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Exceptional advice. I'll send you my PayPal account information to make it easy to send your contribution. James Lombardo in San Francisco. Yet another vehicle I should not have sold. I had the perfect setup and sold both halves just to be changing things. Let that be a lesson to you all...

Yep, Seitz windows have gotten semi-common in RVs lately, and Dometic seems to do OK selling to manufacturers. So maybe a good strategy is to determine what RV has windows that are tolerably the size you want, and then just go through the replacement parts reordering process as if you busted the...

Thanks for adding more to this thread, Iain, and thanks for the web link, too. Right at the moment, I'd trade all of the scratching for a reliable way to order them in the United States. RUF gave up supplying them because it never went well and the last person I tried to help ended up ordering...

Outfitting the Cabin Given my history, I have to tell you that it wasn't the easiest thing to get going on my “cheapo” outfitting of the van, though once I got onto it, it became kind of fun. Just cut me some slack on the totally-non-optimized nature of things. ;) Probably the...

More Cabin Systems The cabinet wasn’t quite wide enough to carry the microwave (the small Sanyo I had that can be carried in the XV-JP), but it worked to cut part of the end of the cabinet and let the microwave stick out toward the rear of the truck. After I dug out a nice rubber mat of...

Cabin Systems We had a big head start with some of the systems. John dismantled parts of the camper but left some others in place. In particular, he left a good amount of the electrical in place. We had an under-truck shorepower inlet which ran to a power strip, which then allowed AC power...

More Truck Details This van came with rear window glass (with defrosters) and a window in the sliding door. This is a decent compromise between letting light in/seeing out and wall space for cabin fittings, and it is a good setup for seeing traffic. John had previously gotten quality window...

The Truck I got lucky in looking for a used Sprinter at the same time as John Bendit, owner of Upscale Automotive and the SprinterStore.com, was deciding he had more vehicles around than he was driving. (I know that feeling.) He was willing to offer me, retaining right of first refusal when I...

FWIW: I’m gonna post up the whole build at one time and let people read through it as suits their preferences. No sense in waiting, I don’t think, ‘cuz there ain’t nothing more gonna happen. :sombrero: ------- As ExPo’s most aged veterans know, in bygone days I designed and had built Mog...

There's useful information in the existing, longer thread http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/106854

And we simultaneously were busy camping in the old Sprinter we bought after selling the motorhome to Chris after selling the original Sprinter to Joe so we could buy the motorhome we sold to Chris after he sold the Unimog I sold it to him . . . Heck, we can do Six Degrees of Mike Hiscox with...

California Sidecar Friendship car for sale in Maryland In my daily search of ADVrider to see if I can find another sidecar rig, I noticed that someone's selling this kinda rough California Sidecar Friendship, which is the car I have on my FJ1200 outfit. The Friendship is a nice car for...

Thanks for taking the time to show us your work. Your photos and descriptions are very interesting and very much appreciated.

Well, you could, but when you're awake--pretty much a given when you're cleaning up--the sleeping platform probably isn't extended and it's more a matter of sitting on the folded seat back. But as mentioned above, the sink is mostly for drinking water, teeth brushing, and so on when the weather...

Those are two fine prospects to be considering. As you may know, though, the Touaregs have historically been one of the less reliable trucks while the Land Cruisers' reliability has been impressive. Beyond that, lots of other differences for you to consider. Good luck.

Paul Jensen did a nice writeup about the drawers in my former LX470. Probably way more elaborate than you'd want, but good photos showing what's involved: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/77938

I agree. Well bought, too, IMHO. It'd surely would have been in my driveway had I even the remotest need for another truck.

Thanks, John. I always appreciate you saving me the rather substantial airfare to Brisbane with your photos. Best, Mike

Thanks for the suggestion on the lower-priced options, but it's also important to remind builders that, if you putting the windows into a van or other vehicle that has even a modest curve to its sidewalls, normal slider windows won't work. This restricts you to the small openings of horizontal...

I'm not 100% positive, but nearly that . . . The main and aux tanks are filled with a common filler neck, so if you pumped enough to completely fill the main tank, the fuel would just dribble back into the aux tank.