1979 Unimog Camper for sale in Arizona

[Christian P.]

look at this:

www.eddis-page.com

18 years on the road...

[XXXpedition]

pretty cool unimog - i love that body style...
but if i'd want a truck like that i'd want to build it myself.
they've been some neat places.damn i'm getting jealous... :-)))))

[Robthebrit]

I now own this! My house is slowly becoming a refuse for old Unimogs.

The truck is mechanically perfect, Eddi is a german mechanical engineer - need I say more? There is some need for body work, its a unimog so thats to be expected.

The camper, not my style, is so well thought out and better than anything I could build. Its a great platform to build from and has some really nice features which you think off by living it it for 18 years.

The camper lifts off as a single unit and will mount on a 1250 or 1300L so there may be an upgrade in its future.

For you unimog folk out there, the 416 truck by itself is a super rare version, it was originally built as a rapid response ambulance and has the ultra fast axles and the fast hubs. It'll do 65mph with small tires (41 inch) and 2800 rpm, if you crank up the RPM to 3150 and use big tires (46 inch) you'll get it up to 80mph (my other 416 only does 62 after the engine tweaks).

I'll post more when I get it

Rob

[Scott Brady]

Congrats Rob!

I would love to meet those folks and buy them dinner. Man, to hear the stories from 18 years on the road.

[Blair G]

I now own this! My house is slowly becoming a refuse for old Unimogs.

The truck is mechanically perfect, Eddi is a german mechanical engineer - need I say more? There is some need for body work, its a unimog so thats to be expected.

The camper, not my style, is so well thought out and better than anything I could build. Its a great platform to build from and has some really nice features which you think off by living it it for 18 years.

The camper lifts off as a single unit and will mount on a 1250 or 1300L so there may be an upgrade in its future.

For you unimog folk out there, the 416 truck by itself is a super rare version, it was originally built as a rapid response ambulance and has the ultra fast axles and the fast hubs. It'll do 65mph with small tires (41 inch) and 2800 rpm, if you crank up the RPM to 3150 and use big tires (46 inch) you'll get it up to 80mph (my other 416 only does 62 after the engine tweaks).

I'll post more when I get it

Rob

Lucky! Now you need to head up the coast for a test spin. First beers on me.
Blair

[Robthebrit]

Scott, you should go and knock on their door, they live in Prescott (what a beautiful place). I spent a whole day with them yesterday, they are great people.

They have the most awesome stories. They had a final drive hub bearing fail in the sahara, he had a spare bearing but step 1 of the instructions was remove the hub, thats a nightmare at the best of times, step 2 put the hub in a 10 ton press to push the bearing out. The solution they came up with was to use the bottle jack upside down on top of the bearing and the whole thing balanced ontop of the spare wheel lying flat in the sand. They then found the CG of the truck an jacked up the truck putting its entire weight on the bearing - fortunately for them 6 tonnes was enough to push the bearing. It took them 3 days to fix it and they knew it would only last a few thousand miles because the hub had lots of sand in in when they were finished. They made it to a Unimog repair shop and had the bearing replaced properly. That is an ingeneous solution that only school of hard knocks can teach you.

That is the only major failure they had in 170,000 miles and was due to water contamination.

Rob

[Robthebrit]

Blair, I'll hold you to that. It'll take a couple of weeks to get it and then the usual issues with a Unimog and the CA DMV.

Rob

[Joaquin Suave]

Congradulations! What a fantastic bearing story.

The second beir is on me!

I will probably have possesion of my Ng L1419 by then. If your so inclined, we'll arrange the central coast meet and greet around your trip north.

[dieselcruiserhead]

awesome.. and congrats Rob, that is killer.. I didn't realize it had the fast gears, very cool. there used ot be a guy around here who daily drove a 4 door Doka 416 version.. I worked at a land cruiser shop that stocked unimogs, both 404 and 406/416 diesel models.. I daily drove one for a week, a French 416 troop carrier, when I was doing the spring over on my land cruiser. Was a lot of fun to roll to the bars in that thing...

[Blair G]

Blair, I'll hold you to that. It'll take a couple of weeks to get it and then the usual issues with a Unimog and the CA DMV.

Rob

Rob,

Did you get the camper yet?
Blair