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jollygreen Winch Assistant
Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Odometer: 63 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:01 am Post subject: Un-modding a Mog!
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I'm going to try and return this (from a trials machine - when it didn't have bed sides and a tailgate) to a working vehcile. I've already removed the rollcage and fitted a hood. Still struggling to find canvas door tops though...
The fuel tanks and battery box are mounted on the bed, behind the cab so i want to move them back to the original positions. The spare is also attached top the bed so that's going back to under the cab. The battery box is knackered so I've bought a new one and an original locking tool box. I'm going to rub down the paint, straighten some of the panels and repaint her.
Next job will be to fit the pto. Anyone done this without removing the cab?!
I like the idea of a tipping bed but I don't have hydraulics so I'm either going to have to get hold of a pump, tank and a tipping ram or come up with another way of doing it...
Cheers
iain
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shaggy Articulating
Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Odometer: 560 Location: Manchester, UK
1961 Mercedes-Benz Unimog 404 Doka
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:11 am Post subject:
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Good effort - it's nice to put them back as ma benz intended - we've made a lot of things mechanically stock where they were munged by a scrapyard owner, however, we're going for a kind of trail look.
jim
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baloo Articulating
Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Odometer: 942 Location: Redditch
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:
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hi iain
nice to see your mog going back to stock, l am going the other way
might make my own cab
looks like you have a nice barn to work in there
l have in the yard the back of a tipping transit complete with 12v pump and all the fittings, ready to bolt on
you can have it for free if you drive down and fetch it !
you're not a soft northern poof are you
ha ha
seriously you can have it if you want it, but its probably cheaper to buy one up there than buy the fuel for a 8 hour drive or 24 in your mog, that might be stretching the agri tax a bit though
cheers for now
andy
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jeepmadmike Mud Obsessed
Joined: 08 May 2005 Odometer: 4573 Location: between 6000+7000 rpm and Devon
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject:
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mmm mog, another vehicle i will one day buy, having tipped a couple of vehicles on there top I'd be keeping a cage or at least a roll hoop!
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jollygreen Winch Assistant
Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Odometer: 63 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:32 am Post subject:
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baloo wrote: |
looks like you have a nice barn to work in there
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That's actually my new house. Yes, the Mog was parked in what will "soon" be my living room.
Thanks very much for your offer of the tipping bed but I think i'm going to do the soft Northern thing and decline gracefully
It's on the list of things to do but like yo usay, i'll try and find one a bit closer! My Mog came from Essex and it cost me a bleedin fortune getting it moved up here!
later
iain
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baloo Articulating
Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Odometer: 942 Location: Redditch
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:
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jollygreen said
Yes, the Mog was parked in what will "soon" be my living room
brilliant a mog in the living room , so much more interesting than antique furniture
top man !!
wish l could get away with that
andy
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Steveb Gate Opener
Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Odometer: 44 Location: Suffolk
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:
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Hi Iain,
I have several unrestored canvas doortops , some have "intact" canvas/perspex that you could work from. Lots of other bits n pieces incl snow chains. Pm me if you are interested in anything or want a pic or two of a door top
cheers
Steveb
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jollygreen Winch Assistant
Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Odometer: 63 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:21 am Post subject:
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Thanks mate, I've already got a few "unrestored" door tops that I could use as templates, if I could get round to it!
you have PM about the snow chains!
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shaggy Articulating
Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Odometer: 560 Location: Manchester, UK
1961 Mercedes-Benz Unimog 404 Doka
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject:
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snow chains :)
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V8RatMog Gate Opener
Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Odometer: 20 Location: Wickford Essex
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: Un-modding a Mog!
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jollygreen wrote: |
I'm going to try and return this (from a trials machine - when it didn't have bed sides and a tailgate) to a working vehcile. I've already removed the rollcage and fitted a hood. Still struggling to find canvas door tops though...
The fuel tanks and battery box are mounted on the bed, behind the cab so i want to move them back to the original positions. The spare is also attached top the bed so that's going back to under the cab. The battery box is knackered so I've bought a new one and an original locking tool box. I'm going to rub down the paint, straighten some of the panels and repaint her.
Next job will be to fit the pto. Anyone done this without removing the cab?!
I like the idea of a tipping bed but I don't have hydraulics so I'm either going to have to get hold of a pump, tank and a tipping ram or come up with another way of doing it...
Cheers
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Did you buy this mog from near chelmsford, looks like Cliffs old mog. Can't beleive youre removing that cage that he made such a good of. Ol well, ones man meat etc. I bought his previous mog, just stuck pictures on forum.
Happy days.
Satch.
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