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Hello everyone! First of all excuse my English is not quite good. So...
I'm Alex from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain). And if all goes well, I'll be "unimoged" shortly.
I have a lots of doubts, but fortunately I knew this forum by @Jostt , who already help me a lot.
Why an Unimog? I want an Unimos since I was a kid, (by the moment I'm still a kid but bigger and with more money and headaches), I want an expedition truck, so I'll go to the 3850mm wheel base length, I found 2 here in Spain in good condition, one is an U4000 with CTIS, 170hp, semi-auto gearbox, coming from a military ambulance. The other one is an U2450L/38 with the OM 366LA 240hp 10nuts axle , with also low mileage. Tomorrow I'll go to see both of them, I almost knew what about to check in this trucks so I hope all goes ok.
For me is a 90% go with the U2450, but I admit that I would like the portal axle of the U4000 and also the low rpm engine at 80-90km/h I don't want to go faster, but I would like to go low rpm to low the fuel consumption (economy+range) and mechanical saving. I know that there're options to do to the U2450 to have a similar or even better ratio, but it's quite expensive. By now both are around 50.000€ + taxes so, investing about 10.000€ in an overdrive is a lot of. In the other hand the U2450 have low and ultra low working gears if I'm not mistake.
![b8f8bcfb-f5eb-474a-991a-2dccc71411fc.jpg b8f8bcfb-f5eb-474a-991a-2dccc71411fc.jpg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/640/640526-13062e98a698f3e045ff66f9348a4b17.jpg)
And one important thing for me, what are this levers for? The seller has no idea also...
![fullsizeoutput_106.jpeg fullsizeoutput_106.jpeg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/640/640527-c65209b20313585b28b993a4b672e6aa.jpg)
And by the moment, last but not least, according to this chart size, if I'm right I can make a camper box about 4800mm length, x 2200mm high and 245 with, I know I can go higher and wider (4m total high and 2'55m wide) but I'm not sure about the length of the box, not just for legal reasons in Spain also in Europe, but for maintaining a good exit angle. I think the image below is quite good representative of the size of the cabin. I Went a bit lower in the picture, but just to check how it fits.
![98d3b5e6-22fe-4091-ab6a-495cec20128c.jpg 98d3b5e6-22fe-4091-ab6a-495cec20128c.jpg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/640/640528-25f8782f4e4b06a554ac241eacaa7fc3.jpg)
Tomorrow I'll update the post, but for sure I'll get the 2450 if it's not in bad condition, that doesn't seem to be.
Thanks to all for read me and I hope we'll see off the road!
EDIT: Has anyone the instruction manual of this beast? the U2450L? Also the service manual if it's posible, thanks!
I'm Alex from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain). And if all goes well, I'll be "unimoged" shortly.
I have a lots of doubts, but fortunately I knew this forum by @Jostt , who already help me a lot.
Why an Unimog? I want an Unimos since I was a kid, (by the moment I'm still a kid but bigger and with more money and headaches), I want an expedition truck, so I'll go to the 3850mm wheel base length, I found 2 here in Spain in good condition, one is an U4000 with CTIS, 170hp, semi-auto gearbox, coming from a military ambulance. The other one is an U2450L/38 with the OM 366LA 240hp 10nuts axle , with also low mileage. Tomorrow I'll go to see both of them, I almost knew what about to check in this trucks so I hope all goes ok.
For me is a 90% go with the U2450, but I admit that I would like the portal axle of the U4000 and also the low rpm engine at 80-90km/h I don't want to go faster, but I would like to go low rpm to low the fuel consumption (economy+range) and mechanical saving. I know that there're options to do to the U2450 to have a similar or even better ratio, but it's quite expensive. By now both are around 50.000€ + taxes so, investing about 10.000€ in an overdrive is a lot of. In the other hand the U2450 have low and ultra low working gears if I'm not mistake.
![b8f8bcfb-f5eb-474a-991a-2dccc71411fc.jpg b8f8bcfb-f5eb-474a-991a-2dccc71411fc.jpg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/640/640526-13062e98a698f3e045ff66f9348a4b17.jpg)
And one important thing for me, what are this levers for? The seller has no idea also...
![fullsizeoutput_106.jpeg fullsizeoutput_106.jpeg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/640/640527-c65209b20313585b28b993a4b672e6aa.jpg)
And by the moment, last but not least, according to this chart size, if I'm right I can make a camper box about 4800mm length, x 2200mm high and 245 with, I know I can go higher and wider (4m total high and 2'55m wide) but I'm not sure about the length of the box, not just for legal reasons in Spain also in Europe, but for maintaining a good exit angle. I think the image below is quite good representative of the size of the cabin. I Went a bit lower in the picture, but just to check how it fits.
![98d3b5e6-22fe-4091-ab6a-495cec20128c.jpg 98d3b5e6-22fe-4091-ab6a-495cec20128c.jpg](https://expeditionportal.com/forum/data/attachments/640/640528-25f8782f4e4b06a554ac241eacaa7fc3.jpg)
Tomorrow I'll update the post, but for sure I'll get the 2450 if it's not in bad condition, that doesn't seem to be.
Thanks to all for read me and I hope we'll see off the road!
EDIT: Has anyone the instruction manual of this beast? the U2450L? Also the service manual if it's posible, thanks!