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The trail factory lift is a body lift, it's the same geometry as the so you can still do a spring lift. Videos here on it:

Good video but he completely missed the fact that the Prado has been sold for years in the US, just it has a lexus badge on it. He's not wrong about Toyota's completely random naming though On this side of the pond the Prado has been sold without the Prado add on and it has been the big land...

I wear steel toe cap boots, my toes are always well protected! and I'm here to learn. I'm pretty happy with the fat cable. It has a very good boot on the battery terminal, shrink wrap around as much of the cable lug as possible and and an ok boot on the breaker terminal, the sheathing and is...

Never been my experience. Countless times over the years I've jump started something and let it sit in the yard idling to charge the battery.

Sorry I never saw an alert for your reply. Yeah cable 1 is in a flexi conduit and as short as possible for that reason. All my breakers are well below wire rating so should all trip before anything bad happens. (But I put 2 in a conduit too for the sake of it, 150A is a nice bit, I'd rather...

In the last few years I've had Toyo AT2, Falken AT3WA, Cooper AT3 and Yokohama G015s as I'm a very road biased user. For noise the Yokos win hands down. I'd probably rate the Falken second, Toyo third and Cooper fourth Off road I'd say the Falkens probably won. toyo and cooper joint second...

This is my wiring plan for a van conversion. Renogy 50A charger, battery and 1000Winverter. I'm using circuit breakers on all the main circuits and then a fuse box for the individual house loads. Ignoring the blue and green lines for a second, everything is straightforward and simple. I have...

Now the focus moves to fitting out the kitchen unit, electrics and plumbing. The kitchen only had a cheap alcohol stove installed in it for the inspection as the fastest cheapest thing to tick the box for installed cooking facility. I have a single ring 800w induction hob to go in there (the...

Right, I'm wayyyy behind on updating this. I spent ages in the spring searching for plywood, looked at a few alternatives but none were good enough for what I wanted to try and achieve here. I almost went to the UK for some but at the last minute found someone to import four sheets for me...

57 pages. I'll admit I didnt read every single post, but it's kept me going for a few weeks now dipping in for a few pages at a time. Some thread, hope you and the family are doing well. Will the new truck build be getting it's own thread? throw up a link if it does. It's a lovely truck and...

What tweaking are you doing to the TDI?

Love it, great colour scheme. My wife might be wanting a similar step when I put a swivel in our van

Progress was very fast for a few weeks, but has seriously slowed since. I have the vynil floor fitted and the door thresholds done, I also put on my brave boy pants and cut two big holes in the doors to install windows. always a bit intimidating chopping up a car. Last thing done is I...

Congrats on finishing the build, it's a great design and between this thread and Dan's videos it's given a great insight into the design process. I've a question on the roof. Did ye consider a euro style pop top? With elevating/parallel hinges which gives a bit of raise even on the low...

It's a one tonne truck. But a one tonne truck is not a one ton truck. An f350 is available according to a quick search with up to 3600kg payload. The L200 will be rated to 1000kg in some markets. American one ton trucks stopped being one tonne trucks a long long time ago. The L200 is a...

Not a custom build of a Ford Transit. The Transit Custom is the mid sized member of the transit family. It's existed as a distinct model since the mk8 platform came out in 2013 whereas in the past there was just the transit in different sizes. The new 2024 model is first cousins to the new VW...

What everyone else said, park and ride. Also you might struggle to rent something like an expedition unless your pockets are very deep. Big SUVs aren't common from rental companies over here so expect to pay a premium. Defender 110 or Merc GLE will probably be as close as you'll get.

As a european I've often wondered that myself. It's not that these things are infallible or anything, but they also don't fail on a constant basis. I remember when DPFs were first a thing and the sky was gonna fall. we've had 7 or 8 DPF equipped vehicles here over the years, and we generally...

I've often looked for extremely low profile roof fans but never seen one. I wonder could something creative be done to mount a fan into a marine deck hatch. They are made to seal and be low profile. If you had a fan in the ceiling thickness it could work...