there's times where i consider doing a flat bed conversion on my 1st gen tundra. times where i think maybe ill build a gfc style topper. but yah know sometimes you just have to appreciate what you have and thank God who gave you something you could only dream of having as a kid. I mean humans haven't been able to use this sort of stuff until the last 30-40 years. like we are very fortunate! GFC! here we come!
Couldn’t have said it better! A flash bed would be really cool and something I’ve considered. Perhaps one day if and when I mash the bed of my truck on something. Right now it’s just in too good of shape to remove imo. Hoping the GFC fills that bucket for me. Cheers friend!
Dope setup I'm doing something similar. Something to watch out for is making sure your exhaust pipe is pointed down. If condensation occurs upon shutdown it could back feed into your unit. Thanks for the video!!
My mother actually bought this style of diesel heater for me as a Christmas gift last year. We only used it once, but it was on the coldest night of the year, and it actually kept my Yukon XL a little TOO warm. I had to crack the windows with it on low, but we like to sleep in a really cool room. However, my buddy saw it and bought one to use as a supplemental heat source for his small house. He ended up using it as his primary heat because it did so well and heated the entire small house so cheaply. I am also planning to use mine with my teardrop camper this winter. I think that it will work very well with it, due to it is a convertible, so no insulation, but it is a very small space, so I think that it will work nicely.
I’ve started to use mine to heat my house and it does a pretty impressive job. That being said it is overpowers for a space as small as a truck camper. Guess better to be too good than not enough! I enjoyed reading your comment! Cheers friend
Great video, good walkthrough of the diesel heater. My initial plan is to use a 12v heated blanket for sleeping in the back of my 4Runner. I love watching to learn new things, and I saw you use a little stick to hold the “big” stick while you were processing your firewood. Genius. Take care brother!
Haha glad you enjoy it and yeah that’s a great way to keep your fingers away from the hatchet. Processing firewood is defiantly an art, lots of fun too I think.
Myself had a similar camper shell sold the water bucket last year. Windows were constantly leaking even after adding new insulation. Going to pick up my wedge camper in august. Love your tacoma, especially the leafs springs. Were they modded in any way. Can't wait to see your diesel heater setup for the GFC. Making a Hole in that plexiglass with a grommet for Dc plug going into your vehicle would be nice. Above all great video!!.
They are Chevy 63 leaf springs with a Chevy 63 swap kit from low range Offroad! Next august?! That’s a heck of a lead time! Which company did you go with?
@@ConnorLee originally booked off this past July to roadtrip to Calgary. Long story short rodents made 2 separate nests in my engine bay ate through all the wiring. All dashboard lights were on, cancelled the trip as traveling with engine light plus abs lights on not the safest to do. Dealership had me pay over $700 for 2 wires they said needed to be reattached. They would not let my insurance company come do an appraisal. Took my f150 to another mechanic, $3300 later all dashboard lights back to normal. Company I'm buying from is Alterra Tech. After watching a well known overlander review the wedge camper knew that was the one for my f150.
@@ConnorLee well first i tried sleeping in the front seat with it folded back and took a 30 min nap in the day, but later it became night, and I folded down the rear seats made a wood and cardboard floor for the trunk. I then put some cardboard over the folded down rear seat to make the transition from trunk to rear seats smoother and less of a pain on my back. Since I am short I was able to lay down with my head between the front seats on a pillow, with my feet in the trunk. that worked pretty well and I slept 8 hours before I woke up. I also tried it upside down, so with my feet between the front seats, and my head in the trunk, and that was even more comfortable.
