Mercedes 914 LK LN2

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And finally the front wall finished...


...with the integrated profile for the door of the pass through...


I'm very happy with the result now. Would never make it nice like it is if I would have made it later.

First I thought the whole wooden camper box story would be more or less easy to handle, but I was very very wrong. (And some other guys thought the same.... ...before they started their project).
It is very delicate to work with this kind of sizes. Only to point the right angle takes quite a while... ...and to cut the total of the lenght ain't no easy neither... :/ But it's menageable.... ...slowly...
The worst is to think about to do any kind of a fatal failure in the last cuts of the wall. Could make it very expensive quickly...

 

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And that' my last progress. I attacked the side wall...

 

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Thread maybe to be continued someday Inshallah... :ylsmoke:

 

[nick disjunkt]

Too cold to work? I hope the workshop is heated

 

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No, temperatures are quite perfect for working... ...but autoconversation sucks.

Southside finished. Finally. Took me a month to do (profiles for door and hatches incl.) Here's my latest progress...





















I was very excited when I saw the walls fit together perfectly without aberrance. :wings:

 

[nick disjunkt]

I'm sure I'm not the only person on this website that spends a lot of time enjoying reading about others' exploits but not regularly commenting!

It must be a lot of extra work manufacturing all of the profiles for the hatches from scratch out of wood. Did you consider buying in aluminium extrusions and riveting/welding them together?

How do you plan to seal the wooden components? They look to be softwood so it's probably worth soaking them in epoxy.

Did you ever finalise plans for heating?

 

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Hey Nick,

yes it was quite a bit work to do the profiles... ...but it was worth the job. I thought about other materials also, but choise went to wood. Also because I can integrate them in the panels...

Once the cabin is finished I will paint it (door and stuff incl.) with a PU based color. Same as used in nautism...
The scarf points will be supplementary sealed with MS Polymer if neccessary.

The heating system: wood stove, sure. 8) Air-Water heat exchanger will despatch hot water in different heating circles; ground floor, some convectors and boiler. For backup or lazy days will serve a warmwater diesel heater (eberspächer or autoterm) integrated in the same system... Lets say: créme de la créme

It took me only 8 days to finish the opposit panel. And here it is...

 

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long time...

 

[nick disjunkt]

Great progress! Will you install some rubber/plastic between the subframe and the chassis to prevent clanking noises and metal to metal contact? Many UK body builders use balata belting, but any tough material will work, even hardwood would be fine.

Perhaps you have already installed something, but I cannot see anything restraining side to side movement of the subframe on the chassis? It might be worth fitting guide plates to the chassis which allow vertical movement of the subframe but prevent side to side. I'm sure you can buy these locally (although cutting out a square plate is pretty easy!) but CBF in the UK sell them with various truck bolt patterns drilled to use existing holes. Part number ABMB084 or equivalent is what I mean

http://storage.cbf.uk.com/pdf/BODYMOUNTINGFITTINGS837.pdf

Also it is probably too late but perhaps you could save a few cm of height by welding the cross members within the the height of the subframe rails, rather than ontop of them? More welding and cutting I guess for not much gain.

 

[Dream]

Hello Nick,

thank you for your ideas!

I'm not very sure if anything between chassis and subframe is allowed. But in any case it would be fine to place something between...

You're right, on the pictures aren't any side guides to see yet. The day I made the test I just couldn't wait to see what I've done.
So here they are, the side guides and the fixed points at the rear (have to weld them these days).







And these ones are meant to fix a support and elevator for the motorbike on the back of the truck. Steelplates of 8mm thickness.





Hope I've done it well and that it will last for some time...

The cross members I put on top of some reason. Like this I get bigger boxes and a few long slide out tables below the cabin. In future I also think about to build some subfloor boxes reachable from inside the cabin (to have a down there a cooler clima for vegetables and stuff).

 

[UpperCrust]

Love the build!!

 

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Yesterday... ...after 14 hours...

 

[nick disjunkt]

Looks great, plenty of space in there!

I'd not noticed before but is that the exhaust under the front bumper? The only time I've seen that before is on trucks carrying fuel at airports.

 

[Vegard_S]

Great work, and a super inspiration! Keep it comming!

 

[canals1164]

Wow it's looking good!