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"It will be great when it's finished" - that what I said to my wife when I got a phone call one day from her asking why had a crane truck been delivered to our house. It took a bit of convincing that I was not mad, and that I could do most of the work myself so it won't cost that much. I think...

It is a Grand Argus 550P http://www.grandboats.com/argus.htm It packs down to 100cm x 55cm x 35cm. We got the biggest one, but we actually wanted the 450P, the next size down, but they were out of stock. In hindsight, we are glad we got the bigger one as we have had four people in it, and...

Sure is :)

I have two of the dual ones, but will only fit the second one after I get it registered, or if I need it to ensure I make the 5 minute cut off to release the handbrake. The main use would be for running air tools and pumping up tyres without running the engine. I have around 60lt of air tanks...

I would have loved to take the tyre back home with me, but weight and space did not allow it. If they were the $1100 Unimog tyres, then I would definitely take them back with me, and put lots of patches on them :)

Thanks, I'm working on the truck now, so I will have some updates in the very near future, at the moment, I am undo a lot to things, and redoing them based on our experiences on our trip. Progress is slow, and a lot of waiting for the interior fit out to finish. Next week I start work on the...

During our trip we kept writing down all the things that we needed to do differently on our Unimog, or just do differently. Each major trip we have done has shown us things that we have incorporate into the truck but being away for so long was a real eye opener. On our previous trips or two or...

I'm really interested to hear what the various international conditions/regulations are for both drivers and vehicles. I have an Australian "MR" licence, two axle trucks up to 12,000kg. When we move to Australia, I had a South African licence for any two axle truck, but that was not...

Making sure you can get spare parts is important. FEDEX, UPS or DHL can get parts from anywhere in the world to you pretty quickly, you just need to know where to buy them from, and have the money to pay for shipping. Mercedes 613 buses are common over here in Australia, and in Europe. If...

HI Rob, i saw your method in your build up of Mk2, but I'm too lazy :) I've found all the details on the "official" U1250 weight, and it's 8000kg, so I will push for that, then I'll be OK weight wise.

Back from holiday and now work starts full time on the Mog, first thing was to find out how much it weighs. I hired a set of weigh pads again. The results were a bit disappointing given how much focus I've put on the weight. I put most of the stuff that I plan to put in the truck, including...

Cape Byron, the other side of Australia We drove back on the "normal" route, and watched the storm coming over on the weather radar. It looked pretty bad, and there were loads of warning on our phones and on the radio. We were going to drive through it somewhere close to home. We decide to...

On the Monday, we decide it would be a great time to go to Sandy Cape, the very end of Fraser Island. The only problem was that there is a couple of points that are only passable within two hours of high tide. We packed up and were on the beach by 8:30, and we had to be back past the Ngkala...

Fraser Island We arrived home on Sunday, but since we were still officially on holiday, we kept a low profile. First thing Monday we booked the car in for a service, and after much haggling, we managed to get it in on the Wednesday morning. In the mean time I put the old propshaft back in and...

Back of Bourke to Mt Kaputar. We both felt good after the morning's photo shoot, so after breakfast, we took the scenic route to Tibooburra this time, it is called "Middle Road" and it goes through the middle of the National Park. It was in a lot better condition than the main road, no...

Heading East - Sturt Desert National Park From Arkaroola we headed east again, up to the Stezleki Track. We decided to stop for lunch at a place called " Montecollina Bore". We had driven up the Strezleki a few years ago, and this time it was much better. Last time was after the heavy rains...

Ditto on the last one, just where can you put rubbish in a camper truck. I was thinking about something on the back down low, but then our rear kitchen would cover it. Inside the truck there is not enough space, your TARDIS is a bit bigger than our truck Julian. We will use the lower drawer...

Not much happening on my thread, so happy to get more info on the X100. Sounds like you have it all sorted Julian. We have been reading your blog with great interest as you have been following a similar route to what we will be going when I eventually finish my truck. Over the past three...

Late in the afternoon, we set out for Echo Camp riverbed again. We found some more cool rocks as we casually walked up the river bed, then I noticed that the sun was going behind the hill, and the whole valley was starting to go into the shade. We then started to walk a lot faster, almost...

We continued around the 4wd track, which became a bit easier, 2nd gear/low range :), and came across this old gold mine - according to the information booklet, a single miner found a seam of gold around 1946 and mined it out. This was his camp. He was pretty tough, living by himself in a...