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This is my dream RV Delivery McGee posted:So, just putting a hookah in it? I have a whole bunch of Turkish rugs and decor that's way too gaudy to put in my home from the 6 years my folks lived in Trukey. It's just a matter of wiring in a hotplate for tea, a hookah, and some affixing the rugs and baubles to the walls and floor and I'm good to go. Also, a CRT TV with BJK soccer games permanently on.
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Noeland posted:Where would you classify Schoolies and Toterhomes? Totterhomes I would classify as the Winnebago. Big and fully equipped. Can you link to a schoolie? Google give me teens on holidays...
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May 22, 2014 09:52
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thegasman2000 posted:Totterhomes I would classify as the Winnebago. Big and fully equipped. Can you link to a schoolie? Google give me teens on holidays... Schoolies (or skoolies for those with a penchant for kooky misspellings) as in converted school busses. Many examples can be seen here -> http://www.skoolie.net To be honest I have a hard time considering something so customized and ruggedly built as a toterhome to be in the same class as a Winnebago. Whenever I think Winnebago (regardless of class), I think unsupported fiberglass, musty shag carpet, and cheap cabinetry with the permanence of cardboard.
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May 22, 2014 10:08
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thegasman2000 posted:Totterhomes I would classify as the Winnebago. Big and fully equipped. Can you link to a schoolie? Google give me teens on holidays... schoolie meaning ex-schoolbus. Basically cheap as gently caress, massive amount of space, and a blank slate to do what you want. 
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May 22, 2014 10:10
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My dad has one of these: http://www.costco.com/Lifetime%C2%AE-Camping-Tent-Trailer.product.100003491.html It's actually pretty awesome if you're into tent camping, and the best part is that the entire tent zips up into a canvas bag and can be left on the garage floor/driveway/wherever and you have a fully functional tow-behind cargo trailer.
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May 22, 2014 10:23
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Powershift posted:schoolie meaning ex-schoolbus. Basically cheap as gently caress, massive amount of space, and a blank slate to do what you want. I've wanted to build a schoolie ever since I was a kid. I used to draw up floor-plans for them and everything, usually while riding the bus to school. Love the thread, motor-homes are cool as gently caress and I've been missing a thread like this since cursedshitbox sold his bus.
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May 22, 2014 11:55
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Bibendum posted:Seconded, Is that a Volvo? I've wanted to do up a Volvo, Unimog or Pinzgauer for a while now but the top speed issues and noise scare me off. It's a land rover "101"; an ex-military ambulance built on a sturdy off-road 4x4 chassis with a cab-over-ish Buick/Rover V8. I um, think. Gorgeous!
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Coasterphreak posted:My dad has one of these: http://www.costco.com/Lifetime%C2%AE-Camping-Tent-Trailer.product.100003491.html This is awesome...
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May 22, 2014 16:13
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BrokenKnucklez posted:This is awesome...  Off road campers. Its a thing. and its completely bad rear end.
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May 22, 2014 16:21
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I got the floorplan of our little camper trailer measured and drawn out, so we're ready to tear this thing down and start rebuilding. Too bad we're going out of town for a week on Saturday  . I would love to have it liveable by mid-July, so I can use it for the annual Guys' Weekend rafting/camping trip some friends and I do every year. We go raft on the Ocoee (both upper and middle sections), camp Friday and Saturday night, drink, smoke, and generally do everything our wives have tried to train out of us. With only being able to work a few hours a week, I probably won't have it fully dressed out, but I think I can have it rebuilt and mostly wired up by then.
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May 22, 2014 18:01
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cursedshitbox posted:
That's not an off road camper. 
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May 22, 2014 18:15
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Damnit, this is more making me want to get a pop-up trailer for behind the "new" truck. I love camping, and really miss rocking out to weird spots, but my spine is hosed from an old hockey injury so more than one night on the ground in a tent and I'm a cripple. I really wish I'd taken pictures of the tent-type-thing I had in the back of my Tacoma. Some square steel tubing welded to an old bed frame that functioned as a canoe rack/lumber hauler/excellent canopy to hang some sewn-together tent bits on and call it a place to sleep. It was fantastic for a single guy who liked camping. But not so much for more than one person.
