acd1202:
Carryfast:
kr79:
I must admit a fuller is hard to beat just put the inbred bit in as a wind up don’t know about the master race because my dad recons given the choice between an atki borderer and a 1418 merc he would have chosen the atkinson and he is deffintly not someone who goes misty eyed at trucks of the when men were made of steel and the trucks are made of wood era.
What is it that people get all misty eyed about atkinsons for anyway I think its a northern thing.Don’t ask me I’m a Southerner born and bred but Bewick’s lot seem to like Atkis for some reason especially with a zb Gardner fitted in it
Just a point Carryfast the Merc 2534 used a Mercedes gearbox, not the ZF Ecosplit. The last Mercs to use the ZF manual was the 2025/2028/2033 with the 2035/1644 using it with EPS, after that (1989) the Powerliner2 came with exclusively Merc boxes, be it manual or EPS
Thanks for the correction.I was only given the Merc to use on a regular basis late on in my time in the job so never really knew much about the differences between them all.I remember driving an early six wheeler rigid once with a V10 engine in it around 1980 as a fire truck chassis which I can remember as having no range range on the 16 speed box just a splitter.Whereas the 2534 was still 16 speed synchro but had a range change on it as well as the splitter so just assumed they were all the same and all made by ZF with a few updates.But don’t remember ever referring to the 2534 as a Powerliner 2 
,probably for good reason ,but that old V10 would have deserved that designation more.That old one also had some other typical German ideas like the light switch being where the starter switch should have been on the key and the starter being on the floor where you’d usually find an exhaust brake .
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