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[CreepingJesus]

See also early Volvo FM header tanks. You could see it, in fact you could see the bloody cap. But could you get it off? Not without tipping the cab...

Oil, coolant and screenwash should be fillable from under the grille, end of. No excuse for tipping the cab to fill them, because that's when laziness/'the next guy will sort it' catches up.

[Split_Pin]

F86s had an access flap on the engine tunnel so you could do your daily checks from the drivers seat.

[willswitchengage]

Doubt it's a Ford, didn't they get a new cab 3-4 yrs ago?

Iveco must be due a new cab though!

 

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Is the current Stralis cab basically the same as the old Eurostar cab?

[tooSavvy]

If its a bloody Iveco what's the betting you still have to tilt the cab to add engine oil.

Brilliant* design.

I don't know why... But an image springs to mind of a maintain guy pumping a handle (tipping the cab) and a mighty crash as all the loose 'driver $hite' hoikked onto the screen. Don't know if I was there..or saw it as a vid.

 

Totally stupid situation anyhow... (Not securing $hite, lyke)

 

 

TS

[twosmoke300]

Jack handle or the bottle jack itself was always a favourite to get posted out the windscreen

[CreepingJesus]

Is the current Stralis cab basically the same as the old Eurostar cab?

The frame basically, yes. Somewhat evolved now, because us ingrates demand flat floors, but the first Stralis was a EuroStar restyled and the massive Alto high roof section reshaped for aerodynamics. If you bought a Cursor engined, ArseTronic EuroStar and a Stralis, they were essentially the same truck. The difference was in the end of the old engines, and non ZF gearboxes. And the interior, which was quite different within the same box.

[gordonbennet]

I don't know why... But an image springs to mind of a maintain guy pumping a handle (tipping the cab) and a mighty crash as all the loose 'driver $hite' hoikked onto the screen. Don't know if I was there..or saw it as a vid.

 

Totally stupid situation anyhow... (Not securing $hite, lyke)

 

 

TS

 

No pumping up required on the last one i put some oil in, electric cab tilt mechanism, guaranteed never* to fail.

[CreepingJesus]

I don't know why... But an image springs to mind of a maintain guy pumping a handle (tipping the cab) and a mighty crash as all the loose 'driver $hite' hoikked onto the screen. Don't know if I was there..or saw it as a vid.

 

Totally stupid situation anyhow... (Not securing $hite, lyke)

 

 

TS

See also: leaving fags/lighter/bottle of Bru/warm jumper/waterproofs in there when that's just what you need now.

 

Also, not shitey, but goodnight West Of Scotland Heavy Haulage: I thought at least the heavy game would still pay, but evidently not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-41833296

[0ldCh0d]

If I had somewhere to keep this.....I Would buy it. Love these old things.....used to go with my Dad a lot when I was young, & tramping up & down the M6 in a 1991 J reg FL10.....Happy Days.

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-fl10-4x2-curtainsider-sleeper-cab-1992-year-k-reg/122808896076?hash=item1c97fb0a4c:g:wXUAAOSwWflaCq50

 

[0ldCh0d]

Or An FL7....

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/volvo-fl7/222545723695?hash=item33d0c2412f:g:B9YAAOSwPK1ZQO84

 

[0ldCh0d]

Winter looming.....Stay somewhere where heavy snow cuts you off from civilisation? .....Worry no more.....8x8 Volvo.....

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-F10-8x8-F2000-Vacum-Tanker-Gully-Sucker-LHD/122793596049?hash=item1c97119491:g:gVYAAOSwAExZpzJA

 

 

[PiperCub]

In 1994 I did my Class 1 HGV in an FL7 'Wendy-house' tractor unit, think that was older though (D-reg IIRC). 

[0ldCh0d]

Check this out....Barn Find Volvo F6 16......Buy one, get one tree.....

 

I will get my coat..

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Barn-Find-Volvo-F616/263325345300?hash=item3d4f69e614:g:wJkAAOSwrFtaDCbO

 

 

 

Barn Find

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[CreepingJesus]

Out of service with Tufnell's the other week by the looks of it. Be the first time it's stood still I'd imagine.

 

An FL would be an excellent 'youngtimer' on the vintage rallies I reckon. Probably still get parts from Volvo for them too!

Last FL I drove would've been the 285 horse FL7 bulker I used to round trip coal and ash with. No pics I'm afraid, it was before camera phones. And the fleet doesn't exist either now. Quelle dommage.

[Shep Shepherd]

The truck which I will most likely be driving if I take a driving job with the firm I currently work for:

 

 

At least it's the same model I learned to drive in.

[0ldCh0d]

Out of service with Tufnell's the other week by the looks of it. Be the first time it's stood still I'd imagine.

 

An FL would be an excellent 'youngtimer' on the vintage rallies I reckon. Probably still get parts from Volvo for them too!

Last FL I drove would've been the 285 horse FL7 bulker I used to round trip coal and ash with. No pics I'm afraid, it was before camera phones. And the fleet doesn't exist either now. Quelle dommage.

 

In 1996, My Dad was driving 8 wheelers, He drove back then, a Brand New Renault Maxter G340 8x4 (The tipper company he worked for had quite a few of these, as did other operators at the time) These were run in conjunction with a then new also Volvo FL10 8X4, The 320 BHP model IIRC....

