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I will be flying into the USA not earlier than Saturday and not later than Tuesday. Departure date is still completely free. I can still change my airport destination. Anybody needs to get an extra car to the rally or does not have time to drive it there themselves, let me know. Can be also be...

Something I want to discuss at the rally as well. Did anybody ever modified the M51 dump hydraulic system to make it multifunctional? Moving the pump and reservoir On the M51, the hydraulic pump is driven by the rear PTO. It is connected to the subframe, same as the reservoir and the dump...

Is there a way on the forum to share pics but stop people from copying/downloading the images? In the same way, if you post pics in the albums, can people make external links directly to those pics? Better, can you stop those links? Situation is I came across some pretty amazing pics I would...

I know the military had trailers to transport troops, even two-stories high from WW II. I could not find documentation and trailer identification on newer, post WW II versions. Any idea? I saw this one a few months ago at a small historic air show and it clicked. Getting permission to...

As part of our Newcastles Conference 2014 we organized here in Nove Hrady (New Castle in Czech), we had three MVs parked next to the Iron Curtain open air museum, which is located at the border crossing between the Czech Republic and Austria. My first MV event and our truck was not there aua...

Title says it all. Just to help me and other confused newbies out. Can somebody with a video camera sit in a 5-ton truck from the M39 (also named as G744) truck series and go through the proper routine of shifting gears. Stop laughing. I do not mean 1-2-3-4-5 but all options, like when and...

For those interested in special air force planes, keep an eye on the two-week international air forces exercise Frisian Flag 2014 in Friesland, the Netherlands. Lots of different planes from several NATO airforces together.

Standard European trucks have (or used to have) a front coupling jaw dead center in the bumper. This mostly is just a re-enforced opening in the bumper where you can put the tow bar in and lock it with a pin. Farm tractors have them also. The Daf army truck at right has both the two towing...

What about make a special sub-forum "vehicle history and historic preservation" as first sub-forum in each of the "period fora": - Post-Vietnam to Desert Storm - WWI and WW II Vehicles - Korean War to Vietnam War vehicles Or make it a separate forum under "General" or under "Restoration" I do...

A "search friendly" title. So I finally started to prepare to get going on working on the brakes, sort of, maybe. In short, after 16 months of standing still the M51A2 had zilch pressure on the brakes and an empty Master Cylinder. Two weeks ago I threw in 7 ounces of Dot 5: no pressure after...

M5x or M8ss 5-tons do have power steering and air-boosted hydraulic brakes. I try to upgrade that single system to a bit better, safer system. One option is to replace the Single MC and Air pack with a dual MC - Hydro booster system like the CUCV and many modern pick-up trucks have. Mostly, a...

Call me an old fart if you want. We finally got an iPad Air for our work and this tapatalk add keeps suggestion I cannot live without it. Actually, I can live without having to be online every minute. Most of my work involves work on PC anyway, and if away there are no emails that are soo...

I really searched, some answers came close, but never really found a satisfactory THEORY answer I could understand. How does an old air-assisted hydraulic braked truck regulate the brake power of a modern trailer with air brakes? :shock...

I tried to find out who is in my nick of the woods, but there are several member locations that seem to use wrong or unused member names. When I copy the user name in the advanced search under user name: I get a sorry no match reply. Using the normal search with that user name, I got a...

Looking into the background of a totally different thread, I ran into these pictures of a Russian MV model builder, thought they were neat.

Going down memory lane a it the last few months. I was looking for pics on my stay in Toad River Mile 422 Alaska Highway and suddenly found back this pic. After finishing my study at the the University (1985), I was a bit lost and had enough of all the theoretical stuff. So I worked at a small...

I am not sure if it is technically possible but would it be possible for moderators to make a thread a "sticky" in Today's posts? For example, things concerning site outing or other site problems. Very often, the amount of new threads pushes those threads quickly to the background. Another one...

Yes I read and searched. Just too many different answers and not applicable on my situation. Also, I live in the Czech Republic, Europe, so the typical US shops or rentals or whatever are not available to me. OK, to business: I probably will end up towing the truck to its winter location, about...

Happened again. All looks ok, I seem to be logged in, start write a reply, then decide to "go advanced" and suddenly up comes the warning it is not possible because the token has expired (and yes, the remember me box is always checked). Reload, or back button or whatever, but my carefully...

I am going through some old threads I started and noticed that several of them end hanging in the air without clear end. Not wanting to start threads on the same topics and at least end some hanging threads, I tried to reactivate a thread and mention that in an edit to the original first post...