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"Thickness" is an easy way to increase flexural rigidity. That does not increase compressive, tensile or shear strength, all of which are key to building a good SIP. You could make the roof rigid enough to stand on or walk on with a few inches of Dow 60 and some Filon or phenolic sheeting. This...

If you are selling your home, having tools and a place to work on a large truck is the first issue to resolve, IMO. This is especially an issue in large cities where land is expensive and people do not take kindly to someone working on vehicles in neighbourhood driveways. Assuming those are...

Paging Alaskan, FWC and several others. Stop building $40,000 slide in truck campers that weigh 3,000 pounds. This guy just kicked **************** with a welder and some tubing in his garage. Using sandwich panels would save some weight and a LOT of welding/riveting. Kudos to you for getting stuck in...

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There are some things that can be done to prolong the life of a diesel engine, but until we stop shoving hot, dirty air back into the engine, reliability will continue to suffer greatly. There is NO diesel emissions system on the market today that is well sorted and reliable, not a single one...

Duel 1) A combat between two persons specifically : a formal combat with weapons fought between two persons in the presence of witnesses 2) A conflict between antagonistic persons, ideas, or forces also : a hard-fought contest between two opponents Dual 1) Of grammatical number : denoting...

1) Locate and befriend a suspension engineer 2) Trial and Error 3) COTS kit for heavy loads and fine tune as needed 4) Replace bags with taller versions 5) Twin ORI struts on each corner (#3800 per pair) 6) Custom coilovers from Reiger, Fox, ADS, Penske or King = Lots of money and tuning to...

Hyper and Eibach both wind custom coils.

For comparison: Sika 252 Data Tensile strength 435psi, elongation at break 400%, tensile lap strength 360psi. 3M 5200 cures faster when cold, does not like UV and does not bond to ALU as strongly. 5200 Data: Tensile 705 psi, elongation 762%, overlap shear on Aluminum = 393 psi Weldmount Data...

Landau glue and 100% polyurethane (Gorilla Glue) are both pretty dang good. Cover the entire panel, weight it and you will destroy the core before that glue fails.

While the CORE truck isn't a bargain at $140,000, in my opinion, that isn't an unreasonable price. It isn't what I would build for myself, but when you consider labour and materials cost on top of the price of a new truck, the numbers add up quickly. We all know that you can build a truck for...

Look at the tensile and shear strength numbers on the two compounds and you will have your answer. Could you build a SIP with liquid nails? Sure, but you can dig a house foundation with a shovel too, though it isn't the best tool for the job.

I will be interested to see how the cable shifted NV4500 works out. MasterShift, or something along that line, used to make remote cable shifting mechanisms for manual transmissions and transfer cases, but the company is no longer in business. There are some universal conversion kits available...

XPS sheeting, or eXtruded Polystyrene, not to be confused with EPS, or Expanded Polystyrene, is relatively inexpensive in the States. It cuts easily with a sharp razor knife and can be found in most home stores. A 50mm XPS sheet, 1200 x 2400 is about USD$65 XPS has a US R-value of R-5 per inch...

1) You will absolutely experience cold bridging if you have a metal exterior skin connected to box section or square tubing. If there is a physical attachment point between the metals, heat/cold will travel on that path, regardless of how much insulation is in the wall cavity. For this reason...

5/4 ton trucks in RCLB are optioned for longer than normal beds for customers wanting to use that chassis for roll backs or the like. You won't see that WB or CA on a 2500 or 3500 truck.

In a perfect world, i.e. laboratory conditions, only 0.018 BTU per hour are required to raise the temperature of one cubic foot of air, by one degree Fahrenheit. Thus, a camper box measuring 12' x 7' x 7' only requires 263 BTU to heat the air inside from 50F to 75F. In the real world, due to...

There are several companies making auxiliary HVAC systems that tie back into the vehicles existing HVAC system. This lowers cost, save space and weight. One such product is called "E-Cool Park" and I believe several of the big players such as Dirna Bergstrom and Indel/Webasto offer something...

I feel like we are pretty far off topic here, but if that truck meets your needs, suits the way that you travel and has proven reliable, then don't change a thing. Quality is about more than durability or reliability IMO, so maybe I chose the wrong words. If the OP is interested in converted an...

I cannot speak to the quality or durability of Fabco or Marmon Herrington parts, but I would presume they would be of good quality. I can say that utilitarian, medium duty 4x4 conversions do not compete in any way with the world of Ultra4, desert racing or rock bouncing, which is where the parts...