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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...

When doing my swappable conversion, I tried to figure out several of these points, to make them easy swappable. I started from an orignal dump truck with pto-powered hydraulic pimp. Using the original dumb bed, I did not think about the possibilities of putting the hydraulic cylinders on the...

Last year we met a guy here in our museum who is a retired commander of diesel submarines.

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Thanks, I did not realize the 1200x20 are not only wider but also have a larger diameter, thought they were the same. From another thread I now found that the difference is about an inch in diameter between 11 and 12. Can you mount them directly or do you need some kind of spacers between the...

Yes I did search and yes, the question surely has been asked million times. With all the oversize single threads and the deuce and 9xx series dominating, I could not find a good thread on it. So here goes. This is Tatra land here and I get can new surplus army tires 12.00x20 for about $ 120...

Thanks, looks like is fits perfectly behind the screen. Any details or more pics of it?

Reducing the noise level somewhat on our M51A2 multifuel would be nice, and I was wondering if anybody ever did something with it. I saw some threads on noise levels for 5-ton trucks, but most stories go about the 8xx and 9xx series. Also an interesting revived thread for the the Deuce...

I downloaded the first pic to play around with it, so at least I can restore that one (if that's ok with you). I like brain puzzlers. Patracy's first image. Almost restored the flipped version as I had saved it.

I was on the wrong track also, thought it was a flipped image, did not noticed the other mistakes. In Europe, its only the UK that is driving right-hand side. Africa and Asia still have a lot of countries driving "wrong". A lot of the continental European surplus trucks or old trucks also...

In the Czech Republic they are still for sale 1956 Gaz e-bay like auction, I think more from private sellers, with some real prices collectors bazar Just the Gaz-69 club with more info Short look shows that most of them are around 50K -70K Czech crowns,or about $3,000 to $4,500 (thank a...