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Thank you for the great photography and associated captions. Making them available was a great public service for those of us who didn't attend. Very much appreciated.

As you wish. There are a lot of discussions all over both ExPo and the internet about GVWRs and how they are set, so I suggest this thread not turn into another one. If it's important to you that your overland truck is below the manufacturer's documented GVWR, please don't let anyone convince...

This has been covered a few times, but Paul may not know the details, so I'll reply rather than letting the implication hang that he's got this wildly overstressed vehicle to control . . . If the question is "is the truck 1300 pounds over the manufacturer's Gross Vehicle Weight Rating?," it is...

It's been a couple of challenging days, sorting through all of the XV-JP's parts. It was pretty sad . . . hundreds of feet of wiring and plumbing hacked apart, and hundreds of hours of really fine fabrication work undone. Most of the stuff got sent back, and it profited from me being the...

The butane cooktop is great; it's what we use when bookdocking in the Sprinter, and is worth consideration. The single burner flush-mount propane stove previously there was also great and did not really intrude BUT . . . unlike most units that would be space heated with propane, this camper has...

That's good news for all of us. Congratulations on your well-deserved success to date, and best wishes for good progress with this expansion. You can count on us continuing to be extremely interested in your craftsmanship and ingenuity. :clapsmile

Thanks, Dave. Your thoughtfulness means a lot. ====== For those not around this build thread when it started, Dave and I go back a ways, and while he was up here one time, he posted--post #27--this 14 second video showing the XV-JP's new top operation. And, all praise to humongous server...

Paul's probably been slowed down by the fact the truck is still under my carport.

I've really appreciated being able to follow along with the build. Thanks for the photos and information, and good luck with the cabin build. I'm very interested in how it all comes together.

It's a good idea, and I'll try to get something done in the next week or two.

Without venturing an opinion on the thread location, my feeling is that the truck is still an EarthRoamer simply because the most distinguishing feature of the truck is and always has been the size and shape of the ER cabin and the way the cabin integrates with the Jeep. That characteristic...

Yeah, I know it will hang around and may well continue to be a good resource. But I do expect that the number of people who interact with it will be very much smaller, as the inactivity will cause it to slip farther down the lists and it will never appear in anyone's set of new posts. I also...

I had this series of fridge in the first Sprinter and it was built, and worked, very well. It'd probably be worth knowing it's age and previous use, though.

I respectfully need to offer an alternative perspective, the one that adds Paul's second round build to the end of this very long, and very popular, thread. I'd hate to have us start over, and I feel like it would be a victory for Dion if what he did gets us to abandon this build thread. Dion...

Moving on to Plan B Many have posted and sent me private messages expressing their hope that I’ll be able to put the events of the past two months behind me and that the XV-JP Northwest Edition can be fixed up to again serve as expedition truck. And we’ve even had the recent burst of volunteers...

Thanks for all the offers of help. My wife wants to know if we don't rebuild the Jeep, does the offer hold for redoing her landscaping? :sombrero:

I think it will depend on where you are and what your grey water consists of. Depending on what we've been washing off our dishes, it's possible to get some pretty stinky, fly-attracting grey water. But by using biodegradable soaps, we avoid the sudsy, high-phosphate residue that hangs around...

That's a heck of an idea, and this story would certainly be a lot better with a happy ending. We could work under the big carport, and I have a lot of useful tools and plenty of space to park your trucks and pitch your tents. The best part would be the satisfaction we'd all get from putting it...

Even if you are not a serious prospect for buying the rig, I suggest that you'd enjoy going to the website: http://www.exploringelements.com/eexp-for-sale/ to browse through the descriptions and dozens of photographs that Bryon provided. It's a very good overview of the systems, furnishings...

I've got some sad news about that. While my local agent was appalled, sympathetic and everything else you'd hope for, my policy clearly excludes: “loss to any covered vehicle due to theft, conversion, embezzlement or secretion by …a consignee, an agent of a consignee, or a person who obtains...