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Advice required Hi all, just about to commit quite a bit of money in fittings and hose on my camper heating system, and what to run it by everyone to see if I have got it right, or if there is something I've missed. I want to leave the OEM system as intact as possible, so as not to cause and...

David, at the rate you are working at you will be finished long before I am :( Great build, and nice truck :)

Diplostrat, I would consider that very reasonable. :) We have 175W of alternator( although 55w OEM apparent puts out 80A at higher rpm), 300AH batteries, 340W of solar on the roof, and a 250W movable panel. Once we figure out what is required, we may fit another 150AH of batteries as we...

Thanks, based on yours and other people recommending the induction cookers, we decide to get a cheap one off ebay - $50 for an 1800W induction cooker, this model that came recommend from a few people on the Exploroz forum. We probably have enough battery power to boil water, but not enough...

If you get a spray bottle with some soap, and spray all the joints and fitting, you will soon find a leak,as it foams up quickly. If you have a really big air leak, you will hardly hear it. The first tank getting some pressure is good, but it should be filling up both tanks, pretty quickly...

Here is a link to the official trouble shooting chart for a Vario 814d, not sure if it is the same. http://ww2.justanswer.com/uploads/Chezario/2011-01-31_091344_w670_checking_compressed-air_syste...ring-loaded_parking_brake.pdf Hope this helps a bit. It sounds like you don't have enough air...

One head per cylinder, that is a great idea. Looks like you have a lot of patience, what did you use to clean the pistons without damaging them?

Hi DiploStrat, any chance of you doing a test with one litre of water to see how long it takes, and how much current it draws It would be a good comparison to the X100

That's about the same as us. We went through 6kg of gas on our 3 month trip around Australia. Our new baby Weber barbeque we tested out over Christmas is a gas hungry monster by comparison to the little stove we had, that when through 4kg of gas in a week when we used it all the time. We used...

Thanks Pairoa, I understand that they are not so efficient at high altitude, but it is compromise for we are prepared to make. We have heard from other users that their diesel stuff works even at 4000m, just not as well as it does at lower altitude. We are planning to drive around the world, and...

Some very interesting concepts Biotect, in the 90's there were a lot of Unimogs built with large single body. I have no idea about the mounting on the chassis, they were built as tour buses from trips to Cape York, Fraser Island etc, and in those days the roads very bad. Going there was a big...

I finally commissioned my Webasto X100. I have not finished the fuel system on my truck yet, so I just put the fuel line into a 20lt Jerry can on the ground below the truck. It fired up on the second attempt, and I boiled a pot of water to test it. It does not seem to get as hot as a gas...

I'm jealous of the amount of space you have. We spent a lot of time sorting out our interior, even going to the point of building it out of plywood and spending a whole day in it. I'm not sure how far you are with building your camper box, but looking at your design sketches, we have a few...

Those tyres are massive - just what and off-road truck needs :)

We look at them each time we go to the camping show. They have smaller ones as well, 800w IIRC. I could calculate the efficiency of each fuel, but LPG seems most efficient, unless you have enough solar to recharge the massive current draw. We bought the diesel stove as we will always have...

I have loads of wiring diagrams, which I will eventually get laminated and stuck on the inside of the various cabinets with description of each fuse and wire. I have also put some "Moose Tags" on each wire in the control panel / distribution box, so that if a few come loose, I can see what...

One of the other things I did on the interior is find and fit the stays for the overhead locker doors. The cabinet maker said he had heard from a friend about a type of spring latch at Whitworths Marine supplies, so I went down there and had a look. This is what I found, and they work great...

Progress this month has been slow and steady, a lot of thinking, design and redesign has been done. First off was finding a place for the intercooler radiator. I originally was going to put a thinner radiator in front of the air con condenser on the radiator, but there was not enough space...

Congratulation on creating your dream, I've seen some photos/video of your truck on Youtube, and know you are much further advanced than what you have shown here. Please post some more, building a really big truck like that is a massive undertaking and I'm curious to know how far you have...

Nice to see another mad person in Brisbane building a camper truck. :)