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https://unicatexpeditionvehicles.com/2022/05/18/second-hand-tc45-light-unimog-u2150l38/ Only 43500 miles, €259k, PTO front winch, Unicat camper. Apparently price includes conversion back to LHD. Chassis now 25yo. Camper only 12yo. Even if has 6.38 gears, there’s several (3 that I can think of)...

Seen parked near the beach in La Jolla. The MB Arocs has a website nomadfamily.ch The camper didn’t have a torsion free mounting obviously. Didn’t get to talk to them. The MAN picture was taken by grandson.

Near the beach in La Jolla today. nomadfamily.ch Camper built by Krug in Cherkassy UKr. Note non torsion free mount. Didn’t get to talk to them.

Like above, not too expensive. I carry a spare shift module and master cylinder, have clutch booster at home. Also the clutch hydraulic actuator at home. And a spare friction disk inder the mattress of the camper bed and pressure plate in the back storage (which I suspect I’ll never need because...

Carry Star Diagnosis computer. Complete set of computer modules, and sensors. But never have needed anything except hair dryer (wet connection ) in 17 years and 110k miles. Exception: did replace 1 pressure sensor on 1 air tank, in Australia in 2009. IMHO, by model year 2005, the electronics...

First thing I did practically after getting my U500 camper to Alaska was to get a CDL. It has great brakes: disk air brakes with ABS. More important, a compression release brake (like a Jake but mysteriously quiet) and an exhaust brake as well. In 2017, with 94k miles on it, I had a rear axle...

https://unicatexpeditionvehicles.com/2023/04/14/second-hand-in54mb-sk-1234-af/ For some reason what you read on the link is inaccurate. It’s really a 1999 chassis with Euro 2 motor and manual 12 speed. Gotta click on it. I believe this was just sold to someone who’s a US citizen and will bring...

There’s a world of difference between a 1990 and 2000-06 truck. Vehicles of my (mine?) lineages (Unimogs) are exemplars. On my recent trip across North America (5500 miles Anchorage to Halifax), I had 2 copilots, neither had any truck experience. Admittedly #2 did ride across Mongolia in a 4wd...

http://graphicvillage.org/meritor/SP1869 Air locker standard, NoSlip (Detroit) and LSD available, “CTIS ready”. Cost:unknown, but undoubtedly not cheap.

It’s my backyard. Not exactly wilderness. At the edge of a city of 250k people.

“I think that depends on where "outdoors" is. Here in the outback of Nevada I'd say pretty close to 100% of the folks I meet out there are armed.” “In Arizona pretty much everyone brings a gun camping exept for the people who just go to the KOA campground on the side of the highway.” What are...

It may say “electronic”, but 1) the odometer appears to be mechanical 2) I was mainly referring to the sensor, which could be a pair of small gears near the origin of the rear driveshaft with either a mechanical cable, or a pair of wires attached. If the vehicle has that pair of gears, then...

Is the speedometer electronic or mechanical? Including the sensor, which would be on the rear output of the transfer case. And if the system is mechanical, do you know your axle differential gear ratio? And what tire size originally came on your actual vehicle? Because if the system is...

I looked at the MOAB blurb in a recent previous thread somewhat carefully. Unbelievably, it appears to have electric heat of the camper with no diesel heating, not even mentioned as an option. By both observation (I use 2 x 700w Hornet aircraft heaters to keep my camper at ~40F all winter...

8.05 x 2.25 = 18.1 is really really good for an automatic.

What’s wrong with Casa Azul? Maybe swap out the 5 speed for a Roadranger RTO-11909ALL. Or better the older MLL, lower (25:1) lo-low reverse. It can be used with an SAE#2 pattern on the back of the Cummins. 11 speed, 0.73 overdrive, 26:1 Lo-low.

The big problem in North America, and especially the US, is the chassis; combined with the 25 year rule and the chicken tax. Do the readers know, for instance, that you can buy, brand new, a Euro 6/registerable anywhere in the EU, a MAN or MB medium chassis, 12-18 mt GVW, 4wd with actual low...

A flame starter actually drips diesel onto a red hot electrically heated coil and bursts into flame when air flow starts with cranking. The OM906LA, at least, has an electrical grid heater, no fuel involved. Don’t know about 366. I’ll make a bet both were used at various times.

I had a flame starter with my Perkins 4.236. It worked ok in cold weather.