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Thanks everyone for your insights into this topic. Especial thanks to you, ODFever, for your PM and all those close-up photographs from your Mite restoration project. At this point, after having studied every photo of and article about the Mite's AMC V4 that I can find, including photos and...

The Tatra 111's V12 engine was halved into an I6 for use in the post-WW2 Czechoslovakian military truck the Praga V3S and its civilian counterpart the Praga S5T. These two Pragas were mostly identical except for some drive drain differences like 4x4 vs 4x2, differential vs portal axles, gearbox...

I'm basing my hand crank info on what Wikipedia explicitly states about the V12 in the model 111; from what I understand the V12 engine designation was V910. Found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_111#Design_and_technology Enlarge the Wiki photo of the red 111 with the V910 engine and...

What actuates the squirrel cage fan--is the fan attached directly to the engine crank? If so, perhaps a custom hand crankable nut could be machined to fit in place of the fan's stock retaining nut. Hmmm... I'm certainly not against the idea of adding a NATO-style slave receptacle, but...

Thanks for the reply! :-D

So many old school air cooled engines have provision for hand cranked emergency starting, and it got me to wondering if such a useful feature can be found on the MM V4. Surely the US military would have specified such an option, as the Mite's CJ3 forefathers did. So, is the V4 hand crankable?

Any automobile and/or motorcycle that's 25+ years old is legal for import into the USA. Part of what my friend does for a living is restoration and modification of old autos and motos, so he's got contacts all over the world, including people in Europe and Russia that have plenty of access to...

Hello all, first post here in SS. [thumbzup] My fave engines are always old, tough, stone simple, and air cooled. In the world of full size truck mills this of course can only mean the air cooled diesel units from Tatra, specifically the V12 in the 111 and the subsequent V8 in the 138 and...