Yes, I am looking forward to working inside instead of outside, the winter's are a nightmare at the best of times, the major problem being lighting in the winter, it goes dark before I'm finished at work.
I will look forward to regula videos mate very interesting watching you move it today it will be good to watch you rebuilding everything can understand your reasons with the bad weather so now let's see soon good videos again please mate Phil in stoke
Absolutely no need to apologise Tristan, you are doing us a massive favour by sharing your work. It’s brilliant. The new unit looks fab and will make things so much easier. When you’ve finished working for the day, you can just leave your tools out, rather than scrabble about under the vehicle in the rain to pack your tools and all the parts away. Keep up the splendid work, I’m loving watching you progress on this, and seeing your confidence grow. Cheers.
Thank you for your support! 😁 The unit is a really good place, it's just really cold at the moment in there, only 6c so it is a bit of pain in that way instead, however looking at building a room and heating the room and so on, we are moving forward and hopefully will get this done soon, keep watching, things are about to begin! My confidence is growing by the day, knowing that individuals like yourself are interested in what I am doing and continue to support me and my channel with growth and comments like this! 😁
I briefly had a Rascal Romahome and I seem to recall the Romahome being attached to the bed by hooks/bolts that went through those little tubes, rather than crudely clamping onto them. I could be wrong though, but I certainly wouldn't feel confident with the way it is now. Really good to see a mount/dismount though!
You are probably right, I will take a look at a better way to mount it before it goes back on for good again, because I want to make sure I won't have any kind of accidents!
@@tristan7734 just a thought, if you have no obstructions across the bodywork, other than the rear stabalisers, you could place a sturdy plank across the base and jack each side up with bottle jacks, it spreads the load quite effectively, might save you any more cracks, see what you think.
its looking great, the weather up the north east has slowed me down aswell, im hoping to get my little hijet camper all sorted this year, we can only look forward to next spring, some videos on youtube make it all look easy, im nearly done with the inside but the engine needs a good tuning and a few things need renewing just so i know its safe to travel long distances lol.
Thanks mate, yeah I have been trying to do pretty much the same thing, but I'm trying to stop the rust from continuing to eat the thing. TH-cam can make everything look easy 🤣 wish you all the best for your project 😁
Sorry to be so off topic but does someone know a method to log back into an instagram account?? I was stupid lost the login password. I would love any tricks you can offer me.
@Frederick Tristan Thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im trying it out atm. I see it takes a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Tristan go at your own pace no need to rush anything. It’s a project and hobby. These can take years for some people. Having a full time job as well can’t give all your attention to TH-cam content 😀
You could try dropping the body on to a few pallets so the weight is resting where the bed would be instead of the steady legs and at the front. You might want to weld some steal box tube on to the side of your jack legs to keep them located in the slots that your jacking up on at the moment then you could leave them in place when rolling in pickup mode.
I have rested the body onto pallets and wheels or did you mean something different mate? You have made a good point about the front jack legs, I need to put something on them to stop them moving, I wish there was a way I could install the legs permanently so I didn't have to have them separately, however they weigh a lot to keep dragging around, so I don't think that would be worth it, but a locating mechanism would definitely be helpful for future demounting and remounting, the rear legs need a system which will stop them from breaking the body also due to the rotational torque when raising the body and lowering it.
I thought that maybe if you got a few full size pallets and placed them from where the body drops down right to the front then the weight would be spread evenly across where it would of sat on the pick up bed making it stable to work on and not stressing the dropdown rear part with the weight on the legs alone they can go back to being steady supports and it'll be safe to work inside the camper. There looks like there is a square hole to put a jack up leg into on the front of the body that your currently putting the jack under so some correct size box tube welded to the side at the top of the jack would slot in and would give better clearance for mounting and de mounting the body and practically making it a one person operation.
With imminent new E10 fuel not compatible with older vehicles and the old type petrol becoming scarcer - how do you plan to to keep your camper current? I'm in the same unfortunate boat!
