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(above) After cleaning the exposed metal that would painted, I put on a preliminary coat of oil based Flat Black paint... (above) The roof ribs with their first coat of paint... (above) Next the exterior walls were sound deadened with 3/8" thick interlocking rubber flooring... For the walls...

Before anything changes in the van, I penciled out an electric plan... (above) Oops, one wire is missing... Enough there to go shopping, but not enough to get confusing...

I was contacted by Tyler about a month ago about helping him with a conversion of a recently acquired 2006 118" Freightliner Sprinter... Now that we are back from a 21 day road trip in our Sprinter, the timing was perfect to take on the project... (above) Tyler bought the van from a city in...

Since our Earthroamer XV-JP has an ARB 2500 x 2500 awning with a slide on screen room, it just made sense for the Sprinter have the screen room option... Mounting was simple straight though bolting... The vertical positioning of the awning had to have the slide in screen room slot just below the...

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I'm thinking of renovating the rear cabin of my Sprinter... So far I've made a scaled drawing of the floorplan, with paper cutouts representing the various built-ins and utilities... I'll make a cardboard scale model soon... Pictures to follow...

We went to eastern WA and lower B.C. for a week... The foliage was exploding in color... The weather was great overall... Link to all the photos: Fall Colors Road Trip A few samples...

Olympia to Lk. Wenatchee on Hwy 2... Dirt road up to White River... 97 north to Lk. Conconully... Backroads to Nighthawk POE into BC...Onward to Keremeos then up the Ashnola River to 6,000 ft....Back to the USA POE at Midway via backroads... South to Curlew Lk...Final night near Winthrop...

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Fall Colors Road Trip...

(above) Two quarts of Rustloeum Aluminum, thinned with 15% acetone and Valspar Enamel Hardener sprayed through an HVLP gun... (above) The new paint is close enough in tone to original that it doesn't look weird... (above) The new paint will be significantly cooler on the hot sunny days than...

Paint Prep...

I have been using it regularly... Half the time it's my daily driver for getting around town... At least once a month I use it to sleep in while I'm away from home building trailers out of town...

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