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At those dimensions, you're also in "footlocker" territory. Check milsurp and back-to-school sales..

A little more Rock-n-Roll The Rock-N-Roll bed is "done". Or at least, "done enough to sleep on". :wings: It took a bit of a push, especially given the near record-setting heat and humidity we suffered through for the Labor Day weekend, but we're at a point where we can sleep on the new bed...

Yes. They specifically say "We do not recommend flat-mounting slides that are designed to be side mounted because it reduces the load carrying capacity to less than 25% of the side-mount capacity." In other words, those 9308 slides that were rated to 360lbs for mobile use (600lbs static), are...

Here's a question: Why not do a body swap? (Instead of hacking up two bodies.) There are at least a couple of examples on here of Econoline body swaps, and if you look at U-Joint Offroad's build thread you can see they're popping bodies off the chassis all the damn time. I'm guessing what...

Agreed. It took a 4" lift, a saw, and a BFH to get 30's under my Astro van...

We have a van, and when kiddo was young and the carseat was huge, we usually just put a 55-gallon drum liner over it and put it outside. Now that she's in a booster, it conveniently stores in the driver's footwell. To make getting the car seat installed tightly a lot easier, I used one of...

Regarding the pricing of Delrin and other plastics: If you live in any sort of big city, check to see if you have an industrial plastic supply company nearby. Tap Plastics, RidOut, etc. They always have a scraps/cut-offs/rems bin that is pennies on the dollar, and usually sold by weight...

Rock-n-Roll, baby! :victory: Who's ready to Rock-n-Roll? I'm nearing completion on my project to replace my $100 craigslist conversion van bench/bed (that was never flat) with a Westfalia-style Rock-n-Roll bed. I used reproduction Westy bed hinges, but since my little girl rides strapped...

Remember, too that it isn't just about the roof. Think long-term about whether you'll be adding a lift, etc. to the van. On the one hand, my GTRV pop-top would normally fit into a normal garage. (GTRV stands for Garagable Top RV, BTW), and is specifically built to be a low-profile pop-up top...

There's probably no "rule", but Valterra includes baffles on all their tanks larger than 12 gallons. Partially this is down to their design - all the tanks are 8" x 16" x some length. At 24" long, it's 12 gallons, at 30" long it's 15 gallons (and so on, up to 8"x16"x72"). They do baffles...

Nice. That will make things easy for any potential US buyers. For anyone thinking about this, I "re-imported" a GTRV astro from Vancouver to the US with pretty minimal trouble. The wait in the border line took longer than doing the vehicle import paperwork at the port of entry. As a bonus...

My system is super simple. I've got a 12gallon tank from Valterra, mounted under the bench seat. I fill this from a coiled hose with a shutoff valve, just open the rear van door and away I go. Since adding fittings is easy, I gave myself a sight gauge on the side. A single outline line...

To be clear - mine's definitely a knock-off. Weber parts all fit, but it wasn't made by Weber. After replacing broken handles, though, it's working well-enough. All the little fixes that you need for the Go Anywhere (like a baffle/windbreak for the burner intake tube) apply here also.

Dammit. Every time I think I have Google Photos figured out. Edited the links and hopefully that fixes it up.

I've never found this to be an issue, and I think it's a bit of an old-wives tale. The specific heat of water (i.e. the energy needed to change the temperature of 1g of material by 1°C) is literally four times higher than that of air. In other words, in a reasonably full fridge, filled mostly...

Lots of work, not too many photos to share, yet. The Rock-n-Roll bed is nearly complete. All the fit-up, welding, and grinding is done. I'm working on the finishing in pieces because it's hard enough to move the big pieces around and there's moving parts. Here's the "base" frame. On a VW...

About as dangerous as a small caliber handgun*. Don't put your head in front of the dangerous end. Operate according to instructions, and keep your wits about you at all times. *Not trying to stir anything up, just pointing out that, like most things with a lot of stored potential energy...

How deep do you need? SKB makes a number of double long-bow and compound-bow cases that might work for you. This one is 46" x 16" x 7.5" interior dimensions: https://www.skbcases.com/sports/sku.php?cat=12&pid=179 If you can go a little wider than 24", then Bike Transport Cases are another option.

First, we talking true "drawer" fridge, or you do mean the chest style with a lid? I only ask because the options for drawers are pretty slim and I haven't seen any that are very big. They seem to be be built as something a yacht-builder would throw in a secondary galley or a truck driver...

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