 

The Volvo speed limiter could be by passed, (I won't say how obviously)...& one day on the Edinburgh bypass....It ran at nearly 90mph...Not my Dad driving...Some other crazy horse. Aaaahhh.....The good old days...

[0ldCh0d]

The truck which I will most likely be driving if I take a driving job with the firm I currently work for:

 

I am out in these everyday, my work use them (Quite a fleet of them actually). Ride alright when empty, but I find it is a bit slow when fully loaded...It seems to loose speed at most hills.. They are 290 Models though.

 

I must add.....My work also has some Volvo FE's....300 Models, I find these are better when loaded than the Daf.

 

But, when the Volvo's are empty, they bounce around quite a bit, where as the Dafs Don't.

[CreepingJesus]

I learned to drive in the older Daf 85, and I still have a soft spot for them. Not being the biggest laddie, I find them spacious enough. Handling isn't as ponderous as the newer XF's either. You can fairly chuck them around when needs be!

 

Iirc, getting by the speed limiter on an FL was the same method as the contemporary MANs: fun times until you overcooked it and found the throttle jammed full open. This happened to me coming down the A9 one time, when some blind old bat doddered out of the House Of Bruar into my path, when I was doing approximately* 70 or so...

[Shep Shepherd]

I am out in these everyday, my work use them (Quite a fleet of them actually). Ride alright when empty, but I find it is a bit slow when fully loaded...It seems to loose speed at most hills.. They are 290 Models though.

 

I found the CF to be quite a nice steer, but the only other truck I've driven was an elderly Volvo FL7 ten years ago. 

 

My firm runs a fleet of relatively recent MAN rigids, but gives newbies the pleasure of the Daf. I look forward to the day they replace the whole rigid fleet with M-B Antoses, like they've been threatening to since the artic fleet was replaced by Actroses last December - I'll be really motoring then ^^

[0ldCh0d]

I will ask if I can put up on here, a couple of pictures of the fleet at my work, & If so, I will stick some pictures up.

 

Will be Monday now though

[CreepingJesus]

The 240 Antos is comedically slow off the line. In general, those Mercs have been set up to seem like they're working hard, but they're really only doing an impersonation of a truck working hard. One of my jobs has a couple of 330 horse 6x2 rigids which aren't too bad. Can't understand for the life in me why Merc made the USB port on the stereo a female mini...you cannot just plug a regular stick in it.

[Pillock]

Let me guess, you can buy a special Merc USB stick for it?

(Amazon - "USB OTG cable" - £3 or less)

[CreepingJesus]

Wouldn't be at all surprised. Although as the nearest Merc CV garage is way over the river, I doubt I'll get the chance to find out.

Thinking along those lines - who are the jammy bastards among us who've managed to grab the promo freebies out of dealerships? I've never had a damn thing, despite all the attempts. Not even a hi viz vest or a beanie. Nuffink. And yet there's always somebody cutting about with the nice warm jacket on... How?

[Pillock]

Presumably by boffing the lass that works on the service desk.

[twosmoke300]

Presumably by boffing the lads that work in the workshop .

[cms206]

Managed a few freebies - got a Volvo softshell jacket when the last outfit I worked for bought £750k's worth of Volvo B11R - but my favourite is still an Isuzu wooly hat, purely for the obscurity value.

 

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[DodgeRover]

I get loads of free beanies from our building materials suppliers, if I was spending £750k on trucks I would be expecting a fairly decent car or van let alone a jacket....

[cms206]

Thinking back I think I only drove one "big" FL - an F-reg FL7 250bhp 4x2 artic with an Allison auto 'box and a double reduction back axle.

 

We ran a few FL6s from a single automatic FL6.08 up to FL6.19s and a single much newer FL220, all 4x2 rigids.

 

Oddest ones I drove were a pair of US-spec 1992 FE7 autos which I never quite understood 'cos the broadly similar but UK-spec FS7 was available by the time the FEs were delivered.

 

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[CreepingJesus]

Think the FE was a heavy duty chassis, the S of FS was 'Swiss' for their odd width laws. Although being that it was built on the FL10/12 chassis, I'd imagine it amounts to the same thing. Six and half a dozen and all that. The full FS range encompassed some real oddballs, including the supercharged 7 that used to live near my old house, and AWD chassis with the 360 horse 10L and Telmas, for the mountains.

 

TS300 is nearer the mark: the local workshops I've been to (MAN Dunfermline and Drummond's Daf in Kirkcaldy) are a total sausage fest.

 

I spoke too soon about the council Dafs being tough wee buggers: the change in weather is wreaking havoc on them. Electrical and cooling problems caused by all the wet mank up inside the workings freezing over and bursting stuff. Apparently their retirement has been brought forward, so it is said.

[cms206]

 

 

Think the FE was a heavy duty chassis, the S of FS was 'Swiss' for their odd width laws. Although being that it was built on the FL10/12 chassis, I'd imagine it amounts to the same thing. Six and half a dozen and all that. The full FS range encompassed some real oddballs, including the supercharged 7 that used to live near my old house, and AWD chassis with the 360 horse 10L and Telmas, for the mountains.

The FEs were full US spec - ours had TD73 engines but Caterpillar units were an option, Allison autos, US-spec narrow hubs and push button handbrakes. The FS was more or less a heavy duty euro spec FL6 with the 7-litre mill from the FL7. The Swiss narrowbody ones were Volvo CH230s which has shaved down wheelarches to fit within the Swiss 2.3m width restrictions.

 

FS and FE for comparison...

 

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