No it got to where it currently is in the last video around a year ago, I got to a part with welding, and couldn't move past it, I tried lots of attempts at the welding on sheet metal away from the vehicle but couldn't master it, as I didn't have the right equipment and ran out of money, the camper is still sat in my unit, dry stored inside a tent inside the unit, with all the other parts. I'm hoping things will change later on this year, and it will be back on the channel..
I don't actually know how much it weighs, but i used a forklift to move it around the unit. you cannot pick it up by hand with the accessories in it. totally empty fiberglass shell, weighs considerably less though.
Yes Austin, that's correct, only 4 bolts actually hold it on, the rear legs were put there to help with raising the romahome surely? How else would you be able to get it off? The problem I have been having is that I have been unable to raise both sides at the same time, I have a solution for this in the future, hopefully it will work 😂
![[ ออกกอง ] วัยหนุ่ม 2544 โลกหลังลูกกรง..ทัวร์กองถ่ายหนังใน "คุกของจริง" | JUSTดูIT.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vB--aOkZCpw/mqdefault.jpg)
What a great video Tristan! Now the Rascal is under cover we can all breath a sigh of relief. It's going to be an awesome project.
Can't wait!
Thanks for sharing your work, you will be much better off working in that unit especially with winter approaching
Yes, I am looking forward to working inside instead of outside, the winter's are a nightmare at the best of times, the major problem being lighting in the winter, it goes dark before I'm finished at work.
I will look forward to regula videos mate very interesting watching you move it today it will be good to watch you rebuilding everything can understand your reasons with the bad weather so now let's see soon good videos again please mate
Phil in stoke
Thanks 👍 Sorry I didn't see your comment sooner, It appears I have missed many of the last few months!
Big step forward with having the unit! Good work
Thank you Mark! 😁
Hi Tristan,
Still watching with interest your project,
All the best.Terry.
I'm glad that you're enjoying it Terry 😁
Glad to see you are back 👍
Thanks Gary 😁
Looks so clean now hopefully get more videos now looking forward to seeing them😊
Thanks Neil, looking forward to making more 😁
Absolutely no need to apologise Tristan, you are doing us a massive favour by sharing your work. It’s brilliant.
The new unit looks fab and will make things so much easier. When you’ve finished working for the day, you can just leave your tools out, rather than scrabble about under the vehicle in the rain to pack your tools and all the parts away.
Keep up the splendid work, I’m loving watching you progress on this, and seeing your confidence grow. Cheers.
Thank you for your support! 😁 The unit is a really good place, it's just really cold at the moment in there, only 6c so it is a bit of pain in that way instead, however looking at building a room and heating the room and so on, we are moving forward and hopefully will get this done soon, keep watching, things are about to begin! My confidence is growing by the day, knowing that individuals like yourself are interested in what I am doing and continue to support me and my channel with growth and comments like this! 😁
Hi Tristan, great video,you have done well through the channel with this build,I do like the alloy wheels,nice progress so far 👍.
I briefly had a Rascal Romahome and I seem to recall the Romahome being attached to the bed by hooks/bolts that went through those little tubes, rather than crudely clamping onto them. I could be wrong though, but I certainly wouldn't feel confident with the way it is now.
Really good to see a mount/dismount though!
You are probably right, I will take a look at a better way to mount it before it goes back on for good again, because I want to make sure I won't have any kind of accidents!
The rear jacks really aren’t jacks they are stabilisers, not designed to weight bear. Hence the cracked body.
Also you will bend the central worm screw and make it difficult to wind up and down.
Yes that is what I have found and need to devise a better way to proceed.
This is new information to me, I didn't know this, although the body doesn't; weigh much.
@@tristan7734 just a thought, if you have no obstructions across the bodywork, other than the rear stabalisers, you could place a sturdy plank across the base and jack each side up with bottle jacks, it spreads the load quite effectively, might save you any more cracks, see what you think.
Linda merece uma reforma!
its looking great, the weather up the north east has slowed me down aswell, im hoping to get my little hijet camper all sorted this year, we can only look forward to next spring, some videos on youtube make it all look easy, im nearly done with the inside but the engine needs a good tuning and a few things need renewing just so i know its safe to travel long distances lol.
