Sunday, Nov 17, 2019 at 13:22
Gerry - The Hinos are an excellent truck, they're the premium line of the Jap trucks.
But I fail to see any major advantage of turning a tilt cabin truck, into a fixed cabin truck.
It must make repair and maintenance a nightmare.
The old forward control Bedfords were pretty bad for that - until one day, a Bedford guru showed me how you take the cab off the FC Bedfords, by undoing 4 cab bolts, unclipping the wiring harness, lowering the door windows, sliding a plank through the window openings, cushioning the plank against the upper door frames with two telephone directories - and then just lifting the cab straight up, with slings around the ends of the plank!
I can understand the Hino design is to provide access to the living area from the cabin, but I think the loss of a tilt cabin, outweighs any gain in having easy access between cabin and living area.
Cheers, Ron.
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