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It is a pretty big job, not something I would recommend to someone who did not know much about auto electrics. Slow but sure progress, wiring is not hard to do, if you know how, but does require a lot of patience. I find it pretty rewarding though, as with each circuit completed, something...

Wiring Nothing really that exciting to update. I am back at work on another contract, so progress has been slow, not much work done in the evenings due to getting home a bit late, but hopefully I should have things under control soon and will be able to spend a few evenings in from now on...

Having spent more than four years build my truck, I can honestly say that it has been good, sometime frustrating, sometimes wondering if I will ever get it finished. When I look at what I started with, go back to my build threads and blog and see how far I've come, it gives me the motivation to...

LOL, even I don't think it will take that long to finish the Mog :)

In January, my wife and I celebrated being together for 30 years. We are planning our next trip but want it to be in my Unimog so I have to get my act together and finish it.

Fantastic, worldwide service as well. Hope they also help those of us who stuck their truck together with 252 :)

On my Land Rover Defender, with a LRA 120lt fuel tank, I can get 1000km in "normal" stop start/highway mix. When fully loaded with a RTT etc, on road at 90-100kph around 850km. Dirt road/Off Road we only get around 700km safely, but can stretch it a bit if the going is good to around 850km...

Hi Jason, thanks for the advice. All the "soft" lines on the fuel system are new, and yesterday I finally received my Facet pumps from the UK. I plumbed them in and powered them up, and found quite a few leaks as the fuel found its way around the system. I had a few copper washers to...

Hi ALn, funny that you should say that. In my Defender, I get a bad rattle noise when using fuel from both BP and Caltex here in Brisbane, some CEM CRD additive fixed the rattle. When traveling around Australia, we had no problems with fuel from north of WA or NT, both get their fuel from...

Australia is a great place to visit, like Rob says, most people drive in the smoothest part of the road in the outback, but you have to remember to stick to the left when something is coming towards you. You can often drive all day without seeing another vehicles. We move from one side of the...

thanks for the advice, I'm not sure if there are any rubber seals or O-rings on the old Bosch injection pumps. I'll keep a look out for fuel leaks, should be able to tell once I connected up the Facet pumps, even 6 PSI should be enough to show up any leaks. The injection pump and injectors...

Hi Pairoa, I have been kept turning the engine over by hand every month or so, and now us the starter motor to turn it over and get the oil to circulate. I put new oil in a month ago when I was testing the turbo oil restrictor. I will soon be charging up the fuel pump with diesel, and have...

HI Pierre, that looks really great. It is amazing how you have managed to pack so much stuff into such a small space. Really good work.

That looks just like their version of the Loctite thread sealant that caused all the problems in the beginning. The problem with that type of sealant is that it sets up very quickly one you tighten up the joint hand tight, you have only a few seconds to do up the last turn or so before it sets...

Good point, when we are on the road, it is just for ourselves, writing a blog is something I did in the evenings, just something to pass the time. My main interest in our last trip was taking photos for our Naked Outback project. My wife also had a blog, but found it too much trouble to write...

We find the same with MB parts in Australia. They cost four or five times as much as they do in the UK or Germany, and they take four to six weeks to get them. Luckily we can still buy from places like At-Vos or Merex and they will ship them to us, but we can't buy from a MB dealer due to MB...

I have loved reading some blogs and switch off after a page or two on other blogs. Sometimes the trip is to nowhere special, but the photos and humour of the writer just keeps me reading. Other blogs have a fantastic destination, but the writing is so boring I just scan the photos. Even then...

LOL, probably because we don't care much about winter sports, only a tiny bit of the country gets snow, and most of us have enough sense not to go there during winter - anything less than 20 degrees Celcius is way to cold for me :) I am amazed at your patience and dedication as well, your...

I often look back and wonder if I should have rather spent the money on getting a better truck as a base to start from. Comparing it so some of the truck I have seen, mine was in pretty poor condition and since it was built as a road-rail truck, had so many modifications that I had to undo...

Finally, since the workshop was cleanish, I took a few photos of what it looked like tonight. I stitched this one together from five photos in Photoshop, next time I'll take my proper camera and shoot a panarama. Overall Dimensions: Length- 6.2m Width - 2.2m Height - 3.4m Outside...