Yes, there IS a Flying Iltis ...

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Originally posted by Wayne McGee

If in your experience you discovered flaws in the vehicle, I would suggest that the problem was on this side of the pond.

I was in Cypress in 89 or 90...we replaced the ILtis there after just 4 years of service. No GPMGs, airdrops, TOW missiles etc were on these ones. They were just used in the recce role.

One thing that we had done to the majority of them there was to replace the electric fuel pump with the VW rabbit mechanical pump. Despite the sweltering heat, there was no vapour lock with the mechanical pump, and they proved far more reliable than the electric pump ever was.