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Hello! Just spotted this... a year later! The internals are a work in progress but usable! The bathroom, bedroom and shower and all externals are finished. The kitchen and living is perfectly usable, but needs the flooring laying, the overhead cupboards finishing and the 4 cheap plastic office...

Hello! How's the truck progressing. I picked up on a couple of things. On the 3rd picture you posted, you have labelled one large nut & bolt 'Fill port'..... The fill port and level port are the one you have labelled in the second picture that are on the tin cover on the front of the diff. The...

Hello! What a clean tidy & cool truck you've managed to find! As other's have said, that larger cab is brilliant and something we'd have loved on ours! I wouldn't rush to extend the chassis, because the longer the chassis, the more work the subframe has to do. I built a rear bumper and spare...

On our way back we had another look at the progress on the new Fitzroy Crossing bridge! Wow those guys worked well! We saw it a month before it opened! An incredible amount of work in 6 months! It opened a month later in December while we were in the UK. This last pic is a hidden gem...

With the tour season over we then had the opportunity to return to Purnululu to look after one of the Wilderness Lodges in there for a month. It felt very different doing the journey in our own truck! It was fantastic having the lodge to ourselves! It was soooo quiet!! By now the temps...

Once back in the North West we set about preparing for the 2023 season! The bikes are our main mode of transport in and around Broome! The start of the 2023 season was an interesting one. The Kimberley had just had the wettest wet season in 50 years, and there was so much rain that the...

So I've been a little quiet for a while. As always there's other things going on! Since we last spoke, we've completed another season in the Kimberley with APT and managed to go to the UK for a Christmas catch up with family! This time though we have rented our house out and became full time...

I've not been here for a while and I have to say there's some impressive stuff happening in your workshop! It's really coming together eh!! Do you have a completion date you are working towards? :)

Late arrival here as I've not been here for months! Did you get any closer to making a decision? We run a 1995 Mercedes 1222A here in Australia. It's the 11 lt V6 OM 441Naturally Asmatic engine coupled to a 6 speed gearbox. We have a 2 speed transfer box and lockable axles front and rear. It's 1...

Hello! By the sounds of it, lighting laws might be a little stricter with you than here in Oz. We have a limit on the number of light pairs we can have forward facing which is 6. I looked into upgrading the original Mercedes candles, and other than adding aftermarket globes/bulbs (thanks for...

Hello. So our truck's lowest point is the bottom of the transfer box at 500mm. The bottom of side skirts along the side of the truck are 650mm from the ground and our wheelbase is 4.3m.

Hello. I've been away for a while, but home now for a few months. Good to see another build underway on a Merc. We looked into the recirculating shower (or should I say I), but Wifetec was a flat no on the idea! I'll be interested to see how you go and if there are any negatives with it.

If anyone finds themselves in WA, the Pinnacles is also worth a visit. We spent an afternoon there, but could have lost several days wandering between the rocks. Once back in SA we took the ferry between Lucky Bay and Wallaroo. Something we'd talked about doing before the truck was finished...

Once through Perth, we were east bound for home. We called into a farm on the Wheatbelt I'd worked on 25 years ago. It was great to see everyone looking so well, and wander over somewhere I'd been 25 years earlier! We managed to find some old coastal 'ports' on our travels, which made for...

With a laps of the Kimberley complete, it was time to head home. We were one of the last trucks around for the season, and the daily temps had got too the mid to high 40's. We spent another week in Broome, before heading south. Cable Beach was a favourite spot to wind down and watch the world go...

As our season drew to a close early with KST, we went looking for alternatives, and ended up working for a larger company called APT. This came with positives as we were in a Mercedes for a start (which our bodies were thankful for). The trips are a lot less hands on as they don't involve...

As the season went on we got more into the swing of things. Knowing the route, knowing the details of each place and setups made the trips flow. Here's the east end of the Gibb River Road, which runs from just outside Kununurra across to Derby. Along the Gibb we'd see all sorts of random...

Right, time for a decent update. Last Christmas we were offered and accepted jobs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, driving tour trucks carrying passengers around on a 16 day loop trip. This meant we'd get to places like Kununurra, Mitchell Falls, Manning Gorge, Broome etc. It was...

To change that vehicle to rear steer would be massive work. Both rear axles are mounted on two upturned leaf springs, allowing massive axle travel. By removing all of this and adding a steerable axle would mean a completely different rear system... which kinda defeats the object of buying a...

Great looking truck. It's interesting to hear that Russia is open to visitors.