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Hello, in Austria, the law was changed in 1967. From then on, all vehicles had to be fitted with yellow indicators. It seems to me, however, that in 1968, Haflingers were partly still produced with the red tail lights only. Haflingers for countries like Great Britain, Italy and Australia already had...

Hi Julian,

yeah, if you could lend it to me, that would be great! Then I'll maybe give it a try, even without the rest of the pullers etc. - many thanks in advance!


Kind regards,
Constantin

Hello, last weekend I have finally managed to finish (or almost finish) cleaning my gearbox on the outside, so here are some fresh pictures: http://www.haflinger-4wd.com/offtopic/2014-05-10-01.jpg http://www.haflinger-4wd.com/offtopic/2014-05-10-02.jpg http://www.haflinger-4wd.com/offtopic/2014-05-1...

Hi Doug, I was able to loosen all three nuts with a slim extension for the ratchet. Possibly I have also removed the two steel plates in the middle of the housing in advance. If you want to remove the upper gearchange housing, you also have to open the small lid a bit further down on the gearbox to ...

Hello, the pin inside the housing came out easily, since it was always well greased. However I must say that I had already taken off the whole "tower". That means I could partially take out the selector mechanism, so I had a bit better access to the pin. I don't think that the flange is ma...

Doug, I have pulled off that flange you mentioned about two weeks ago from my gearbox. I had the same probem that you have now, it wouldn't come off, even though I had removed the pin. Finally, I removed one of the pins in the linkage inside the gearchange housing (shown in Dave's picture). Then I c...

Hello, in 1969, SDP published a service bulletin which describes the process to disassemble the gearbox without having to completely take off the platform. Dale has a scan on his website, see: http://www.haflingertechnik.com/ftp/technical/pdfs/10.pdf I am not a gearbox expert, but I think it is hard...

Hello,

yes it sounds as if you have seen the correct number. Here is an example for a no. 5 camshaft:

Kind regards,
Constantin

Garry, are you referring to the number on the shaft itself or on the gearwheel of the camshaft? Some people confuse these. As Steve mentioned, the no. 5 camshaft is usually fitted on younger, higher revving engines. The cam profile has a slightly higher stroke and a larger overlapping phase. Kind re...

Hello, I was also looking for the same reflectors since I also have a Pathfinder model with the same rear light assembly. Luckily, both reflectors were still there, but on one, a stud is broken, as you can see on the following pictures (however it should be still mountable). The writing on the back ...

Hello Garry,

I have never seen a tropical Haflinger version combined with the exhaust heat exchanger system.
Some tropical Haflingers were fitted with the Eberspächer petrol heater in the front footwell, but even that is very rare.


Kind regards,
Constantin

The spin-oin oil filter was fitted to late 1973 and 1974 years of make... The spin-on version is hence a bit more rare and also sought after, because there exist standard adapters which fit between the filter and the main device, where you can fit additional sensors, e.g. for oil pressure or oil tem...

I think that the "Pathfinder" models have the 16:38 hub gears while Canadian bug-eye models usually have the faster 14:31 gear set.

Kind regards,
Constantin

Hi Julian, if 1 hp is about .75 kW, then it's also the same horsepower that we use over here. Yes, the 22 horsepower of the Haflinger are surely measured at the flywheel. Losing about half of the power in the drivetrain sounds a bit much to me, but on the other hand I don't really have any experienc...

Stuart, Prokschi has some cutaway oil cooler models on his website, see: http://www.puch500.at/?action=schnittbilder The taller one with round ends is the "large" oil cooler, while the one with the "roof" on top is the older and smaller version. For your Haflinger, the large one ...

Hi Julian,

how much Kilowatts is one hp? Is this "British horsepower"?
And regarding the ignition timing, how much is 20 deg in terms of mm on the pulley? I would estimate about 30 mm, which sounds a bit much...? Or did you mean 2 deg?

Kind regards,
Constantin

Stuart, it's not an air intake, but an exhaust. The engine version with the exhaust has the large oil cooler and more shrouding inside to guide the air which is going through the oil cooler to this exhaust. The versions in your top and bottom pictures don't have this hot air exhaust. The air that is...

Hello, Garry's information is correct, because if the 16:38 hub gear ratio was fitted to younger (e.g. Series 2) Haflingers, the high speed was 70 instead of 64 kph, because of the higher engine speed (4800 rpm instead of 4500 rpm). As you can all imagine, the high speed depends on many things: 1) M...

John, frankly speaking, I feel like things are being artificially complicated here. I agree about your theoretical concerns about the measurement techniques, but practically, this is negligible. This thread somehow brings back to my mind the story about the valve covers which could be "improved...

Hello, it is definitely a distance of 5 - 7 mm between the two marks. It is also stated like that in the german manual - and that's nice, because crank angle degree would certainly be hard to measure or require conversion to arc length. In younger manuals, the nominal distance for the ignition timin...