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Sounds like a plan! Good luck - post progress so we can see where you're at!!

I feel your pain. I fabricated my sides and rear then discovered to my dismay that the 110 is not 'square' (side to side) it actually 'leans' to the driver's side meaning that I had to 'accommodate' this error in the assembly. The main part it affected was the rear section, which was already...

Thats a lot further than many people get! FWIW I've spent 7 years getting mine to this point so..... :)

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I wondered how it was coming on. Have you decided on the lifting method - gas struts and a front hinge?

Thanks Arjan! The fabric sides were good for summer use, and when it wasn't terribly windy, but not a lot of fun in the winter. The hard sides are insulated and dry, and despite a few hours of pretty strong gusts on the North Coast straight off the Atlantic the van just rocked a wee bit but no...

My pal just renovated and restored this for his young daughter to use. New chassis, bulkhead, engine overhaul....

North of Scotland, overnight camp.

Well I finally got it my 110 roof fettled and working as I wanted it to, so took it for its first test drive last week for a few days just up the road from my home in the north (of Scotland). Now the restrictions have eased its legal although still required no-contact interactions (hardly saw...

Thanks. Makes a huge difference. Nearly 7 standing height - can walk to the middle of the van without hitting my head (and I'm 6') and it can sleep two adults uptop with lots of space - 7' of length so not cramped.

Thanks! Bit of a make-it-up-as-I-go-along job but it seems to be taking the shape* I envisaged! *given I was adapting the existing thing I'd built and trying to avoid too much of a frankenstein look!

So, pulled it apart again and started assembling in earnest. I'd decided that instead of copious mastic I would seal the sections together at the rear corners and the long seal on the side of the roof with 2mm self-adhesive neoprene strip, then it would be easy to dismantle should I have to...

Update on progress: Finally got the sides attached. What a bloody nightmare 6 months of messing about with them. Put them on, drill a hole, measure. Take them off. Think about stuff. Figure out where a doohickey will go, put them back on, measure, take them off. Repeat literally dozens of...

Local Land Rover mechanic/shop owner/owner of multiple LR's from TD5 to V8's gave me a simple tip for the air filter on my 200TDi (which was put into replace a 19J 2.5TD, and still using the TD airbox) simply carefully hacksaw off the plastic surround on the air filter. It has the fins on it and...

:) Thanks for reading! Its getting there! The pic above was a dry run with panels attached. I'm currently fabricating the seals that will go around the perimeter (to seal when its lowered). There's a point where I'll have all the bits pre-fabricated and then its just an assembly job. My problem...

Next stop spare wheel re-siting - the lowered roof neeeds to go behind the spare wheel so my guess was a chunk of steel box on the bottom and a U shape at top would suffice to allow it move back far enough so that was added. My mate Steve folded a piece of alloy using a template I made...

After a load of discussion with the supplier I decided to go for a pair of 12V linear actuators linked by a sync box to ensure consistent and equal lifting of the pair. I needed to fabricate a pair of brackets, one for each side, bolted through the rear body and floor to strengthen it to...

Next job was sheeting the frames with 1.2mm alloy. Started cutting by hand, strained my hand (!) and ended up using the angle grinder as it was soooo mucch easier. My 'workshop' boasts such luxuries as leafy vegetation, full 360 degree illumination and recycling wheely bins to work on...

Next stage was cutting up and tacking together the external frames for the two sides (19mm box alloy). Not having a properly flat surface to work on created some problems, some obvious which I worked around, others that only revealed themselves later. But I'd considered some of the ways that...

Well Brian the cardboard proved less useful than simple paper! So I ended up with this instead, which was made by taking a photo of the 110 side on and then tracing it on the computer screen (I could see the screen through the white paper!) with key points marked to establish accurate...