thegasman2000 posted:

poo poo is this removable? We don't get trucks here! I will add to the op ASAP!

thegasman2000 posted:

Added a new type for you dude thanks!

Question time. Its an old self builders problem but do I wire before insulation and boarding up or after?

Jonny 290 posted:

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.

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?

cursedshitbox posted:

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

Jonny 290 posted:

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.

Jonny 290 posted:

Think so? I was pondering trying that Rustoleum Kitchen Transformations kit, it's basically deglosser, stain and a glaze. "No Sanding". New drawer pulls and hardware all around, I think those will help too.

Jonny 290 posted:

IV8 wins - the little pigtails to all the door switches are cut. Guessing they started failing closed and they got direct with a solution.

Jonny 290 posted:

More sunshine! And a crazy dark floor! whatcha think?



daylights gone sorry for the lovely iphone flash pic

Jonny 290 posted:

Found the two hidden bolts that held the front TV down. It's out. And, after I removed that, I noticed on the 12v wall plate a red LED,and a switch. Ha! I found the phantom 12V load - the antenna amplifier!

bandman posted:

oh god how did these get here i am not good with campers...



The streetside wall (above) is in decent shape. A little deterioration at the corners, nothing too bad

The curbside wall, however...



...is loving destroyed. That panel on the ground there just fell the gently caress off when I took the skin off. I am amazed the whole thing didn't explode into a cloud of splinters on the interstate when we hauled it home.

We knew that we were replacing all of the wood under the skins when we bought it, which is why we only paid $600 for it. I'm just amazed at how bad it really was on that side.

edit: christ on a loving bicycle, I didn't realize how bad those pics were. Serves me right working till 11:30 PM, I suppose. I'll get some good pics of the carnage tomorrow afternoon.

Das Volk posted:

I know this is probably a long shot, but are there any decent places up in Reno to rent an RV? I would have thought there would be with all the people who go to Burning Man but it seems like there's just a handful of places, and finding information on them is pretty difficult.

Powershift posted:

101,000 kms, so No signs of mice anywhere.

And all 3 air conditioners work!

some texas redneck posted:

"Jealous" doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about this. Aside from the headlamp housings, it looks loving mint.

Out of curiousity, since it's a Chevy gasser, what transmission do they put in those? A built 700R4? Something more like an Allison? I can't see your standard van chassis transmission holding up to that weight for more than a month. For that matter, is it even EFI, or carb?

(total RV noobie here)

Powershift posted:

According to banks, the power pack in a similar sized RV does this.

SuperDucky posted:

Made it up to Helen to check out why the slide out wouldn't go in. An arduous troubleshooting session later and I found this. Sorry for the cellphone pics.



A fire of some sort has taken out all the 12v wiring between the chassis and the house. This isn't gonna be fun.

neckbeard posted:

This thing looks so awesome - does anyone in North America make anything remotely similar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxvfDTaUVAo

Sandbagger SA posted:

sand it down and put on another coat of paint.

So my camper is a good 2ish inches lower than my fixed tow hitch and I want to raise it up so that it sits level or a bit closer to level while I'm towing it. I'd also like to take a little extra ground clearance and do the electric brakes at the same time.

Should I just get a new axle with everything together? How impossible will it be to get a new axle with brakes for a 71 scotsman?

Sandbagger SA posted:

a flip as in turning the axle tube up? Won't that give me way more clearance than I want?

Sandbagger SA posted:

Oh you mean going to a spring over axle configuration?

Google confirms that this is exactly what you mean.

basically like this:

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll150/Newblue2008/DSC00239.jpg

And then there's this where someone has completely turned the tube upside down.

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee59/blazair/TRAILER/e446.jpg

Sandbagger SA posted:

The problem I'm having is both lights work but only the driver's side lamp will blink when I use the turn signal.

jonathan posted:

So the new truck I purchased a couple weeks back, might lose it in a divorce lol.
On the plus side, might be single !

Jonny 290 posted:

We are sneaking up on one calendar month of RV living.


