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Hey Brian, we should be there sometime next summer. This time though without the truck :-), will have to swing by and say hi.

It's been a while and since Heather just published a blog I thought I would save some time and just post a link here if anyone is interested in what's been going on. On the way to Patagonia

Ok, so here is my thoughts after about 4 years of owning an 1988 1120AF that we self converted to a camper. We've been traveling full time with it for about 3 years. We did upgrade the leaf springs to parabolics, sound dedended the cab and installed air ride seats. I also upgraded the turbo but...

Great find! Out of curiosity, could you share your VIN? I'd love to look up the gearbox and how many parts are different with our 5speed.

DFF, is the shop in Germany I ordered both our front and rear springs from.

Well, now that I am pretty confident in the repairs to our brakes I can tell you all about it. Our truck the optional 4 wheel parking brake. While the rear parking brakes works like all the other trucks, utilizing a spring, the fronts are air only. How this is achieved is there is a "shuttle...

Add an alternator and water pump to your list. Oh yeah, we seem to be going through a bit of a rough patch. We're broken again. This time the front brakes seem to randomly start to drag. I think it is something with the air system, bug I'm still trying to figure things out.

We got our springs from https://www.federfachmann.de/, never was able to find a shop in the USA willing to supply springs for us. We did both front/rear and it transformed the truck.

I really like seeing the macaws. We've seen a few different kinds so far, but haven't yet seen the all blue ones. And the truck had issues again. We decided to head to an island that is mostly park and walk some beaches. In the morning before we went to this parking lot Heather saw a spark...

Update time, here are a few pics from our last few weeks. Got a great look at a tapir, we saw it walking on the road a ways ahead so we stopped and got out of the truck. It then walked right over to us. A capybara family on the river bank. This was a snorkel river float. The river is...

I did the brakes ourselves. There is likely a shop in Reno that could do it for you, but I didn't look into it. Our new linings were both riveted and glued on. I would recommend that you have the needed rivets as these are metric and are a bit hard to come by in the USA. Best to find them and...

Back from the "Didn't see and Jaguars River Trip". A bit disappointed but we'll try again in the future. Back to your patented old Mercedes rust prevention system, AKA oil leaks. In all fairness to Mercedes I would assume all old vehicles leak, I have an MGB and it is relatively rust free due...

First off, congratulations on getting your truck! I will write more later, but I'm up early to get on a river jaguar tour.

This is the shop that relined our shoes (Reno Nevada) https://www.facebook.com/RenoBrakeInc/ Look for old school hotrod shops. p.s. love the Skyline!

If I remember right these trucks were available with 2 different cold start options. The ether injection and an electric heating element in the air intake. Wonder if that symbol would be that you have the electric element? I think the element was in the cast charged air pipe that is attached to...

Time for a quick trip update. During our visit back to the USA while the truck was being shipped I went to the dermatologist. Well, 2 biopsies later I learned I had a couple of small skin cancers (nothing serious) that needed to get removed. But no time to get it scheduled before we left the...

And we're reunited with our truck! This is our first night back and we're camped in the town next to the shipping port. Picking up the truck was an all day affair at the port starting at 9:30am ending at 4pm. The truck looked great and we haven't noticed any damage. We only had to hand over the...

Jumping in a bit late, the brake shops are concerned that these old trucks use asbestos linings, which they won't touch. But Mercedes stopped doing that well before our trucks were built. When we had our brakes done, the shop in Nevada inquired and I confirmed with Stefan that they are not...

Both the ship and Heather and I have arrived into Buenos Aires. With any luck in a couple of days we will be picking the truck up and resuming our travels. Can't wait, we've been a bit homesick since we have been out of the truck for about a month. Did our first "blue dollar" black market money...