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  1. Regularly hire them for work mate and doubt you will find one from a typical hire company without paying that kind of typical figure (plus plant insurance, ipaf or similar) - and finding a company that will supply a driver for a day or so is hard and usually expensive. One option - what about a small digger (the 3ton or 8 ton type) pretty sure between us we could walk it on your trailer with that - and usually available for day hire.
  2. So very true. And one that I am currently addressing, back to enjoying the driving for me! That was the true reason for purchasing the mog, so much so right out of the tin, regular maintenance (which I do enjoy) on a stock truck should see me back to where the mud is!
  3. Simon, thank you for the detailed response, begining to understand the electrickery a little more now. Back to plan A now, onto the voltage droppers, with the knowledge of being able to run off the 12v battery for emergency breakdowns. BBC - will call you soon! (work gwtting in the way!)
  4. Can offer you a guided tour of Kirton Off Road Centre (korc) at the end of the month, January 30th and 31st I will be there both days. About a 30min drive for you.
  5. BBC - Will call you in the morning Im liking the 24v - namely for the winching and starter motor, ok the 600w generator is is only about 45amps but it is pressurised waterproof as standard, and as hard as I find it to believe, second hand mog spares are quite easy to get! Read a post on difflock where a guy converted to 12v, managed to get his starter re-wound (not cheap though). He left the heater and wipers in 24v and reported they were slower but still operational.
  6. Nice Tyres! Soren, re the head gasket, did you keep up with the maintenance schedule of torque tightening the head bolts regularly? I mention this because both the user manual and workshop manual make a big play on this, almost too much!
  7. Your Wish is my command!.... The tyres are standard 10.5r20 continental mpt's badly worn, but until the beer tokens creep back up, out with the tyre cutter!!! - Going for the simex jungle treker pattern (who says you cant polish a turd?)Thats the knackered spare BTW, hence playing with patterns. I shall bear you in mind for the spares! Fridge, are you also reffering to just going on the one battery take off route? With just some (sensible) fusing.
  8. Hmmm, I wont question your experiance at all, rather absorb it! So, as I see it, my only real (easy) option is the M130? (I do not want to cut and shut an engine in, trying to keep somewhere near original)
  9. Thanks Pete, Im thinking along the lines of using your method to get up and running, then find a suitable dropper in time. Hi Soren, I was looking at your build on difflock, nice! Hmmmm, raawfab looks nice and easy - just the £££££'s or should I say $$$$$'s and I have been through enough pain with MSnS & MSnEdis to feel comfortable with them. And I can rape a BMW 6 pot just around the corner, all parts for £50! My plans are to squirt it then do the 8 speed conversion. Roll cage when I next have DirtyDiesel in my pocket
  10. Thanks guys. Re taking off just one battery, in my rather hit and run attitude towards life, this is the option most favourable to me! Im so uneducated in the way of the trickery that I do not know the implications of just drawing off one battery.
  11. Thanks Steve, Edis = 20a = wow!(including coil packs i assume?) I dont keep the lamda sensor, set up with a wide band and disconnect, so 5amp saved! might have to rethink or use a heavy duty dropper?
  12. Hello all, Made the transistion from LR to Unimog and life is good!...... However the mog is carb and dizzy, I have tasted the blood of MS+Edis and I want more...... The mechanics of going injected are no issue - injection components from a beemer 6 pot, fuel pump from a RR, Edis from a cossy Granny etc... Its the electrickery thats my "grey area".... The mog is 24volts and I wish to keep it that way for a number of reasons, I need 12volts for the MS, Edis and Fuel Pump. I can buy a 24v to 12v dropper that can give out 20amps for circa £25. Is 20amps enough? Guessing: Megasquirt = 2amps max Fuel Pump = 8 amps (rangie was a 10amp fuse) Edis = 2 amps (total guess) Coil Packs = ?amps - I have no idea - do you? Ideas/guidance gratefully received (a certain grumpy git might dragh out his soldering iron and scribe some calcs onto the screen?)
  13. Swinging towards VR sensor also, trigger wheel - check, check and check, go have a coffee and check again. Then fit EDIS [ot] Fridge, where can I get a megajolt for a six pot? [/ot]
  14. DD's G wagon has a bit of history..... Many moons ago, it was living with my Rover V8 in it, mated to the g wagon auto box and transfer box. When the Diesel went in, it was fitted to a 2 wheel drive lt77 and utilised the merc remote transfer box. [the box has survived in part due to the gearing of the portals] As a few on here know, that motor is a capable one, and with some fear of raising the petrol vs diesel debate, and when DD gets back, Im fairly sure he will agree that with RV8 in [albeit a good one] it was a very powerfull and capable motor...the fitting of a LR diesel did make the vehicle lose some of its edge...... but DD tweaked the diesel and on a recent playday was climbing hills like a "gud un".
  15. Thanks guys..... getting better by the day Will, took the words right out of my mouth, went and looked at the first aid kit in the rangie, absolutely nothing for burns.....its going to get modified.... lets be honest, in the middle of a quarry or greenlane.... how many of us have had to have a mechanics session....... (christ Im getting old and sensible) without any first aid kit at all.
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