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Should have sanded the base material

Dont run wiring through the insulation, run it on top of the insulation

One idea is to extend the rear bed to add a drops system, and/or a hiab. Drops would be great for your plans of swapping roles for the truck and a hiab will help with tyre changing, lifting the truck as well as getting the tyre and can be used as a tool to earn money. If you don't use drops, add the hiab anyway especially as you would be adding hydraulics for the demountable idea. GOOD LUCK 🎉

This will work as long as it doesnt get wet. Water breaks down super glue.

That's a neat little trick, but you'll both need to learn to weld quick time. You need to do proper repairs, not McGiver nonsense. Congrats on getting the horse box BTW.

A new box is not a deal breaker. Just some basic fabrication. 420K Km is nothing for one of those lorries I saw Mercedes trucks with millions of Km in Africa. Seems like a great deal!

The green horse box was perfect ..u had the most amazing place for a bed x

1, find a coach builder ( a person who does custom vehicles as a trade ) 2, buy or receive a free static caravan 3, get said coach builder to marry them Most of your money will be spent on the coach builder but they are worth every penny

Absolutely do not impede the cab tilt, it will leave you stranded. I am still only 80% complete on my 1120AF but Ive already done 2 roadside repairs where i had to tilt the cab roadside to access the fuel pump and compressor.

Bet their friends nights out are riveting !!

Great content again

Strong couple you 2 enjoy your time together

Good quality videos very much enjoying them making progress

Yeah I'd be watching that weight limit on that licence.

Fixed is fixed 👏

Learn to weld. A rotted out screw hole is the start of something bigger. Make a new piece for all the scew holes, weld in and start afresh. Otherwise it will just come back, grow bigger and before long you put your foot through a rotted out step

Don't forget to change the V5c to camper van. Not sure of the costs or VED changes?

Hi guys love the video you are doing a good job have a lovely week 😊😊😊

Ouch

I like you thinking outside the box and doing what you want. Everybody just copys and pastes comments about what you can and cannot do. Keep grinding!

Looks a right old pile of shite 😂

I hope it doesnt corrode as baking soda is alkaline and alkalines are corrosive

Just one more thing. The soundtrack! Your so talented to be a song writer and musician and right on topic .... whats your secret? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Great work. I'm really enjoying your journey over my morning cuppa. Glad to see the PPE and all the new skills you're learning. Maybe Haylie (sorry if I misspely that) could learn spray painting! A day or two in a friendly spray shop will teach you sooo much about prep and painting. Now hope you find a sponsorship deal to ease the costs. Best wishes - Paul ( the armchair advisor! )😃😃

"Hit it with a hammer" - Christmas number 1?

The daf 45 is a good lorry you can get longer

Be prepared to become smelly they all are

Way too much yap yap,try more work work.

Hi guys keep up the good work u seem to be dealing with the usual problems of these projects well,just a word of warning on the electric extension real if using equipment that pulls a lot of power plasma cutters or welders etc make sure the extension real is fully unwound as heat builds up in the cable over time and can melt the insulation which then leads to short circuit or even fire tools like grinders etc not as critical.look forward to seeing the end result

windows are bad. hot in summer. cold in winter. have as few as possible. I've lived in my van and can tell you most of the time you end up covering the windows

Three things: 1) I built my own camper box on a Sprinter chassis cab out of GRP-XPS sandwich panels. One comment I would have is that the point of building it yourself is you get to design it exactly as you want it, funky angles and all. The thing is that each and every angle makes is that much more complicated to build, compounding angles especially. I built a cab-over design with a couple of angles front and back to make it less boxy, fix the departure angle and to give the appearance of aerodynamics (hah, lol, the thing has the aerodynamic coefficient of a sideways brick). Angles are fun, but things like finding someone to make you aluminium profiles at a specific angle is not, so unless you're equipped to bend your own stuff, I'd probably reconsider some of the more advanced stuff. Also one of the best things about a box is that it's a box, you get an enormous amount of space compared to a similar size van purely thanks to having square corners. 2) Just order the panels from a company that makes panels for trucks, there's a reason pre-built house panels are cheap. They will cut it to shape, or you can just order a pile of big rectangles and take it from there. Regardless, make sure you panels are made of closed-cell insulation like XPS, none of that urethane crap that soaks up water. Your box WILL leak at some point. I used 40mm for roof and walls and 60mm for the floor. Should have gone with 60mm all around. It's very stiff, easily sturdy enough to drive on and not fail, but if the floor is unsupported it will move, chafe and slowly develop cracks, so do make a subframe that supports it fully. And 3) You imagine it's a lot of work, but just go ahead and take your worst case scenario and double it. On that note: I would consider building the camper with a bit of standardization in mind - it will outlast your truck, so maybe consider the size and subframe stuff to be at least sort of compatible with other model trucks (like not building the alcove part too low for the next obvious truck it could live on or similar things that will make it completely impossible to switch). Oh and a bonus: if you go the glue and rivets way: just cry all the way to the hardware store and buy an electric rivet gun and electric glue gun and you will thank me later. I didn't, and I regretted it all along. You'll go through thousands of rivets and hundreds of cartridges of glue, I'm not joking. Also, buy good-quality rivets with the right specs IN BULK, you get 1000 rivets for the same price as 100 rivets at the hardware store.

The problem with the lift off design is that when the body's off it will be considered a commercial HGV by the DVSA as you can move goods with it. I would mount the box permeant to the chassis so there's no question to the vehicle's use.

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Great choice of truck I have the same vehicle super easy to work on and maintain and service

2 drips don’t bother

A £30k+ box on an untried and tested £1.5k chassis that won't be able to venture off black top!

choosing a truck makes the web

Ye you put anything over that cab you aint getting to the engine when something happens to it

if the cab tilts forward to get to the engine then the over the cab bed idea will have to be re thought out. because when you tilt the cab forward it will hit the underside of the box your building for where the bed goes., unless you make enough space for it to tilt.

A luton bodied 7.5t removal truck I converted some years ago had a simple system for tipping the cab, fold up /fold out hinged panels in the floor & front of the luton that allow the cab to tip. Most luton bodies do this. Far simpler that lifting the body or whole of the luton off!

A chap called Dan Campion produced some youtube videos 4 years ago on how he diy'd a slide out for his expedition truck - well worth a watch.

New watcher, great work, love the new tool, I am going to buy a flat bed and I also love your design, what program did you use ? some kind of CAD?

Ambitious plan for the accommodation, but i think the weight is going to be an issue. Your truck maximum weight capacity is 7.5 ton, including the cab and chassis, wont leave alot to play with, perhaps 4 or 3.5 ton roughly for the box and all fittings etc. Theres a channel i watch called Travelling with the kids, where they converted an existing truck to live in and they just about kept it under 7.5tons and that was using the existing box that was already light weight design. Lots of calculations needed, good luck!

Great video guys I would try and keep the living area as low a possible so you can access more areas of where you travel to keep up the great work.

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Don't forget you need to tilt the cab

also when building the box over your cab remember any mechanical engine work that needs the cab tilted wont be an easy task trust me i know doing a clutch on a lorry this size with the cab unable to tilt isn't nice tbh id rather have a windbreaker on the cabs roof than sacrifice the cab not tilting

Insurance: im afraid thats a write off 😂

2 n a half grant for the truck n 35K for the lifinbox....... seems like a good idea........😁