Thanks mate, yeah I have been trying to do pretty much the same thing, but I'm trying to stop the rust from continuing to eat the thing. TH-cam can make everything look easy 🤣 wish you all the best for your project 😁
Sorry to be so off topic but does someone know a method to log back into an instagram account??
I was stupid lost the login password. I would love any tricks you can offer me.
@Daniel Mathew instablaster ;)
@Frederick Tristan Thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im trying it out atm.
I see it takes a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Frederick Tristan It did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thank you so much, you saved my ass !
Great to see progress
Another one saved. Can’t wait for next updates 😀
The progress has been slow, but things will begin to ramp up from here now I have dry storage. 😁
Tristan go at your own pace no need to rush anything. It’s a project and hobby. These can take years for some people. Having a full time job as well can’t give all your attention to TH-cam content 😀
You could try dropping the body on to a few pallets so the weight is resting where the bed would be instead of the steady legs and at the front. You might want to weld some steal box tube on to the side of your jack legs to keep them located in the slots that your jacking up on at the moment then you could leave them in place when rolling in pickup mode.
I have rested the body onto pallets and wheels or did you mean something different mate? You have made a good point about the front jack legs, I need to put something on them to stop them moving, I wish there was a way I could install the legs permanently so I didn't have to have them separately, however they weigh a lot to keep dragging around, so I don't think that would be worth it, but a locating mechanism would definitely be helpful for future demounting and remounting, the rear legs need a system which will stop them from breaking the body also due to the rotational torque when raising the body and lowering it.
I thought that maybe if you got a few full size pallets and placed them from where the body drops down right to the front then the weight would be spread evenly across where it would of sat on the pick up bed making it stable to work on and not stressing the dropdown rear part with the weight on the legs alone they can go back to being steady supports and it'll be safe to work inside the camper. There looks like there is a square hole to put a jack up leg into on the front of the body that your currently putting the jack under so some correct size box tube welded to the side at the top of the jack would slot in and would give better clearance for mounting and de mounting the body and practically making it a one person operation.
Yay big T is back 😊
I hope you enjoyed the video William 😁
@@tristan7734 yes fella and looking forward to more.
With imminent new E10 fuel not compatible with older vehicles and the old type petrol becoming scarcer - how do you plan to to keep your camper current? I'm in the same unfortunate boat!
Couldn't you use land rover defender lifting jacks on the front tubes? They use the same principle on the defender.
Great idea!
what ever happened to this little camper? did it ever get finished?
No it got to where it currently is in the last video around a year ago, I got to a part with welding, and couldn't move past it, I tried lots of attempts at the welding on sheet metal away from the vehicle but couldn't master it, as I didn't have the right equipment and ran out of money, the camper is still sat in my unit, dry stored inside a tent inside the unit, with all the other parts. I'm hoping things will change later on this year, and it will be back on the channel..
Hello. I also own a left hand drive bedford rascal pickup truck. I am looking for a camper for it.


It's quite a process putting the pod back on. I'm pretty shocked at the tiny bolts that hold it on too. Loved the shots of you driving away in it ☺️
It is difficult to put the pod on, but when its on that's where it usually stays. There isn't much holding it on, but it is secure. 😁
Omg you in same county as me. whoop . land of the prince bishop
Yes I might well be
Do you have any idea how much the detachable body weighs?
I don't actually know how much it weighs, but i used a forklift to move it around the unit. you cannot pick it up by hand with the accessories in it. totally empty fiberglass shell, weighs considerably less though.
I know that Bambi's weigh nearly 1.5t 800kg more than the panel van and such steady old things but don't complain.
@@jaggass the idea is definitely to keep the weight down as much as possible.
That's the Romahome is the better option in some ways.
@@jaggass I agree
I've missed ya....
I've missed uploading, I have a lot of work to do!
100% first! 😏
just... i beat you next time
Yes you are!
You'll probably be first next time 😁
Blimey! Not much holds it on..... also the rear "jacks" aren't for jacking, just stability when parked..
Yes Austin, that's correct, only 4 bolts actually hold it on, the rear legs were put there to help with raising the romahome surely? How else would you be able to get it off? The problem I have been having is that I have been unable to raise both sides at the same time, I have a solution for this in the future, hopefully it will work 😂