IT'S ALL HAPPENING! Last minute mods before getting our CAMPER - DIY Unimog Expedition Build #11

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good morning team we are back at the farm and the mog workshop so we had some really good news our panels for our big box that goes on the back they've been cut and the supplier is ready to assemble the box on the back of the mog so that meant we've had to scramble to fix a few things up to make it ready for him so we took this to a boilermaker this is where one of the the sides of the tray uh was actually welded in and it had a little bit of support structure here but it was really um dinky and made a heap of noise and just looked pretty strange that there was just one tray side left all the others just came off on hinges these hinges here so had him weld in a support beam and it looks pretty good so that's added a lot of rigidity to that end which is nice and now we're kind of scrambling to get a few other little bits and pieces done over the next couple of days so one of them being we've had to drill and tap some holes for the mud guards they've got to go back in and another important one was this bracket which clint basically did for me which is really nice of him here which holds this guy here so spinner around so that'll go there and that's the little hand winch for the spare tire the other good news is that we have got a handle on five new tyres which will be going on really soon as well in the next week or two whenever we can fit it in so it's looking pretty good so just a few little bits and pieces to do on the tray because once the box is on from here it'll just be really hard to do all this stuff so i want to do it now and then probably paint these pieces up and then we're pretty much kind of good to go let's get stuck into it and there's a hole giving me a favor can you maybe turn the head off push up from the bottom i'm going to drill a hole through the actual um mudguard like a little pilot thanks i should have done this from the first place okay so pull that out [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] just going to measure this piece now make sure i cut it at the right length [Applause] ready ready [Laughter] so so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so coffee break and then what welding [Applause] so this is a bunch of support brackets for the floor so i've got them as level as i can the tray is not level so the tray is a bit lower on this side than on the front end so yeah that looks a little bit trickier but you know we'll get in there so you're welding soon after coffee and then um that area can be painted and me i'm just gonna put my coffee on the table and show you my beautiful work i've sanded all the midgards that's gonna go back where they were initially just here and we're gonna have on your tires very soon hopefully [Applause] all right good luck you cannot look at this okay okay can you switch it off there's a switch right there yet okay if you take that chuck it on the ground and that and chuck me that little hammer that's there here thanks okay watch your eyes thank you your bucket magic for crazy boy the wizard all right machine on please cool and when we put the muscles i guess we can move it i feel surrounded so we can start with these two and then just cleaning up the welds a tiny bit okay look there just getting a little bit smoother they're not the greatest world zits for sure but um they'll do the job that's nice and stable for the flooring yes don't judge him it's the first time he's welding and i'm very proud i'm fogging up [Music] [Laughter] [Music] this is great i feel like i'm snorkeling well you said you're missing spare fishings maybe you should use your seatback mask it'll be better probably should probably be better so what is it that's the um spare tire winch so that needs to hold a lot of weight it should be fine so we'll give it a good clean we're gonna just sand it as much as i could prime it painted black and on the track it goes alright so we've got our wind cradle set up yep the old-fashioned way all right can you pull that out [Music] keep going it's quite enjoyable that stopped today [Music] i'm getting followed them okay and stop cool okay handle can come off so i'm going to button this up and then we're going to roll the spare tire over and see if we can hook it over the spare tyre or around it and then yeah crank it up it's going to be interesting it's hard how the brackets look like yeah bracket's looking good good job yeah that is despair oh yeah there's some big red backs in there i don't really want to touch the big bags there's a few inside yeah there's just a few washing machine helicopter action off it's time for you to find a new home all right let's [ __ ] roll [Applause] oh okay all right [Music] so [Music] uh so good morning guys all right so ange's gone on a little mission uh into town to grab the seats off a guy that go on the back of the jeep so he's brought them back down from karate for us in a truck so she's got to kind of collect those and give him the cash which leaves me here on my own for a little bit oh so what i'm gonna probably do is start to chop these off or at least have a little start at it there's four on each side and two on the back and that's that we can have a nice clean surface for like an aluminium plate that we're going to run across there when the box is on something we didn't realize we would need to do when we raptor coated it so yeah unfortunately it's going to ruin the wrap to coat there and stuff but um it'll probably be covered up uh spear tyre went on relatively successfully as you can see but because of this beam here there's not much room for it so there's possibility i need to chop into there and create a little notch so yeah i'm gonna have a crack of that this morning it's cold it's meant to be quite windy today and we've also got some painting to do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] another successful day for us yeah it went well chris tackled a lot of little jobs but they all make a difference yeah so what have we been doing the first days we've got oh so lots of little things that don't really feel like they amount to that much yeah we decided to get ready basically before we get our box which should be next week hopefully if everything goes well yeah so we've done the mud guards which we had left off the back for now because they used to attach to the old wooden floorboard so we found a way to attach those which is really nice we sorted out that beam i did a bunch of welding for the first proper time which was cool so first actual welding on the truck and it went fine uh not real pretty but it went fine and um chopped some things out of the grinder so lots of lots of grinding and yeah just lots of little things yeah basically doing as much as we can on the outside of the truck there's not much more we can do on the outside basically there will be just the winch installation winch plate yeah yeah so we've done our elephant ears by installing those tomorrow morning with the when the raptor dries and then with the winch plate i reckon it's going to look really really cool in the front and then we may have got a bee line on a new winch as well and some new tires it's all happening it's all happening yeah it's all happening is going to look very different very soon yeah okay [Music] [Music] nothing left on those i'm so nice we finally did it they look tough eh so these are the chinook lifting points so the big channel calico with the two blades on it would pick these up off for like aircraft carriers or whatnot and could literally just airlift them places they are so heavy as you saw real um really really solid and they also make really good recovery points as well i may at some point try and integrate some sort of a bull bar like pipe through here and then soon we're going to have the special winch plate going on in the center with the winch on top yeah i'm really happy with how these look hey so we took the mog to a mechanic when we very first bought the mod before we went up to xmouth and he took it upon himself while he had the mog to take these off because you had to take them off to get them road registered and a plate put over the cross or didn't even have to get a plate put on but these just couldn't be sticking out um from the particular place we were getting it inspected and he decided to give these away to another unimog owner without asking us so got back and i'd already told him i wanted to keep these and put them back on a later date to integrate into the bumper and he'd literally put them on another truck and obviously wasn't very impressed with that i reckon that's pretty poor he took three four months as a bean edge to to source another pair for us because i said no i want them back so unfortunately these aren't the ones off this unimog but they're off a different one but they're exactly the same so i'm happy we've got them now and this is what the medgar looks like now freshly wrapped painted and spray paint for the rubber this was white and like so dirty and disgusting and we try to press from clark rubber to get a replacement it's just so expensive just not worth it at this stage so they look brand new like that they will get dirty anyway so it doesn't matter we don't need to spend a lot of money on those so now chris just needs to grind these bolts here because we're gonna have a flooring very soon installed you ready final job of the day and actually this is the final job of the day so remember every time you do welding around your truck to disconnect the batteries and every time you want to move your truck reconnect the bathroom otherwise it won't go anywhere so yeah we still don't really know what we're gonna do with the battery box we're definitely gonna need to paint it because now we're thinking we might keep the box actually yeah just need to find a new place for it we'll just get moved that's a story for another day [Music] brilliant [Laughter] queen we did it

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Id: BiEd-NV3SIU

Length: 23min 10sec (1390 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 23 2021