Jerry, I don't know yet if we will come to the amphib, 10 May is
in 2 weeks, that's a bit to soon for us, but we will see.
Best Regards,
Auke Dijkstra
Haaksbergen Holland
> From: Auke Dijkstra
> To: Jerry Coles (MS Mail)
> Cc: mil-veh
> Subject: Re: What else but DUKW's
> Date: 18 April 1997 21:14
>
> ------SNIP
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Sounds familiar, the problem with the shakle mounts. My brother
> discovered our DUKW in Italy while beeing on a bussiness trip. He took
> some pictures and was quite sure that the DUKW was in absolutely
> perfect shape after standing in a field for about 10 years. After
> a while the DUKW arrived in Holland on a semi-trailer, and to make a
> long story short, we eventually replaced two complete sides and 1/4
> bottom and 3/4 deck. The shakle mounts looked o.k. untill we pulled the
> DUKW to another building and both broke. We made some new ones (not
> a nice job if you want them correct). The DUKW-axle-problem is a very
> common problem. We put new banjo-axles on ours, put all the
> modifications on them for the propellor shaft housing seals, and forgot
> the special axle oil seals. Guess what! water in the axles. We took the
> axles apart, installed the correct oil seals, checked the bearings, put
> special "slick-50" gear oil in the axles and there is still water in the
> axles after each swim, although very little . We've heard the
> air-pressure-in-the-axle-story before, and we're also planning to
> install this system on our DUKW (although I haven't heard any
> comformation about that it actually works). The problem with the axle is
> that when you drive the DUKW, the oil in the axles runs hot and when you
> enter the water, the axle cools off very rapidly, creating a vacum in
> the axle, and making it easy for water to penetrate through whatever
> seal comes in it's way. Creating a slight pressure in the axle should
> do it, does anybody have a comformation on this????.
> The main problem we have right now is that we can't remove the drain
> plugs from the propellor shaft housings, they won't move and they
> haven't moved ever since we got the DUKW. We tried everything: heating,
> cooling off, special oil a hammer, nothing worked. We're afraid that
> when we use to much force, we will damage the housings. Anybody know's
> some propellor shaft housings for sale????.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Auke Dijkstra
> Haaksbergen-Holland
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