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For Pop-Rivets: My primary recommendation is to make a guess at how many rivets you'll need to set in a day. If you'll be doing more than ~5-10, I'd rather use a cheap pneumatic setter. After 25 years flying a keyboard, I've learned to be careful about RSIs in my wrists. Pop-Rivet tools are...

A lot to unpack here. AH isn't really an "hourly rating". It most definitely is NOT amps PER hour. It is AMPS TIMES HOURS. When the compressor is running, it sinks some current, say 5Amps, but that is what engineers call an "instantaneous reading", meaning that at the instant you put a...

No. 7Ah literally means 7 amp-hours. 7 amps for 1 hour, or 1 amp for 7 hours, or some other product of "amps times hours" that equals 7. In your initial post you meant to say " Depending on which model Fridge you have they can Draw as much as 7A+ upon Startup ", as in 7 amps at startup, not...

That's kind of a meaningless metric unless you're getting specific about a whole mess of things about the geometry. You can achieve 24" of travel with a 12" control arm with 180º of movement or on a 100' control arm with 1° of movement. Obviously neither of those extremes really works. This...

Nice work on the cleanup! There are days I wished I'd gone w/ GM fullsize instead of the Astro van, but at the time I started my project, there wasn't a lot of documentation on the AWD->4x4 Tcase swap (vs. the Astro where this was already well documented). Now that a few people have done it on...

If the fridge works on AC and some DC source, this would indicate that the fridge itself is fine. This plus the first thing would point to the ARB wiring harness, or the battery it is connected to, as the problem. In your last photo, 2.8v would tend to indicate that either you aren't getting...

I'm not a candidate for the Rigd, but I'd love hear about how that Frontrunner table has stood up to being outside the vehicle. (How long, etc.). I was considering doing something like that but wasn't sure if the cutting board would hold up to the elements and if the powdercoat would be...

Me too, bro. Bloody unicorns, between COVID and Brexit.

The other bummer with a hard-mounted propane tank with a Tee is that it constrains where you can locate your outdoor kitchen. If you're at a spot with uneven ground (or conversely, a lovely picnic table), being tied close to the rig to use an outdoor stove can be less than ideal...

Interesting. I like the Thor/Majestic 19s, but I still haven't been able to confirm if that third "captains" chair near the door can be used or converted to be used with a seatbelt. I'd love to be able to bolt any sort of "normal" car seat into that spot for our kiddo to have a more...

I am 100% about reducing the "hassle factor" and anything that contributes to making/breaking camp take longer. I've eliminated a lot of wasted effort, but one of the steps that still burns a lot of time is the setup/teardown of our kitchen. I've gone through a lot of iterations and each has...

That feels sketchy. A search on the phone number doesn't give any business listing, and is basically warning people off trying to search for contact info. No website, "A GoogleSite for Callen Campers is in the works". (But unless they buy the domain from the San Marcos operation, it won't be...

The thing I love about Dormobile's is how similar-but-different they are to Westfalia camper builds. Similar in that they're almost always fit-out to the pinnacle of maximum space utilization - there's a sort of perfection in the way every inch is used by a cupboard and every surface serves...

Your property is not representative of all environments. In the desert, feces left on the surface will desiccate and hang around for months or longer, assuming that it does not attract animal attention. It is all too common when free-hiking Anza Borrego to come round a patch of rocks and find...

For all the cranky ranting about "proper descriptions" of things, this thread has so far ignored the historical (and etymological) reason that some companies refer to battery banks with solar inputs as "solar generators": The Mobile Food Service Industry - aka "Taco Trucks". The following is...

Yep, this is why there's no one answer. BJ angles matter. The Astro/Safari guys like to flip the BJ mount which buys us a few more degrees, but then the next limitations are the CV angle and the Idler arms. Most lifted Astros eat idler arms on a regular basis. I'm trying to baby mine by...

Fair enough. Hopefully OP will enlighten us on the full service history of this van.

The ford 6.0 diesels are prone to a specific set of failures in factory trim. "Bulletproofing" refers to the suite of preventative parts replacements/upgrades to prevent these failures. It's a time-consuming (and thus costly) procedure, but there are a lot of potential buyers who won't touch a...

Really it's any time you "lift" without changing the points about which the suspension arms pivot. So spacers just shift the existing spring down. Taller and/or stiffer springs == pushing down. Torsion-bar pre-loading (adjust or replace keys) also == pushing down. It's easier to visualize it...

You've got some good answers here. Another "feature" if IFS "lifts" that are important to consider in context is that unless you're moving the suspension pickup points, you're trading away droop to gain static ride height. IOW, you're literally just pushing the wheels down as if they were...