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This is my choice - plan on doing the same in my Unimog year.

That looks great Ian, great job.

HI Jochen, the fuel system has a Pollock valve which selects either the left or right tank. The Facet pump sucks the fuel out of the tank ( which ever one the Pollock valve has selected) and pumps it to the feeder pump (or Lift Pump). The feeder pump is then pressurised by the Facet pump, so...

I don't have a block heater yet - just not available over here. Our plan was to be in Siberia / Mongolia in spring/summer, then be in Europe in autumn, fit some cold weather gear like fuel tank heaters, block heater, fuel line heater, battery heater etc, then up to Norway, Denmark or Sweden for...

Great tips Rob, I understand the thing about screws and agree 100% - avoid if possible. It has been a pain, but I have injected epoxy glue to each screw hole on my cabinets - and have limited the use of screws to the hinges ( s/steel piano hinge to spread the load), the drawer catches and to...

That's 3600kg in our measures :Wow1: Sounds like she needs to go on a diet :) :cow::cow: Do the Camel Land Rovers have heavy duty axles, I know mine would probably bend under that weight, they definitely don't make em like they used to... :) I'm trying to keep mine just under 3050kg...

SEtiz windows are available from most RV stores here in Australia, very common, problem is shipping anything out of Australia is very expensive. One thing about the Seitz roof hatches - I bought some, but took them back as the are too flimsy - would not take much of a tree to rip the whole...

Great write up Mike. I did a fair amount of research before going with the Seitz as well. I have three big Seitz/Dometic window in my Unimog but since it is not on the road yet I can't say anything other than they are very easy to install. I have to have some custom mouldings around the...

I contacted Joaquin a few months ago, he told me he was no longer making them

This has been a very interesting read - I wish more people would be honest about what has gone wrong in their vehicles as it helps all the people who are building their own. I take on board all comments about my design choices on my thread, whilst sometime it is difficult to admit making a...

Hi Shayne, just finished reading the whole thread, great job and a really nice Land Rover. Loads of great features and things. I've just about finished getting mine ready, and was working out the weight etc and I expect I'm pretty close to max GVM. Did you ever get yours weighed?

I've got two Land Rovers, a 1996 Discovery TDI and a 2011 Defender 110. Here are a few photos from our previous trips in the outback. First our Discovery. After a few trips we realised that we need something with a bit more carrying capacity for extended trips, so we bought a Defender...

The stairs are mainly to get past a regulation rather than as the main way of getting into the back. I'll have a "normal" clip-on set for when we are parked up. Regarding air supply, I have two electric ARB twin motor air compressors that will charge up the air system to enable a quicker get...

May update. I've done a bit of work over the last month, so time to post an update. First off is the radiator. I finally decided to go with a 16" SPAL puller fan behind the radiator, and a low profile 16" SPAL pusher fan in front of the condenser. I made an aluminium adapter that fits...

The main things that govern where you can and can't go are width and height. Next is the departure angle and ramp over angle. After that, is ground clearance, the come things like turning circle, wading depth etc. Your rig looks pretty wide, not very high, but higher than most 4x4s, but has...

I've travelled and camped since I got my licence, my second car was a Nissan panel van and I travelled around southern Africa with it. I've drive over 50,000km with my Land Rovers with a roof top tent in Australia. I find that when the weather is good, when the roads are good, you don't need...

Sorry for the lack of updates. I have been working on the truck - not as much as I used to. I've been spending as much time as I can with my wife, all the problems she has been having due to the cancer treatment makes me want to be with her more an more, just to make things easier for her...

No problem, send him my details - I should have made a bit more progress by the time he comes over.

I've been following the travels of Robert and Clary for a few years now - Last thing in their blog was they were shipping their truck back to Europe to continue their travel. It is certainly a well travelled truck - they have done a lot of the route we intend to travel in our truck we we...

If you are going to remote areas( outside of phone range or days from civilisation where you could be stuck for weeks - if that exists in the US) , then whatever spares for the things that will stop you getting out of trouble - things like a fuel pump, water pump, set of wheel bearings...