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I love the translucent pane;s for the garage - great idea. We will be "down sizing" our home one of these days, the kids are moving out and we don't need six bedrooms for the two of us :) I like the minimalist look, but it also looks like they went a bit overboard in the garage - nothing...

Hi Alan, i thought I started out with a rough truck, but you have built a whole new one and used a few bits from the old one :) Fantastic metalwork and determination. In the end you will have a great truck without all the built in Fuso problems that made me reject it as an expedition...

Any good locksmith could do the same, all of my external locker locks use one key.

Baie dankie Jochen, voorspoedige nuwe jaar vir jy and jou familie

I was thinking of replacing my Sietz ones with glass ones - I did find someone who was willing to make direct replacement windows for the Seitz ones but they seem to have gone out of business. I'd love to get some photos of the window and all of it's components and see what goes into making them.

They certainly look like very good quality windows etc. Wish I'd known about them before I fitted my Dometic/Seitz ones.

We will be putting lap belts in the back and get the paperwork/compliance plate needed to have people travel in the back. This is so our kids can come with us for a time when we are overseas, but they will have to put up with a tent outside or on the roof. The bed is a standard double bed...

Thanks Dr Deol, she is up for more surgery which involves removing a piece of bone in her wrist, and then cutting and shortening one of the bones in her arm. Hopefully that fixes it. It sounds drastic but it should make it a lot easier for her to climb in and out of the Mog. Doctor says she...

Time for a pre-Christmas update. The interior fit out progressed a bit more, the front of the fridge and stove cabinets have been fitted. It was quite a job getting them all to line up - my accuracy is not that good, and there was around a 6mm discrepancy between the bottom corner of the...

I look forward to reading about your adventures, the truck looks great, and whatever is not finished or doesn't work, you can fix on the road now. Good luck and safe travels

Not quite bored at the moment :) No remote, just toggle switch on the internal control panel near the door.

Part of the regulations that allow you to register your trucks as an RV says that you have to be able to "exit the door with the use of external fittings or fixtures" which means you can't have steps that you fit on the outside when stopped. The other silly rules are that you have to be able...

Automatic Steps Just finished my automatic steps for the camper - one of the many requirements if you want your truck registered as an RV here in Queensland. I used a Warner 12 volt Linear actuator Model number DE12-17W41-05FP015 with a 5 inch stroke. It is IP56 rated and has a maximum force...

A little bit of progress this week, but fairly frustrating as I find that i get to a point in each build that I have to stop and order, then wait for various parts. I started to do do some work in the dashboard and the interior of the truck. The first thing was to sort out the dash, so I fished...

There we so many vehicles at Butterfly springs I think even the butterflies would have had to sleep on the road :). First time we were ( Oct 2012) there we had the place to ourselves, but did not swim as the water was pretty stagnant, no butterflies though. This time we did not even make it...

Thanks Tim, I'll post a link to the book site when it's finished. Iain

We are working on the book, have to narrow down from around 10,000 photos to about 100. So far we have narrowed it down to 380 photos, so now to sort our the final ones and the layout. We will self publish is, on one of the website that allow you to sell it. We are thinking about donating the...

It was great having a boat on our trip, whilst there were places that hire canoes out, having your own boat means not having deadlines and you can take your time. The one major thing we wanted to do was to go to Dirk Hartog island from Steep Point, but it was very windy and our boat is more...

Great build, nice to see another Unimog under construction :)

Time for an update then. First of all, the interior fit out saga continues slowly, but the rear overhead locker is now in, and that meant I could fit the speakers and the fans. The door for the toilet locker was also delivered, so I screwed it on. It looks good, but there was a mistake -...