The Dirt Sherpa Build
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Backroad Explorer
Adventurer
Another Vote for More!! Love Your Build
AeroNautiCal
Explorer
^^^ This!
GCecchetto
Adventurer
Okay folks, got it, I'll keep posting. Thanks for the kind words and support. I'll be sure to post more photos as soon as I have something interesting to share. This weekend will be a lot of little not so fun stuff like completing the wiring in the walls and masking and caulking the running lights and third break light. I'm still waiting on my front jack brackets and some stainless steel trim for the front wall so I can't do much on the exterior at the present.
Have a good weekend.
Have a good weekend.
riveroceanandmountain
Adventurer
I am watching closely! Please don't retire the thread!!!
I am just beginning my own build and love to see how you are doing things.....
very impressive care and attention to detail!
I am just beginning my own build and love to see how you are doing things.....
very impressive care and attention to detail!
GCecchetto
Adventurer
Got all of the exterior lighting, except the side and rear floods which I don't have yet, wired installed and caulked. In wall electrical is all in and the I'm about 3/4 of the way through insulating the walls. Installed the waste outlet for the sink drain. Unfortunately the photo didn't come out very well. Still waiting on the front jack brackets and trim for the front wall, so I'm going to come to a halt on the exterior pretty soon.
Here's the waste outlet for the sink. The cap threads out and leaves me with an 1-1/2" pipe thread to thread in a 90 degree elbow with house to my waste tank.
Here's the waste outlet for the sink. The cap threads out and leaves me with an 1-1/2" pipe thread to thread in a 90 degree elbow with house to my waste tank.
GCecchetto
Adventurer
Wow! Thanks
Alastair D(Aus)
aging but active
Impressed
Just found this buildup and am very impressed with the care taken. Your work looks to be of very high standard.
Interested in the tie downs you used. They look like they are very strong and have no give. Would it not be better to use sprung turnbuckles so that if there is flex in the vehicle over rough ground the box would not be stressed at the tie down points. I have seen tie down points damaged badly because there was no give anywhere.
Keep up the great work.
Just found this buildup and am very impressed with the care taken. Your work looks to be of very high standard.
Interested in the tie downs you used. They look like they are very strong and have no give. Would it not be better to use sprung turnbuckles so that if there is flex in the vehicle over rough ground the box would not be stressed at the tie down points. I have seen tie down points damaged badly because there was no give anywhere.
Keep up the great work.
GCecchetto
Adventurer
Thanks
So far the tie downs seem fine. I have intentionally stressed the vehicle to see if flex was going to cause problems and there has been no sign of any issues so far. Th bed of a crewmax is only something like 5'- 8" long so there isn't that much between the tie downs. I think sprung tie downs are more important when you have a camper sitting in the bed of the truck but tie downs connected to the frame of the truck. In that scenario you have, potentially, a difference in flex between the bed and the frameand thus a need for give in the tie downs.
Alastair D(Aus)
aging but active
I am currently wrestling with the design of a system to mount a slide on onto the back of my Isuzu NPS 300. I will build a subframe of some sort but have changed my mind several times now after reading so much on this site. The fog is clearing slowly but I still have a way to go. I guess a larger truck chassis is quite different to your vehicle but I would still like to see some give in the system somewhere.
cheers
cheers
GCecchetto
Adventurer
My vote would be for building your subframe with a three point connection system, like an Unimog, and let the flex happen between the vehicle frame and the subframe rather than between the subframe and the camper.
Arya Ebrahimi
Adventurer
Just found this thread, and am glad to hear you will be continuing with the updates.
I will certainly be following along.
I will certainly be following along.