Hi guys Just did 1000 miles from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in a 1984 110 with a Nissan patrol engine in it. Me and my mate pete tried to get it up and running within just a few days of the trip after it has stood doing nothing for 3 years.
Needless to say there where plenty of breakdowns.... we even broke down on the road past the boarder town of Moyale where 100 people have been murdered in clashes in recent weeks. Luckily we had armed guards in our landy and none of the stray bullets hit us!
That night 4000 tribesmen with AKs/G3s/and RPGs attacked a smaller tribe of 300 while we where in town - lucky it didnt come near us! (if your interested the 300 somehow won!).
Anyway we blew a head gasket, over heated 100s of times, got through two prop shafts, had to put new brake pads after I drove for 2 hours through bandit country to get to a hotel somewhere 'safe' with no brakes, only slowing by dropping from 5th to 3rd or 2nd! (I manged to drive through a police check point barrier as I couldn't stop! Luckily the police though it was funny.)
Eventually on the road to Marsabit from Moyale the engine suddenly went BANG... upon inspection some pressure had built up after the after pump packed in blowing the radiator pipe from the engine block into little pieces.
This we couldnt fix, or source the pipes so we had to rent a lorry and squeeze the landy into a lorry to get back home.
A good adventure... planning on taking two landys up to lake turkanan in november if anyone wants and adventure!
Needless to say there where plenty of breakdowns.... we even broke down on the road past the boarder town of Moyale where 100 people have been murdered in clashes in recent weeks. Luckily we had armed guards in our landy and none of the stray bullets hit us!
That night 4000 tribesmen with AKs/G3s/and RPGs attacked a smaller tribe of 300 while we where in town - lucky it didnt come near us! (if your interested the 300 somehow won!).
Anyway we blew a head gasket, over heated 100s of times, got through two prop shafts, had to put new brake pads after I drove for 2 hours through bandit country to get to a hotel somewhere 'safe' with no brakes, only slowing by dropping from 5th to 3rd or 2nd! (I manged to drive through a police check point barrier as I couldn't stop! Luckily the police though it was funny.)
Eventually on the road to Marsabit from Moyale the engine suddenly went BANG... upon inspection some pressure had built up after the after pump packed in blowing the radiator pipe from the engine block into little pieces.
This we couldnt fix, or source the pipes so we had to rent a lorry and squeeze the landy into a lorry to get back home.
A good adventure... planning on taking two landys up to lake turkanan in november if anyone wants and adventure!
