What's it like to drive a 1983 Mercedes-Benz UniMog? - Daily Vlog 2

things can get better from here good morning I'm waiting for my brother-in-law to show up because inside this door is a Unimog hello Colin bigger than I thought and it was defense until now yeah so they would have just been using it for training and and yeah they bought a couple few thousand F it's still it's quite um it's in Fairly good condition inside what a weapon lot of placards everywhere two turn see colors on the back here I don't know what sure what that's for but there's a hose that you know it's a hose that goes under here that's the air in your tires oh yeah right and that's all just standard on them yeah everything's so that came with it it was under the seat the Pendle hook put that the BR front I'm not sure if I put them back on or not but coil like yeah that's what I was looking at and C2 there see portal axles got yet want that axle down low yeah that's what everyone's you know spending 50 Grand to put on there 79 yeah and that's what makes he so capable yeah so that was on the front Jimmy took it off to do a pretty Bud job of this badge that is that's pretty look at the over spray yeah so then there's a PD on the front there which we w't used they put a witch on here it had it was quite the big tie down points and actually lifting points for air lifting and came right out the front I reckon Pickle's the option Place someone's I don't know they do that's going on recently obviously to cover all that up I'm going to cut a hole there cuz there a big right there that's a bit like the main um recovery points there oh yeah cut that you plan on needing to be recovered well you never know or might want to pull someone out backwards yeah yeah on the front I don't know whether they put it back on or not yeah that's see that's your like your engine driven compressor for the air what sort of engine is it it's a I think it's 5.6 L um the obiously Mercedes non-turbo no they're turbo they're turbo yeah okay um batteries batteries in there I've got a new key Barrel coming cuz it's actually you can't remove the key which makes sense in defense situations oh yeah um yeah so then that's these are the you just cover your you can flick that up from the other side these to cover up all your Waring light so you know you know can seeing from above with the old PE peel you know yeah PE PE and then that that so that's your that's your diff locks um of front and rear and then here that's your that's your light switch so these two settings to F it that way like civilian and then you push it in and get it over the gate for all these other there those bloody tactical lights are on the corners so you can sort of you can't be seen from from above I'll show you get is this a uh that'll still work is this a hole to stand in no I think I think it's just like a spotting hole I don't I don't think it was a designed for you to you know shooting somebody out I think it's here like and the seat actually flips down there's rubber grippy stuff on the back of the seat so you can stand on it just stand on look at the hole so here I'll um I'll I'll turn that thing on now that I know how to use this switch are they on there oh yeah yeah so that's the highest setting so you can see and then and then on the back there's one on each on the back they have similar thing you see this lights up oh yeah you can only see it from down here you know what I mean yeah and then I think they use that and this there's a light actually a light I don't know if it's I don't know if it is a light actually it's a light yeah there's a light in there yeah it's coming out yeah I don't know what happens there but I think that eliminates that cross so you can actually follow like if they if they were in a convoy or something yeah yeah I mean how do you get in the back it's it's pretty high I fix this this is F this body safety look this side probably easier you can use the gra on yeah right out there it is I'm stuck it's massive yeah and see like flip you can flip them down there like to fix they do these little shipping containers with they do like a workshop one and they're fitted out for oh yeah and they can drop in here yeah they fitted out to set up you know out on the in the field and and then you got some TI end points comfy seating so there's a couple of broken a hoses on the front that went to the front portals but as I was saying last night when you engage full drive it does pressurized like those portal axles transmission headlights so you get water in the drive shaft yeah so so it pressurizes all of it and you can just drive through just a little bit just so you don't get water in there um yeah that's nuts and that was on so this is an 83 and that was all just just on there like this compared to the other ones I looked at like underneath like how how good NE everything's in there's no there's no R anyway get SP oh yeah heavy 190 kilo 190 kilo no that's what he said it's like a a run flat in there oh okay so it's a dense rubber well there there was possibly a run flat in there at some point it's in there now still is he happy with it yeah well new daily driver definitely not what did you say it was 8speed yeah but there's a like a I think it's a like a there's a gate in between third and fourth fifth and sixth that you got to come through and then you got to give it a bit of time to then cuz I four log years and four high gears yeah yeah I haven't really got right but yeah I can do it but it's not pretty you just got to go slow [Music] sweet [Applause] [Music] this is high pressure ah through this gate [Music] [Laughter] [Music] yeah yeah and uh so oh yeah it doesn't work that like indicator lights right okay usually the go four 6 s right it's doable but even it's a double punch it's a synch synchr transmission but there's a little bit of I reckon must have to have you probably haven't r a truck like this like a small truck like this they usually ride like terrible well this is pretty comfortable I know yeah it's smooth but even at home like driving 450k hour over p and stuff it's [Music] actually comfortable at speed over rough yeah yeah it's smoother than the Sprinter basically you know like not not quite but over rough stuff it is six it's of 4 and2 T payload it's got nothing in the back so nice bit a little bit smoother [Music] GR [Music] [Music] it's actually the so you're happy with your purchase wow [Applause] [Music] do they cool they cool have any really good idea [Music] [Music] dly you get it through the uh Gman [Music] drive now if you a mind jumping get w oh no I want to hear you take off the stre oh God that was horrendous well things can only get better from here I had to look on the Facebook group there's a lot of conjecture about how how you we you should be doing okay how do I unlock the door oh just here mate yeah put your oh yeah oh nice oh roll an ankle going down there all thank you enjoy your flying [Applause] [Music] today all right exercise first time it's like there was there and then just morning good morning Captain morning

Channel: Justin Castles

Views: 5,018

Keywords: unimog

Id: wBjXXqd8L6U

Length: 13min 44sec (824 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 23 2024