Thread: 6x6 l/r

theres a photo of one being used as a tradies truck, so at least one escaped!

there were 6x6's that were not army.

Some were sold off including a LRPV, but the vehicles were near total write offs.
The last I heard the army was under instruction to repair damaged vehicles at all cost as replacement was unlikely.
If the Mercedes 6x6 replacement vehicle program goes ahead this should change.

Just to hyjack the thread, Did the 6X6 get the Oerlikon diffs or which ones had them?

Originally Posted by garrycol

there were 6x6's that were not army.

And here's some of them









Martyn

A few military 6x6's have escaped many years ago, as with 4x4's, but there has been none replaced for some time.

They are slated to be replaced by merc g wagens in 4x4 and 6x6 (I have a brochure somewhere) so we should start seeing more in the next few years.

Here's an interesting article. About the new LRPV, but goes onto talk about the medium/heavy vehicles as well:

The Australian

I love this quote:

" It is expected that some of the decommissioned four-wheel-drive vehicles will be disposed of as army surplus. "

There are a few non military ones around but if your talking half track you dont need 6wd as the track is a continuous loop it only needs drive from 1 end.

Excavators, Dozers etc normally have drive at the rear of the track and a series of Idlers.

This also gives you a pivot point so it can travel over obsticals articulating rather than putting all the twist into the chassis.

But if you did want 6wd, this is what you need



This is how it fits together





And this is what it can do when you done