The plant named after Likhachev for many years was the flagship of the Soviet truck industry. GAZ models performed in a different weight category and could not compete with ZIL. Everything changed in the early 1970s, when the construction of the KAMAZ plant was already in full swing. Then the first blow was dealt to the Likhachev Plant - “from above” they were forced to give all the technical documentation for the developed diesel cabover truck. But it was precisely on the ZIL-170V-75 that the Moscow enterprise had hope.
After that, I had to come up with something in return to give the country what it needs - heavy diesel trucks. So the ZIL-133, nicknamed the "Crocodile", appeared. True, they lacked diesel engines. They developed their own engine for 12 years, then upgraded it several times and in 2007 they abandoned it altogether.
ZIL-MMZ-4516, about which the author of the Ivan Zenkevich PRO Cars channel will tell, was equipped with both gasoline and diesel power units. Naturally, a heavy-fuel engine is preferable for such a dump truck. In general, such trucks appeared by accident. A fire at the KAMAZ plant deprived Russia of new dump trucks - ZIL had to help. Well, what is special about the MMZ-4516 model, you yourself will find out by watching the video.
The K-46 truck crane on the ZIL-164 chassis is a triumph of Soviet builders
Soviet truck cranes did not have an impressive boom reach, but were still valued at construction sites. Of course - they made manual work tens, or even hundreds of times easier...
