Military Specification G-Wagen: Videos and Other Details

[Scott Brady]

I thought a thread curating details and developments with the Canadian specification G-Wagen would be worthwhile. I find this unit to be the most interesting and relevant of the mil-spec applications.





The music at the end is lame, otherwise some good interior shots too

Not Canadian, but good footage of AU-spec G-Wagen training

Canadian spec page: http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/vehicles/g-wagon.page

Shows iterations: http://www.casr.ca/101-army-utility-gwagon.htm

If you are really interested, some training footage- painful to watch (you were warned)

 

[Scott Brady]

This thing is kind of ridiculous, but I am digging the portal axles.

LAPV

 

[McBride]

Those are very cool. There is something about a G on portals with Hutchinson beadlocks; it just looks right.

On the AU video there is a tape of specs running across the page that says it has "macpherson struts with coil springs". I'm not sure that is correct info as the G in the video clearly has a solid axle.

Regardless, very cool.

 

[bojo999999]

Couldn't agree with you more.

 

[ILIAN]

Rear pic

Here is another pic. I like the fuel can mount. I'm going to mount my roof ladder the same way and have the spare wheel on a swing out carrier.

 

[otiswesty]

I found a solar charger panel similar to the Canadian military. The Canadian Gwagens have 2 of them, one for 12v and one for 24v. Here is the one I picked up. It will be on an aluminum panel replacing one of the rear side windows.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SP-2-SolarP...0011&rk=1&rkt=3&sd=231408435428#ht_3442wt_896

 

[otiswesty]

Guido Matthes sells the frame extensions as seen on the military Gwagens. Similar to the Canadian version, but a slightly different shape. I picked up a set a while back and am figuring out where I want to go with my bumper mods before welding these in place.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/MERCEDES-G-G...DE_Autoteile&hash=item3aa06ead90#ht_446wt_723

 

[ILIAN]

What purpose do the frame extensions have? I'm having a steel bumper made out of 3/16" steel with tow hitch and recovery points so I don't think I will have any use for them.

 

[Metric]

I found a solar charger panel similar to the Canadian military. The Canadian Gwagens have 2 of them, one for 12v and one for 24v. Here is the one I picked up. It will be on an aluminum panel replacing one of the rear side windows.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SP-2-SolarP...0011&rk=1&rkt=3&sd=231408435428#ht_3442wt_896

Are you blanking-out your rear windows or doing the Gullwing conversion as seen on the other forums? Just wondering how you will handle the wires moving with the Gullwing.

Winston

 

[otiswesty]

The frame extensionare muti use. Securing the vehicle to a deck, Hi-lift jack point, and aerial transport lift point are the ones that come to mind. I'm thinking #2 will be most applicable to my uses. The solar panel is going onto a stationary window plate in my G500 and not the gull wing access, although I think that could probably be done well if I was going that way.

 

[safariguy]

Scott, thank you for continually finding ways of filling up my time, looking at G Wagen videos, photographs and specs of machines that I can never own. You are a truly evil man, my friend. Evil. E-V-I-L. I am up at 3:30am with jet lag, and this was the first post I decided to take a crack at. With all of this being said, the Canadian spec of the G Wagen is likely the best out of the box configuration (other than the Entdecker) I have yet seen. I would give my left nut to have one.

 

[Kmrtnsn]

The frame extensionare muti use. Securing the vehicle to a deck, Hi-lift jack point, and aerial transport lift point are the ones that come to mind. I'm thinking #2 will be most applicable to my uses. The solar panel is going onto a stationary window plate in my G500 and not the gull wing access, although I think that could probably be done well if I was going that way.

Ah, the old CH-53E Super Sea Stallion; what a beast, reminds me of the good old days. We were a split squadron, 12 CH-53D's, the predecessor to the Echos, and 8 UH-1N's. Both are gone from the Fleet now. I crewed Twin-Hueys mostly but jumped aboard a "****ter" from time to time, so named for the propensity to defecate fluids and small parts everywhere they went. Those were fun times. That "Super ****ter" isn't even working hard with that load.

 

[redthies]

Some day these will (hopefully) be surplus. It'll be payback for all the ball numbing cold I've put up with in more than 40 Canadian winters!

 

[Scott Brady]

I just changed the thread to any Military G-Wagen.

A nice score finding this corporate G-Klasse doc., highlighting the 300 and 280 model in both military and asset protection configurations.

http://www.mb-military-vehicles.com/fileadmin/downloads/G_ClassMilitary_en.pdf

 

[Binkie]

Do the Canadian MilSpec GWagons have portals and bead Locks?

My wife wants one...common sense tells me not to encourage the dream...