Snagger
Explorer
I've just read this thread from start to finish, and it's a very impressive refurbishment and adaptation project. I envy you the vehicle and the trip!
For many of the EU countries, you will need a first aid kit and two fire extinguishers. You will also be required to carry a spare bulb kit, a break down warning triangle (the fold-out plastic reflective type you put on the road 100 or so yards from the vehicle), Hi-Vis vests for each vehicle occupant, registration and insurabce documents, and as already mentioned, a new French addition is a breathaliser kit. Be warned that the Italians and Swiss don't like roof mounted fuel cans - one of them prohibits them to be full on the roof and the other has banned them up there at all, even empty (I can't remeber which is which). The Swiss are also, unsurprisingly, a little anal about vehicle condition - the vehicle must be clean within the Swiss borders; any mud or thick dust on it and they won't let you in.
As far as the trailer brakes are concerned, you only need the over-run brakes (mechanically activated by the inertia pushing forward on the trailer's hitch) - you don't need air or powered hydraulic brakes that connect to the vehicle's brakes until you get to 3.5T, if I recall it accurately.
PM me if you're going to be passing Bedford (the UK one) - I'd love to have a look at it in the flesh (as would my CT Club member eleven year old son).
By the way, keep an eye on the rad and that electric fan - mounting them directly to the rad like that can cause fretting and puncturing of the tubules. You might also consider buying an X-Eng unlockable anti-roll bar when you're in the UK; it lookls like the sort of thing that would suit you.
For many of the EU countries, you will need a first aid kit and two fire extinguishers. You will also be required to carry a spare bulb kit, a break down warning triangle (the fold-out plastic reflective type you put on the road 100 or so yards from the vehicle), Hi-Vis vests for each vehicle occupant, registration and insurabce documents, and as already mentioned, a new French addition is a breathaliser kit. Be warned that the Italians and Swiss don't like roof mounted fuel cans - one of them prohibits them to be full on the roof and the other has banned them up there at all, even empty (I can't remeber which is which). The Swiss are also, unsurprisingly, a little anal about vehicle condition - the vehicle must be clean within the Swiss borders; any mud or thick dust on it and they won't let you in.
As far as the trailer brakes are concerned, you only need the over-run brakes (mechanically activated by the inertia pushing forward on the trailer's hitch) - you don't need air or powered hydraulic brakes that connect to the vehicle's brakes until you get to 3.5T, if I recall it accurately.
PM me if you're going to be passing Bedford (the UK one) - I'd love to have a look at it in the flesh (as would my CT Club member eleven year old son).
By the way, keep an eye on the rad and that electric fan - mounting them directly to the rad like that can cause fretting and puncturing of the tubules. You might also consider buying an X-Eng unlockable anti-roll bar when you're in the UK; it lookls like the sort of thing that would suit you.
What've you done to it!