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I think you'd be mad to get an American truck as the basis for an expedition truck when you are situated in Europe. You have a host of vehicles perfectly suited to world travel that are made on your doorstep. The Mercedes Vario and Atego 4x4 vehicles come in the right load capacity and are...

Looks great! Good luck with your journey!

I think it is just the Steyr cab. I looked over an almost identical US built military truck at Couch Offroad in Denver; they probably just buy the cab from Steyr, as BAE did

I saw this waiting to be shipped at Baltimore docks. Does anyone know anything about it. Looks like a Stewart & Stevenson chassis but the box looks a bit homebrew.

I'm fairly behind right now with the blog, but stage one of Jim's journey is over, I dropped the truck off at Baltimore docks a few days ago and am now back in London, patiently waiting for him to return.

I would try Pierre at Sathers, he is extremely helpful to the overland community

Mercedes use magnetic breakers that fit in the traditional blade slots on my 03 truck. Perhaps they'd make a reasonably simple upgrade?

This belongs to Ryan an Jeffry, we met them in a state park in Texas last December and they were at the beginning of a long trip up to the NW. I think Ryan posted some build pics on the forum somewhere

Hi, I have a Nautic Quick BX25 calorifier which is pretty similar to the isotherm ones. It's pretty quick on the 240v electric element, but how quick yours is will depend on which element is fitted. Mine is 1200w, and yields useably hot water with 15 minutes. To heat the whole tank to near...

I sealed all of my roof apparatus with Sikaflex 221, plus the necessary primer and activator for the aluminium roof. I have had no leaks at all and would recommend using it, but you'd have to remove the skylights and refit them, which can be hard to do without damaging them depending on what...

Jay at Couch Offroad in Denver has done some unusual conversions. He would be a good person to talk to about the options.

yes, I can't find it anywhere on the EPC, and I spent a while looking under many sections.

Hi all, Something which has been puzzeling me since I last tilted the cab, is the identification of an object I noticed for the first time on the back of the engine. Stupidly I forgot to geta photo, but I should be able to get a bad shot looking past the gearbox from under the truck. The...

We made it up to Animas Forks in our wide, heavy 2wd Mercedes truck. People told us that it get's steeper and narrower beyond there so we spent the night in the town and headed back to Silverton in the morning.

http://jimthetruck.blogspot.com/2014/08/denver.html#more I saw this sprinter parked in Denver a few weeks ago. It seemed to be fairly standard except for the replacement front bumper. I think that it belonged to an artist displaying at a local art fair. I find it funny that as soon as a vehicle...

Wow, looking at your blog we've been visiting all of the same places over the last few weeks. I'm now at 4,500 feet, and heading down into Nebraska, so I'll be able to see whether the coking was due to the altitude, or whether I have another problem over the next few weeks. My auxillary tanks...

I used our yanmar single cylinder diesel generator to power the electric water heater element when the webasto coked up again at 11,000 feet and it ran ok. It started rough, smoked a little, and was slightly down on power (wouldn't run the battery charger and immersion heater at the same time)...

Hi Leipo, Thanks for your advice. We spent the last 6 weeks in the mountains and the webasto coked up again. There maybe another issue like fuel contamination but I can soon test this as we are about to make our way across the plains at lower altitude. At the hardware store I couldn't find any...

Hi Charlie, Can you give me any more details on your setup? We spent the last 6 weeks between 5,000 feet and 11,000 feet and the webasto coked up again. Again it smoked lots and shut down early. I clamped the hoses this time rather than draining the unit down. It made more of a mess but cut...

Utah is like a giant playground, it's awesome. 22.5 inch rims are fairly common for trucks here but it seems that 11r22.5 are most common. In the metric sizes the 295s are more widely used than our large 315/80 tyres but we still got some at the first tyre shop we went to. They didn't have a...