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The main other thing I'd been doing was planning the electrics and plumbing. I've had the big ticket items like tanks, sink and pump for a few weeks but all the small bits should be on order now so the last few days I've been planning the electrics. Inspired by the $50 dual battery thread over...

Been a while. had a lot of garden/yard work to do over the last month so really only properly back at this since yesterday. Lots of parts shopping been going on, at this stage I have nearly everything bought, just need time to get it all built. The only person really working on this for the...

if you can get a 150 prado/land cruiser for your budget buy one and close the thread. Mitsubishi are leaving europe, parts availablitly is only going to get worse and there's just no comparison in reliability between the toyota and a D3/4 I'm sure a D4 is marginally more refined but the toyota...

? woops, looked them over two or three times and missed that little black tab. There's a hump in the floor (previous owner did the floor, honest) so it took a few attempts to get these parallel and true: Had to remove carpet on one side and still needed washers on the other to build it up...

Keeping the couriers busy the last few weeks, have now got all the big pieces of the kitchen unit in and am building. I've hit a snaggle though. I've never used this style of drawer slide before. Am I being thick or missing something here? The red circled holes are for screws into the...

I'm a tyre racist so the originals had to go, got some Cooper Discoverer ATTs for some swamper stylee. Did a lot of kitchen planning during the week and ordered most of the bits I need and this weekend got the bed fabrication 100% complete and started building the kitchen unit. As it's going...

Maybe a crazy suggestion but given the extent of your plans maybe not..... Rather than the epas system which I think is an electric hydraulic pump ditch the hydraulics altogether? A manual box with an electrically assisted column might be even lighter. People use them in all sorts of...

Bed platform is finally almost finished. A few bolts into the ply panel and its done. I've decided to ignore all finishes until I get the conversion signed off. I'll do a full dry build and get it certified then take it all apart and paint/carpet everything at once rather than piece by piece...

Lots more work with very little to show for it. there's nearly 3 man hours in the two brackets on this side of the bed frame. They pick up on some factory tie down points. Bed platform has been in and out a few times, tweaking the fit around the body at various points. I have one more cut...

Few more jobs progressed. The battery went flat last week, down to 4.8v eek. I'd been playing with the radio which it seems is live all the time. The rear speakers were attached to the headlining with 8 drywall screws each and hanging below it without grilles. Rewired it, fixed the antenna...

Very detailed site here about a Transit build https://faroutride.com/

Doing some insulating tonight. Previous owner had kindly put some dynamat type product on the inside of the panels already which should help with noise. I put a layer of 8mm closed cell foam over that and then a layer of foil bubble wrap across the openings. I put some flashband on the...

Ola! this will be my third thread started on ExPo, I hope it doesnt go the way of my first two. One was about a boot box for a Mitsubishi Outlander I sold without finishing and the second was about a roof rack I was making for a Hyundai Santa Fe that I've decided to retire in preference to...

I'm building a rack for my 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe. not very ExPo and will be used more for bringing home lumber from the DIY store than road trips but will do a bit of duty carrying bodyboards and tents on camping holidays too so I'm hoping it makes the grade ;) My Santa Fe is a base model so...

Oh yeah, the tax situation would want to be investigated. As US milliatary do you have some exemption from vehicle taxes? because the italians have famously high car tax (up to €2500 per annum)

I dont want to be a ********, but I don't think you get this. Attached is a picture of the carpark at the gate of the naples naval base. The biggest car in the yard is a nissan rogue sport. look at it relative to the parking space. the power wagon is 11 inches wider than that and five and a half...

you'd be mad. sure it's technically possible, but all the best spots are going to be inaccessible. you'll be 3 point turning and reversing to let people get past on any mountain road. italy in particular is the home of the small car, the roads are made for fiat 500s. I spent 10 days in...

I was just about to make the same suggestion, Portsmouth to Santander, across towards Perpignan and then a very easy 2 days drive up to Calais

I had a MK3 2.2 d4d manual a few years back, with a set of general grabber ATs on it. We do a bit of hobby farming and live in Ireland where ground is often wet. I dogged that little truck hard for 45k miles over 2 years, never got stuck, often pulled 2tonne behind it and in all that time it...

In terms of our overall setup the plan would be bags and gear in the boot, under the platform with room for some more up top and to the sides. Will be mounting a dog guard to the platform for protection and carrying a food box up there too for longer trips. We have a Dometic 12v cooler box for...