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Ok, this is what I am ever so slowly learning while overlanding our 1120AF from Alaska to Punta Arenas Chile (where we currently are). When I was "researching" these trucks I read that Mercedes has the best available support around the world, outside of the USA. But this advice should have come...

So a quick truck update if anyone has the optional 4 wheel parking brakes like we do. Our previous "fix" for front parking brake that would slowly actuate while driving wasn't really a fix. The mechanic replaced a shuttle valve and to be honest I tried to understand how this would fix it but...

We used All Ways , but they seemed to have changed their business a bit. They handled both the shipping and all the import. They seem to be now doing import only. Maybe they could help with your truck.

I really should order those up, any chance you have the part number handy?

Oddly enough an LN2 derivative was sold here, including a 4x4 version at least in Brazil. A new friend of ours here owns a 1720A that he bought in Brazil and is building a camper with here in Argentina (hey Diego, if you see this post a picture of your very nice truck 🙂). These trucks have the...

One comment from what I am gathering moving around in South America. So far the local shops seem to be ok looking at our truck, the Mercedes dealers not so much. I have pondered that a bit and the only thing I can come up with is most 30 year old Mercedes trucks here are pretty beat up and not...

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!