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    SILLY SIGNS. . . . .LET'S START A THREAD ?

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    They imported two similar truck models from Brazil also and burnt themselves out of the medium truck market. Very expensive mistake.

    Not wrong there - I also remember our school run receiving the very first Volvo B7R that our company got..... a bit flasher than the OC1617 but a true mongrel if the linkages between the gear lever at the front and the gearbox weren't lubricated properly. Our driver would try to go from 2nd into 3rd and totally mess everything up by going to 5th! He then had to sort everything out - apart from that issue, the B7R's weren't a bad bus....

     

     

    2016 Dakar

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    Toby wins the bikes for Australia but Gerard de Rooy wins the truck section in, wait for it, an Iveco Rally Powerstar (the Aussie bonnetted truck!)... technically, Australia can lay claim to two wins!!! :D

     

     

    SILLY SIGNS. . . . .LET'S START A THREAD ?

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    You're welcome, 8km/hr, farting all the way and you have to find grass for it every night.

    PMSL!

     

    Gotta keep up - I can remember a bus we had when I was still a young whippersnapper at school..... a Mercedes-Benz OC1617. 16 tonnes GVM, 170hp and five gears - had to be a good day to get the rotten thing up to 100km/h - you could get it there but only if you had a tail-wind and were travelling downhill. But the bloody thing would be revving it's tits off at that speed as 5th was direct, not overdrive

     

     

    SILLY SIGNS. . . . .LET'S START A THREAD ?

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    Yes Phil but they still make Vauxhalls and they are rubbish

     

    A Vauxhall is only an Opel. Nev

    Guys, guys, guys! Don't forget who owns Vauxhall and Opel (and also Holden!)....... gimme a tissue box if I had to choose one of these cars.... or, better still, gimme Shanks' Pony....

     

     

    The perfect towing vehicle?

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    We had an Isuzu 1400 long, tilt tray and a couple of times she went into limp mode because guys turned the truck off when it was doing its DPF dump.

    Companies who rent trucks out - Avis, Hertz, Budget, Thrifty and the like - have warnings on the dash about the DPF - Hertz has done away with DPF equipped trucks and gone for the SCR only UD Condor range.....

     

     

    The perfect towing vehicle?

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    When we went to the Euro4 2008 and Euro5 2010 (and the American equivelent) emmission standards many heavy vehicle manufacturers tried many different methods to meet those standards. Most acheived Euro4 but could not improve on it. The biggest cost to most the those who met the standard was hugely reduced engine life. Ie 1.5 million klms between rebuilds down to as low as half a million. Many involved very complex and expensive systems with very short lives.

    The Europeans very quickly hit on the adblue system. Whilst still expensive it acheived very good results even up to Euro6 standard with minimal to no reduction in life of engines. The exhaust systems are still prohibitivly expensive, up to $20,000 for a muffler, but we are getting a million plus klms out of them.

     

    Adblue is an aqueos urea the is injected into the exhaust stream where it vapourises into ammonia and then utilising magic (well not really but it could be) and the milion dollar exhaust system it cleans the particles out of the exhaust.

     

    It does use up some adblue , I go through about 100 litres per 3000 litres of deisel, so 1 adblue tank per 2 refuels. Almost all service stations that sell diesel now also sell adblue. All of the big players in road transport are now going to adblue.

    I like your thinking, Geoff - it's the insights of guys like you that allow me to learn about SCR.... Isuzu manages to meet Euro4 and Euro5 with a simple EGR/DPF setup. We have a 2009 FRR500 at work and it's a brilliant truck - yet the guys driving it aren't letting it get hot enough to even attempt to burn the soot out of the particulate filter! A mate of mine brought an ex-Pink Hygiene Services Isuzu NNR200 and had to replace the DPF - pretty lucky he could get out of that cheap - it cost him $3,200 to do.... I have heard of DPF replacement on a Captiva Diesel being upwards of $12,000

     

     

    The perfect towing vehicle?

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    I did a fair bit of research a while back on selective catalytic reduction systems (SCR) where a diesel exhaust fluid is used ( commonly known as Ad blue).What I have found is when used in small vehicles. It isnt too bad as the little tank normally holds enough to last between vehicle sevices.

     

    Some very expensive maintenence issues have arisen on heavy vehicles though. Geoff 13 could add to this as he has spent his whole life around heavy vehicles.

    They say the Everest (and the first ever SCR 4WD in Australia, the Mazda CX-7 Diesel Sport) can do up to 15000km between AdBlue fills - that's 12 months! But you can always top it up between services by finding a service station which has truck access (and truck diesel pumps).... they always usually have AdBlue there on site at the pump. We have two sites (one BP, the other Caltex) which have that AdBlue availability

     

     

    The perfect towing vehicle?

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    Why pre-2003, Joe?

    Marty, I have seen a 2003 Hilux 4WD with gearbox problems - when they made the gearbox and transfer case, they machine each part of the gearbox separately instead of as a complete unit..... everything is out of sync and causes monumental nightmares. Plus any Hilux made post-2003 is made in Thailand - pre-2003's were made in Japan

     

     

    The perfect towing vehicle?

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    The perfect tow vehicle.Will tow anything all day.

     

    660HP. Runs on Diesel.

     

    Very comfortable.

     

    High seating position gives good vision.

     

    Extra large bunk would be easily removable to fit seating for the rug rats.

     

    Ticks all the boxes in the OP.

     

    Oh and you can moonlight with it through the week.

     

    Don't thank me. You are welcome.

     

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    Geoff, don't forget the added expense of AdBlue..... and that stuff is pretty hard to come by in most rural and remote communities (except if you carry it with you in those rather bulky 15 litre jug packs)....

     

    My choice would be any pre-2003 Toyota 4WD (Hilux, Landcruiser, et. al.)

     

     

    What I do outside aviation

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    Saw an Oshkosh once with a broken Kenworth on it's back - you don't realise how big they are til you see that perspective.

    Not wrong there - saw that Oshkosh supplying air to an old Mack Flintstone (R-600 with the steel butterfly bonnet) and the Mack looked pale in significance! Early Macks in Australia were fitted with an air-starter instead of an electric starter - the reason for the air-starter was the constant availability of sufficient air to build up enough pressure in the supply tank....

     

     

    What I do outside aviation

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    Another of my photographic loves is trucks, buses and coaches made by the Swedish company (or one of them), Scania..... here are a couple of pics!

     

    This first one is of one of their coaches - this particular example is a K470EB 6x2*4. It was the first 6x2*4 (or rear-steer) sold in Australia.....

     

    spacer.pngScania K470EB 6x2*4 TV5594 by Joe Hupp, on Flickr

     

    This is the quickest tilt-tray tow truck in Dubbo - it's mounted on a 2003 R164G V8 580 8x4!

     

    spacer.pngScania R164G 8x4 Tilt-Tray AUS666 by Joe Hupp, on Flickr

     

     

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