Did my class 3 in one of these when I was in REME. Great truck, very handy, especially for a slab of beers we could "borrow" it for home jobs.... lifted an engine out of dads boat with it once... dead easy. Would love a unimog U1700 with an Atlas/HIAB/Palfinger etc.
The old boy sounds good. I saw from the comments it had some interesting history too. I only do RU-vid so I'll see you back here on the next one. Thanks.
Just had a flashback to my youth , lifting cable drums in Cyprus , it was that cold up the mountains we had to pour boiling water over the hydraulics to move it :)
Remind's me of the Army truck's at our local armory ..Look like they could outlast just about anything you wanna use them for..lol Another Tractor project..Sound's good to me..Take Care Sir..
The Old Girl's a Beauty, I'd take her in a heartbeat! I ran a 25 ton Euclid quarry truck that was severely mal-serviced prior to my sentence. It simply didn't matter how much grease you put to her. 'Bump Steer'... It seemed as though the only time you could change course was when you hit a bump! I love the old stuff and to think of the volume of production the Old Timers were able to put up. Back in a time when men were men and trees were scared!Take Care Be Blessed!
No doubt about that. A $20 rocker switch has put me out of operation in our Cat 279C numerous times. Back in the day we could have cobbled it and been back on production!
One of the JCB directors came down to site last week to look at our loadall, we were having problems with wear pads loosening and eventually coming off and damaging the boom. He told us that the spray grease is absolutely rubbish for booms. He gave us a barrel of this black stuff, can't remember the name though. It's working wonders!! Obviously you use the boom less than us though.
I don't use spray grease, I use PTFE. The purpose of the spray isn't to grease the boom - merely to reduce friction on the pads. Mind you, bearing in mind we worked with JCB on boom problems back in the early 90's, I'm not surprised that some people still grease them and never adjust the pads...
All interesting stuff Kurt. So you don't need to go to the gym after driving one lol. Any chance you're free to come to Carrington next Sunday/Monday....be good to see you.
You could, you can also with a squeeze fit a Detroit. However one of the better conversions is the Perkins phaser which is a more straightforward swap.
I had a Perkins Phaser in a G reg (1989) AWD, great little engine and I had the pleasure of meeting a gent from the Perkins factory team that did all the conversion work regarding it's replacement of the Bedford 330 engine. Could have spent hours listening to his stories.
I bet it is a shock to get out of your Disco and into that and drive it down the road. One forgets how much of a handful vehicles like that were to drive - they had big steering wheels for a reason!!
be looking fwd to it u should try a bit that truck trial stuff bet the old girl put few newer trucks to shame - used know farmer had unimog was awesome just couldn't find anything it couldn't go through or climb over
There was a Mog on a farm in Kent that I drove with a sprayer on for doing thistles and docks on the marshes. Just a cab full of gear levers and very little room for much else !
would be interesting if u could get hands on one those trucks the forces use now as a comparison bet be like driving a rolls compaired to the workout the Bedford gives u -does sound good though for an old lady nice grunt sound
Good video, out of interest if you were to suggest a truck of similar size that is slightly more user friendly, what would it be ? We seem to be moving stuff around a fair bit for our business (landscaping) Cheers Rob
lots of companies made products for the US military off the same blue print, we had 3 jeeps with different names, we had a Ford, Willys and a kiser. the parts would all interchange.. same with the M 1 Carbine, at least 12 different manufacturers, all parts exactly the same. .
At 4.59 in the video the engine oil filter can be seen above the drive to the front diff. This filter seems to have had a cheap modification done on the M-Series 4x4 trucks which turned it through about 45 degrees from that of the 2 wheel drive standard truck. The 45 degree mounting of the filter to allow space for the front drive shaft to pass to the diff. This was a design flaw as the filter head as bolted to the block was cast from alloy and thus a weak material. While on expedition down in the desert in South East Algeria close to the Libyan border the filter head casting cracked and allowed the engine oil to escape. We then sat for 25 days in the desert waiting for a new part to come out from Bedford. The filter mounting for the M-Series was a bad design and meant that the M-Series truck did not stand up to the sales rhetoric in tough operating conditions. Bedford should have tested the modification to destruction on the test bench before proceeding with it. Otherwise a great truck.
@@LordMuck I was reminiscing about this event over the past while. If you go down my FB page a bit you would find the conversation under the heading "Paddy the Diplomat and the Desert Nomad" you would see how complicated the whole episode became just because of a failed part. That was back in 1985. Its available at facebook.com/pat.flynn.37051/
Mr muck, wonder if you could help me out. I've got an ex MOD MK with that same atlas crane as this MJ of yours which I'm re-hosing at the minute. All the labels have rubbed off the control levers so I don't know what does what! Any chance you can get a photo across of the control block on that one?
I can confirm that you can grease the life out of them they still dont steer any easier. Do you know the history, what units it served with? possibly Germany?
@@LordMuck thanks. looks like the previous owner replaced the single back wheels with dual tires. do you imagine that would be hard to switch back? are the brake cylinders hard to swap out? sorry about the 1000000 questions.
Can't say without seeing it but the twin wheeled ones tended to be wreckers (recovery trucks) or more often civilian versions (electric supply or mining etc) I'd stick with twin wheels.
