Hello everyone,
The day before yesterday (2.5.2014), a reenactment of the last battles in Karkonosze mountains(Czech: Krkonoše, Giant Mountains) took place in Jelenia Gora, Poland. Piciu713 sent me a couple of pictures and two videos from the reenactment. The most interesting part seem to be the involvement of a functional Jagdpanzer 38(t) “Hetzer”. Other interesting vehicles include the Soviet BA-64 armored car and what I think is the SU-57 (Soviet 57mm gun mounted on a halftrack). Check this out:
This hetzer with the big exhaust pipe smoke, surely has no camo on the move :)
Lulz.
The halftrack is a T48, built by the US for Britain with a 6-pdr. Looks like it’s still got the original 6-pdr on it.
Looked up Google image SS is right that is an SU-57 not T-48 like you said.
If you look up T48, you get images of the same thing, so my guess is SU-57 is simply the Russian designation for a lend-lease vehicle they received.
Remember that the 6lbr is a 57mm gun, so yes the probably is the soviet designation for the T48
That’s exactly what it is. The M3 Halftrack with the M1 57-mm gun (aka, 6-pdr) was known as the T48. It was built exclusively for the British, who kept some (but removing the 6-pdr, using it as a towed AT gun and using the halftrack as an APC) and shipped the rest to the USSR.
pretty sure hetzer was filmed in the valley of lakeville. that terrain is so bad.
That made me lol.
+1
looks more like the beta hetzer… where driving over 10km/h was something special ^^
Who needs a plough when you have this thing to dig up your whole field.
Dat high ground pressure.
Actually almost all original vehicles aren’t hetzers but G-13 made for switzerland after war
Correct, you can tell a G-13 from a Jpz 38(t) as the muzzle brake has been removed and it either has a screw thread or is notched.
More of a concern is all that smoke blowing from the exhaust. All the “Hetzers” used petrol engines so they wouldn’t blow white smoke indicating that the head gasket has blown and is leaking oil into the chamber, aka burning oil. The more oil that gets into the chamber the more likely they will brake a connecting rod or camshaft. Either way that means engine fucked because usually a con rod will go through the engine wall as the engine seizes.
Unless they already replaced the engine with a diesel…
SS you might want to contact the owner or someone who can and pass the info on. It’s cheaper to replace a head gasket than an engine especially rare ones.
Definitely that vehicle burn also something else than petrol. I ain’t know is it oil because smoke color is so white. White smoke is usually caused by water. Either way head gasket is good to checkout.
That kind of smoke can also be total normal if they just turned it on after night or so.
Big old petrol motors run very rich (choke is on) when motor temperature is low .
I just watch second video. Definitely that Hetz burn some oil.
I understand what you’re saying Hulk but that isn’t water. The water vapour doesn’t last that long or linger. Running the engine rich would produce black exhaust. A properly tuned engine, no matter the age, would be a grey shade inside the end of the exhaust pipe, black means it’s running too rich, white too lean.
OF course someone could have put diesel in the fuel tank by mistake but that does produce much more smoke.
Yes the head gasket does need to be thoroughly checked/replaced.
Much more likely is worn rings. It’s not what you would call a new engine. Oil getting into the combustion chamber is far more likely to be due to worn rings on an old high mileage engine.
Well Jiri, that’s still an engine overhaul. Though I doubt it’s a high mileage thing. You would agree that the engine needs to be looked at and whether it’s a gasket or rings it’s a must do.
Hetzers gonna Hetz :3