BelAZ-540 truck history
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Manufacturer: | BelAZ |
Years: | 1961 to 1985 |
Type: | Commercial vehicle |
Body: | Truck,Dump truck |
Engine: | Diesel 12-cylinder |
The truck BelAZ-540 (БелАЗ-540) is a large dump truck of the Soviet vehicle manufacturer BelAZ , which was built from 1961 to the mid 1980s. The GDR also imported the machines and used them especially in mining.
Already in 1961 BelAZ built the first BelAZ-540 dump truck was set to replace the MAZ-525 . The twelve-cylinder engine with 39 l displacement was originally developed by the Soviet Union in the Second World War for tanks and had already been used in its predecessor. The BelAZ-540 was also directly driven by the front-mounted diesel engine via a normal clutch and a manual transmission.
Around 1965, the new model went into series production. As early as 1967, the extremely inefficient diesel engine was replaced by the more modern JaMZ-240 from the Jaroslawski Motorny Sawod . With significantly less displacement this still made 360 hp (265 kW). The vehicles with this engine were called BelAZ-540A and was still produced until 1985.
Technical details
- Engine: 12-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine
- Engine type: D-12A-375
- Power: 375 hp (276 kW)
- Displacement: 38,880 cc
- Bore: 150 mm
- Stroke: 6 × 180 mm and 6 × 186.7 mm
- Torque: 1667 Nm
- Transmission: hydraulic, three forward gears + one reverse gear
- Maximum speed: 55 km / h
- Fuel consumption: 125 l / 100 km
- Tank capacity: 400 l
- Length: 7180 mm
- Width: 3480 mm
- Height: 3415 mm
- Ground clearance: 475 mm
- Wheelbase: 3550 mm
- Front gauge: 2400 mm
- Rear gauge: 2800 mm
- Tire size: 18.00-25
- Curb weight: 21,000 kg
- Payload: 27,000 kg
- permissible total weight: 48,000 kg
- Contents dump body: 15.3 m³
