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Canning Stock Route It took us 10 days to do the 1400km from Newman to Halls Creek via the Talawana Track and the Canning Stock Route. Average speed was 22kph and fuel consumption was 28lt/100km. Considering we did 300km on the first day, and 200km on the last day, the rest of the track was...

I'll look into them, I wonder if they sell the 6 bolt centres by themselves?

We now have a new set of XZLs on the truck, and will be keeping the best MPT81 casing as a spare as we are thinking about heading up the Canning Stock Route on the way home.

Thanks Charlie, driving with the XZLs is way better than the Continental MPT81s. I don't think you get Hutchinsons in 6 studs. I have some internal bead locks for my tyres, which I did not re-fit as the tubes had been damaged when the tyres split. I will look at all options before I make...

I ended up bending the reverse/working gear levers, and modifying/short shift the main gear stick to create more space in mine. Yourcould do that with the three seater, but the military seats are pretty hard on any longer runs. My camper is rated for proper seats in the back, and the big...

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I think you carry more in spare that my whole truck weights Charlie, the advantage of having a big truck. In saying that, you would not fit down the roads I had just driven down, �� It was fun watching all the jaws drop when we came over the rise to a "tag a long" tour out of...

Two spare are great if you have a big truck, but very difficult to do on a small truck. The problem is the tyres have gotten brittle with age, even with two spares I would be still sitting waiting for tyres. If it was just damage then an internal patch would be fine, and adding a tube would...

Time for a bit of an update. The truck has been going grreat, and we had no problems at all until this Sunday, when one of the sidewalls on our rear tyre cracked on the Karunjie Track. There was no evidence of any damage for rocks or anything, just a neat split. We tried to plug the hole as...

Have to get the fore/aft reasonably flat, but side to side is fine. Most times we can get the truck fore and after level by parking on an angle.

I have an IKEA slat typematress base, which can have either end raised up. If we park slightly downhill, we can just raise up the on half of the bed.

Some great progress, great to see thing coming on nicely. I had exactly the same problem with the new window sliders, had to cut them as well. Seem Mrs Benz supplies a generic part that fits a few different vehicles.

We drove around with some 2" and 3" levelling blocks of wood on our first trip, and to be honest we used them once. Like GrizzyJ said, the mog seems to be limit the effect of them with it's flexible chassis and soft suspension. We can raise either side of our bed, so if we have to park on...

Looks good Simon, maybe you should build the shed first so that you can build the truck, then live in the truck whilst you build the house. :)

Just doing the last bits and pieces on the truck before we move out in a few days. Our custom awnings arrived, I fitted the rear one. Pretty happy with the end result, although I had to make some modifications to the awning as I didn't take into account the extra width from the sides of the...

We are moving out of our industrial unit at the end of the month. I have quite a few bits and pieces that may be of interest to anyone. Things like the front outrigger bumpers, a roof hatch, steel rear mudguards, I have a few 6 bolt wheel hubs, and some used but good brake discs and a lot of...

It looks like one of the old Unimog based tour buses that were built for Cape York trips in the 80's

My clever wife has finished the padded bag for the portable solar panels. I've added another two Optima 31A batteries, bringing the total up to 6 Optima 31A for the house battery bank giving a total of 450AH. The battery tray and the brackets are all pretty heavy duty, necessary to hold...

We use a pre-paid one with Inmarsat. Cost about $1 per minute, or text message. It can receive emails for free. We have our docking station set up to send our position after we turn off the ignition for longer than an hour ( we can overide it if we want to) . It sends a message to a gmail...