Nice rig and set up.. how does this method work for you ? As a stealth van dweller, i always look for the safest most convenient method .. my problem more is setting the equipment outside and the work involved to set up and take down depending the environment you are in or if someone would steal it sitting outside the rig.. so far i have found the Olympian wave 3 propane heater.. its a fairly small grill type heater .. i am still testing if propane is still more proficient than diesel, and also there is them Chinese diesel heaters , but both these heaters are more hidden on the rig and also permanent so you dont have to put up and take down each time ,,and hidden to theft.. then there are also the mini fireplace boxes that are installed in the rig.. I am always trying to find the best methods.. new subscriber, keep up the good content
For your circumstances regarding security and and ease of setup, perhaps looking at a diesel heater setup in the camper. This comes with its own cons though. You need to be sure your properly exhausting it and heat proofing the material where the exhaust comes out so you don’t burn down anything. The benefit here is that heater will be heater already warmer air as the intake will be inside the camper. More efficient in that sense. Just weigh the pros and cons. Perhaps mounting it outside on a roof rack? This way it’s out of reach from thieves and you will likely awake when someone is climbing on your rig to take it. Cheers and hope this helps! Welcome to the crew!
@@ConnorLee what I have seen with the AC unit that works similar as your heater as far as the tubing and such, I have seen people permanently place a unit like your in the rig like in cabinetry or under a bed, and vent out the line adding a vent outside the vehicle and connecting the hose onto the vent .. this way is a little more permanent, set up and secured in place and vented permanently if you wish to do so.. I understand in you rig space may be tight to install it and you may not want to create a hole in your rig for the vent and hose... keep up the good work
there's times where i consider doing a flat bed conversion on my 1st gen tundra. times where i think maybe ill build a gfc style topper. but yah know sometimes you just have to appreciate what you have and thank God who gave you something you could only dream of having as a kid. I mean humans haven't been able to use this sort of stuff until the last 30-40 years. like we are very fortunate! GFC! here we come!
Couldn’t have said it better! A flash bed would be really cool and something I’ve considered. Perhaps one day if and when I mash the bed of my truck on something. Right now it’s just in too good of shape to remove imo. Hoping the GFC fills that bucket for me. Cheers friend!
Dope setup I'm doing something similar. Something to watch out for is making sure your exhaust pipe is pointed down. If condensation occurs upon shutdown it could back feed into your unit. Thanks for the video!!
Ahh great call, thanks for the tip!
My mother actually bought this style of diesel heater for me as a Christmas gift last year. We only used it once, but it was on the coldest night of the year, and it actually kept my Yukon XL a little TOO warm. I had to crack the windows with it on low, but we like to sleep in a really cool room. However, my buddy saw it and bought one to use as a supplemental heat source for his small house. He ended up using it as his primary heat because it did so well and heated the entire small house so cheaply. I am also planning to use mine with my teardrop camper this winter. I think that it will work very well with it, due to it is a convertible, so no insulation, but it is a very small space, so I think that it will work nicely.
I’ve started to use mine to heat my house and it does a pretty impressive job. That being said it is overpowers for a space as small as a truck camper. Guess better to be too good than not enough! I enjoyed reading your comment! Cheers friend
Great video, good walkthrough of the diesel heater. My initial plan is to use a 12v heated blanket for sleeping in the back of my 4Runner. I love watching to learn new things, and I saw you use a little stick to hold the “big” stick while you were processing your firewood. Genius. Take care brother!
Haha glad you enjoy it and yeah that’s a great way to keep your fingers away from the hatchet. Processing firewood is defiantly an art, lots of fun too I think.
Hey man I really enjoy your videos. It’s a clean build you got
Appreciate that! Thank you!
Hey Connor keep up the great work! I’ve got a truck just like yours that I’m restoring rn!
Love to hear that! Keep wrenching!
You can look into Sherpa rack as a roof rack solution for the truck. They make one that is compatible with the GFC for the first gen Tacoma.
Thanks for the tip! Do you happen to know if it is a drill in or non-drill in roof rack?
You spliced the electrical cord. :) LOL
🫠haha thank you!
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What is that inverter that you used to connect the heater to the power bank?
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Myself had a similar camper shell sold the water bucket last year. Windows were constantly leaking even after adding new insulation. Going to pick up my wedge camper in august. Love your tacoma, especially the leafs springs. Were they modded in any way. Can't wait to see your diesel heater setup for the GFC. Making a Hole in that plexiglass with a grommet for Dc plug going into your vehicle would be nice. Above all great video!!.
