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Awesome work Sharkfox. I'm sure you've seen Dean's similar project (the fruits of which are now on my van), but just in case you haven't, I'd hate to see you reinvent a wheel. Here's how he did the cable-shift NP233. For me, the cable-shift is really the best because you only have to make one...

The only bad thing about the Boomer thread is seeing all the places your "big" van fits. I feel like I made my life unnecessarily hard by over-optimizing into my smaller van package, all in the name of agility and being able to "go more places". If I were starting a build these days, I'd be...

That took about as long as I guessed it would. :)

+1 for dating your containers and just rotating your stock. You're likely buying gas on a weekly or biweekly basis anyway...

Talk about trying to find a unicorn. If you're holding out for a stateside-legal diesel 4x4 Delica with a pop-top, you're bound to be waiting for a while!

You might be able to get away with 1/2" plywood, or thinner, depending on your joinery technique/technology. 3/4" gets used a lot because you can just end-screw into butt joints. For 1/2", you need to get fancier about how you build the box. That said, go check it out and evaluate the...

Subscribed! Need more Astros on this forum. Do you access that roof box very often? I have several but can never get serious about using them because they're so high off the ground!

One note on the "flexy weak point" on the arms - that's sort of the designed-in failure point. It would be very easy to beef that portion up, but then you run the risk of just moving the failure point farther up or into something actually on the unibody. Not to say that it couldn't be a bit...

There's also the Quickup Camper:

This is a concept to expand on. A while back I got exposed to a concept that Adam Savage (Mythbusters) calls "First Order Retrievability" - the idea that everything in a system should be directly accessible without having to move something else out of the way. He developed this with regards to...

I'm just now making the switch from a portable/chest style fridge to a "built-in" fridge. Specifically, the Truckfridge TF49. It's running the same Danfoss 12v compressor that all the other quality chest fridges are running, so the power and "level" requirements are pretty much a push between...

You will hear mixed stuff. AGMs are much safer, but technically can still out-gas under extreme conditions. That said, I put an AGM inside my van, and my family sleeps nearby. I felt it was an acceptable risk.

Careful with that. Speaking as someone who's currently camped on the side of the "road less traveled", it can sometimes be a real pain. It's fun at first, but after a certain point, project fatigue sets in and you just wish you could buy that friggen bumper or rock rails you need, and you just...

Sort of like a gas Son of Hibachi. I like that it folds up nice and compact, but I wish there was a way to put a lid on it. Some food just needs more than direct-heat cooking.

Yes, it's the rally-car heritage - by design, they're always a bit under-sprung and over-damped. The sway bar is just a side-to-side spring, and a light one at that (unless you've "upgraded"), so it will have a minimal effect.

Eeek. someone rescue that one from the tin-worm, STAT!

I think that's why we see the wheel wells chopped out in the first post! Quite the project, for sure.

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Very nice! It's got the G80 locking rear - pretty rare. The only negative is it's a 2002 instead of a 2003+ (6 lugs, brake upgrades, etc.)

I'm not the expert, but from what I've read, you're on the edge, but probably OK. Around 3" is where people start to get nervous about the length of the bolts and the leverage the body can exert upon them. At 4"+ everybody says welded tubes are the only way to go, but there doesn't seem to be...