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What is the height and width of your camper, as it sits on your truck? Would you want it to be smaller to fit more places or would that compromise liveability?

Made in Oregon: https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/warn-10k-pound-8274-winch/ Add a soft shackle and a pulley and you have a 20k winch that will last a lifetime. It is rebuildable, serviceable and can even be modified by adding Albright solenoids or dual motors for increased pulling power or...

Back in 2018, the F-Series was re-introduced into the States, after a decade-long absence. The cab seems to quite similar to the Aussie version, but instead of getting an inline six, we only get a slightly uprated version of the venerable 4HK. It does come stock, with a 2500 Series Allison...

I spoke with one VIP manufacturer, thinking that there was some kind of airy, space-age, lightweight foam in the middle of the panel. I was surprised to hear that the core material they chose was 10 - 13 pounds per cubic foot. We aren't talking concrete here, but XPS is 1.3 for reference. Are...

This is called a walking beam suspension and is relatively common on tandem rear axle vehicles. It was used on 2.5 ton military trucks in the US from the Vietnam era. Many other trucks have made use of this design as well, but it is easy to find pictures and videos showing the off road...

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The shape to which you are referring is called a French cleat. Do not use Polyisocyanurate; it is quite crumbly. The same is true for Styrofoam (EPS). Polyurethane foam does not have a great Long Term R-value (5 years out), so that leaves XPS and some specialty foams that probably aren't great...

Weight is always important. A 12,000 pound truck will handle better, stop quicker and require less fuel to push down the road than the same truck weighing 14,000. Your truck may be able to carry the weight, but this does not mean that weight isn't an important consideration. "Add lightness."...

I am not in your shoes and don't know the details of your camper build, but some combination of what Coyote and I posted seems to be a good starting point for protecting and isolating the panel. If I were to use a VHB or two sided tape, I would obtain one with a bit of "foam" in the middle to...

The issue really is the film or the bag wrapping the fiberglass or fumed silica core. I don't recall off hand if Panasonic uses a metalized bag or just a few layers of plastic bag (think: counter top home vacuum sealer on steroids), but the film is thin and not very strong. So, if you glue this...

Panasonic U-Vacua VIPs are one of the few readily available to consumers. Most companies build to order and don't like small fish in a big pond, VIPs are VERY fragile. Consider covering them with Aliphatic Polyurea or fiberglass and resin. A tear or puncture leaves you with the R-value of the...

Illustrative example: Try taking a lug nut off your car or truck with a 3/8" drive socket wrench that is 6 or 8 inches long. Now try taking that same lug nut off using a 24" socket wrench or cheater bar. It's much easier, right? The opposite is also true. Hold the end of a 24" cheater bar and...

Final layer meaning base or bottom layer, i.e. the more rope you pull out, the more pulling power you have. RED is a brand of winch, made in the UK. They offer what is essentially a machined aluminum 'pulley' designed to be used with soft shackles, so the old 'snatch block' goes to the recycle...

You are going to change between Drive, Neutral in Reverse in a slush box. You are going to change between 1st or 2nd and reverse in a five speed. Why bother swapping to an auto? Manual transmissions are much more durable, lighter, less complicated and last longer than automatics. Unless you just...

Why would you buy an ambulance box and transplant it onto a Fuso or Canter? Ambulance boxes are really good at what they do, but they are incredibly heavy and complicated and generally require quite a bit of modification in order to work as a camper box. With the exception of the larger...

Victron and MasterVolt use Winston Lithium Iron Phosphate cells in a shiny wrapper. Used Tesla 18650 battery packs can be had for well under $1,000. So, the OP could have had 16kW of made in Japan batteries and avoided consuming more Chinesium. :D C-Zone is ubiquitous in the marine industry...

DRW to SRW "conversions" are not difficult to do if you understand how wheel ends are configured. Most manufacturers use either a spacer/adapter combination or a different hub, some of which have a different bolt pattern. F-350 trucks use Ford's metric 8-lug, while F-550 trucks use 'baby' 10...

Polyisocyanurate will crumble in your hand quite easily and should NEVER be used to make sandwich panels; neither should EPS/Styrofoam for the same reason. Yes, I know people have done it, but I have also seen people eat fast food and type three paragraph-long posts with little to no punctuation...

All true, hence the big laughing face after my post. Cheers

You could have bought a sleeper cab from a breaker in the EU that is LHD and swapped everything over. :D