Recent content by 3SAIInfantry

Yessir I have taken this truck on multiple trips all over south Africa and I am in process of planning a 8000km trip to visit a lot of sites in Namibia and southern Angola where we had bases during the Bush war with 3 fellow infanty buddies to get closure after all these years on some long due...

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Thank you .Much apreciated.

I hope that the picture Process may inspire someone else to undertake a similar task to resurrect an old vehicle like this to keep these oldtimers alive for they truly deserve to be on our roads .

in 2017 the original OM352 motor was due for rebuild or replace. after carefully doing some investigation it was just 2000 rand more expensive to buy new OM366 turbo assembly and new turbo and reuse my old 352 head after rebuilding it completely. so out with the old and install new engine with...

in 2015 we built the roof structure for the cab as well as added some room in the back of cab to accommodate the VolvoS40 seats I mounted for easy long distance traveling with Mog Fitting 2 by 132 liter stainless steel dieseltanks one on each side of mog. also note added space behind the Volvo...

in pic below you can see the Deoxidene rust coating after aplication on the righthandside seatbox. Inside 4 coats of rubberizing applied undercoat applied I asked paintshop to mix this old Bedford army green for me as I deem this to be the only collour that would do my Mog Justice when you...

new cab mounts and subframe built I also lifted the cab mounts with 70mm as I knew I will at later stage upgrade my wheels from 12.5 by 20 to 14.5 by 20 . test fit of lifted cab on chassis before we started to rebuild the floor completely . before starting on new floor and seatboxes...

I started to repair my new rustbucket tackling the areas one by one to remanufacture pieces from steel . some holes in body needed to be filled as well I even used some oldschool techniques like filling areas with lead to smooth the bodywork like below picture

In 2007 I had to replace the clutch pressure plate and release bearing and also did a better job of respraying the Chassis at the same time . for a long time I saved money and bought spares to later rebuild the complete Unimog. only in 2014 I was lucky enough to get a Unimog cab that was...

Later I aquired an old South African Defence force ambulance cab they used on the Unimog chassis for ambulances to casevac injured soldiers off the battlefields in our 23 year long bush war on the Angolan border. This cab was the only cab I could find at that stage as original unimog cabs is...

at first there wasnt time nor much money to work on the Mog/Buffel so I did the next best thing and drove to every hole and obstacle in my area and played as much as I could . I did start on fixing rust spots and just covering it temporaily with undercoat and later some paint I had in my Garage

Hi There sorry I havent been very active . I will post some pics to show what I have been doing since I bought the old Buffel from the SADF at auction .I bought the Buffel in November 2005

Hi there The unimog was the base vehicle our military used to create the Buffel Apc. I just used the standard unimog cab (had to refurbish and fix used cab) and spares to return vehicle to its original state. I have made some changes to cab however to suit my needs. I have posted some pics of...