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 Stolen Unimog!

In November 98 my Unimog was running fine when we noticed a wiggle on the pulley to the water pump.  No water was leaking yet, but better to park the Mog and wait for the new water pump to be delivered (a few days from United Parts Service)...  

Piece of cake I thought. Well the Unimog sits in the parking lot of my car stereo shop, I didn't think it would hurt anything to leave it there for a few days while we waited on the new water pump to be delivered. 

Well, driving up to work one morning the parking lot was EMPTY, my first thought was, WOW that parking lot is clean for a change, but then I noticed it looked so clean cause the MOG WAS MISSING!

I reported it stolen and figured it would show up soon. How can someone hide a Unimog with a flame paint job? First, who would steal a Mog? Second, driving a Mog for a newbie is a chore, it isn't easy to get used to the way it shifts. 

I figured one of the kids that comes by our stereo shop might have borrowed it and started it with a screwdriver, or a pro stole it and it was already in Mexico.

That weekend the sheriffs dept found it stuck in the mud at a local mud hole about 15 miles from our shop. They said it had a flat tire but seemed to be in good shape. I had the wrecker driver deliver it to me, and he told me they had to call the heavy duty wreckers and it still took them 5 hours to get it out of the mudhole. It was stuck real good.

Well when the bad guys had it, the water pump gave up the ghost, the engine overheated and fried.  BTW, we know who the bad guy is, but we can't prove it. When it is running again I will have some security.

I forget who it was but someone had some mog engines for $1000 on the Mog Mailing List, but by the time I called them to order one I had missed the deal. My friend Frank James in Georgia offered to import a used motor for me CHEAP!  I took him up on the deal and after the motor arrived from Belgium I drove to Georgia to pick up the motor.  We rebuilt the used motor and although it took a YEAR, the motor is now in the truck.  I thought I would share these pictures and this story. Everyone asks me anyway and I am getting tired of repeating it.

This is the new motor as we get it in the truck, the body is removed and sitting on the custom made flat bed of the truck.

 
I am doing away with the heat exchanger (and anything else I can remove), the two pipes on the left side of the motor that used to go to the heat exchanger have been turned around to face each other and a small piece of radiator hose put in between them.

Several different views of the new motor, superbly rebuilt by my buddy Mike Cobb (a Mercedes tech by trade and a Unimog owner) ....

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Patrick and me (I'm on the left) posing with our Unimogs on the 4th of July outing!
The funny thing is that at this time both Patrick and I had Hummers for daily drivers and Unimogs for playing on the weekends.

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