Thread: Show us your Deefers !

Nooooooooice!!

I have been giving Kimba a mid-life makeover of late....but will need to dig out some other pics at play

Hope you like

Hi all,

This is an attempt to put up a picture of our home made camper on the back of our 300tdi 130. This is an "in progress" picture - if it works, I will post some more.

Cheers,

Paul

It worked!!!!!

Praise be to sniegy for his excellent tutorial! Cheers mate!

This is on the maiden voyage, camped at Lake Burrinjuck


And later on the banks of the Darling River, near Menindee



Fridge and sink.....



Finally the stove.....



All up, with two spares, 110 litres of water, 140 litres of fuel, extra batteries, a gas barbecue, shower, porta-potti, two gas bottles, air compressor, tools, spares and an obscene quanitity of booze it weighs in at just over 3 tons.

And still that mighty 300tdi pumps it along at 100KPH and uses only 11-12 litres/100kilometres. That's 24MPG in old fart units, bloody brilliant I reckon!

Cheers all,

Paul

Thats a great unit Wilbur, what did you use for the panel sheeting/roof ?.Did you redo the rear springs or are you traveling ok on the standard set up.

Nice truck Wilbur!

Thanks for the kind comments.

The sheeting is "semi-marine grade" 10mm plywood on 25x25 RHS steel frame. The ply is a bit heavy at 6.5 kg/sq metre but is very strong and very easy to work, and it doesn't fatigue. The frame and cladding are only about 250kgs. It's all the extras that bring up the weight to 3 tons.

It seems fine on the standard springs. Being a 130, there are dual springs on the back as standard, and it is rated for 3,500 total weight so in theory there is still another 500kgs available.

However, I really would like it to be a lot lighter. Even with the winch, with this much weight it wouldn't be much fun getting stuck in sand or mud.

My original target was 2500 kgs, but it just sorta crept up!

For all that, the chassis is remarkable. It still steers and handles fine, brakes have no trouble, all in all the load under normal driving is hardly noticeable.

Cheers,

Paul