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I'd check your weight. Between the fully wet finch, flatbed, and storage boxes (and stuff inside), you may be overloading the truck.

I'd fire off an email to Mike at Autohome, but my first guess is that this would be a bad idea. It isn't just 40lbs, it's 40lbs on the extreme side edge. I have a feeling this would make the lift mechanism bind up when you tried to raise it... Probably need to look at one of those adjustable...

Yes, you can buy a second handle. However, you MAY decide it's a bad idea. I too bought a second handle specifically so I could have two pots or a pot and a pan going at the same time. However the handles tend to heat up pretty fast. Not sure if it is by conduction through the connection to...

I don't have any answers for you, but I love this way of thinking, so I'll be staying tuned to see what the experts say.

It's back up now. That's amazing. They updated the web page for the first time in like 10 years, and the page is still 10 years out of date.

I've got three. The general consensus - and I've asked a lot of people to sit in my collection of chairs to gauge comfort, etc. - is that the telescoping chairs aren't QUITE as comfortable as the director's chairs that keep popping up in this thread. The advantage to the director's chairs is...

I couldn't believe it, so I tried to check for myself. Nothing but black currently, although maybe it's taking time to be cached now, since the old cache was about as old as anything on the web.

If you have even an inkling that you'd use or prefer the pop-top in the long run, get the one with the top. The price to have SMB do that conversion will quickly hit $10k or more. The lower mileage on the older van tends to indicate occasional usage, which isn't a problem in my book. You'd...

They sure are proud of those. Look very functional, but nearly $2k for a pair of drawers is beyond my budget.

That'd be a hard offer to pass up. If I wasn't already a customer!

LOL, I was thinking it, but wasn't going to say it. Don't see anything in the manual about a dimming mode, so covering it or putting a tinted lens over it may be your best bet.

The list of Overland Expo vendors is on this page: http://www.overlandexpo.com/exhibitors/ Is the seller there?

Scheming on that idea for a while myself, Tom. I think something roughly U-shaped that fits the shape of the upper door then telescopes or pivots out to extend out more would be very easy to make, then combine with a regular opaque shower curtain liner (or something exotic and lighter-weight...

Mine's out for delivery! :victory:

This is a legitimate strategy, but not without pitfalls. For a while after first building my pop-top van, we used the "park and disgorge" strategy. Everybody sleeps in the van (mom and daughter on lower bunk, me in the pop-top), but in the early days, this meant that upon setting up camp, a...

Agreed. Body first, then low(ish) miles as a bonus, but we're starting to enter the window where time takes almost as much of a toll as mileage. My low-miles daily-driver Subaru is starting to get to that point, as after 13+ years the rubber bits are starting to dry out, etc.

Normally I'm a fan of the "run what ya' brung" philosophy, but I think you've gotten both the mileage and usage out of your vehicles to justify starting a bit more "fresh" with something with a bit fewer miles on the clock! You know the platform as well as anyone, so you'll be able to spot the...

Fortunately, the OEM GM chocks are some of the best (non folding) I've seen. Wide and very thick, with gripping toes cut in. I've never hesitated to use them even on my very oversized ties. They lack a provision to chain them together, but now that I've seen the Bogert units, I'll be drilling...

You know, the more I look at the design of the jackstand base, the more I start to scheme more uses for it. Does anybody else think that with a couple cross-drilled holes and some (milled?) inserts, this base could also be a bolt-on large-footprint replacement for the base of a Hi-Lift...

For the fairly big difference in price, I'd invest instead in a decent solar array. I think for less money you could have a large enough group of panels to make your length-of-stay "indefinite" from an electrical perspective.