The Mercedes Unimog is an Impressive
Off-Road Diesel Truck
Four-wheel drive, differential locks front and rear, exceptional off-road capability.
Features which all Unimog series have in common.
Well think again,
Below you will find some useful information that will clear up some long held misconceptions.
You might just love the Unimog and just don’t know it.
Of course you can modify any Ford, Chevy, Nissan, Toyota, Dodge or Jeep enough to get you anywhere you want to go.
But the Unimog is one of the only bone stock rides, you can do practically anything you want to with.
They can only be impressed!
History of the Unimog
Unimog is a range of multi-purpose all-wheel drive medium trucks produced by Daimler and sold under the brand name Mercedes-Benz. The name stands for “UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät”, Gerät being the German word for device. Daimler-Benz took over manufacture of the Unimog in 1951.
The first model was designed shortly after World War II to be used in agriculture as a self-propelled machine providing a power take-off to operate saws in forests or harvesting machines on fields. It was designed with permanent all-wheel drive, with equal-size wheels, in order to be driven on roads at higher speeds than standard farm tractors. With their very high ground clearance and a flexible frame that is essentially a part of the suspension, Unimogs are not designed to carry as much load as regular trucks.
Due to their off-road capabilities, Unimogs can be found in jungles, mountains and deserts as military vehicles, fire fighters, expedition campers, and even in competitions like truck trials and the Dakar Rally. In Western Europe, they are commonly used as snowploughs, municipal equipment carriers, agricultural implements, forest ranger vehicles, construction equipment or road-rail vehicles and as army personnel or equipment carriers (in its armoured military version).
Mercedes-Benz Unimog AWD System.
Locking center and rear with up to 10 low range gears.
The UG 100 UNIMOG gear box offers 8 forward speeds and 6 reverse speeds. In tow mode, the speeds are doubled, that is to say 16 forward and 12 reverse speeds to optimize the torque as very low as 0.1 km/h.
This gear box allows for speeds for both road and off-road use. It is silent, of a long life, and has high ratios. The transfer case is integrated, with a link to the transmission tube. It lets the axles twist independentl
All Unimogs have 4x4 with locking front and rear differentials that can be engaged “on the fly” anytime by the driver. Conventional four wheel drive systems only provide power to the wheel with less traction on each axle. In these vehicles, engaging four wheel drive doesn’t actually engage four wheels but rather engages both axles. If one wheel on each axle has little or no traction, the vehicle gets stuck even if the other wheels have excellent traction. Automatic traction control devices such as limited slips, auto locking diffs or electronic traction control, help overcome this situation to varying degrees. However, only manually locking differentials, such as in the Unimog, provide on demand, 100% drive to all wheels
Why is this machine so good?
Yep, another version of the "what the hell are all these levers for?"
A - 1,2 & 3-6 (there a gate between 2 & 3 that prevents you from using 3-6 in reverse)
B - PTO
C - Crawler gears (road driving, have it all the way back)
D - Forward/Reverse
E - Cascade (road driving, have it all the way back)
F - Diff Locks (road driving, have it all the way forward) (you have a lever and not a turn knob, but same principle)
If your machine is fitted with one of these mate, it is truly a 3 1/2 wheel drive.
Yep a good toy , but never a true 4x4.
