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Slow progress this week, moving house and living near a hot spot suburb of Melbourne has really thrown a spanner in the works. Managed to get up today and put the canopy doors back on... and I removed the combing rails to have them cut down to size a bit. The rails along the edge of the tray...

It’s been a busy day! Have finished fitting the tray and the tail lights, I’m going to head to a truck wrecker tomorrow and rustle up some mud guards as well. Started to see how the under tray tool boxes will look as well. They’re off a ute and they look ridiculously skinny on the truck...

Hi Ultimark, thanks for the message. Yeah I think with the canopy it should be fine, it gets more confusing as it’ll be going through as 4495kg. I’ve seen a few LV utes without them in the past but they may have been removed after rego. Will see how it goes when I take it back for the inspection.

Almost got the tray bolted down and should have it complete by tomorrow I reckon. Need to cut the combing rails to length and bolt them on as well. The front chassis mounted diesel tank is in now as well! I’m Going to cut the roof out of the canopy tomorrow night after work and weld in...

Awesome Spanna, I think that’s going to be the go for mine as well. Did you make them out of alloy or steel? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So a question for people.... which pop top mechanism to use? It’s the one area I haven’t been able to finalise as yet as there’s a not a lot of info around the options I’ve been able to find. My previous camper had three scissor lifters which lifted it up great, but were a pain to lower due to...

While moving the canopy around the glue let go in a few spots on the longitudinal supports unfortunately. Ended up tacking them down during welding as well. It’s made the box very rigid, which gives me a considerable amount of confidence that cutting the roof out is going to work! In the...

Did a bit of work today on the upright strengthening arms for the canopy. I’ll show in the new few pics the need for them on the uprights! The farmer I bought the canopy off removed the whole unit with a sling through the middle and lifted off with a front end loader attachment on a tractor...

G'day Headley, To be honest I've never been a big fan of winches at the best of times, letalone the behemoths that end up on these things! From my experience touring, the few times I've needed a winch there wasn't anything to secure to, or I'd blown the solenoid! If I were to fit one on this...

Yep springs from AAV, 4 tonne extrusions from action alloy in qld and tanks from eBay. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi Bris, I’d estimate the weight at approx 120kg or thereabouts at a guess, it’s all 6mm mild steel angles. I’ll redo the math’s again and double check as I didn’t weigh it. Spare wheel won’t be there after it’s finished, it’s there at the moment waiting for the 750r16s to go back on and get...

It’s been a pretty straight forward build so far, but I’d say mainly because of doing a tonne of planning! Have gleaned a lot from the forums here that’s for sure. I’m trying to do it on the cheap where possible, I’ve spent a lot of time hunting down suppliers for different bits and pieces...

Spent some time today looking at a test fit of the tray on the subframe to make sure I’ve done all the measuring correctly... turns out is was out by about 30mm or so. Will need to get a slight extension welded onto the front of the subframe to make it work. I was just sitting it on top and...

They’re no fun to move around either let me tell you! They were off cuts left over from the train lines near our house :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I had a good look around and think its just gunk built up along the seams, if I'm looking at what you were looking at that is..

Mananged to get a few things done over the last week, have mouted the rear water tank between the chassis rails and have had the air cleaner mounts made up. Still trying to figure out how to mount the front pastic diesel tank but reckon I've got it sorted.. Will be starting on bolting down...

So a few more updates, have been busy on the subframe and now have it welded up and mostly painted. Just going through the loation and fitment of the 100l water tank and the 55l diesel tank up front. plan is to just have a y splitter from the 55l tank into the fuel line for the sub tank and and...

Howdy expo, Figured it's time to start a new build thread as I think I've finally settled on the Canter I'm going to keep for a while. After purchasing a couple of single cab trucks and driving them for a bit we've decided to purchase a dual cab. We spent a few months looking around till...

I've been using some climbing pulleys to lift stuff up on the back, going to keep using this once the body is built. They were $40 off Banggood from memory and work a treat.

Do you mean the breather from the rocker cover?