Not just the Russian tanks that smoke

Use this area for an off topic conversations not related to Armortek or Kompact Kits. Please ensure that you abide by the forum rules.
Post Reply
User avatar
Armortek
Site Admin
Posts: 2876
Joined: Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:30 am
Location: Winchester, England
Been liked: 3377 times

Not just the Russian tanks that smoke

Post by Armortek »

Armortek

User avatar
John Clarke
Posts: 1631
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:06 pm
Location: Staffordshire
Been liked: 1729 times

Re: Not just the Russian tanks that smoke

Post by John Clarke »

Thats not a tank! it's pretender to this



This is a Tank!



Old tanks never die, they just go down range :lol:
Oh Man, I only ride em I don't know what makes them work,
Definatley an Anti-Social type

Alex Easten
Posts: 287
Joined: Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:09 pm
Has liked: 232 times
Been liked: 213 times

Re: Not just the Russian tanks that smoke

Post by Alex Easten »

I sense an Armortek Leopard 2 in the works, either that or a delicious red herring!

Cheers,

Alex
Armortek Hetzer no 31 (2022).

Quicquid agas age

Mark Heaps
Posts: 844
Joined: Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:39 pm
Location: Germany
Has liked: 269 times
Been liked: 324 times

Re: Not just the Russian tanks that smoke

Post by Mark Heaps »

Smokeless is not always good. On one Medman exercise we had a GUE on a Challenger that was labouring. Happened when the GUE had been run for too long on too little load and the exhaust got coked-up. Standard cure was connect up a second tank in parallel, throw the battle-links on it and switch on all systems to put max load on the genny. Black smoke for a short while but soon cleared and GUE would run sweetly afterwards. On this one, the standard cure did not work, no belch of black smoke no matter what load we put on. I then spotted the exhaust was actually sucking air in. The engine had been timed wrongly and was running backwards. The exhaust manifold was clogged with prairie sand.

Post Reply