hutpik:
Without provoking conflict i must say i hated that bloody gearbox,especially on hills in the winter.The double drive system was a joke too,it was not a conventional diff lock or cross lock system like Volvo or Scania had at that time ,but an ‘‘interaxel lock’’.This worked like a limited slip diff and all the happened was one side locked up and the other side spun.We were chaining up before many single axle trucks in Turkey.
Whispering Smith didn’t drive for Afghan\I.T.Holland.I was the only Englishman on there.
Slightly delayed comment here hutpik, but that drive setup 6x4 with an interaxle lock but no diff locks is typical American, order a Kenworth or Peterbilt to this day and that’s how it will come, unless you order and pay extra for what they call “full lockers”. Very few do unless they are into construction or logging, the rest just get stuck and chain up. And they laugh at us for 6x2 with difflocks!
