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Well, my friends, it was "Mikey's Transitory Sprinter." But the Force is strong and I've once again failed to leave well enough alone. My "interim" Sprinter build, made up of camping gear, bits of plywood, and various leftover components is about to become a good deal fancier and less ad hoc...

If that's the configuration you want, I suggest you check out the setup here: http://earthroamer.com/employees-facilities/previous-designs/er2k-the-earthroamer-that-started-it-all/ And, interestingly, this vehicle is (perhaps) for sale: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/120539...

The go-to place to check on the difference across Hundred model years, and also between Toyota and Lexus models, is a page on the Slee Off Road website: http://www.sleeoffroad.com/newbie/newbieUZJ100.htm (comparisons start about 25% of the way down the page) The big "dividing lines" for...

It's a fine thread here, but for anyone who hasn't yet also checked it out, be sure to visit Kristoffer's (theksmith) outstanding '03 WJ combination build thread and travelogue: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/60827 I suspect every WJ wants to grow up to be like his. It's an...

A lot depends on whether you're going to mount the cabin so it will move independent of the cab. A few trucks, most notably Unimogs, because of their designed-to-flex frames, have to have their cabins mounted this way. If this is the case, then you have to have a gap of several inches which you...

Softsided lifting sections have some obvious shortcomings compared to hardsided alternatives, but the ability to pick out any position for the roof between full open and full closed is kind of cool. In my XV-JP, for example, I can have the top fully extended for maximum volume, with the...

******** x 2. That was a very good first post. Thanks.

I sent the link to this thread to a friend who's a Lexus salesman. He agrees wholeheartedly. The new GX and 4Runner make you long for the days when it was worth being disturbed by the Mazdas' smile and Acura's demented grin.

I'll be watching enthusiastically. Your logic makes perfect sense. Be sure to report if you do anything to put on more aggressive tires, etc. I'll also appreciate hearing what tools, if any, you decide to carry to help get you out of a stuck situation. I've been giving thought to outfitting a...

I use a single "burner" one as well. It's a big load, 1500+ watts, and even if you've got the battery capacity, it'd be bad practice to suck the current out at that rate as a regular strategy. Figure it's about half-again the draw of the size of microwave you'd likely put in a camper, and you'd...

Thanks for sharing this helpful information.

Interesting, but incorrect for the seller to call it a Sprinter. The first generation Sprinter was launched in Europe in 1995. The 100D was made in a Spanish factory Mercedes got when they bought Industrias del Motor S.A. The 100D got made until the Sprinter was released in '95. The 73...

We've got a good thread, started in April, for the cheap ($40 or lower) Baofeng 5V-UV radios: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/106854, that has much useful information. But it appears that time, and Chinese electronics, marches on, so you can now instead have the newer Baofeng...

Good heavens! Now I can sell the house. :) Thanks for the link, Hoser.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me--hell, I don't know--five times?, shame on me. I'm working on being the least excited person in all of Sprinterdom. ;) That said, I admit to having peeked a bit, you know, just to see what probably will never happen. Apropos of which, the article here...

It's so cool that you found that. Thanks! So, inmates, here's your chance to combine coffee and urban overlanding. Expedition Barista . . . makes perfect sense to me.

I'd been trying to get the shell to somebody like you for a decade, my friend. Sad it evaded you all these years. But well I know the experience of stuff becoming unavailable just as I get interested in it. People now hire me just to become interested in their stuff so someone else will buy it. ;)

Good news if you're thinking of one of these . . . I got an e-mail today from Bogert Manufacturing offering a substantial 15% discount from Friday through Monday. Might make it time to buy.

I'm really appreciating all of this information, Larry. Thanks for the posts.

The serial production versions are often impractically close to the GVWR, but with only a little attention to what your doing, you can, in my humble opinion, stay under the 8,550 GVWR of the SRW 2500. My first conversion had everything possible on it, including some really heavy stuff, and...