🤣 I love the tools I have in fairness, all old and built to last, I complain about lack of space but it is a nice cozy workshop at the end of the day I guess !! Thankyou very much, it’s great to hear this!!

Sold to the next guy who was a Land Rover trader who sold on to someone else, but long story short, it’s not with me any more unfortunately. London emissions regs forced me to get rid of it as It doesn’t meet new ULEZ standards! The 5.7L unimog does though…🤔

I didn't know it was on ebay, I found it on Marketplace, viewed it 3 times as I knew it was going to need a good bit of work. I never looked at the pump too much to be honest it was enough to operate the cherry picker at idle. There is no PTO on it but they guy I bought it from had a 2 speed box on the bench in his workshop and didn't know about it so I've agreed to buy that too. The cherry picker is run off the standard hydraulics but I can see myself adding a bigger mid mounted, PTO driven one in the future, I don't think I'll ever need a rear PTO, maybe a front one and just a maybe at that.

@@KeepitBigBore to be fair, it might have been market place, I’ve been looking at soo many I loose where they are sometimes lol. You won’t notice the difference if you’ve never driven one but they are worth having a tweak to about 100-115 hp. Then again I had 150hp🫣😆 but she was more than tweaked. An underbelly pto were designed to run low engine revs, high gearing for the likes of a cherry picker. If you put the 2 speed box on look at putting both shafts on, makes her more desirable if it’s sold… as well as linkage and front din plate 😆

According to the engine code on this one it should be 81kw/108hp, I'm not sure if it's the original engine. I was looking at putting a decent hydraulic pump on this for powering attachments such as generator and an old lincoln welder that I have in mind. Bear in mind I have no space for storing these attachments so everything has to be as compact as possible. Was the 150hp a 406 as well? I hear of people claiming the 406 cant be "turboed" due to space restrictions but looking at mine I'm sure I could squeeze one in somehow. 😂 I doubt I'll put the rear shaft on, maybe the front at most. I'm more interested in removing the cherry picker and adding a HIAB, as this is something I would use for heavy equipment repairs, fabricating and house rennovations. Basically, this machine should do everything I cant do out of my "fitters" van.

@@KeepitBigBore 108hp?!? Ooo this is getting interesting! Are you sure it’s a 406 and not a 416? From what I’ve found out there’s only 36, 406s built with over 100hp. The 416s seemed to have a higher hp. Something niggles me that the arm mogs were 110hp but can’t just remember. The hole world of mogs is complicated and never 2 the same😆 I’m still learning my self! If you can, send me the first 6 digits of the chassis number… should start 406!

@@KeepitBigBore oh forgot about my old girl 😆 she had rebuilt modified om352 with no turbo. She was 2 inch lifted with oversized tyres. If you search unimog u900 406 120 off road there’s a video of her when my mate owner her. Try and listen to the engine not over the crap music😆 its also on a video Arthur Ibbetts had on there fb site. The lad that owned “the black beast” as she was known is a bit of a 406 guru. He said he’s only ever seen 1 with a proper merc fitted turbo and manifold but he doesn’t know what it was off. Problem you have is the length pipes and loss of pressure from them. It would have bragging rights but for speed and power you don’t but a 406😆

Have a load of them but rarely use them!! You know how it goes…we use these things when it becomes a problem 👍🏽