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May 22, 2014 18:47
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So I have pretty much got my van ready for conversion. Its had some welding needed doing, and some little mechanical fixes. Here she sits as it is... A builders van at its best! 1989 Mk3 Ford Transit with 53k Miles on it. Thats either 153k or 253k.... stupid old odometers. Revel in her beauty. http://imgur.com/A108eOp http://imgur.com/CTLJgLL http://imgur.com/tADNniG http://imgur.com/T0CBph2 http://imgur.com/aXTigUe I should explain at this point I bought this van for £200. It has Tax and Test so thats a steal. Getting over 30MPG too! The Plan. http://imgur.com/z5elNn8 The van currently has a bench front seat but with another little one on the way and the one we have already we need more seats so the benches are all fitted with seat belts. We plan for the table to sit between the benches to make a second bed. We will also have massive storage under the permanent bed at the back. Any glaring issues here?
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thegasman2000 posted:So I have pretty much got my van ready for conversion. Its had some welding needed doing, and some little mechanical fixes. Here she sits as it is... A builders van at its best! 1989 Mk3 Ford Transit with 53k Miles on it. Thats either 153k or 253k.... stupid old odometers. I'd try and add a vent to the roof somewhere if possible. I know it doesn't get that hot over there, but it can really get warm in an easybake oven like that. Gonna build a ladder to the party rack?
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InterceptorV8 posted:I'd try and add a vent to the roof somewhere if possible. I know it doesn't get that hot over there, but it can really get warm in an easybake oven like that. Gonna build a ladder to the party rack? Sorry yeah thinking of a couple of the roof windows and a vent or 2 for when it gets blistering, so never! I want to deck to top and make a little roof terrace for on location, SWMBO says no we look pikey (gypsy) enough. Ladder is definitely on the cards. The roof rack is awesome with roller on the end to help load big poo poo up there.
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May 22, 2014 21:24
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Mr. Wiggles posted:That's not an off road camper. THAT is my idea of a camper...
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May 22, 2014 22:36
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CommieGIR posted:THAT is my idea of a camper... There was a sterling 6x6 with 36,000kms that went dirt cheap at auction here that would have been perfect, but i was broke at the time, it had 5.77 gears, and the rear axles were really close together, so you couldn't gear it up with rubber.
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May 22, 2014 22:39
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Anyone ever tried the Rustoleum Roller paint method on a van. Its an awful lot of body to paint and mine isn't worth a proper job. http://transitcamper.hubpages.com/hub/Roller-painting-your-van
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May 22, 2014 23:05
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Another Mercedes van just popped up in my area. http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/cto/4482332013.html It's a Westfalia conversion whereas mine is a Wolfsburg. Later model though so it has the 5-cylinder and a 5-speed.
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May 22, 2014 23:49
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Bibendum posted:Another Mercedes van just popped up in my area. screenshot incase it disappears, though I have a feeling that will be on CL for a while....  Looks nicer than the orange one and a much better engine/transmission, but gently caress that price tag. Im sure you could figure out something much nicer for $24k Here you go, $10k for a sprinter and I am sure you could deck out the interior with the left over $14k 
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May 22, 2014 23:54
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Holy loving poo poo thats 102c3 and or D series territory! E: or H5-60. http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/rvs/4470032540.html These fuckers are a nightmare to work on, but god its beautiful. the first CAD bus ever built
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cursedshitbox posted:Holy loving poo poo thats 102c3 and or D series territory! Ugh, listed as a Burning Man art car. Hope that doesn't get left out at BM and trashed.
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May 23, 2014 00:23
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Yeah I saw that. if I had the coin I'd go pick it up yesterday. Its like owning an 80s french or italian car.... built by the british. but drat they're cool.
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Anyone have any opinions on split charge relays? I can get a kit for like £20 on eBay or pay over £200 for one. I get batteries for free due to my work for a local scrap yard so kinda want something basic and cheap. Working starts soon :/ managed to beg and borrow from some electrician friends the wire I need.
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thegasman2000 posted:Anyone have any opinions on split charge relays? I can get a kit for like £20 on eBay or pay over £200 for one. I get batteries for free due to my work for a local scrap yard so kinda want something basic and cheap. Working starts soon :/ managed to beg and borrow from some electrician friends the wire I need. I just have a normal relay switched by the alternator charge light that runs the split charge for my leisure battery. Seems to work and costs nothing. I also have a solar panel on the roof that charges my leisure battery only and it seems to have no trouble staying charged.
