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Best way to see what it can do is to give it a try. We never plan on doing the "4WDing" thing, but have on a few occasions needed at least some of the Unimog's off road ability. We travel solo, so having the best off road truck there is means we have not had to turn back when the road...

Going to need a bit more break-over angle than that if you plan on going up the Canning Simon :)

Working gears are really useful with fast axles and big tyres.

I have fast axles, overdrive, 365/80s and get similar fuel consumption to everyone from my OM352A, mine is a bit modified, intercooler, GT2860RS turbo but we weight 8 tons and are about 600mm taller than a normal Unimog due to the camper. I drive at around 90-100kph on highways and around 80kph...

The mounting system on my truck was from a U1700, I had to cut it down to size. This is the centre mount This is the front mount. I cut off the heavy outer member, and made the tray narrower to suit the aluminium sheeting I was using for the cladding, mine is 2,2m wide. Let me...

A mog is not for most people, those who stick to the sealed roads or "good" dirt roads where a normal 4wd truck will be fine. Where a mog comes into it's own is going down the tracks that the normally only the Land Rovers and Land Cruisers dare to go on. We are lucky to have a lot of those...

It always takes longer when you do it properly :)

At one stage we had an outside sink / table, but it took too long to set up and we found it easier to use the inside one :) We will need to change a few things when we move over to lithium, as 6 years ago, there were not that many lithium ready devices around. The big expense ( apart...

Mine is a baby mog, but with all the extra kit on it ( working gears, overdrive, bigger tyres, 380lt fuel, 220lt water and all the extra kit we carry, I found that the 7.5 tom GVM was limiting how much stuff we could carry, so I increased the GVM to 8tons, now we carry even more stuff so run...

Most old school fuel tanks are not lined, none of the one I have were lined and most are over 15 years old, diesel is a good rust preventative. I have a Pollock valve for my two tanks, works great, has the feed line and the return lines, and also does the fuel gauge wiring as well. The only...

Great fabrication skills, I was never able to get my tubing to fit anywhere near as tight at that, so my "gap filling" skills with the welder are now quite good :)

I have the Webasto equivalent in my U1250. Are you planning on fitting a hot water tank, if so, then you will want to enable the engine coolant loop will provide heat to the hot water tank as well. My coolant loop system is extra complicated as I have a water cooled turbo as well. This...

Great fabrication work :)

I have seen quite a few DOKA conversions on U1300 and U1700s, you need to have a second cab, so you can get tall the door frames and the steel members that go above the doors, they are a custom section high tensile steel. Unless you want to have three large adults in the back, then the extra...

I would not worry too much about RORO, speak to a shipping agent about what can be carried inside, alot of it is hearsay. I know of at least 5 trucks who have been shipped into Australia on RORO with all the fittings, clothes, spares etc in locked compartments or crates inside the truck...

That looks pretty complicated, how do they work? Manual pump somewhere? I think I'll to some test with lowering the tyre pressure and see how much angle change I can get. In all our travels we have not had any side slopes as bad as that, and I don't think many of the little 4x4 touring...

Thanks, any photos of how they are installed?

A Pinz was never on our list really, very rare here in Australia. I was looking for a smaller Unimog when my U1250 came up on auction. I wanted a Unimog because it was the most capable off road truck there is. A camper truck is close to or at GVM all the time. The Fusos and other Japanese...

HI and welcome, ask away, loads of varying opinions here :)

I used Stainless Steel braided teflon hose for most of my camper heating system. It is good for a few hundred PSI and very tough. I have three long hoses, all made from the Stain steel braided hose, then six other smaller silicon double walled hoses for the two heater matrices, the hot water...