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Yeah the mounting needs a bit of makeup, maybe some storage under the camper to fill in the space, looks wierd to me. 12-15 us mpg is pretty much what I get too.

yeah, imperial, your gallons are too small for us:) What are you getting for mpg's? I would assume that the older trucks did better.

sort of fixed it thanks

I was walking through the town of Ganges on Salt Spring Island going to the Saturday market and something caught my eye, it was the fire departments new fast response fire and rescue truck based on the FG platform, the fire department is fairly progressive and decided to go away from the...

Another FG camper for sale from the North American FG mecca of the Vancouver BC lower mainland, not sure how many are here but there are many of these kicking around and see them in many forms when driving around, I know 13 of them. http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/rds/rvs/3979293853.html The...

The images were on a different page, here they are http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/48351-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new/page15 having the wheel not quite on the ground is not really good, the thing is very heavy to lift off the mounting bolts even at shin hieght, also for me the...

Yes they do make doors too, thats where I got my door from, they do manufacture them in a different location but its right next door. I am sure if you asked them nicely they would build a window in the manner that you want, I dont think they are as busy as they have been in the past so may look...

adam88, if I remember right you live in the Vancouver lower mainland and if so you could look into Sunview industries, they are in the Okanogan and have double paned windows that can be ordered with whatever thickness of wall you have and may be able to help you, mine are from there and are...

If you have an ammeter instead of volts it will give you a better idea of charge rate, the panels will show rated volts with almost no sun but the amps will be the main component to pushing power into batteries and if there are no amps showing you will not have much if any power going into the...

I wouldn't get all worked up about the primer for sika, it will bond very well to the surfaces mentioned as long as the surface is very clean, I bonded aluminum to fiberglass with sika 252 and simply sanded the fiberglass surface to create a slightly rougher surface and remove any wax then...

Just a couple of things I would do different from the picture shown if you dont mind a critique, using a breaker bar would be a much better idea than using a real expensive ratchet, the ratchet is not designed for the forces required to break loose the lugs. And maybe a 1" bar as opposed to a...

Definately not the case in the area I live in, even the Mitsu truck dealer here was going to torque the bolts to above 500ft/lb's, now whenever I go to a tire shop I stand above the guy and specify to use a torque wrench and show them the numbers in the manual...360ft/lb's, my truck also had...

Only problem with that is the goons that are going to swap the tires, everytime I get mine done they dont give a crap and damage the wheels some more, scratches, dings etc. You dont want to get those scratched!

Buckstopper, good on ya for getting a rig up and running so fast! A couple of comments for ya, first, if you are looking to replace those seats with original ones I still have mine sitting in my basement wrapped in plastic, they have maybe 1000km's of butt time on them before I swapped...

If I understand correctly that the price of the parabolics include the shocks, no? this to me is as important as the leafs and a good shock that is proven to work will be worth the money, once my shocks die I will be looking into the ATW shocks if they fit my set up.

Hi John, Yeah I am sure you would shred your tires at those pressures seeing as my whole truck probably weighs less than your rear axle weight, but my tires just dont seem to heat up much, I do adjust the pressure if I am fully loaded and heavier than normal but the last time at the weigh...

There are many of those trucks over here, I see one almost daily in our small town where I live so I guess our redneck ratio is higher than normal. Mostly F 650 or F 750 and some Topkicks 5500. Did I read that right for the price on the double swag that was hovering around $500?? Is that for...

I had my suspension re worked for under $2000 and has made a world of difference but the shudder you are concerned about sounds more like an overall weight of the rim, tire reverberation thing that I do still experience when crossing edges on pavement or small unlevel terrain bumps. Seems like...

That would be Bill Caid and his unimog gang, he is presently on another western US trip that can be found here http://www.billcaid.com/ along with many of his excellent trip reports, particularly his Altar desert trips, from what I have read he was at expo along with many of those in the photo.

Not one to put down a good scarf but why not use a sheet of ply 10' long and rip it to size? Thanks for posting prices on the materials, sure gives one an idea of the cost of building something like this in perspective, looks like so far $2600, what do you expect the resin to come to?