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Was waiting for excellent photo of box-not-quite-in-boot. You need a mate with a pickup truck 😂

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With the National Gathering coming up fast, I was relived when this arrived. 20ft container 'display box'.





So we could crack on with this little plan. Nats yard. Will share some pics when we do our final setup.



But the container that wasn't a container?
Office.





Scale truck inception.


Also thought I'd spend ten minutes on the Unimog, get that up to standard.

Added a working front winch and replaced the headlight LEDs with warm white so they aren't green any more.



Added tail lights and a socket to the back and a proper winch controller for the crane so we can perform snatch-and-grabs hands free now.



Socket? Yea, I'm silly..





Added a hidden pin to stop the bed tipping accidentally. So that's all ready for the Nationals. I'm fairly sure the fleet is ready for action at this point!

I'm blaming vanpeebles excellent work into shaming into being quiet on this front (just kidding, I've been busy but lazy but also my camera has packed up in my phone)

First, lets have a Scania update.

Fitted the speaker in the roof.



Testing the interior lights and headboard



Owner also sent me on some more parts to install while it was in bits.
Lockers and deckplate:





testing the deck plate and stacks fit







and testing the bumper after wiring. Missing a load of lenses which I believe he is sorting







Moving on...

I can’t recall how many of those I’ve done now. Nice little fix to be fair. Quite enjoy doing them.

Yea. I would not ever bother buying automotive sensory stuff like that from Ali. You know that’s going to be junk.

As said, the diff is done and the gearbox needs replacement or possible refurbishment but that may not be possible due to the amount of wear.

What a great colour/truck/interior combo. GLWS!

Make a funnel from a big container or bottle and a section of old radiator hose that brings the water level way above the bleed points and try again. Draining and refilling isn’t the fix here. The heater assemblies on these are a blend door so the matrix has full flow 100% of the time so that also isn’t the issue. With the engine running with a good head of water above the tank try re-bleeding, starting at the block and head bleed point and when that runs bubble free move to the heater hose bleed.