now. Expect to ship Dec' I have room for parts if any one else needs something. Please PM me for details, don't what to infringe on forum rules
I had an NOS 900 km 79 model 255b came from Finland tires are 53" tall, import into US ? It's possible with some work biggest issue is if you can license 108" wide truck ? Some states can as special equipment. Still some available from Finland better condition than Polish units most of the time...
10 yr Tatra fan and owner, 1st posting, here in CZ on my Tatra truck and parts scouting mission. Tried to meet with Radgest from Ostrava
but unfortunately not been able to reach him for his tel #, anyway seen loads of Tatra parts and old trucks, Mil and civilian. Off topic but seen absolutely...