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Have you ever tasted RO water? Go to your local grocer and buy some; it tastes terrible. So, you will either need to filter bacteria, viruses and other crap out of tap, creek or lake water or make RO water and add minerals back for taste and bio-availability. Most people walk around dehydrated...

This. You can buy comfy tennis shoes, sandals or $50 Chinesium "hiking" boots, over and over and over again, or you can buy something more durable from a company such as White's, Lowa, Sievi, Wesco, Kamik, Baffin or Royer, once. You are supporting small/smaller businesses and buying something...

https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/sound-damping-a-vehicle-the-right-way.225971 EDIT: Dry ice is a great tool to use for removing stubborn, factory sound deadening materials. You probably won't find anything from Husky or WeatherTech for that truck, but should be able to have some...

Most, if not all STATES, have similar policies, rules, codes and statutes. From my post about a year ago: The same is true for registering a privately owned automobile in the name of a private trust, LLC, PUA/TUA, 501/508 or other entity. If the car/truck/van is legally owned by an LLC...

If you want to take the camper in and out, either buy something like an Alaskan or a FWC or be prepared to engineer that capability into whatever you build. Personally, I would ditch the factory bed for a few reasons, namely weight. A 6.5' pickup bed has to weigh a few hundred pounds. With the...

Before you go adding 150 pounds of weight at the highest point of your camper, consider composite panels. They are light, strong and easy to build. A finished panel weighs in the 1 - 2 pounds per square foot range when using XPS foam and fiberglass, Kevlar or carbon fiber skins. Using less of a...

If you are serious about purchasing a high-quality serviceable damper for a big truck you are going to be looking at something from a company such as Reiger, Radflo, Ohlins or maybe ADS. Further down the line are King and Fox. Neither are as good as they used to me according to friends in the...

Mea culpa. I was reading full-size as 2500/3500 and HD as 4500/5500. I will pull the post if you want it deleted. Half ton trucks are for going camping with a tent, a dog and a mountain bike, not for 3,000 pound campers in the bed. :D Cheers

Chad, I am not sure where these numbers came from, but a good friend of mine just ordered a 2022 F-350. He plans to install a slide-in camper, so I did some research for both of you. According to Ford's website, payload capacity for an F-350 varies from about #4,000 to more than #7,000. As the...

Call Scheid or Industrial Injection about building your 6.7L Cummins and call SunCoast about building your Allison. The engine will reliably produce 500 HP and 1000 foot pounds and a properly built transmission will take that all day long. Use top notch parts, vendors and fluids and your life on...

What are the dimensions of the truck and the camper, both opened and closed? How much room do you have inside to move around, sit, cook, etc., if the weather is crap and everything is battened down? Do you get condensation inside in the cold weather? It would be a bit of work, but have you...

There are many companies that make composite sandwich panels to your specs, but you better get out your credit card. Plascore in Zeeland Michigan has been great to work with and they offer a myriad of combinations to suit your needs. You can choose polypropylene, Aramid or 5052 core and nearly...

A crude frame measurement can be taken using a plumb bob dropped at various points along the frame to tape or stickers on a flat level surface. Move the truck and measure between the marks to see if there is anything unusual. If the truck is relatively safe to drive, just take it to a body shop...

I don't want to clutter the thread, so let me know if you want this removed. https://www.nhtsa.gov/importing-vehicle/importation-and-certification-faqs#faq-31016

The 25 year rule applies to vehicles of all kinds that were never originally manufactured for, or offered for sale in the UNITED STATES. This is true whether the vehicle is a 5023 Unimog, a VDJ-200 or an R33 Skyline. As you noted one may import vehicles temporarily, under several categories, one...

Plascore, Nomex, Hexcell and other 'hollow' cores all have quite poor R-value, only trapping air between the skins to reduce convection. XPS is about R-5 per inch, structural foams are about R-4 per inch. The solution here is to avoid targeting one product that does everything and focus on...

How carbon fiber + honeycomb panels are made and some of the differences between Nomex and Hexcell are highlighted in this video: OP: PM me if you don't want this in here and I will delete it.

Obviously epoxy resins are preferred, but millions of boats are made using cored "panels" with vinylester or polyester resins. You have to get into mega yachts, racing airplanes, million dollar go fast boats and America's Cup level stuff to find an OEM using exclusively carbon fiber, Nomex or...

As I was going through some panel notes today, I came across this PDF. It was produced by a well known European foam manufacturer called Gurit, with a US HQ in Michigan. Their foams are widely used in the yachting industry and are priced accordingly. However, there is much to be gleaned from...

Cali, the point was not to make a direct comparison, e.g. RS4 to Tacoma, but to share insight from someone in the industry. He sees hundreds of claims per week and the vast majority are from customers who own European cars. Are Toyotas perfect? Absolutely not. Do they build the most reliable...