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What are the rules for the amount of rear overhang allowed? Over here we can have 60% of the wheelbase to be behind the rear wheel, so your would be allowed an additional 300mm of overhang compared to my truck. I kept the internal structure of the roof as original, and only cut out the...

We went with bigger gas stove for our outside kitchen, as we will use it a lot over here. This one works great, really fast. In our Land Rover we have two 2.5kg gas bottles, which last us about 6 weeks of cooking breakfast and dinner. We will carry another 4kg gas bottle which will give...

Just done a few simple calculations on your power requirements, using some very basic assumptions based on what I have read over the past 192 pages :) Assuming you are going the maximum legal dimensions for a vehicle ( 2.4m wide x 4.5m high) and an all up weight of 30 tons ( 8x8) because of...

Your truck is looking good, just be careful about the weight, things add up quickly, and having to drag around a lot of extra weight will add to fuel consumption and overall maintenance even if you can keep it under the GVM of the truck, lighter is always better. What is the maximum overhang...

We should be, or could be out in the Mog, not sure

Lots a technical features, but as an overall package, it doesn't work, too big and full of pretty useless gadgets. Maximog was the same, full of nice features, but it was never going to be used for what they proposed. This will be the same, they will use it only for publicity, not for...

Thanks for the compliments, I had been designing my truck for years before I eventually starting building it. I just could not build something that looked like a refrigeration truck, you go to have some "Style" :) The angled roof is from practical experience the best way for an off-road...

Your set-up sounds similar to ours, we have the Webasto X100 diesel cooktop inside, and a gas cooktop outside. We have a great slow cooker, which we regularly use - Ecopot . We have the 24/7 version with a 12v heating element, keeps it hot all day. We use it for stews, chicken, corned...

Not an expert by any means, but have done quite a few remote oil and gas well site designs where we run both solar and generators for the control systems and pumps. If you just take the simplest form, and assume 600kWh pack, then it would take at least a 60kW genset 10 hours to charge it...

Pretty common over here in Australia http://www.glind.com.au/ Make you you get a thermostatic mixing valve, the first blast of 85 Dec C water could really ruin your day.

Standard muffler on the Webasto, it's the grey think on under the silver radiator.

Just fired up my Webasto 90S for the first time today, it makes quite a racket when it starts up in full boost mode. Quietens down after about 5 minutes. Just so you think carefully about where you fit the heater, I fitted it as far away from us as possible. Within 20 minutes, the...

Thanks, was thinking of adding something to break up the amount of white, something like this

Now that it's outside, I can finally take some photos of the whole truck. We are quite pleased how it all worked out. Going to put some graphics on the side, just need to decided what.

In July 2009, a big orange "thing" arrived at my house, and ex-Railcorp Unimog U1250 complete with crane, cherry picker and rail gear. It was used to repair the overhead lines down in Sydney. We found an industrial unit and after selling the crane ad cherry picker, we moved it into the...

There are a lot of options available for providing safe water, would be good to hear from people what they have used and how good you have found it to be. We have a Seagull IV as the main drinking water filter, we have not tested it out yet but the reviews and tests seem to rate it pretty...

Probably best to move this to other thread.

That sounds like a good idea, has anyone put this into practise?

Wow, that's not a small hydraulic crane - 500lb at full reach :) I think your roof rack will be a bit stressed if you use the full capacity of it. Interesting to see how it functions. Does it have a winch or is it like a Hiab?

Glad you are back on the road again. You should get one of these, http://www.tyrepliers.com.au/New/BB110.html I had no problem putting on and then removing my Continental MPt81 ( 365/85R20s), all by myself. Hard work but took only about 15 minutes.