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thegasman2000 posted:Anyone have any opinions on split charge relays? I can get a kit for like £20 on eBay or pay over £200 for one. I get batteries for free due to my work for a local scrap yard so kinda want something basic and cheap. Working starts soon :/ managed to beg and borrow from some electrician friends the wire I need. My biggest recommendation for any split charge is to install a manual disconnect for your engine battery.
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meltie posted:It's a land rover "101"; an ex-military ambulance built on a sturdy off-road 4x4 chassis with a cab-over-ish Buick/Rover V8. I um, think. Gorgeous! Yep. Landrover built the 101 in the late 60's/70's. Most were canvas roofed trucks designed to carry stuff and tow. some were built as chassis-cabs and then coachbuilt into ambulances and radio trucks. It uses bits from the landrover/rangerover parts catalogue. Its a rover V8 on a leaf sprung ladder chassis. solid Salisbury/Dana style axles and permanent 4x4. Its kind of inbetween a landrover and a unimog. This is mine 10 years ago.  .jpg) .jpg) It was a restricted 3.5l v8 that would only do 60mph. It has a 4speed box (from a rangerover but with lower gearing fitted). Its now a 3.9 V8 on SU carbs with an LPG conversion. I have fitted disc brakes, power steering, rewired it, repainted it and stripped the back out (I slept on the stretchers for a while but couldn't hack it!). I stripped out the stretchers and built seats which convert to a bed. I have a leasure battery running low power lights and a fridge. solar panels on the roof to keep it topped up. I have fitted a hob and sink unit out of a caravan. Sink has a cold water feed with manual and electric pump from an external water barrel. No hot water yet and no toilet facilities. I have an awning on the roof that pulls out to give you more space/shade/shelter from the back but don't have walls for it yet (they need custom making as it is 3 feet taller than the landrover the awning was designed for!) Unfortunately I also have no decent photos of inside the back now and it is currently full of saab parts and scrap metal and I was going to empty it out this weekend but it is raining. This is what the outside looks like now:  I am about to start converting it to EFI, and am replacing the master cylinder and brake servo with those from a landrover 110 to give it more braking power (I need more for the discs and the 110 master cylinder has a larger bore than the original). It currently has a servo from a saab c900 and a master cylinder from a series landrover with some adaptors to make the plumbing work. Unfortunately with it being forward control the pedal box is squeezed in behind the dash and front panel and to fit the bigger 110 stuff I am going to have to loose my speedo and dash gauge pod so i am fitting an electric dash unit too (which is nice and slim) which runs the speedo off an range rover speed sensor which _should_ fit straight into my gearbox... I have an overdrive to fit too, and want to finish the back off. I need more storage and need to build some external storage for my spare wheel and to carry my bike. Might fit a roof rack and a roof tent (it has a nice roof hatch in the middle of the roof which would be ideal for tent access). I'd like aircon too but havent worked out how yet.
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Tomarse posted:I'd like aircon too but havent worked out how yet. Grumble has aircon fitted: http://www.101fc.net/grumble/aircon/ 
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meltie posted:Grumble has aircon fitted: http://www.101fc.net/grumble/aircon/ I don't think he ever managed to finish the rest of the install. I went through a period of trying to buy stuff off ebay to do it but was never as lucky to get bits at reasonable prices. At one point i was going to pull the bits off a scrap car/range rover to do it but have never got round to it. Aircon always gets pushed down the list too as engine and interior are more important!
