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Just a thought, also for when shipping the truck. Does there exist a Deuce - 5-ton tonneau cover? What I mean is, if you are driving regularly without top in "cabrio"version, or want to ship the truck and like to have the lowest possible height, such a cover would be useful for storing...

For a moment forgot about dual MCs, you're right, makes more sense. As to distribution, what about both left rear wheel and right front on one circuit and both right rear wheels and front left on the other? Would that give better performance - read: less drag to one side (after a circuit...

That would be great. If it exists for a reasonable price, I would install it immediately. Ron, you know I don't have my truck next outside my door, so I cannot just pop out to look. Is there actually enough room next to the existing MC and air stuff to put a duplicate there? Why using a...

I was in this little ironmonger shop around the corner, where people really know what they are talking about. Already bought several good tools there with good advice. There advice on this: "buy real cutting oil and use drops of it. Don't buy this oil-water mixture used in professional lathes...

OK, I had to do some serious wiki searching before I understand what the f@#$%$#@ you are talking about, in the last few posts, but I managed. So I used an 18 mm annular bit for drilling the holes. Now go out and rent one and :grd:. Any other drill then a magnet with annular drill is a...

Anybody did that with an M39 5-ton? I think there are no cheap conversions. Splitting the existing system would be easier and cheaper. If you would also install two fluid reservoirs in the cabin you can equip them with a warning signal that warns when you are loosing liquid. Thing is, normally...

Ron, your way of front axle + 1 mid and rear axle + 1 mid seems simpler and cause less drag to one side after one system fails then my way of rear axle + 1 front and mid axle + 1 front Two points on your way. 1) Did not have time to read all threads and manuals on this yet, so I will ask...

Does any of the M39 axles ever had a dual brake cylinder system? Now, there is only one brake cylinder mounted at the top of the brake plate, with the brake shoes turning around a fixed point at the bottom part. With a dual cylinder system, each brake shoe is operated by a separate cylinder.

Interesting way of dividing the power, putting the single one in the middle. We should really work this out and try this out. Ideally would be if the front brakes had two cylinders per hub, one up one down so each brake shoe would brake in the same turning direction. Then, dual brakes would...

For drilling holes in frames, you can't beat them. We needed to drill 10 holes size 18 mm (0.7"). I paid $ 90 for renting one for one day, and another $ 25 for the drill or cutter. Not sure what name to use; this is a not a normal drill with a tip and getting wider, but more like a thick pipe...

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...