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similar thought but slower .... having carried two of them from Malaysia to Europe and back, only suffered one sidewall puncture, and watched how easily a mobile tyre changer changed a tyre on a rim I'd carry one spare and consider a second tyre only for really out of the way unfrequented...

pleased to help :) its just a box! :) a couple of other memories - separate compressor from carcass, easier to build, increases volume for small surface area increase, easier to get good air flow over compressor/condenser - most efficient is low condenser temperature, consider seperate fridge...

I used 2mm food grade polypropylene sheet for inside. I had a commercial hand plastic welder from making water tanks. Outside is 3mm Dibond (polyethylene with very thin Al faces with baked enamel finish). PP sheet and Dibond can be bent after making groove with flat bottomed 45deg router bit. PP...

nice find. I built my very efficient compressor fridge using 25mm vacuum insulated panels about 5-6 years ago. At the time there was really only one company in US making small quantities of custom size panels at economic price. Air freight was as much as the panels. Given the price of solar...

with 19" and Toyo tyres I moved the aircon condenser on FG649 from in front of left wheel to between the chassis rails at front. While it looked like there was plenty of clearance dynamic stresses mean all sorts of bouncing. I replaced the condenser. The hose fittings seemed a bit non-standard...

I couldn't find the key in the FE manual either. But I did find it in a "how to read this manual" section of a Fuso 4M4 Diesel engine manual. Basically all the wires on the diagram have a circuit number and a wire diameter plus colour. The example they use is GL05 0.85 - BrY Which translates...

I understand Owen, there's a lot of misinformation on the internet, and a world of difference between efficiency and power, nice to know how to block the EGR, explanation of the effect was very suss

right conclusion - explanation a bit suss! :) the efficiency of a diesel is proportional to the combustion temperature and inversely proportional to the inlet air temperature. Also a function of compression ratio. Its a variation of the carnot cycle. The theory behind EGR is that reduced...

bad news Pugslyyyyy, nice "how to" John, sounds better drilling most in situ than transferring measurements, one less thing to go wrong!

possibly tyre pressure as well as diameter. There's a connection between vehicle weight (tyre load), speed and tyre pressure for a given tyre. Comfort isn't part of the calculation but lower tyre pressure is generally more comfortable. At vehicle of 4.5 tonne the Toyos are vastly over rated and...

comment from wrecker while I was trying to find a replacement heater (blower) fan for 2005 FG649E ... "good point, I was forgetting that from 11/02 onwards they were 12v". Not really relevant to question but I found a fan from a Lancer CE that fitted with minor modification to screw holes and...

have you checked the offset?

I'm biased, made in Aus, fibreglass foam sandwich, took a few days to glue the box together from cnc cut panels, like a giant ikea flat pack. http://www.epicycles.com/Truck%20Blog/2010-01-01/2010-01-01.htm

I allowed for 15 degrees of twist in the chassis, dynamic loads and movement can be surprisingly much larger than static, I had the benefit of a manufacturers rear wheel bounce diagram, the clearance from body to wheel is as important as chassis to sub-frame

tried the US sourced BAFX Bluetooth Elm327 that Pugslyy(?) used. Computer connection ok, no response from ECU. Not surprising really I guess, the outside of the unit looks about the same as the usb unit I tried in Tibet. I'll keep searching.

it should move easily with bleed valve open. New slave sounds like a good move, flush a bit of fluid through pipes before fitting new one. Aim would be to replace all fluid, don't recycle. May also need new master. My understanding from description is pedal was initially stuck then went to...

nice to have something positive. Pointing to hydraulics. Yes. Releasing bleed screw should allow slave to be pushed back in. It should be possible to push it back in easily, the fluid should flow through the master cylinder (if pedal up) into the reservoir. If it goes in "smoothly" (whatever...

sorry, got distracted, there should have been a lot of pressure from that lever (clutch fork). Impossible to move by hand. I wouldn't be ready to discount a problem with the mechanical bit. I'm trying to think of a way of testing whether clutch is now engaged without starting engine - haven't...

yup, its that simple, easier to do both sides at the same time so there's no twisting, tall axle stands help, the female slide hammer screws on the male thread of the pin, not the grease nipple hole. Doesn't have to be an elaborate slide hammer. I used an M21 nut (from memory and just...

I'm guessing "in" as in "disengaged". Ouch. Presumably unbolting slave cylinder will leave the lever into the bell housing in the "disengaged" position. Just my way of asking if the rod connecting slave and that lever has any play? If no then probably hydraulics, if yes then probably...