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Moving along. To start off I got my rear hubs together with fresh bearings and seals so I can start working on my rear disk brake set up. I had a friend 3D print some rings to properly locate my rotor on the hub as well as a mock up caliper bracket. The brackets mount like so and the...

After a few days to install some kitchen cabinets and counter tops I finally got back to some van stuff. Cut up a few brackets for my lower anti-roll bar end link mounts. Got them tacked in and made sure the tie rod did not hit at full lock and all seemed good. However, my logic escaped...

Another little update. Moving along pretty slowly but moving along none the less. Finally got around to cutting out my brake brackets the hard way since my laser cutter guy bailed on me. Used my cheap hand-me-down drill press, the big vertical band saw at work and my belt grinder and managed...

It seems exactly as I stated in my last post. I got the tank in. It looks like a gas tank in a van so I didn't worry too much about pics. As is tradition with Vanagon fuel tanks, it was a pain in the bootay to install. What's crazy is that it was likely easier with my tank vent system but it...

Halloween of 2011 my wife and I got caught in a brutal snow storm on our way to visit friends in Boston. We hit the storm in Scranton PA and what should have been about 5 hours to Boston took us more than 11 hours. I swore I would never be without a 4WD again and actually have not been since...

In order to keep busy while I wait on parts I figured I would tackle some suspension bits. I pressed the lower ball joints out of my spindles and needed to get my upper ball joint adapter bushings welded in place. More work with the tig and they are in. I will press the new ball joints in at...

Been slowly whittling away at things the last couple weeks. Everything is probably taking as long as it's supposed to but it still seems way longer than I would like. Either way things are getting done and that's a good thing. I got my fittings welded into the top of the gas tank. The two...

Well I set myself up with another deadline and am back at the van build. It took some time to come up with a game plan but I think I have it sorted. Pretty sure I mentioned that I am swapping to an electric power steering set up so I wanted to get some parts of that sorted out before I started...

'Twas a meaty loaf of a man that once said "Two out of three ain't bad". Why not get the best of both worlds? I guess I don't know what you are converting and how in depth you were looking to go with the conversion but I chose the AWD/4WD route. I won't get into my build much because it's...

Maybe you did not want to bring it up but White Island just erupted today with several casualties.

I guess the real question is how many people with all these fuel cans strapped any and everywhere have actually had to use them? I plan to add a small tank (4-5 gal) under my van to combine with the stock tank to net me about 20 gallons, which should equate to about 400 miles. Heck the Dalton...

Yeah sorry about the updates. I've fallen victim to too-many-irons-in-the-fire syndrome which has made the updates slow to roll in. Things are progressing a little bit. So I think in the last update I was dealing with a differential issue that I did not anticipate. I have since pieced...

Was this built like this at the dealer?

Man you would not believe the combinations I have come up with so I could bail on the stock Vanagon transmissions. I started looking at Porsche stuff and even contemplated swapping to a mid engine set up so I could use a bunch of available transmissions. If I did not have so much time and...

Yes I totally think it was an overhaul by someone who maybe did not know what they were doing. The fellow I bought it from said it was rebuilt recently. He also went on to say that it slipped between shifts for the first two or three runs through the gears when it was cold outside but stopped...

Hmm yes. More updates are in order. So I tore into my new transmission only to find a wee bit O'carnage. Ok its not that bad but its not good either. I noticed, while cleaning my trans before tear down, that the diff would not turn. This is not normal. I popped it open and the diff still would...

My 295 watt panels are 65.5 x 39.3

They will fit traditionally but there will be a bit of overhang everywhere. If power is your priority then you will deal with the strange set up but, in practice, it probably would not look as bad as you might think. I have yet to toss them up there and see what it looks like. A lot of people...

Yeah there is not a whole lot of info on that mini split set up. The main complaint that I have seen is that they have a dry break system so you can separate the two parts and run the hoses through smaller holes and such. Apparently those dry breaks can be a pain to open or close back up and...

I have been eyeballin' one of these for sometime now. https://rollibot.com/product/mini-split-ac-room-air-conditioner/ This unit would likely take a 2kw generator to run, at least for initial start up. I have run a 5000btu window unit on one of those hundred dollar, 900 watt, 2 stroke...