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I took the truck to a music festival last weekend. Man, people love this silly thing. Lots of thumbs up on the highway, etc... Folks would come into my camp to talk about it. More and more people have heard about HiAces and are curious. Adding the TRD stripes tells all the car people that it's a...

with the 2 liter 2C engine, the zero to sixty time on this is "Maybe"

I'm with you, I suspect they will do a fine job of stabilizing the overhang. The significant increase in cross section will do that. I'm excited to see the progress on your build.

I sorted out the issue with the 12VDC mains panel. Each switch has a three pins: source, load, ground. The ground pin is to operate a built in LED. I have all the grounds chained together back to the negative bus on the blue sea fuse box. When I first powered up, the ground chain wasn't on the...

More (modest) progress! Got the counter top attached. I hoped to get a slab of bamboo plywood for a counter, but no one near me has any. this is 25mm baltic birch plywood with 5 light coats of polyurethane finish. The wire run for the 12VDC loads box is just to the right on the right of the...

The low-profile L extrusions tend to be a little flexy. Have you done any deflection calculations on the cantilevered bed section? Also, you might consider Coosa board for walls. It's a composite sheet used for boat building. I've used it for a fair bit of my build. I don't know if it meets...

I'm beginning to think the 3L is lower power than the 2L in spite of more displacement. I have friend who has a 3L in a van and it's super slow, especially up hill. I don't know what your experience is with driving these old NA diesels, but you can't put it in 5th and push harder on the pedal...

spent a bunch of time getting electrical installed last week. It feels like this shouldn't take very long, but then you get started... My battery is on the floor of the galley cabinet, all the way forward in the camper to help with weight distribution. Its a 230aH 12v battery from ACOpower...

Top speed is 70 ish. Going up hill requires a down shift to 4th with the weight of the camper back there. Before I added all that weight, she did ok uphill in 5th. Still not fast, though. I'm slowly working on adding a modest turbo kit (7psi) to recapture the un-burned fuel and get a little more...

There are standards. You have to buy them from RVIA. Surprisingly inexpensive, about $250 for the full set

Welding aluminum does weaken it, but usually not enough to matter. It locally removes the heat-treatment, which does provide a lot of structural strength, but it doesn't fully remove it. To get to O state, aluminum needs to be held at a high heat (570 + degrees) for 3+ hours. If aluminum could...

A full propane can is around 300 psi. The regulator pulls it down to 2-3psi (low pressure) or 7-10 psi (high pressure). Low pressure is better for 90% of uses. if you think you need 20,000 BTUs in your camper you will need high pressure, otherwise stick with low. Having the regulator at the can...

It doesn't. The tail lights are on the rear bumper. It's not long enough to need side marker lights. But, I may add some and this is a good thing to be aware of.

My alternator is either 40 or 60 amps. It's attached to a 30 year old NA diesel from Toyota. There's lots of reliability in there, but not a lot of capacity. Pretty sure the DC-DC chargers will over work that poor little fella. I don't plan on having AC in the camper. It's more like a rigid...

Thanks for this. My preferred option is to run all loads back to the negative bus and let the isolated system sort itself out, but all the build info online says to ground the negative bus to chassis as well for safety. Since I don't have DC-DC charging form the engine, I'll probably just run...

The camper on my truck is isolated from the frame. it rides on fat rubber bushings to provide some flex for the frame. I'm pretty sure i want a ground to frame connection for my camper electrical system, and I'm looking for a good way to do this. This isn't a new problem with all the composite...

Update on retail price- the boards were $389+ shipping and the brackets were $65

Pretty sure they are from OkOfroad. they don't provide ratings, or a specific alloy.

I finally got the galley cabinet carcass in. I thought it would take half a day, it took three. I'm mostly blaming the jerk (me) who designed the installation. There are 5 seat track fitting bolts on the bottom and 5 blind screws along the sides that all have to be lined up to get the darn thing...

Do you have a funk-all big truck that needs funk-all big traction boards? I've got just the thing for you. Never been used or mounted. I had planned to use these as an entrance ramp for my build, but my overlanding porch is a better solution for me. These are legit aluminum sand ladders. 60"...