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We have the same Daewoo washer-dryer, but got ours via the Netherlands. The washer side of it is great, use it several times a week, only 28 litres of water each load. However, the dryer side of it is very water and power hungry - it has a water-cooled condenser. If I had my time again, I'd get...

@samurai driver - If you can, place your water tank/s as closee as you can to the rear axle line. Mine are just forward of halfway between the front and rear axles, and consequently we only have 300kg reserve on the 2800kg front axle. While up that end of the truck, we removed the OEM seats and...

Magir Careful - go down the wrong rabbit hole and you'll have some explaining to do to the missus!

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With nothing better to do, I entered (less than10 word) iterations of 50s/60s/70s/modern '4x4 camper truck' into an AI Creator app on my phone, and these are the results - unfortunately unless I pay a subscription, the images are 1x1, which means some of the are cropped. Which one would you...

Finally got round to throwing together a build-finished video - only 6 months after the fact! Link down below. It really hasn't been our year, we've almost spent as much time out of the truck as in it. A spate of electronic breakdowns were the cause, the bane of modern trucks - it became...

I started to look into finding alternatives to the OEM fronts for the FGB71 (US-72), but got waylaid with other parts of my camper build. Now that I've been out travelling on the shockingly maintained UK roads, a new set of front shocks are definitely required. Has anyone come up with...

Just when we thought this breakdown couldn't get any ****************, the workshop have snapped off three of the injector clamp bolts in the head! The soonest they can get a stud extraction expert in to try to fish them out is five days away. Two of them are almost an inch down their holes. We went to...

@Curtis in Texas An F-series is a big rig with a decent donk, it will tow well, and take the 6.1-7.3 metre box you're talking about. Our box is 4.2 metres externally, so everything is compromised to get everything in we wanted. The extra 2-3 metres should be enough to sway your missus! I had...

Random park-up pic. Two nights here, on the Mull of Galloway, first night was driving rain and 30mph winds, felt like we would be swept off the cliff in our sleep!

It's finally happened - as of three days ago, we are homeless and on the road! Chucked in our jobs, sold the house and put everything into storage, and the exciting (and daunting) future lays ahead of us, til we 'run out of money and luck' (line from Jerry Reed/Elvis Presley's Guitar Man)...

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Yes, a 17” tyre can be forced onto a 17.5” rim, but… - the bead will be stretched and damaged. - the bead profile is different on a 17.5 commercial rim/tyre compared to a 17” J-profile rim/tyre and won’t seat correctly. - the 17.5” rim does not have safety lumps in their profile, so airing down...

Just about there, just a couple of things to arrive in the post and be fitted - hopefully all done by the end of the month, and can finally get away and use the damn thing!

I’ve had a good look at the TEJ Wheels website and other info on the net regarding them, and they look promising. But before approaching them, I need to gather some more information. I currently have re-offsetted 17.5x6.75 rims with 265/70-17.5 (137K) tyres as super singles, but the tyre choice...

... and centre-bore?

Unicorn poo is easier to find than FG's in the UK. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325417273811

Argh, you had my hopes up! - but alas, the heavy-weight Iveco Daily 2014-2022 is 6x205 in both 16" and 17.5"

I bought the FCAR F506HD in the end - the cheapest I could find was £209 which still stung a bit. It works on my 2015 FGB71 - cleared my ABS light, and highlighted a fault with the exhaust brake solenoid (£605 - gulp, and I think that's a pattern one) - hopefully it's just a dirty connector. It...

No video this time - honestly, I can't be arsed at the moment. So here's some pics as we near completion. Just a few things left to do - a bunch of 12v wire chasing through the cupboards and other tight spaces, drawer/cabinet fronts and trims, and the last of the plumbing.