Big points:

-454's need a shitload of gas, and if your fuel filter is clogged, they will be S A D. We burnt an extra day and $450 at a heavy truck repair shop dealing with this. REPLACE THEM. NOW. BUY SPARES.
-Driving a 20,000 pound vehicle at 63 mph through east Colorado in the middle of the night, while remote-control-seeking for the next country station that comes in, with a sleeping cat on the dash as you kick off your shoes (yay cruise) is one of of the most fun things in the driving. After we got the fuel filters fixed in Salina, we drove thirteen hours with nothing but piss breaks and I loved every minute. It's like driving your living room.
-Cats will yell for an hour or two, and then either find the dash to sleep on, or hole up in a cabinet under the dinette. They will be happy and chill. This part was amazing.
-Buy spare toilet parts. We're currently hitting the park bathrooms because our slide valve died on the underside of the shitter, and I'm having a replacement shipped in as fast as I can - which still takes five business days.
-That little Fan-Tas-Tic vent is going to save your rear end. Make sure it's in great shape.
-Travellers/gypsies are real. Look for the 150k fifth wheels with no sewer hookups and asphalt trucks parked next to them.
-Living in 250 square feet will accelerate your marriage in whatever direction it is going. Mrs and I have not fought once in a month, and have learned that the only thing you can do is to get out and get some fresh air. Keeps you active.
-It is very, very competitive and difficult to get into a good RV park. We are currently at the shittiest park in Denver, and are going through applications and such to get into a better park. Do your research!


We love this life, a lot. We're living very green....minimizing water waste, power usage, trash, all that. My job is very good and very stable, however, so we are considering renting an apartment next month, and letting Hausbus be a weekend warrior vehicle. My work schedule will be 4x10's after training, so we will have 3-day weekends every week, and that's RV bait for sure.

Jonny 290 posted:

We're testing the orange toilet koolaid this week. Mrs is scared of the blue stuff. We'll see how it goes.

BrokenKnucklez posted:

You have a washing machine in your camper? Wow.... That's bad rear end.

Jonny 290 posted:

Almost kind of like the idea of adding another 30A shore cable just for heaters, to a small panel, and then getting a 50a male -> dual 30A female adapter for the pole drop.

That'd come in handy in the summer too, as this class of rigs from this era can't run both ACs at the same time - there's a front/rear toggle switch for shore power, and the back one is in addition hardwired to the second coil on the genset. I could run that line to the secondary breaker panel and we could rock both air conditioners at once no problem.

Togaparty27 posted:

In the next month or so I will be purchasing my first Class C. We will be moving from Oklahoma to Alaska and I will need to get all things with the RV ready for the trip. On that note, does anyone know of a good wifi booster I can get to boost the signal to my laptop/ipad from hotspots?

Togaparty27 posted:

Lots of heat tape! I didn't know they had heaters for the tanks. Thanks for the advice!

Jonny 290 posted:

I didn't buy heat tape for our water feed line, I bought the wire stuff that they sell for de-icing gutters. 3 watts a foot or something like that, was cheap, 1/4" diameter wire.

you are going to want a skirt for cold weather; if you're going to be mobile you'll have to get one of the snap-on vinyl skirts, but I strongly recommend doing what I did if you're parking for a while, and just buying 1" foam sheet insulation for a few bucks each and cutting your own. we've weathered several negative-F cold snaps in Denver here with few issues once we got the skirt up.

oh also you want your sewer line heated. because the hoses are roughly 0.4% as strong as ice, if you ever get a frozen bit and move the line AT ALL it will just rip right open.

As for internet, my setup started out as a Ubiquiti Nanostation loco m2 on an extendible paint pole clamped to the ladder, feeding a Mikrotik RB333 that handles all the routing and NAT stuff. We've got comcast now via actual coax, but for that first month, it saved our rear end.

Jonny 290 posted:

Didnt even know those existed for RVs! Neat. thanks now I got another thing on my wishlist