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Some of the realities of driving a large truck on tracks created by much smaller vehicles. I would not to have even tried these tracks without the extensive bar work we have,and our truck is smaller than most Unimogs. The angled roof helped a lot, without it, we would have had to do a lot...

It was on the way to Nor 6 memorial and the blowholes at Zuytdorp cliffs

We have made it across Australia, another 10,000km mainly on dirt road and a desert crossing as well. This is the latest fuel consumption. Things have averaged out and are sitting around 21 L/100km or 11.2mpg (US) which I think for an 8 ton truck is pretty good. We also got stuck for the...

I'll will be putting these into our video of our Simpson Desert crossing, but here are some FB links to show how much the chassis flexes on our truck. https://fb.watch/vRDBvDHyM9/ https://fb.watch/vRDKrQIBPf/ This one shows the suspension working, and what happens when you hit some really...

Yes, thanks Charlie, will be hard to do when the tar gets over 75C, but I have an alarm set for 75C, so far, it has not gone off.

We are finally off on our trip across Australia, and just published the first YouTube video, it is very hot out here this time, mid to high 40C, engine is doing fine, but taking it a bit easier on the portal axles and tyres this time, we have another 15,000km to go. The tyres got up to 68C on...

Hi Roger, it is a Spitzlift crane, I think ours is a 900. Make sure your get enough of the strap to reach the ground, I had to specify that when I ordered it, the standard one was too short. https://spitzlift.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-spitzLift-catalog.pdf It can handle our heavy...

If anyone was wondering how to get things up onto a 3m high roof rack... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aqfYZoYZEPI

It is just a breather, and used to see the timing marks when setting up the fuel pump, not a filler cap, basically any cap that fits will do, there is no pressure behind it, if you know someone with a 3D printer, they could make one for you out of TPU in a few minutes

I asked my wife to repair our boat gear bag. She did a great job. The only thing she kept was the zip

Nice looking truck

We have posted another video on our YouTube channel, this is a bit of an experiment, as this one is just the real-time footage of us driving up the Canning Stock route, not commentary or exciting bit, just what it is actually like driving across the desert. It is only 3 1/2 hour out of the 10...

We are getting ready to go on another trip across Australia. We have been making a few short videos on our YouTube of how we are getting ready for a 5 month trip. I've replaced the old oil filter housing with the new design, the old ones are prone to cracking leading to loss of oil pressure...

Mine has a block mounted compressor, but when I re-built the air system, I added a "wet tank" and a filter dryer into the air system. I have never had anything come out any of the air drains on the tanks, and when I swapped out one of the air tanks, I found nothing at all in the tank, not even...

I've used a variety, when we are traveling I use the Castrol Ultra Long life oil - 100,000km between changes, and I change the oil filter every 5000km. Much easier to get rid of one litre of oil than 12 litres oil. I change it when I get back after 20-30,000km. Fully synthetic 10W40...

I think the idea was to show how you could start it without another vehicle, if you were stuck by yourself.

I agree, a pneumatic caulking gun is a must, especially if you are using Sikaflex 252, unless you have forearms like Popeye. Get a good one, mine has lasted 10 years so far, and many sausages of Sikaflex. I got given this one from a Sika rep.

Pipework is all sorted , and it si more or less self bleeding, with the t-piece at the highest point on the hoses going to the intercooler. With this header tank, I have over 5 litres of water/coolant in the system. The last expansion tank I 3D printed didn't work, as it created air locks in...

At last, finally found a header tank that will work. Just need to sort out the pipe work.

We have out spare wheel mounted over the cab, but on a completely separate steel frame, as I didn't want to over load the roof, our 365/80R20 on beadlock wheels weight 115kg. The old steel wheel were around 100kg. The MB Body builder handbook for our model has the maximum roof load of...