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Thanks for the advice, we ended up putting a deposit on the Bison. Now we need to get busy finding a truck. Maybe we could find a decent F350 with a steel bed already installed.

Hi all, a few years back we built a Total Composites habitat for our Mercedes 1120AF. We moved off a sailboat directly in the truck, which is our 1 and only home. Well, our home has left North America for several years (we're currently in Chile), so we're thinking we need another summer home in...

Looks great! Although I never thought I would ever say this, we're seriously considering building a second truck camper (our first is our current home, a Mercedes 1120AF with a Total Composites box that we're currently traveling in Chile with). This second truck would be for our 2-3 months...

Yup, it shouldn't have moved. The mechanic didn't find anything that would have caused it. I asked about using bearing loctite but he didn't seem to think it was necessary. The main one that failed, the machine seat isn't 100% contiguous. There's cutouts for oil channels, leaving a paper thin...

The repair has been going fairly smoothly (finding parts here is a challenge). The transfer case came out, taken apart and all parts cleaned and the source of the metal found. Each of the 3 shafts within the transfer case are adjusted within the case shells with these very thin washers. These...

And the latest on the transfer case boondoggle. The Mercedes dealership has now refused to work on the truck as parts are not available for it in Chile (and this is the dealership that controls all of Chile, they have the entire country). So now we are off to a small independent mechanic shop...

Yup, Kaufmans is where we are scheduled. Can't get either case gaskets or seals from them. That's the parts we have on order in Ushuaia. Kaufmans is the one that told me the 1.5 months for any parts. They plan on cutting paper gaskets from sheet, putting in inexpensive aftermarket seals...

Well I think that these parts are now in short supply. I doubt some are still being manufactured. And yeah, the truck was pretty trouble free for a few years. Now it seems to be going through a rough patch. Hopefully on Monday I'll have better news to share. When we were still sailing, we all...

Thanks for the offer, biggest hurdle though is getting parts through customs here. Well, I'm got my fingers crossed it's a bearing, which I can source here. Second plan is to buy a complete used box in Europe, but have the seller open it up and just mail me the bits I need instead of a pallet...

Well is seems our truck really doesn't want to go south. We're now having issues with our transfer case. What started as a shaft seal leaking has now turned into a pulling of the transfer case, splitting it open and finding out why I am getting a fair bit of metal on the magnetic drain plugs...

Ok, this is what I am ever so slowly learning while overlanding our 1120AF from Alaska to Punta Arenas Chile (where we currently are). When I was "researching" these trucks I read that Mercedes has the best available support around the world, outside of the USA. But this advice should have come...

So a quick truck update if anyone has the optional 4 wheel parking brakes like we do. Our previous "fix" for front parking brake that would slowly actuate while driving wasn't really a fix. The mechanic replaced a shuttle valve and to be honest I tried to understand how this would fix it but...

We used All Ways , but they seemed to have changed their business a bit. They handled both the shipping and all the import. They seem to be now doing import only. Maybe they could help with your truck.

I really should order those up, any chance you have the part number handy?

Oddly enough an LN2 derivative was sold here, including a 4x4 version at least in Brazil. A new friend of ours here owns a 1720A that he bought in Brazil and is building a camper with here in Argentina (hey Diego, if you see this post a picture of your very nice truck 🙂). These trucks have the...