Recent content by Vance Vanz

Sealing Items to the Camper - Continued ...... Cut lines dialed in Quick test of the AC before it heads to the roof and finds a new home My new shop manager (Erin) giving the green light. What a Nerdy Birdy ☺️😍😘 Getting prepped for the pook Getting there All sealed and ready for the...

Sealing Items to the Camper I'm going stir crazy over here 🤪! Finally a break from designing and time to get stuff mounted. Trying to perfect straight, clean and crisp cut lines on LINE-X 🤨. This is crucial, because I'm mounting/sealing everything on the outside of the camper with Black 3M UV...

Slide Out Solar Panel Rack/Arrays - Continued...... Going with the lockable surfboard racks vs cross bars reduced my walkway to get to the boards pretty significantly. In addition, one of the actuators had to be mounted across this path, so I wanted to lay out something to scale. I needed to...

Slide Out Solar Panel Rack/Arrays I was originally super excited about this project, in the beginning of the build 😄🥰🤗. BUUUUT….., now that we are (I am) years deep into this project, I have been contemplating whether to scrap the stacking solar panel slide out racks altogether. I had to go...

Heating System & Auxiliary Alternator Not the most exciting stuff, but all of the items that just consume a lot of time on the build. I needed to finalize how I was going to route and support the ¾” x two coolant hoses from the engine compartment to the very back of the camper (for the Rixen...

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 🤪.