At long last, my truck is now registered.
For all other looking at looking at registering a truck as a motorhome you need the following:
Safety Certificate
Weighbridge Certificate
Vehicle Details Inspection Sheet:
Motorhome/Caravan Inspection Sheet:
CTP Insurance ( You need to pre-pay this so you can take it to the weighbridge)
Vehicle Registration Application Form
and if you have personalised number plate like us, you need the
Remove/Attach personalise number plate form
You also need a smoke alarm, a fire extinguisher and a fire blanket if you have a stove inside ( which you need to have to register as a motor home). If you have a gas stove, you need a "Gas Certificate" from a licensed "Gas Fitter"
If you have make any modifications to the seats, exhaust, engine, brakes, body, so just about anything, you will need a "Modification Plate" with all the various codes on it. They want a copy of the "Green Form" from the modification engineer before they will register it.
There is a mountain of paper work, and even more if your vehicle is imported ( i.e. = never been registered in Australia before) which lucky for us was not the case.
In the end, it turned out a bit heavier than expected, full of fuel, people and water, we are 7.12 tons, so we don't have that much spare weight to play with. Going to look at ways of doing a GVM upgrade, even a couple of hundred kg will make it better. We can live with the current GVM, just won't be able to carry too much stuff which might not be a bad thing.
It is great to drive, quite happy at 90kph around 2000rpm. I've set the boost to 10psi, and it gets there around 1500rpm. It can hold speed up the hills on the highway, not game to push it too hard as I've only got 60km on the new engine, so trying to be gentle in the beginning. I've read loads of websites and heard lots of advice on how to run in an old style diesel, and the one thing everyone seems to agree with is not to be too gentle on it, try not to idle it if at all possible, and keep it loaded up. Some say don't rev it, other says not to rev it hard under load, but you need to let it rev a bit now and again, and most say charge the oil filter around 500km to ensure the oil filter is not blocked with all the engine assembly lube and bits of silcone/RTV/gaskets. Portals and transmission are running around 50-60 Deg C after a trip down the highway at 90kph
The ceramic coating in the exhaust manifold and turbo housing works well, 10 minutes after our trip down the highway, I was able to hold my hand on the turbo housing, laser temp read 60 Deg C whilst the EGT gauge still said 110 C.
My speedo is about 16% under-reading, so will head off down to the place for a new speedo correction gearbox, they are only about 20km away, so will use the trip to compare the odometer to the GPS route distance and work out the closest ratio box to correct the speedo. I have a small water leak on the camper water system (seems I crossed threaded a brass elbow somehow), and I need to get the a/c system gassed up, as it was pretty hot driving around without a/c - been about 16 years since I last drove any car without a/c. All going well I will have all these things fixed by tomorrow evening, then we will drive around some more to get up the 500km by the weekend. If the weather says good, we will be down on the beach early next week, and hopefully spend out first night in the camper.