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So there are tons of boring parts about the scheme, involving boxes of hardwood and buckets of Kilz, and we'll get to that, but I'm more excited about the stuff on the tech side of the RV purchase/remodel. I'm planning to pick up: --New charger/converter - I hear the old stock ones in these are terrible, basically just diode-rectified AC, and not really high performance. A new Progressive Dynamics PD4655 looks like it will be a nice replacement. Rather than only feeding your house batteries 3 amps and relay-clunking the house 12v between battery and converter, these are meant to be hooked up with the house battery full time to the 12v system. Nice clean filtered DC - important as I have ham radio needs that need to be met in a 12 volt manner. --Batteries - Right now I'm thinking 4x Trojan T105, in series/parallel, should be pretty darn good - I believe the RV has two batteries stock right now, which I intend to exchange in as I don't know how they were treated. Battery budget is $500 and i'm pretty sure I can get T105's for 125 after tax here at the local battery shop. --Inverter - I don't need the ability to run appliances, so I can downsize and thus upgrade to pure sine. The Sunforce 1000w I found here looks good. I'll run this to a 4-slot mini panel on the side, and run outlets to the front and back TV's, one up by the booth for laptops, and one in the closet for the computer gear. As a bonus this unit has a wired remote, so I can mount this on the control panel with everything else and be able to hard cut the power to all the electronics, taking care of any TV/wall wart phantom power drains nicely. --Solar - I had originally brushed off solar, as I figured that it would be too expensive, but I found this little kit which looks pretty neat! I'm not expecting to get any significant A/C time for free or anything with it, but I'm thinking that a few constant amps is going to help just kind of stretch out time between generator/shore recharges, especially if I have stuff like a wifi AP and packet radio online 24/7, like I'm considering. Any thoughts? Good choices? Bad?
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We pick up the motorhome today! So very excited. Seller was very patient with my loan wait, and has been nothing but friendly and forthcoming with info the whole time. Good feelin's.
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Jonny 290 posted:We pick up the motorhome today! So very excited. Awesome. And yes, that sounds like your typical RV person. It's a little club, and they want everyone to join and will help anyone who is interested. I don't recall if you've owned one before, but if you're ever camping or in a park and have a problem/need tools/parts/etc you're likely to have a bunch of people right there to help you get going again. Even if all you need is some sugar for your coffee. It's something that's very much a great part of the whole experience.
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Something kind of neat just popped up on a government auction. I wouldn't change the paint job at all.  http://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=156&acctid=2887
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Welcome to our "new" motorhome! sorta NWS i cuss a lot and make bad jokes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfqVIrIELz4 Really excited to get started on renovation.
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I have manuals to scan/post and details to provide, but suffice to say that last night I read through the four inches of manuals the PO carefully preserved in a three-ring binder, and learned that my Mystery Lever is a "Decel-O-Matic" gas engine brake. Has butterflies on the exhaust pipes and an intake carb bypass. When you let off the gas, it closes the valves and bypasses air around the carb, to the extent that the big lever is pulled. This isn't just for hills - they advise to use it in stop-and-go, whenever you want to save your brakes basically. Max braking power on a 454 is about 30 PSI of backpressure. In order to maintain this, they purchased the add-on "EZ-Oiler" system. This system is basically a solenoid and a tank full of MARVEL MYSTERY OIL - yes, they specify that in the book. To keep those exhaust butterflies flapping and your top end happy, they tell you at the end of the driving day to basically park, spray oil until, and I quote the manual, "significant smoke appears at tailpipes". So those things explain the scary lever and about six of these switches and lights - there are various arming and enabling switches for both those systems. This thing is so awesome.
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Any of you goons have an opinion on old Airstreams? Me and my girlfriend are considering getting as an alternative to paying rent. Her parents have a lot of spare space to park a trailer on their farm and they're great people.
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TWSS posted:Any of you goons have an opinion on old Airstreams? Me and my girlfriend are considering getting as an alternative to paying rent. Her parents have a lot of spare space to park a trailer on their farm and they're great people. Airstreams are fantastically nice. Very high quality construction, with a price to match.
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From what I've read, Airstreams can pay off in the long run because the skin is so much more waterproof and doesn't require annual resealing on the level that fiberglass rigs do. Unless you trash it, you will be able to get your money out of it. Here in our town, we have several little empty lots around town that are designated "Trailer Business" areas and they're full of bored soccer moms in Airstreams running vintage clothing shops. Prices have gone up like 30% on the trailers in the past 2 years.
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thegasman2000 posted:Anyone ever tried the Rustoleum Roller paint method on a van. Its an awful lot of body to paint and mine isn't worth a proper job. I've done it on a truck. It came out alright for my first effort, but no one would have paid me for it.
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Jonny 290 posted:Welcome to our "new" motorhome! FREE CHEVY/GM STEERING WHEEL WITH EVERY 454 YOU BUY!
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