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FW200

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  1. Mine only has one welded plate next to the driver's window. That number is X01TT001653 It has quite a few of these styles of numbers around the vehicle. None shorter though. Vehicle is 1985/1986 Vehicle was bought from the Overloon museum, who got it from the collection of the Marshall Museum, owned by Jaap de Groot. He got the vehicle from the DDR apparently. Vehicle had some minor DDR modifications.
  2. Which of the many numbers dotted around the vehicle are you using as the serial number?
  3. Last year I was in your neighborhood visiting the Tank Museum, Ian told me I should have visited your BRDM He's allready been here to see mine! Mine is suffering from me not having the C1 driving license yet, so it's not doing a lot of miles.. Still have a list of things to do..
  4. First and reverse aren't synchronized. So they require double clutching. Usually with reverse I stop the vehicle, see if it goes in reverse, if it doesn't, put it in neutral, release the clutch a bit, then depress it again and see if the gears are aligned then. Reverse is "all the way out there" though, quite a long throw to the right and then front. Because the engine is kind of reversed in the BRDM (gearbox aiming to the front, ancillaries attached to the radiator/rear side) the gear shift pattern is also reversed.
  5. The link to the gallery: http://s517.photobucket.com/user/kcimb/library/money%20pit?page=1 It looks quite good, it's definatly a later model. All BRDM's were made in the USSR, however many countries they were exported to added their own flavour. Their own accesoires etc. My example was used by the East Germans so it had rifle racks mounted, an extra commander light and some additional sockets for powered tools. I can recommend this one: http://www.afvhandbooks.com/brdm.html English translation of the manual..
  6. Good luck, and keep it up Will be following this thread with interest! :-D
  7. I've had good experience with Oleg (kesovagora) on eBay, he can get quite a few GAZ/Ural/BRDM bits.. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/kesovagora/m.html?item=171649948040&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 I've bought a bunch of BRDM parts from him allready, including head gaskets, spark plug caps, carb rebuild kits, indicator light glass etc... He also has a lot of knowledge of these vehicles so if you need something specific he can find it for you.. He is not a major dealer for big body/chassis parts but for the small hard to get parts he is excellent..
  8. Well, I can recommend this seller on eBay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/kesovagora/m.html?item=171649948040 He doesn't have one listed at the moment but if you send him a message he can get pretty much anything you might need GAZ/ZIL related.
  9. Well there were battles with pyro, however, there was only one battle each day this year.. Previously there was a morning battle and an afternoon one Our group usually did 2, this year we only had one slot.
  10. Welcome There are many owners of Soviet and Russian vehicles here.. myself, I have a 1985/1986 BRDM-2..
  11. On mine, there isn't one.. So I determined the year from the dated parts.. Such as the fuel tanks, light bulbs, electrics etc.. That only works if you know that the vehicle is pretty much original..
  12. How is your German? NVA manuals can be found relatively easily..
  13. I bought my BRDM-2 there a year ago and they were indeed selling all post-war vehicles that weren't in Dutch use.. Quite a shame, especially since the new military museum in soesterberg has become quite boring as well..
  14. So in an ideal world you wouldn't use tires older than 7-10 years on a normal roadcar.. What if that's fairly hard to do because of the tires your MV uses? My current (Soviet era) tires are due for a replacement , the current set is in pretty much ok condition, new even.. but the vehicle has been standing for 15 years so there is a major flat spot which causes vibrations at 40-50 kph... I've found NOS ones, which are obviously still fairly old.. Is there a way to freshen up these tires before putting them on? I would not be doing any major mileage with the vehicle (~500km a year max to start with).. Very interested to hear some thoughts about it
  15. Probably because I don't have that much of a interest in WW2 (more in post WW2) I was not very impressed by the choice of Overloon to sell a lot of their post WW2 exhibits.. It means that there are no real museums with cold war stuff from both sides of the wall.. But if you are into WW2, sure they have some nice stuff..
  16. Another interesting auction on troostwijk is this one: https://www.troostwijkauctions.com/uk/ex-us-army-material/01-20904/ Some of the vehicles came from Overloon museum (they got rid of most non-Dutch postwar stuff).. Bridge layer, ZIL and UAZ are from there atleast, the rest I'm not sure yet.
  17. The ignition on the BRDM is actually 12v I think.. Why are you changing the block btw?
  18. Since the last post we got it going, headed to the testing station and blew up the headgasket while going there. Apparently there was a leak and all coolant dissapeared. So we've since replaced headgasket, replaced points, replaced fuel pump, cleaned fuel tank, replaced various oil and water lines, added cameras and multiviewer on HDMI screen, recored a radiator,replaced mechanical fans with electric ones.. Hopefully in a month we can see about getting it road registered again!
  19. Will be going, sadly without BRDM-2.. That will have to wait until 2016 Preferably if I can share a lowloader with someone
  20. Basicly, any Soviet vehicle meant for non-eastbloc export had English on pretty much everything. Including the radios etc.. So all arabic nations got English writing on Soviet vehicles..
  21. The red stuff you see is actually the original coating on the side of the tank.. It's not rust.. I have 2 original tanks that I removed from the BRDM-2 that had the coating in it as well.. (but no black goo). It seems likely they may have resealed the tank then? The two original tanks I had had surface rust and gasoline residue in them, so I decided to get another one and this one arrived from the czech republic. I did cut open one of the originals (rinsed it with water and put it on it's side full of water while cutting), to see how bad it actually was..
  22. Right, I got a used fuel tank (which was supposed to be ready to use..) a while ago, and it's filled with black goo.. I've tried various things to get rid of it, such as gasoline, diesel and terpentine.. Anyone know what would work? The fuel tank is from a gasoline vehicle
  23. I'm 27 and I've bought my first military vehicle (and only second car in total) this year.. a BRDM-2 from 1986 which predates me by a year.. It might not be as historic as some of the vehicles owned here but for me it definatly is.. It was built in a country that no longer exists (Soviet Union) , it served in a country that no longer exists (East Germany) and was meant for a conflict that never happened..
  24. Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_ShinHoTo_Chi-Ha Looks like the one in the picture.. Might also be another variant, I'm not fully up to speed on world war 2 stuff..
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