ot-90

My daf just failed its mot on brakes, so took all wheels and hubs off, cleaned,checked and re adjusted, drums and shoes are not that old by the looks of them all..

It failed at 45% service brake efficiency the first time and now has failed at 45% service brakes again after clean and adjust etc! also some wheels did not 'lock' the 1st time and now those that did, now dont! wtf?

Any one got any ideas please?

yup robin, drained oil tank and 'sump' etc

We used dot 4 in our brdm-2 and had no problems..

Just changed the engine oil on my ot-90 and the book said to use 90w oil! didnt go for that because conversion book is wrong! used 20/50 instead..all good

nice! was it blasted and painted or just painted?

and whats the colour code of that paint?

good plan.. they are fun to drive on the road :cool2:

nice one m8, btw where are the IR headlamps? you seem to have 4 white light headlamps where as you should have two infra red lamps instead!

thanks guys, yours next neil?

Blasting is finished.. TFFT !

iam lucky if mine starts below 100 when its cold. a lot easier when warm ..

Blasting my ot-90 has started! :sweat::sweat: iam knackered! blasting always seems a good idea when you first start doing it, then it just become back breaking sweaty hard mind numbing work..lol

Still i plan to have the etch primer and top coat done by Saturday, then camo the next day :-)

Any one what the MB L3000 trucks are worth in average condition?

cool ,let me know how much and get a price for them doing two of each might make it a bit cheaper for us both? :-) i have a vehicle tarp they could easily convert..

Unfortunately no patterns for either so best would be an on-site. Its based - temporarily - at Great Yeldham in Essex. Is that reachable for you?

neil i have the original air inlet but no exhaust cover, but iam sure i can make a pattern for the exhaust, and maybe even make the 2 x inlet ones into one whole one? the main cover will be hard to do without them measuring the vehicle?

How would you fancy making up a set of the engine air inlet and exhaust outlet deck mats for a BMP-1 class vehicle - possibly even the canvas transit cover that goes over the whole thing??

times that by two quotes :-) for above

Paul, i bet you would be the same lol. be there next year and join in

We had a really good show despite the mud rain etc..all the marshals that i spoke to were very helpful and friendly.

What annoyed me was the lack of tracked vehicles that could not be bothered to enter the arena! probably for fear of getting them muddy no doubt! I was in the arena in my ot-90 as much as i could and even in some that i shouldn't have been in, personally i think the arena was lacking in vehicles most times! Sunday was appalling for vehicle entries as most of the lamers had gone home Saturday! This affected the crowd around the arena alot.. Speaking with the arena marshals on our cold war runs, they were quite impressed with the amount of Russian/E-Bloc vehicles attending all our runs this year and were quite happy for us to stay a little longer going mad and putting on a good show!

I think that marshals or someone should encourage vehicle owners much more to attend all the arena activities to put on a spectacular display for the paying crowds rather than a dreary few vehicles bumberling around the arena a few times! At the end of the day its down to us the vehicle owners/drivers to make this happen and have some fun in the arena!

Rex and his team did a fantastic job this year and it will only get better as they get more organized, thanks for an awesome time guys.

Regards

Nick

ot-90

awesome video! thanks..

looks like pretend armour to me?

my drops seems to have fixed its switch off valve all on its own :-)

Funny that i have just had a similar problem with my daf drops... found out that the manual electric over ride button on right side of steering column has gone wrong..or something in that circuit? because when i switch off the ignition the engine keeps running until i press the red over ride cut off switch next to the battery cut off switch!? any guess what may be wrong with this unit or something else?

Very impressed with capel mvt show! was a great show and we were very busy around the arena etc, big thanks to John and Andy etc for organizing a very good week end.We had a total of 9 Russian vehicles on site and my ot-90 was very busy in the arena lapping Andy in his fv432 :-)

oops..

congrats m8, good luck on the day :