Anyone own/driven a Russian Zil 6x6 military truck?

Anyone own/driven a Russian Zil 6x6 military truck?

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Muddle238

3,871 posts

112 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Guy on YouTube - Maximus Ironthumper - has a series of videos on his.

Lt. Coulomb

202 posts

53 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Get an Unimog instead of this soviet crap.

Watchman

6,391 posts

244 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Lt. Coulomb said:
Get an Unimog instead of this soviet crap.
There's a bit of a price difference.

Bill

52,485 posts

254 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Watchman said:
Lt. Coulomb said:
Get an Unimog instead of this soviet crap.
There's a bit of a price difference.
More importantly and bearing this in mind:

sidekickdmr said:
My long term plan would be to camper convert the back and take it on long trips to Europe, im not expecting comfortable, but will it happily do 55/60 for long stretches, or are we looking at a tank, which does 30 and kills your back/ears?
Don't get either. Get a 4x4 van or rwd transit/Merc that'll be rugged enough for whatever mildly rough stuff you actually meet. It won't be as grrrr but also won't make your ears bleed and rape your wallet.

phumy

5,671 posts

236 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Ive just fininshed a contract constructing and commissioning a new power plant in Vietnam and the contractor had this Zyl Fire Truck for any emergency, it was the biggest bag of shyte i have ever seen or heard. There were rusted holes all over it and when they used to fill the on-board water tank it would trickle and leak out. Useless thing;




Mr E

21,583 posts

258 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Bill said:
I once met a couple "travelling" in one in Africa. They tended to drive it slowly the shortest route they could find to the next spot and then stay put for a while getting drunk while their monthly budget recovered.
I very much like their style

Writhing

489 posts

108 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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ambuletz

10,693 posts

180 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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'only 1600 miles from new'.

i'm calling BS, clocked surely? it looks like its driven to afghanistan and back!

i jest.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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sidekickdmr said:
My long term plan would be to camper convert the back and take it on long trips to Europe,
6mpg, so a return trip to the Costa del Sol will set you back £3600 in fuel!!!

Sounds great, go for it.

Bill

52,485 posts

254 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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Mr E said:
I very much like their style
biggrin

I do have a strange urge for that fire truck. eek

aeropilot

34,302 posts

226 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
sidekickdmr said:
My long term plan would be to camper convert the back and take it on long trips to Europe,
6mpg, so a return trip to the Costa del Sol will set you back £3600 in fuel!!!

Sounds great, go for it.
rofl

Back in the 90's, a mate of mine used to have a WW2 GMC 6x6 and that did about 4mpg.

Was a hoot to drive though, although a 30 mile trip felt like 3000 miles hehe



Nickyboy

6,700 posts

233 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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Watchman said:
I don't know how the delivery system would work, but I've heard you can run these low compression engines on coal dust.
The British Army had something similar called the DROPS


http://www.ljacksonandco.com/index.php/trucks/drop...

Engines would run on pretty much anything combustible, handy in remote war torn areas

deadtom

2,552 posts

164 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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Muddle238 said:
Guy on YouTube - Maximus Ironthumper - has a series of videos on his.
A great channel, but most of the project awesome videos are concerned with how he is doing the engine swap in order to sidestep the issue of comically bad fuel consumption...

LimaDelta

6,510 posts

217 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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Nickyboy said:
The British Army had something similar called the DROPS
DROPS was Demountable Rack Off-load and Pick-up System. All about cargo management, and nothing to do with fuel versatility.

mogman888

47 posts

161 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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Just back from a road trip through "The 5 Stans". Came across a couple of these in Kyrgyzstan being used by an overland holiday company for youngsters. Looked the business for the crap roads.

horsemeatscandal

1,171 posts

103 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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phumy said:
Ive just fininshed a contract constructing and commissioning a new power plant in Vietnam and the contractor had this Zyl Fire Truck for any emergency, it was the biggest bag of shyte i have ever seen or heard. There were rusted holes all over it and when they used to fill the on-board water tank it would trickle and leak out. Useless thing;



Very nice, looks quite sporty depending on the angle.



Watchman

6,391 posts

244 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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deadtom said:
Muddle238 said:
Guy on YouTube - Maximus Ironthumper - has a series of videos on his.
A great channel, but most of the project awesome videos are concerned with how he is doing the engine swap in order to sidestep the issue of comically bad fuel consumption...
This makes such a lot of sense. Stick a Merc OM642 into any of these for more power and lower fuel bills.

crofty1984

15,830 posts

203 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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horsemeatscandal said:
Very nice, looks quite sporty depending on the angle.


Uncanny.

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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The one line description in the listing is a s helpful as a poke in the eye.

The all important weight of it would be nice to know, got to be over 7.5T IMO.

Nickyboy

6,700 posts

233 months

Saturday 16th November 2019
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LimaDelta said:
DROPS was Demountable Rack Off-load and Pick-up System. All about cargo management, and nothing to do with fuel versatility.
I'm well aware of that, but those particular vehicles as i originally stated have engines that can run on pretty much anything.