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Thanks, we transformed out lounge room into a workshop lol. Biggest piece was 6m x 4m, and stitching the front and sailtrack tape on the back meant we had a 6m runs, stitching is not to OEM standards like yours, but we are happy with the result. Looking at some of the professional custom...

The Singer is a tough machine, it did all the long seams in our awning, three layers of our heavy duty canvas (500gsm). My wife used the walking foot attachment, found it to be OK, but not great. They are pretty cheap, come up in Spotlight sales for $400 every few months. It should have no...

After getting some pricing for an awning for our truck, when we got up off the floor, we decided to make our own. It took a while, but turned out great. We used an old heavy duty Singer, which worked, for a while but was at bit too much for it. So we bought a SailMate machine -...

I went with the silver ceramic coating as it has the last radiant heat - helps keeps thing cooler. The turbo is a GT2860RS "Disco Potato" I had to get a T5 to T25 adapter for the old turbo, and then make an adapter for the turbo outlet from 5 bolt to the 4 bolt exhaust...

I ha my manifold, turbo, exhaust brake housing and dump pipe all ceramic coats, sure does keep the heat down.

Looks so nice and clean under there, seems a pity to get it all muddy :)

Still waiting for the missing parts to do the transmission swap, but I have made the switch console, and have the parts for the valve block. I'll get the switch engrave with F R and H L and the other is will be 4WD. The console is made from 1.8mm Balsa wood, with some fibreglass resin and...

Dynamat inside the doors, roof, everything basically, two layers on the firewall. The carpet is direct to the metal, using contact adhesive.

I did plenty of soundproofing on my U1250, can hold a normal conversation in mine. The cab is lined with marine carpet, and I have a heavy duty sound deadening mat on the floor as well

This is the Mk1 version. Mk2 version - easier to keep clean and a couple of extra speakers

Now I need to work out how the pneumatic shifting works - does it need constant pressure or just when shifting, the Reverse cylinder seems like it does have a spring return, but not sure. The High/Low ( Working gears) is a standard shift cylinder like on the 1-4/5-8 range change. Pretty sure...

Our new toys have arrived.

Great idea, I did similar things on the front a long time ago, have not had any oil migration problems using either Castrol Syntrax 75W-90 or 80W-140.

Thanks, they work great and have proven they protect the windows.

Your camper interiors are much bigger than ours, but we still carry a huge amount of stuff compared to when we used to have the Land Rover. Your bathroom looks huge, and takes up a lot of space it seems to us. Hve you though about putting the toilet on a slider, so it goes back under the bed...

Great models, your bed ( assuming the bed is against the cab) looks quite high if you add a base and a mattress, our works out to be around 300mm deep. We have a slatted base, and a 200mm latex mattress. It was well worth it, our bed is very comfortable. We also made sure we had enough...

It is interesting that you rear window gets covered in mud or dust, our does not. We get a bit of dust on our rear storage bag , but not that much. This might be due to the aerodynamics with the chamfered rear I went with to try and reduce the dust and mud on the rear. The "air tabs" have...

Talking about alternators, I fitted my truck with two of them, upgrading the standard 55A 12V one with a 90A, and first a 120A one for the house batteries, but replaced that with a 250A one when I upgraded the battery system. More details in my build thread, my charging system is pretty unique...

It is a great question, I've made a few changes to mine since completing the build. Some of the things were 10-12 year old technology, which were good and proven when I started the build, but now are almost obsolete. 1. Bigger fuel tanks, I added swapped out my 130l secondary tank for a...

Getting it done though, every job is one less to do.