How good are the bedord 4x4 and 6x6 trucks at off road stuff? There loads on the mod disposal sites. Will they go places a land rover for example will go?
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The TM were always pretty good especially the 6x6 as you could lock the diffs on each axle so each wheel drove and none spun
Very thirsty but pretty strong - slow and steady to drive about 50 tops
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Steve
Good trucks never got one stuck but I prefer the mj with the bar tyres lovely truck
work for electric board got a new man 4x4 let the tyres down and will go anywhere 
As previously said MJ was better ,only problem with TM was tyres the army used ,and they used to try to choke you to death on first start up ,exhaust under front bumper, and made way before we had emission laws…But pretty reliable old beasts
Forgive the thick old idiot for asking, but which engine was used in the all-wheel-drive TMs?
I think it was a rolls royce eagle 6 cyl diesel but that might have been another one
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Steve
Rolls in a Bedford? Now that’s what I call a mongrel!
We had a six wheeled TM quarry dumper and that was fitted with a ■■■■■■■■ cant recall which model though but it did us well.
Pete.
gm:
I think it was a rolls royce eagle 6 cyl diesel but that might have been another one
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Steve
It wasn’t the rolls royce eagle ,it was bedfords own 8.2 /205 turbo…sounds rather geeky ,but i did do 12 years in the R.E.M.E
Thanks for the info, norb.
Not geeky at all, just surprised that REME taught you which make of engine you were working on!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Thanks for the info, norb.
Not geeky at all, just surprised that REME taught you which make of engine you were working on!
LOL probably the only thing i remembered in trade training and that was in 1984 !!! It was the instructor teaching fuel injection who told us …eeeks even worse ,yet i can’t remember what happened 10 mins ago…
Join the club, norbs, join the club.
the rolls royce eagle engine was in the DROPS MMLC. As for TM’s and MJ’s not 100% on this but I think spares are quite an issue now as we were writing them off of the sake of a couple of hundred quid just a year before the new MAN fleet came in. My experience of them is if you get a good one your on a winner but end up with a donkey and your in for one hellova frustrating time, maintainance history is an eyes on must for these though to avoid a bad experience. I once had a TM that went up past 70 mph very scary but didn’t have the jewels to take it pat that.
I took a mj to 60 mph and thought it was going to go bang but gave the gcp a eye full with all the smoke but parts are ok britpart do most of them I think the tm has a ■■■■■■■ l10 engine