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"The short distance between the rear tandem axles will push you straight ahead when the terrain gets slippery, regardless of steering. When you engage difflocks, even more so." I couldn't agree with you more, Willem. If you engage full lock 6x6, with slippery terrain, the truck will tend to go on fo...

Hello, Burkart: Many considerations so far, though I think that the more important question remains still not solved: what do you want your truck for? I chose 6x6 because I wanted a truck more capable of getting out of the troubles I usually get into because I love to go beyond limits, and definitel...

Hi, Iain: Yes, this infamous and dark issue we and the whole world are in the middle of right now has seen many plans cancelled and dreams broke. I wanted to go to Australia for a bike trip through the desert the next year, and maybe take a lip for a visit. Plop. The gearbox, actually, is hard but f...

Hello, Werner:

Just to add to the discussion the famous words: "Never pick a car (or a truck) directly from the internet. Go and drive it".

Good luck.

Pairoa

Here, another source of inspiration, or at least for research.

https://explorer-magazin.com/magazin/vo ... onovolume/

Greetings.

Sorry, but that is what all people say about me: I am not diplomatic enough, but too straightforward. :( Pirx Dear Klaus: I know, I respect and I trully like you for that! It was just impossible not to reply to that comment, with an actual smile on my face and the only emoticon I have used in my li...

Christian:

Looks better than expected, I think you feel the same. Congratulations!



Pirx:

"Very nice, finally a vehicle without an extreme rear overhang and the ugly and nonsensical rear slope!"
Ouch.

Thank you, Holger. Most appreciated words.

The problem of being in a lockdown, at least for me, is that many new and crazy ideas for the Merkabah come into my mind as there is plenty of time for it to occur. In short I will need a shrink.

Regards from Chile.

Pairoa

Christian: Your truck is a monster, gorgeous, congratulations. And I also like your conception of the living Box. Surely both container and truck will fit pretty well once the deal is done, though,in my poor and quite humble opinion, it deserved, for the look and the power, at least one meter of fra...

171315.jpg Something wonderful happened those days, though, something pretty rare and most expected in San Felipe: it rained. 171316.jpg After almost a year with not a single chrystal of snow up on the Andes range, you could see white on the mountains. Perhaps you cannot appreciate the importance o...

Hello everyone: Life goes on, corona-damn-virus or not. I see from other threads that there is a lot of people working on their projects and keeping up as they can with their lives and their routines. Good. Seems that the world had come to a sudden stop, and the parcel with the parts for the gearbox...

Back at the shop, monday afternoon, I gathered all the pieces, again, gave them a final retouch and reinforced the supples with a lateral vertical plate. It gave excellent resistance but made the assembly even more complicated, though. 171275.jpg As the weather was pretty cold and the painting chamb...

This time I brang the die grinder to the shop and I worked both with it and with the lime to speed up the process. It was not much faster, though. 171249.jpg Of course, the supples for the supports were both prepared, cut, welded and even flattened out to make them even. 171251.jpg Evolutionary lane...

The next day was pretty cold too, so I left on purpose the die grinder at home and kept up with the limes for finishing the pieces. Time was not an issue and a little physical effort was okay for fighting the cold. While I was working with the lime I repeated myself that it was useless to work so ha...

Hello: Things all over the world have become a little crazy, right? Hope it all goes the better way. Do you remember the NissanTerrano? I had been not able to get rid of her after all this time. She was parked at home, waiting for a definition that never came, until there was no more option. Now I n...

Hello Sebastian: I agree with Marcel that nothing is impossible, and to answer your question wether the conversion is easy or not depends entirely on you. Do you want to work yourself or let someone else do the conversion? How good are you at cutting/welding? Do you have the appropriate tools, crane...

Okay. Waiting for the pictures to see how that thing is and how it works, I wonder if this is one of the reasons you found the truck so stiff. Also, the 16:00R20 are big monsters and, full inflated, they tend to make the ride very rough. What you know is true, according to my research, and you canno...

Hello, Jerzy:

Good to hear from your project again.

I cannot see well from the pictures. Can you tell what is this piece attached to?

When the only gears remaining were the reverse and the slow 1st ones, it felt pretty releaving. I turned the shaft around and took out the reverse gear along with the synchronizer ring, paying much attention to the tiny steel bearing balls that served as stoppers for the sliding synchronizer ring. I...

Hi: Time for an update though you might know that, times being, I have not made great progresses. The big challenge of the last weeks had been, of course, the disassembling of the Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen 5 S-110 GPA bloody gearbox which resulted in the PITA everyone, except me, expected. Tryin...

a90: Hello and yes, I remembered pretty well how tricky it was the first time, ending up in steel porno, but I definitely wanted not to disassemble any more of the bell housing or whatever. 803.JPG Life, God, the engine... everything seemed to be cooperating this time. Why should it be so difficult?...

Then, drilled a couple of holes on the plates that served as stabilizers to match the bores on the cage to have a cleaner and tougher grip, and hung the jack to finally weld the pillars perpendicular to the holding plates with a pretty thick welding. And that was it: another Pairoa’s port-o-power. 1...

Some of the built-in circuits for the lubrication were clogged by the filthy gelly oddity found everywhere in the gearbox. Better for the future of the gears having disassembled it. 171135.jpg The gear box was a pretty heavy bastard, though I managed to accommodate it to have it resting on the side ...

A few more words and pictures, hoping everyone is fine: Another autumn had arrived, though the poplars had got rid of their leaves a little prematurely because of the dryness. Here the seasons tend to shift abruptly, but this year we had days of extreme heat, then cold days followed by more very hot...

Hi, Jochen: Welcome to this quite particular world. Excuse me but I cannot get your thinking. Why to move the axles forward to adapt the truck to a given lenght of the living cabin? What do you intend: to keep or increase the overhang? To shorten the wheel base to avoid getting stuck from the belly ...

Guys:

Life is pretty much uncertain, it has always been. We just tend (or pretend) to forget it.

We have to dream, work, love, laugh, and travel as we and the world will stay forever, for it all could end today.

Keep up with your lives. Glad to help.


Pairoa

The next day, I easily removed the pressure plate with the aid of the winch and then carefully removed the flywheel. At inspection, the race was nice and evenly polished, as it should be, but there were clear traces of oil leaking from the retainer that, on its turn, looked pretty healthy too. Hmm… ...

Me, again. Hope everybody is okay. @Rumpelstielzchen: unfortunately, the restrictions to travelling even in between cities is of no help when it comes to riding the bikes properly, but try not to forget to use the Africa Twin. They are pretty sensitive, as you may know, and they will remember you at...

When the next weekend arrived, it was the turn for the Africa Twin’s non-scheduled but mandatory servicing. I had forgotten how annoying to take the protecting bars and the bulky skid plate out it was, but I did it pretty quickly and almost by heart. 17069.jpg To get to the oil filter, though, I had...

The vertical plate was separated from the portion that held the compressor which, in turn, would become some sort of gliding support for the compressor itself The vertical plate would be fixed to the engine block, as previously, but I considered necessary to reinforce it with another fixing point, f...