whitey45
SILVER Star
I went this route last year! Wife has driven it, but not very happily! I am happy to drive, it’s 30ft!
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That's awesome Mark.
My and I have been vanning for several years now. She is a former tent camper that got to the point where tents didn't cut it anymore. The van ticks all the boxes for her.
We will be traveling near your place next Jan-Feb and will be sure to drop by. Or meet up in DV for a few days.
Marooned in Paradise - Another Express AWD
Hi. I've been on this forum for a while now, first looking at vans before I bought, and now looking at vans before I build. I was originally looking for an early 2000's Express with a 6.5TD to convert to 4x4. I really like the 6.5TD. All the problems with it, and there are only a few, have easy...www.expeditionportal.com
Kevin
I was really hoping you’d chime in. I remembered you posting about your van earlier in the thread. And it’s always nice when you can compare notes with someone who’s already been down that road.
Didn’t have a lot of time to read through your build thread, but it has already given Tina and I three more things to think about before we start cutting wood for version 1.0. I did a 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 with my K5 Blazer back in the 80s. IOW, I’m not stuck on the idea that it has to be perfect the first time. Right now we don’t see a need for any drawers of any kind. So version 1.0 shouldn’t be too complicated. LOL.
Any more progress on the container suites ? Odd ? but do you have any aux. tanks for a fj40 laying around ? I want to take out the NWMP aux. tank in the rear of my 40 and move the axle back to about 100 in. WB which means I need a smaller/different shape/custom aux. tank ? Door looks nice by the way. You forgot the door handle, maybe its a push thru like the old bar doors
I think you could have a 3rd career in Van conversions...
Thanks Alf
Like just about everything else I do, the old life motto holds: 90 percent of the job is in the preparation. I probably spent almost as many hours visualizing how everything was going to fit together. I almost built this as a spectator, pleasantly watching my own hands take each piece of material and use 50 years of experience to almost effortlessly shape them to my exact needs. Not a single piece of material was discarded because of a mistake. Speaks to that concept of manual competence I wrote about in chat.
When I bought the property across the street from my shop at 18, I had visions of starting a cabinet shop with my best friend from college. We both quickly discovered I have a persistent habit of building things with little or no sketches of the product, just a short list of critical measurements. My buddy insisted on a complete rendering of everything. Wasn’t going to happen..
Funny how certain things repeat themselves. I will be revisiting this scenario next week when I recruit a new friend to help raise the roof on another friend’s house. No drawings, just a half dozen critical measurements and a new to me worm-drive Skilsaw.
2x8s. Consolidating three room additions that have a patchwork of different flat roofs under one shallow hip roof 30’ across. It is an engineering challenge to say the least. I’ve had to tidy up 35 years worth of bootyfab construction, from light fixtures with no support to wood stove chimneys with no firebreaks, tie-ins with more imagination than structural soundness, etc.Did you guys trim those 4x8's ?