2022 Ford F550 - DIY - Adventure Expedition Vehicle Build Thread

[Vance Vanz]

LINEX - Exterior of Cab & Details on the Cab

I thought i would post a few pics of the back of the cab, while the camper was off the rig, as well as some additional photos of the finished details on the cab. These pics also have better lighting, which shows the black and light grey colors of the LINE-X a little better than previous photos.



As far as the seams on the doors, on the black lower rocker panels, we played with wrapping the edges just enough so your eye wouldn't see/catch grey when walking past them. We also didn't want to wrap the black too far around the edges of the doors, or into the door jambs. It came out well and looks balanced. These are all the details CeeCee was willing to take the time to address and dial in ! It's not easy getting super clean cut lines on LINE-X.

 

[Vance Vanz]

Auxiliary Fuel Tank & Factory Carbon Canister

So, I'm finally getting to some of the modifications/additions to the factory truck/truck chassis. "Why now, this late in the game?" you might ask.

Well, when I purchased the truck brandy new back in 2021, no one had a 50-55 gallon aftermarket fuel tank for a F550 in diesel or gas. The price for a custom tank was outrageous and no one I contacted at the time wanted to build one either. So, I waited.

When one finally came out, I was already up to my neck, or should I say drowning, in carbon fiber composite and body work. As soon as the truck/camper headed to the LINE-X shop, I started sourcing everything that needed to be mounted to the truck/truck's chassis. The first order of business was the additional gas tank. Everything needed to revolve around this.

So here we go............🥳

Factory chassis layout


Moving in


Semi done


Now what do I do with this?


Of course the bottom of the emissions carbon canister is not flat. Why would they make it easy to ditch the factory bracket and just remount the canister to something flat? And of course the bolting pattern/orientation for both sides of the canister is not similar.


😕😕😕😕😕😕🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔.............. I went roundy round on where to mount this thing and how to mount it. I wanted to keep it as high as possible, above the water line, and keep the whole process as simple as possible. Believe it or not, I'm starting to get tired of fabricating things from scratch on thisbuild

🧐, let's just reuse as much of the factory bracket as possible. A little snipping and then some adding.


Now I can can mount it to something flat 🤓.

To be continued................., time for bed 😴.

 

[38snubby]

This jankie website. It stopped sending me update to this thread. Amazing progress, my dude.