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What have you done to your CUCV today/lately - Part 2
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These look very good!Can you share the cost of them ?
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The price you don't want to know. Lol
I got luck on eb..
The regular price is round about 400 € for 1.
I got luck on eb..
The regular price is round about 400 € for 1.
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That's showing around $445 at the current rate of exchange.
THOSE are some top dollar batteries! I'll bet they can do some cranking.
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The German Bundeswehr use them.
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Those where not cheap.
When I first saw this I thought it said Budweiser.
What is the bundeswehr?
Thanks
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German Defence Force.
Much like our 'Armed services' umbrellas Army, Air Force, Navy, etc.
Bundeswehr is the German equivalent of our 'Armed Forces'...
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So it IS kind of like Budweiser:
- If you take on too many of them all at once, you're going to have a headache.
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I tested my bumper mounted hitch tube and you were dead on. The weight of this mobile office (which I only moved rearward 15') had the bumper looking like it was going to come apart. I am going to limit the receiver to 500#. The plate was bowed down and had me sweating to hurry up and get that weight off the receiver. This rig up is a definite NO GO! Don't do this, anyone, unless you go by the rule that max1008 stated (if you cant lift it, don't pull it). I still will never take it down a road travelled at 55 mph or more.
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Better to learn in a controlled environment.
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Since Summer is over here and its about to get cold in the "Black Forest" I drove my Chevy to work for few days, need to get the "summer-diesel" out so I can top off with "ubergangs-diesel" and about november they start to sell "winter-diesel" .. I really dont want to get a clogged filter and a non starting CUCV
36km one way was nice to drive with ~80km/h max, one day was very rainy, now I know my CUCV is still water-proof.
Its totally amazing how much attention my small "Truck" draws.... even at work with our 100t Excavators & 120t Quarry Trucks....everyone was amazed
I really think about using it daylie.... but the Audi 80 quattro is fun in dirt mud and snow too
36km one way was nice to drive with ~80km/h max, one day was very rainy, now I know my CUCV is still water-proof.
Its totally amazing how much attention my small "Truck" draws.... even at work with our 100t Excavators & 120t Quarry Trucks....everyone was amazed
I really think about using it daylie.... but the Audi 80 quattro is fun in dirt mud and snow too
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Your truck looks great.
Your Audi comment reminded me of an old buddy of mine from years back who owned an Audi sedan:
- She pointed out to me once the ski "tunnel" built into the back of the trunk so that skis could load into the trunk and slide up into a well through the middle of the car. It was pretty slick. She said ALL Audis had that feature (as though, well naturally, if you're German well skiing is just what you do).
Is that true about all the Audi's?
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Uhm I think just optional like AC etc. .. mine has a foldable armrest in the middle of the backseat, no skitunnel
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Shattered the right rear axle on the Crown of Thorns M1009. When the Goodyear MTR Kevlars have traction on the road it is not good to keep giving it gas. We were pulling fence posts with cement on the end and I had the rear wheels on the road and locked in 4L it just went bang and I drove as it pulled the cement ball out of the ground I drove a bit farther and knew something was wrong. The right axle was walking out the end. We were at the barn and just stopped and jacked it up. I pulled the broken axle all the way out and removed the cover. No metal on the magnet but the axle was stuck in the splines. I removed the left axle also and took a long steel rod and hammered the broken piece out the right side. It is an easy fix. The locker still works and not harm done to that. That is the second time I broke an axle on that truck. The other one was a left front one and it broke inside at the same place. These tires get traction on dry road.
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Awesome to know that the axle is the weak point. So easy to change on full floaters.
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Boy, that would have been an ugly job to do by hand.
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Go find some DANA full floats at the JY... can probably get 3.73s at the same time....double bonus..
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Put some duct tape around that axle. It'll be fine.
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Drove her to Lodi for Cal-Vet Hunt. Hour and half drive at highway speeds mostly. Loaded up with Doves and drove back home. Good job girl. I love my CUCV!