Recent content by Vance Vanz

Heat Shielding the Gas Tank I didn't realize the time :oops:. My last post before I get my butt to bed :sleep:. I have a long day of designing tomorrow. Hopefully my gramar and speling have'nt been atracious :ROFLMAO:! My little rant........... I'm always surprised to see when builders (the...

Heating Pads & Surfboard Rack I told you we were going to jump around 🤡. Who would have thought heating pads and surfboard racks would be in the same post 🥸. Grey Water Tank & Battery Heating Pads: This baby will be 4 season, so I gotta keep things warm in the dead of winter. I try and test...

Fuel & Water Fills (Housing & Doors) Here is my initial attempt at getting the fuel fills sorted. Water fills are fine, but the fuel fills are no bueno 🤨. There were also several late night trips to a closed gas station to test all of this with an actual gas pump nozzle. My fuel fills will...

Grey Water Tank & Winches Fabricating the grey water tank frame. I have a super tight space in the grey water tank compartment, so I had to get creative. My original idea would not work ☹️. I ended up having to build a frame that had two separate brackets, with some additional bottom cross...

Getting Back in the Saddle Time Flies! I guess I should get some content posted. I’m going to start jumping all over the place, because that’s how the build has been going 🤠. Rear View Mirror Split Camera: Testing everything out. I wanted to run a camera on the front of the truck...

Heating & Free Heat System - Rixen - Continued...... Getting the electrical, air intake and exhaust routed and dialed in, as well as drilling all of the holes in the chassis for mounting any/all lines (#6) It's hard to see in the pic, because of the lighting, but I was stoked to be able to...

Heating & Free Heat System - Rixen Let's just keep rolling on BRACKETS!!!! For all of these systems that I'm currently going through, it's not just the mounting/brackets that I'm figuring out. I'm going through the entire system, any and all elements of the system that I have not already...

ARB Onboard Air System Let's get it all out and sorted. Another part/aftermarket system that I have to ditch all of the factory provided electrical wiring and connectors, because they are sized too small. Don't you love paying lot's of money for components on expensive systems that you can't...

Auxiliary Fuel Tank & Factory Carbon Canister - Continued...... Someone inspired me to post a little sooner than I normally would. Finally landed on a good spot for the canister 🤓🥳!! A little welding here Some fabrication there And a whole lotta dry fitting everywhere Well....., let's...

Thanks trackhead! I'm still swinging for the fences 💪! We'll just see if I'm still standing when this thing is finally done 🤪.

Thanks 38snubby 😁. I appreciate it. We're all in the club of NOT receiving updates on the threads we subscribe to. A lot of the time, I don't even receive updates for my own build thread :LOL:! Just check in about every two weeks; it's about the max frequency I can post with the amount of...

Auxiliary Fuel Tank & Factory Carbon Canister So, I'm finally getting to some of the modifications/additions to the factory truck/truck chassis. "Why now, this late in the game?" you might ask. Well, when I purchased the truck brandy new back in 2021, no one had a 50-55 gallon aftermarket fuel...

LINEX - Exterior of Cab & Details on the Cab I thought I would post a few pics of the back of the cab, while the camper was off the rig, as well as some additional photos of the finished details on the cab. These pics also have better lighting, which shows the black and light grey colors of the...

Interior Painting - Carbon Fiber Composite Camper I never intended to build an expedition vehicle to this caliber, but this thing is slowly becoming a land yacht. The interior paint is finally complete, for the most part.

Added Composite Structural Support - Roof Not a huge deal, but I thought I would mention it because of a few encounters I had. My roof is technically solid, no structural/load issues with my current design and what will be going on the roof. But…….., I had a little itch (what I might call a...