Hello again. First, it says: Maximum total weight 4310 Kilo's. Under the frontaxle(s together) 1450 kilo's, under the rearaxle(s together) 3270 kilo's. Remarks EXPORT

That's how easy dutch is! What I don't understand is why the both weights are not the same as total, which normaly is. Sometimes the weight is set back on 3,5 tons, that's 3500 kilo's, to be able to drive a van with a normal licence, which is limited on what weight.

Now for my own problem: The one that understands is ......Gary! I took it out for a ride only once. What I noticed was, that when waiting at a trafficlight, the engine stopped several times. It was between 5 and 10 C, that's about 25 F. It could be up to 90 F here in summer. I would like to be able to trottle-up a bit when the engine is cold or when it's cold outside! When stationary on a hill, with one foot on the clutch, the other on throttle, my middle-leg is just a bit to short to hit the break! :-) I'll have to find a way to build myself a new hand trottle, thanks to Julie I know what it's suposed to look like.

Greetings!

 

Hi Sander,

Actually if it's that cold outside, I''m wondering if it wouldn't be better to seasonally adjust the fast idle on the choke rather than just opening the throttle a bit more. In that cold it wouldn't hurt to have a little richer mixture and running with a slight choke might take care of the stalling as well.

I used to have a switch in my truck that would bypass the voltage regulator. I put this in because on long trips at night when I had th eheater running and the wipers going, the generator woul dnot keep the battery charged. So when I would stop to go to the girl room, I could turn the switch on and gently pull on the throttle **** until the generator was charging at about 25 amps for a quick charge up. There's all kinds of neat things you can use it for.

Either way.....You can play with it and see what works best for you.

Have fun,
Julie!!

 

Hi thank you starling for the help.Would you say my camper is a 3.5 ton or a 4.3 ton or ?. The reason i ask is i will be taking it for a mot and i am not sure will a garage that mot.s on vans cars will do it or will i have to take it to a garage were they mot lorrys. Pete uk

 

Hi thank you starling for the help.Would you say my camper is a 3.5 ton or a 4.3 ton or ?. The reason i ask is i will be taking it for a mot and i am not sure will a garage that mot.s on vans cars will do it or will i have to take it to a garage were they mot lorrys. Pete uk

 

Your truck has a body that was not produced by Ford Motor Company, so the only way you can discover what the true tonnage is, is to have it weighed.

The original shipping weight of a 1955 F350 6 cylinder 130" Wheelbase Cab & Chassis was between 3,520-3,615 lbs.

Now add the weight of the body, and other add ons. If a V8, add another 150-200 lbs.

If the frame was stretched when the body was installed, add another ? lbs.

 

Yes, just another perfect example of adding on the pounds during the Holidays!!!

Tee hee,

Julie!

 

That's funny! Do you always keep your answers stacked up in a drawer?

What ?Bill? is talking about is the weight of the vehicle itself. The Dutch papers are about the maximum weight loaded up with all your camping gear! There must be a weight in the papers that says: MASSA LEDIG VOERTUIG. That means the empty weight of the vehicle. I guess a MOT-station wouldn't bother about a few lbs over the limit. Officially it is a 4.3 ton vehicle, in Holland they sometimes bring it back to 3.5 ton if the owner is not allowed to drive a vehicle over that!(In Holland over 3.5 ton you'll need a licence for a lorry) The only problem then is that you have to be carefull what you load not to go over 3.5 ton. Technically it can still load 800kg more, but legally the weight is limited!

In Holland since last year MOT for vehicles older than 1960 is no longer needed! The thought is, that owners of this category are keeping their vehicles in good shape. YES!!!

Even our gouvernment can do good things, amazing isn't it?!

 

Is the Dutch weight in pounds or kilograms?

One kilogram = 2.2 lbs. (US)

 

Stacked in a drawer---tee hee. That's funny! What's in my "drawers" may be "Stacked," but that is a matter of opinion for others to offer...tee hee

Actually this is not so dis simmilar from the US. But here the States themselves set weight limits for designations and are resaponsible for vehicle registrations. And they do that because of the tremendous amount of heavy commercial trucking (semi trailors, 18 wheelers, etc) we have here to move goods.

There philosophy is that weighted travel wears out the roads so the heavier the more expensive to register. Here in California they consider my 51 1/2 ton F1 (4700lb gross weight capable) a "Commrcial vehicle," and I have to pay an additional $20US to register it each year.

What you are describing in Holland is what we here call "Gross weights" (which are rated capabilities) and "Curb weights" which is the design weight of the vehicle, with all devices, full of fuel, oil, and coolant, and ready to drive. Some US states require a curb weight measurement to register a vehicle.

Interesting!

Julie!

 

If you install a camper shell on your truck, you do not have to have commercial plates, and will then save the 20 bucks.

20 bucks? That's cheap!

On newer trucks, it's over 100.00 bucks!

btw: Tonneau covers do not count.

The sales cluck at a dealership I bought a new truck from, told me to "just install a cheap tonneau cover to get around the commecial plate jazz."

I did, and I soon discovered that was BS.

 

We have the metric system, so we measure in litres, metres, kilo's, whatever. 1 cubic metre of water is 1000 liters, is 1000 kilo's, is 1 ton. Everything is split up in ten's. 10 millimetre is 1 centimetre, 10 cm is 1 decimetre, 10 dm is 1 metre.

Yes, taxes on weight are the same here! The heavier the vehicle the more you pay! The only difference is that a part of it is in fuel-tax. The heavier the vehicle (the more fuel it consumes), or the more you drive, the more you pay aswell. If you add up all the costs of a car in 1 year, the avarage use of an avarage car will cost you about 40 cents a kilometre, 60 cents a mile, depending on devaluation of your car or milage. So a new large fuel-consuming car could cost double that!

For a camper or motorcycle you only pay a quarter or half a year of road-tax, but you are alowed to drive all year! We only have US-trucks with tonneau covers so that I don't know.

A curb weight measurement is only required on large trucks here. All the vans and small trucks have a standard weight depending on type of engine, accessoiries. Larger trucks could have equipment on board like pumps, extra fuel tanks, lifts, so they are always weighed.

 

Hi it says on my dutch paper work unloaded 2770 kg. But i have found out today that i dont need to worry as with it saying camper van there is no weight limit on camper vans.Here in the UK if you passed your driving test before 1990 i think its around that year you can drive up to a 7.5 ton on a car driving licence.I passed mine in 1985 so i am ok.I got my truck from Brenda i think thats how you spell it is thatnear you starling.I got her around feb.

 

Yep $20 isn't worth hassling about. It's a California thing I guess. They nickle and dime you to death. But if they get an extra (minimum) $20 for every truck on the road...Wow that's some $$$$$! I actually made it worse I think. I just got my California 1951 "COM" Year of Manufacture plates back from restoration. Took them to the California DMV, Lady looked at them, made a photo copy, charged me $30 and I was out the door in 15 minutes (from the time I got helped....) They look GREAT on the truck!

When I lived in Oregon the plates were $25 for two years registration. Flat fee for all vehicles.

J!

 

Must be Brenda without the "n". Breda it's called. It's about 80 kilometres from here!

In Holland plates stay with the vehicle from birth till death! When a vehicle is registered, it will get a reg, when it is demolished you let the papers get "booked out". The owner of the scrap yard is then responsible for any further use of the registration when it's ever used on the roads again. There are special registration numbers (like mine) for oldtimers. At the numbers on a registration plate you can see how old a vehicle is.

 

Delaware (USA) has a similar system, and started with number 1 back in the day, the plates are highly coveted... Delaware man spends $675k on license plate 6 - Autoblog