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Darn - that looks good! Now I had to buy one...

It looks to me that they used parts 15460 and 14418 to lock the studless sides of the house's baseplates altogether. For the upside down presentation, it seems that you simply turn the model upside down, since the trees - and thus their flat topsides - should be mirrored.

This is a just a non-functional micro mod for the rear calipers, but if the official version is a little bit too blocky for your taste - just replace the 2 yellow plates pus tile at steps 249-251 with: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6404007 This mod has slightly more height than the 2 plates with tile, but there is no problem with the Porsche wheels ;) You can find the lxf file here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=564665

Hi all, I am just in the middle of the build so far, but I've experienced the same jamming of gears while switching, too. Different than Attika's solution you will need one additional Lego part, so be warned, but this is what worked out for me ;) I replaced the new red Driving Ring Connector (Part 6153686) with the white one (Part 6100932; the Porsche has one, but this is used for the D-N-R clutch) in the leftside clutch of the PDK (ie. left from the driver's perspective). This simple step tamed the backlash in my model and - you have still to engage the levers firmly - provided consistent change of gears without jamming. It didn't work as well swapping that part on the rightside clutch or on both, though.

Thanks a lot to JunkstyleGio et al, who identified the friction-pins as cause for the stiff steering of the Unimog. I found a solution, where I keep the pins. It works surprisingly well, so here we go: - pick up those 4 red friction-pins and try out several black axle joiners (6536). Some will stuck very tightly on the pins, while some can be moved quite well. If you have a lot of Lego Technic around, you should not have any problem to find 4 "loose" axle joiners. If the Unimog is your only Lego set, I suggest that you start with building the front axle first (i.e. instruction book 2), which allows you to select the 4 best matching joiners out of the 40 that came with the Unimog. - once you've found 4 "loose" axle joiners, put Silicone grease on the friction part. I prefer Silicone grease to lubricate my Lego, but other lubricants should work as well, as long as they are nonaggressive towards plastics. Do not overdo it, though. Be careful that you get no grease inside the part of the pin that will hold the axle. - and that's it! The friction-pins should now be happily move inside the axle-joiners and the beams