OLD M.A.N TRUCKS

g/day 77 mate that red one with the bogie tipper id reckon was a coal carter in it's youth

Hey 77Louie400, that green MAN in the first pic on your farm. The one on the right, that cab is nicknamed "Chubby Cheeks". It is the same as my white day cabbed MAN 650 that I am fixing up. is it still there, or parts of it anywhere? Anyboby?.

Cannot find any in Australia except for 1 in Qld who will only sell me the whole truck at more than I can pay.
thanks, Stephen

Sorry mate it's gone 25 years ago, I have a couple of diffs under the pine trees and a few bits and pices for the brown cab over there was a diasembled gear box in the shed at mums, what bits do you need.

g/day 77 mate that red one with the bogie tipper id reckon was a coal carter in it's youth

Not sure Gordon Dunn at bathurst had it on a 3 deck stock crate for as long as I remember, until my brother brought it then went to the wreckers at lawson.

My old 1968 is a 650F and the cab type is nicknamed "Chubby Cheeks". My white day cabbed MAN 650 below that I am fixing up. Parts of anywhere? Anybody?.

Cannot find any in Australia except for 1 in Qld who will only sell me the whole truck at more than I can pay.
By the way, has Trilex axles, but the diff was missing and axle was not a MAN one. The MAN one I got and seems to be Autobahn ratio at 2.88 but with only a 150HP 6cyl diesel, and a 12 spd ZF 'pogostick' gearbox I do not expect it to get into gear 10, 11, or 12.
Thanks, Stephen

Stephen,

I have a vague recollection of a similar post you made quite some time ago - I thought you managed to find the bits. I still think you've nothing to lose by joining the (appropriately named) Lkw Stephan forum and leaving a message on the Pausbacke thread:

www.baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/thread.php?threadid=6869

I'm sure there will be enough English speakers there but if not, Google Translate is your friend.

Cheers

T

...and just to add to this thread, an Israeli MAN with the 320 hp V10 (pic: Y. Chen)

and a slightly smaller and earlier one, also in Israel (Harvard U Israel Collection)

Wouldn't the 2.88 ratio be part of a hub reduction set up? 2 to 1 hubs would bring it back to 5.76 which is right for a heavy duty truck.

Steve, that would be the case if I got the ratio from the diff ratio on the splines without taking into acct that it is hub reduction as you point out correctly.
I got it by the old school way a wrecker taught me. Lift up one wheel with the other on ground. Turn the drive shaft to make the wheel turn and keep turning, Counting as you go because you marked the drive shaft yoke first) until the tyre make TWO full turns. If both wheels were turning they would only have to turn once. If one is stuck the free one turns twice as fast. With this method yoke turned 2.88 times around.

Somewhere in that recipe..
'Double the turns' is missing..


chocs

Steve, that would be the case if I got the ratio from the diff ratio on the splines without taking into acct that it is hub reduction as you point out correctly.
I got it by the old school way a wrecker taught me. Lift up one wheel with the other on ground. Turn the drive shaft to make the wheel turn and keep turning, Counting as you go because you marked the drive shaft yoke first) until the tyre make TWO full turns. If both wheels were turning they would only have to turn once. If one is stuck the free one turns twice as fast. With this method yoke turned 2.88 times around.

mate I dont no weather you are right 2.88 sounds realy quick to me but your theory is wright so that must be it but it would do at guess 1200 rpm or less 100km/h sounds almost undriveble but I could be wrong . I was taught tape a bit of string on the tail shaft jack up one wheel and turn it around once count how many wraps of string and divide bye two should work the same as what you have done good luck with those parts seeya
Paul