Popular Post Vladislav Posted October 29, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2016 Real Siberia this time. Khanty-Mansi region. RD690S. The year is unknown. It was an oil field truck, some equipment carrier. The company drivers broke one of the differentials and found reasonable to take the truck out of service and put the equipment onto something else. The odometers showed 45K miles. Not sure that's true but see no reason for anyone to turn it back. A bit later a guy ruined an engine in his IH cabover and looking for the solution he bought Mack and put EM7-300 off it into his truck. Still messing with attachment of some minor air lines etc. After that he put an add to sell the rest. Happily he didn't scrap it immediately as many folks overhere do in such cases. It took me almost a year to work the deal out. In the beginning I had to wait no less than 5 month to see some pics more than he originally posted in the net. Than I was told there will be some trucks getting loads from near Moscow so chance to bring it my way appeared. After no less than a month I got some more images of what I was intersted in. At the same time I asked my friend with old Scania to make a road trip. He, being an advanture lover, was eager to help. But the owned resolwed to get a summer holiday to Black sea. For more than a month... Just a week ago the things started to get in order and yesterday I finally saw what I was payed for Had to order a straight truck with a crane since I can't come to my property with a semi. Too tight spot in the street. A plan is to use it for parts. A rust-free cab with decent doors and some of good interior including heater/AC. T2070 gearbox which I was looking for to put in my R for more road speed and less shifts since it's planned as a single truck. A complete bogie on camelback with two 5.73's. Very solid rust and split -free frame which I have no plans for. The same for a newer RD hood and probably radiators. And what is misterious about that truck is someone put Marmon-Herrington front drive axle together with M-H transfer case to make it 6x6. The rears setup is also a kind of "high level engeneering". A frame cut-off with bogie and two pieces of frame rails (off some DM looking for the rails section dimentions) were put right below the original frame and attached with two 3/8 fish plates. Probably for a good clearance or just to level the rear end with the front. If anybody is familiar with such Marmon-Herrington fronts and transfer's I'd like to know their original use. I will probably scrap them having no need in but would be much more pleasant to get a bit of coins finding a person who might have use for them. Vlad 9 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Vladislav Posted October 29, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2016 (edited) Edited October 1, 2017 by Vladislav 10 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 You have a nice selection of projects to keep you busy for a day or two! 1 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 Vlad If you go to JustOldTrucks.com and user chtrout or the topic Coleman Trucks you can get in touch with Mr. Craig Trout via email or PM. He can probable answer a lot of your questions. He is basically a Coleman truck/conversion man but is very knowledgeable about all front wheel drive systems. Between Craig and his friend Don Chew they might know of someone in Europe who can use it. I doubt if it is worth the money or customs problems to ship it back to the US? 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 Brocky, Thank you for the tip. Yes, I doubt it might be reasonable to ship those units to the States. When I googled such parts there were several offers on them on your side of the ocean. And the front axles exist with different ratios either. I'm going to try put them for sale locally for first. It's starting to seem to me here might be more Macks or other American trucks than I used to know of. So let's see. 1 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 57 bcr Posted October 30, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2016 Vlad, I had posted a pic in the Chicago R model thread of an RD that my employer had custom built for them,by Marmon-Herrington. It was set up very similar to your truck. Meyer Material Co. was owned by the Marmon Group at one time and they worked together on this project. The M-H Co. has been around for a long time converting vehicles to all wheel drive. Nice bunch of salvage there Vlad! Always great to read your stories about your Russian Bulldog Rescues! Al 3 Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 fun times Vlad looks like a adventure was had Paul 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 3 hours ago, 57 bcr said: Vlad, I had posted a pic in the Chicago R model thread of an RD that my employer had custom built for them,by Marmon-Herrington. It was set up very similar to your truck. Meyer Material Co. was owned by the Marmon Group at one time and they worked together on this project. The M-H Co. has been around for a long time converting vehicles to all wheel drive. Nice bunch of salvage there Vlad! Always great to read your stories about your Russian Bulldog Rescues! Al Al, Many thanks for pointing me up. Honestly the Chicago R model thread is so huge by now so I still only going to cut a bit of time to read it all from the beginning. Just missted the point when it was started and now it's a kinda hard thing to be done. Looking the picture it could be seen that's a RD indeed. Those guys haven't saved efforts to redo the hood to look the way DMM does. It turned out nice on my mind. Though in my case already having original Mack 6x6 DMM I don't see much pleasure bringing that custom-built monster back to life. And it's not too old enough so far for plenty of works to spend. With plenty of other projects in plans at the same time. Which burn my bisquits Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 I hear ya,Vlad! Our old in-house body shop,did the grafting of the DMM headlight panels to the RD hood. Thought they did a good job also. The truck did have some frame issues after a while,and was parked. Now with OZINGA buying our ready mix division out,who knows where it ended up? Al 1 Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hobert62 Posted October 30, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2016 your front axle and transfer case could turn my B into this! But the shipping would probably be more $ then my truck would ever be worth. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thomastractorsvc Posted October 30, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2016 Vlad your turning into a Super Dog Catcher! 3 Quote Robert"I reject your reality and substitute my own." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 5 hours ago, Hobert62 said: your front axle and transfer case could turn my B into this! But the shipping would probably be more $ then my truck would ever be worth. It seems to me as one good idea! Are you sure you will make such thing correct using your B67 cab? I suppose it's the most important trouble. Isn't it? For shipping it cost for me $2.5 for one kilogram of old iron to bring to Russia from NJ with customs included. I have no of idea on how much would that be for the opposite direction. So if you find it reasonable I would be too likely to trade the setup for something else of the same weight rate 1 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 5 hours ago, thomastractorsvc said: Vlad your turning into a Super Dog Catcher! I wish I could Actually there's not so much of to catch overhere. So I try to not miss any chance. And another reason is I payed for that load just a bit more than if I for example buy and import a 7 speed gearbox only. 2 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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