Unimog Camper under construction

[Jostt]

Very nice to see You Ian enjoying ....jeje the vídeos You made whit the dron are amazing , Im thinking to start to use one.
The place You show on the lake is nice , my wife loves kayaks Also...we do some times whit Our sevilor, but I need to make some long distance to find a good lake, north of Spain ...

 

[Iain_U1250]

Hi guys.

Are you getting as far as the Adelaide Hills/Barossa? Cheers.

We are heading down to a place called No, 2 Rocks - Near Lake Bonny over Easter, about halfway to Adelaide only. If you feel like a trip, let me know, our campsite is big enough for two trucks.

Very nice to see You Ian enjoying ....jeje the vídeos You made whit the dron are amazing , Im thinking to start to use one.
The place You show on the lake is nice , my wife loves kayaks Also...we do some times whit Our sevilor, but I need to make some long distance to find a good lake, north of Spain ...

It is a long river, around 2500km long. It is was our first time up there, but it was a great place, so we will be going back there.

 

[Iain_U1250]

Finally got around to editing part 3 of the engine rebuild video, this time with a voice over as I was too lazy to do all the captions

 

[Sitec]

We'd love to be there, but I still don't have a usable camper. We do have a body for it now tho! Enjoy!

 

[Jostt]

Very nice video, thanks for share It, I can Imagine your engine was wiht the Air compresor on the block as a Std no? Im now on the point to rebuild my one, mine is a Wabco whit belt on front of the engine, my question is , ir buy a complete staff to fit a New block compresor? Or rebuild my one, some advantage whit the block locación?

 

[Iain_U1250]

The four bolt block compressor flows about as much as the air cooler belt compressor, but they are only 8 bar units. Both motors I had have engine block compressors, and I had a spare belt driven one, but decided not to fit it, went with two ARB twin motor air compressors as back-up instead, as I could use them without having to run the engine. They pull about 50A each,but put out about twice the airflow of the normal compressor. I decided to increase the air volume to almost double the OEM amount, so needed a booster so I did not have to wait to long to get the system up to pressure. The rules here say you have to be able to drive off within 5 minutes of starting with no air in the tanks. I can easily do it with the electric compressors switched on. They cut out a 7.0 bar, so won't run unless the air get really low, and I normally switch them off once the system is up to pressure. It also means I can release the park brakes without having to start the truck.

I would rebuild your old one, as you have an 18 Bar system, otherwise you have to make a lot of changes and increase the air volume as well.

 

[Iain_U1250]

The four bolt block compressor flows about as much as the air cooler belt compressor, but they are only 8 bar units. Both motors I had have engine block compressors, and I had a spare belt driven one, but decided not to fit it, went with two ARB twin motor air compressors as back-up instead, as I could use them without having to run the engine. They pull about 50A each,but put out about twice the airflow of the normal compressor. I decided to increase the air volume to almost double the OEM amount, so needed a booster so I did not have to wait to long to get the system up to pressure. The rules here say you have to be able to drive off within 5 minutes of starting with no air in the tanks. I can easily do it with the electric compressors switched on. They cut out a 7.0 bar, so won't run unless the air get really low, and I normally switch them off once the system is up to pressure. It also means I can release the park brakes without having to start the truck.

I would rebuild you old one, as you have an 18 Bar system, otherwise you have to make a lot of changes and increase the air volume as well.

 

[Jostt]

Ok, nice to know It, 8 is not enought for my Air valvles I Think, so I Will rebuild my one, the nice Think was to keep away the belt....is much better the Direct conection on cam shaft

 

[Wyuna]

It's great to see more of your recent travels Iain, since your move down to Melbourne.

I've watched the uTube videos and have Sub'd.

Now that you guys have dealt with a Melbourne winter, your ready for a Tasmaina trip in between contracts.

Keep up the videos, i enjoy seeing the Mog in action

Cheers,

Bryn

 

[Iain_U1250]

Thanks, Bryn, hoping to do more travelling now things have settled down a bit. Get away at least one trip a month

 

[Iain_U1250]

Decided to fit a new gauge to monitor the portal temperatures. Took quite a bit of wiring and securing all the sensors, but it seems pretty good. It can trigger alarms and relays, but for the moment I'll just use it as a gauge.

I used epoxy glue to stick on the sensors on each of the portals, they should be OK, they are pretty secure. If the epoxy doesn't hold, I'll try Sikaflex.

 

[Jostt]

Very nice Ian, did You test on hiway? Just to know a different reference, because I suppose my front bearings are on the limit, looking my temps, so wath I understand You paste the probes to the hub case, I allready see Big diference betwen the internal parte of the hub , and the center just on the rim, there is the Max temp, this is why Im planing to monitor the oil , changing the oil Bolt, because by the small oil capacity I can imagine no all the hub is at the same temp, In my case I found one of theme at 118c degres the center hub , bolted on the main gearing and the hub case just at 44c degres, so still not clear for me, thank You so much for the info

 

[thebigblue]

Nice temp. gauge , and expensive....

I´m in the process of doing a Ardunio version of this, it will also be able to measure voltage and other stuff, display is a 1.3" OLED from China.
All parts are very cheap... If any interest I´ll post a few pics and more. Temperature sensors will be 18b20.

 

[Iain_U1250]

I wanted to do an Ardunio version as well, but then worked out the cost of getting all the things necessary (over $250 over here for all the gear) , learning to program it, etc etc, and decided this would work out easier - I have a load of other things to do Eventual plan is to build my own system with a whole load more sensors etc, but this worked out OK in the meantime I will start once we are on the road, give me something to do when we are sitting around on a beach somewhere

 

[thebigblue]

Okay I get it, - I have ordered things directly from china via ebay, shipping is cost free worldwide, the OLED was 4 EUR, the temperature sensors was 3 EUR for 5 pcs, and a Ardunio Pro mini is 2 EUR.
So around 10 EUR for parts shipped worldwide. And programming is not to bad, things can be found fairly easy online. I can post my code and parts list here later if you want some hints I might ad a SD-card for logging data purposes. I also figures out how to have a cycle of different displays on the OLED.

The Blue Sea temperature display alone is 226 EUR here in Denmark, and on top comes tax and vat