They are Chevy 63 leaf springs with a Chevy 63 swap kit from low range Offroad!
Next august?! That’s a heck of a lead time! Which company did you go with?
@@ConnorLee originally booked off this past July to roadtrip to Calgary. Long story short rodents made 2 separate nests in my engine bay ate through all the wiring. All dashboard lights were on, cancelled the trip as traveling with engine light plus abs lights on not the safest to do.
Dealership had me pay over $700 for 2 wires they said needed to be reattached. They would not let my insurance company come do an appraisal. Took my f150 to another mechanic, $3300 later all dashboard lights back to normal.
Company I'm buying from is Alterra Tech. After watching a well known overlander review the wedge camper knew that was the one for my f150.
Hey Connor another good video. Chat with you soon bro
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Watsup bro how are you doing man@@ConnorLee
@@santibouphavong No complaints! Just grinding away, hbu?
Nice, i am very cold right now, I tried sleeping in my prelude, and it was very cold.
Sleeping just in the front seat? I’ve thought about doing this. How was it?
@@ConnorLee well first i tried sleeping in the front seat with it folded back and took a 30 min nap in the day, but later it became night, and I folded down the rear seats made a wood and cardboard floor for the trunk. I then put some cardboard over the folded down rear seat to make the transition from trunk to rear seats smoother and less of a pain on my back. Since I am short I was able to lay down with my head between the front seats on a pillow, with my feet in the trunk. that worked pretty well and I slept 8 hours before I woke up. I also tried it upside down, so with my feet between the front seats, and my head in the trunk, and that was even more comfortable.
@@trivelox15 I would love to see this in action! What a vibe! Props to you
Nice rig and set up.. how does this method work for you ?
As a stealth van dweller, i always look for the safest most convenient method .. my problem more is setting the equipment outside and the work involved to set up and take down depending the environment you are in or if someone would steal it sitting outside the rig.. so far i have found the Olympian wave 3 propane heater.. its a fairly small grill type heater .. i am still testing if propane is still more proficient than diesel, and also there is them Chinese diesel heaters , but both these heaters are more hidden on the rig and also permanent so you dont have to put up and take down each time ,,and hidden to theft.. then there are also the mini fireplace boxes that are installed in the rig.. I am always trying to find the best methods.. new subscriber, keep up the good content
For your circumstances regarding security and and ease of setup, perhaps looking at a diesel heater setup in the camper. This comes with its own cons though. You need to be sure your properly exhausting it and heat proofing the material where the exhaust comes out so you don’t burn down anything. The benefit here is that heater will be heater already warmer air as the intake will be inside the camper. More efficient in that sense.
Just weigh the pros and cons. Perhaps mounting it outside on a roof rack? This way it’s out of reach from thieves and you will likely awake when someone is climbing on your rig to take it.
Cheers and hope this helps! Welcome to the crew!
@@ConnorLee what I have seen with the AC unit that works similar as your heater as far as the tubing and such, I have seen people permanently place a unit like your in the rig like in cabinetry or under a bed, and vent out the line adding a vent outside the vehicle and connecting the hose onto the vent .. this way is a little more permanent, set up and secured in place and vented permanently if you wish to do so.. I understand in you rig space may be tight to install it and you may not want to create a hole in your rig for the vent and hose... keep up the good work
@@ConnorLee oh thankyou .. glad to be part of your crew .. keep pushing the content
The exhaust should be going downward not up like a tractor stack. It needs to drain condensation out
Will definitely keep this in mind! Thank you
Where did you get that roof rack?
It’s an Inno roof rack I ordered from E-trailer.com but I think they ran out of them. You would have to try and find it from another seller
What liter is that fridge? The head room of that cap tho
I believe it’s a 41L
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@@ConnorLee it looks a lot smaller than my 45…
If it is raining, what then ?
I was thinking of making a suction cup umbrella to pop on top of it but I too had that question.
Small compact folding table to set up above it to help keep it dry
I was wondering if the rain an snow would inhabit the diesel heater