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Sorry, guys. I could not put images on the PM so I will answer fap here. Well, the procedure for replacing the retainers of the second axle should be pretty straightforward, assuming the axle is out and you are working comfortably standing. Would be better if you change the retainers of the front an...

Hi, fap:

Wow, that was very long ago. It was even hard to find where the quote came from.

I will send you a PM.

Cheers.

Pairoa

Long ago, the lateral rods of the lower step of the side of the driver had been replaced by some tortured pieces of bolts, and the plastic bushings probably passed away long before that. The lack of bushings made the steps move pretty inconveniently, and they would surely be very noisy when the Merk...

What to do next? Well… there was a ton of things to do, but I had been stumbling on the pivoting lower steps for a while so I thought that it was the next item. If you remember, the steps were the first thing I took out from the truck when I brang it to San Felipe. They were probably the worst looki...

Dear Klaus: they are very well earned words. Take care. When I could I resumed the work on the truck, and I thought about the extractor for the bloody pin of the intermediate gear. Decided then to make a device to allow the use of the new pulling extractor and, to do that, I took the rods from some ...

I was about to put the speedometer drive gear back in when I had a doubt about the thrust washers: which was first, which the last? Christ, always the need for photographic tracks of what you have been doing. Of course I had many pictures of the disassembling, but I hate to have to clean my hands an...

Hello all: I hope everyone is okay. This madness around the damn coronavirus has turned our little world upside down, for the good and for the bad, a plain lesson to remind us, almighty humans, that we cannot take anything for granted and that we are, and always be, weaker than we think. Anyway, amo...

Hi, Nosilentrunning: Thanks for giving me some credit. According to it, in my poor and humble opinion, forget the SK you asked about. There has to be some other trucks, like the one lura has pointed out, in better conditions and without suspect cuts, weldings and bendings. By the way, that old NG lo...

Heidi had a flat and I went to Santiago to repair it as there is no qualified bike tire service in San Felipe, at least that I trust on, and the guy found three nails and three thorn punctures in the rear tire. Six, in one week. Wasn’t it too much? 16374.jpg I repeated the pulling maneuver with the ...

Hello: Alexis: thank you. I will think about the book. A film? I have been reading a lot of threads on these pages and on other sites lately, especially those in seek for advice for buying or furbishing trucks for overlanding, and the more I read the more fortunate I feel for being driven by visions...

Ah, Wolf... you can't imagine how bad I want to make circle tests, drifting and making eights with the Merkabah. That would be great indeed. In any case, even if the third axle never leaves the ground and there is always contact between the terrain and the wheels, the drag is dramatically reduced wh...

Hallo, Bernhard:

Sorry for writing in English.

To try to give you a hand, would you please explain a little further what the problem is, maybe with a couple of pictures?

Greetings.

Pairoa

Lura: I do believe! If not, I wouldn't be here! Max: Indeed, finding the MB number is not difficult, but the matching code of other makes is sometimes hard to get. Euroricambi is a good alternative, and that's what I am using so far. Walter: No, I could not find that catalogue, at least not in open ...

When inspecting the synchronizer sliding sleeves, they were all worn out, at least a little. Should change them all as I had to take the whole ensamble apart. Hmm… 16347.jpg 16349.jpg The gears were not in their best days, but they would have to endure. That was the limit. Use and an excellent gear ...

Hi: Here I am, again. After a few days I am still on the quest for repairing the big gearbox. The available time for working on the subject has been, as always, pretty limited. Things have been slowed down also because I was a little afraid about the availability of the spare parts that would eventu...

You guys really want to make me feel old. Hmm... I still think that this particular truck could have been a really good base for Pairoa's 6x6 wohnmobile, though probably not in Chile because Iveco has not a big support here, at least not as good as Mercedes, and spare parts are more expensive and qu...

Anyway, when the shaft came out, there was a metallic sound of something falling inside the gearbox. It was the follower ring of the synchronizer, or what was left of it, falling apart. It was broken in many pieces, five to be exact, and they kept together just by the grace of the grooved synchroniz...

Just a few words: I did not get an answer from ZF or anybody else, but that was of course no impediment for going on with the disassembling of the gearbox. I took out the front flange and discovered a lot of dirt that cumulated along the eons in all the places it could get. Took me quite a while to ...

I hung the box again from the winch to put it in a horizontal plane, but when trying to do so the hydraulic cylinder gave up and there was a massive leak of oil from the pumping mechanism. Ops. It broke, again. It had been repaired previously, but certainly not with the best spares and the right moo...

Thanks for the advice, Oli. Actually, I was pretty sure where the noise was coming from, and Eduardo, my brother-in-law, confirmed my suspicions with a lot more of confidence, of course. The rumour was characteristic as coming from working shafts and gears inside the gearbox, and so I had not much d...

Thanks, Alex. Good advice.

The joints have been checked and/or changed long ago but I will make then being re-checked. Also the differentials have been checked, known source of terrible sounds.

More to come when possible.

Pairoa

Eine große Hartnäckigkeit, according to the ones who know me, Bernd.

Thanks for your support.

But… the damn but… the noise coming from the drivetrain was pretty annoying and sinister. It started at 60 km/hr, and was worse when retaining, like waves of noise and tremor coming from the hungry guts of the beast. Christ! The gearbox? I completed the self made test circuit, including some rough d...

Thanks for all the encouraging vibes, guys. Pretty welcome. And this story goes on, with ups and downs as always. I was happy, really happy, though I was pretty aware that there were still many issues to deal with before the Merkabah was completely ready to move on to the next step of building the B...

And the day came when Carmen and I went to the workshop, with Yogi bear’s picnic basket, for the first official drive on the Merkabah after nine years of restoration. Taking her out of the shop was pretty easy this time. Expectations? 16221.jpg As the steps were not ready yet, Carmen had to use the ...

Speaking of dust, I went to pick the covers of the dashboard from the attic and had to fight tons of dust and big and ugly venomous spiders to get them out of their hideout. Fortunately, I had the pieces wrapped in plastic film and that made easier to work with them. 16212.jpg I had three samples of...

16195.jpg Putting the lateral panel of the side of the driver had one big flaw, wich was the need for taking the knob of the hand accelerator out of the way. Not big deal, if it wasn’t so uncomfortable to contorsionate to unbolt and bolt it in such a tiny gap between the steering wheel, the seat, t...

Hello, once again: Good things to show. I am happy, so far. After the ceremonial nonsense I decided that it was the right moment for putting back the sun visors. Obviously not the original visors as those were badly broken when the Merkabah came to me, but a couple of visors from one of the multiple...

Hello, Jerzy: Happy new year to you too! I am very glad to finally know what you were talking about all this time. I thought I could not be surprised by anything at this point, but you made my day with such an impressive discovery. Really, this is going to be fun. Glad to know, also, that you actual...