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Thanx for the tip Jostt!

Thanx for the input guys! A lot of good thoughts on the subject! I just did a bargain on some 2. hand 10×20" split rims. So 20" tires it will be. Vrakking tires in Netherland has a lot of demo/like new looking tires, at a reasonable price. So I'll probably end up with some tires from them. Stay...

Ok, so the 13.00R22,5 that it runs on today are not intended for anything else than good paved tarmac road. Hence the reason for wanting to change. They are also extremely stiff and have almost none contribution to the suspension when riding on bumpy roads. But since they are only 13'' wide,the...

I'm looking for some new shoes for my Unimog, It's a 1980 U1700L with Om352, 168HP, standard gearing, 8-bolt axles. It currently sits on Pirelli road tires 13.00 R22.5, on 9x22.5 rims. I want simmilar or bigger diameter on the wheels as the current ones, so that the RPM's on the engine can be...

Also.. My thrusty old Geländewagen was starting to show some serious signs of the age (1981) and high mileage (aprox. 850 000km). So we decided to give it an overhaul. Replaced a lot of the steel body and gave it a new coat of paint both in- and outside. And since the wife got to choose… RAL...

Sad to say that not too much have happened to the mog for the last year. As I mentioned earlier we bought an old house last spring. So most of our spare time and savings have gone in to the restauration of this.. Still a lot to do, but hopefully we can move into it sometime this autumn...

Ah, thats a bummer! I live 2 hours drive to the south from Stavanger.. Let me know next time you're in the area!

Sitec; I believe you are refering to my build thread (that by the way need a new update soon..), page 2 and further on shows the roof extension I made: https://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/norwegian-unimog-u1700l-camper-build.143276/page-2

I agree with the above, keep the good work comming!:)

Thats true, we expect this to be the worst condensation points on the whole camper box. But it was choosen to be done like this to have a very durable and stiff frame for the door, since the big cut-out for the door is weakening the stiffness in the side wall quite a lot in this area. We could...

Thanks Ian, I believe it is a good philosphy to follow, but I am afraid it will be har for me to mach the standard you have set on your camper build! If I manage to get somewhere close to the build quality and level of detail you have put into your build, I believe we will have a very sturdy and...

Next on the list will be to fit the interior, still missing some parts here, but our storage room is step by step getting fuller and fuller with parts that will be needed to finish the interior. Hopefully we will find the time and money to have it ready for some sort of a more extended test trip...

After the whole EU-inspection process it was time for short brake from working on the truck, and we focused our energy and money on the restauration of the newly bought house. But since the truck now was road legal, and the camper box was starting to get more and more complete on the outside...

Then it was time for the annual EU-inspection which is mandatory for trucks with a weight of more than 3500kg here in Norway. Long story made short – a lot of money spent; had to replace the following parts to get it through the inspection…: - Brake discs on all four wheels - Brake...

Then it was time to install the angle bar profiles for the inner edges where the different plates are glued together. This was made from 40x40x3 angel bars made from fiberglass by the German company Paneel Tec, which also supplied the sandwich plates for the camper box. Here the profiles for the...

Next on the list was installation of the three side windows from Pabst Airtec, the installation progress was very straightforward, especially since the manufacturer of the sandwichplates already had prepared the cut-outs for where the windows should be installed. All windows where delivered with...

In may I started on making the entrance door for the camper unit. This is made of the cut out from the sandwichplate and the edges on bot the cut out and the hole in the camper wall are then covered with 3mm aluminum profiles. We still need to finish of the door frame with the sealing to make it...

Ok, so it’s been a while since the last update.. In April we bought a small old farm (buildings dating from aprox. 1850). So unfortunately, for the camper project, most of our time and money have gone into the restauration project of the house and the barn. But we have nevertheless managed...

Hi Tobias, For our unimog camper build, we removed the stock seat with mechanical suspension, and installed Recaro Ergomed S seats on a fixed base. We find this setup to be very nice. No suspension in the seat means that you: - Won't get "seasick" when driving on bumpy roads. - Have better...