Travelling Cruisers

[Capitalguy]

Your build is absolutely stunning, Sonke.

 

[crushers]

i can't stop rereading this thread...
so many ideas.

 

[tlc81]

We need more!

Soenke,

Its been too many days without more info.
show us more man, more pics, more details.
Noone will copy anything I promise
actually I cannot vouch for everyone here, there are some very impressive mechanics capable of almost anything.

Better to keep it secret, just PM me all the details!

 

[soenke]

no secrets about it, just nothing new to show you..

 

[husky250rider]

Alcoa wheels

Soenke, would Ii be able to get some information on the wheels? If you have an Alcoa part number and a source I would appreciate it. I have been looking for that type of wheel for sometime and have hit road blocks. Thanks, Gary

 

[soenke]

sorry, I don´t have the number.
I would know where to get them in Germany and I had a link to a US dealer, but I lost it. Just had a major computer break down ... windows vista.

doesnt google come up with someting?
Alcoa 8x16" with 0" backspacing

 

[husky250rider]

Alcoa Wheels

I have some older (1994) era 16X7'sith a 0 backspace on my FJ40, the Alcoa PN is 167101. I have been searching, probably for the last year or so for exact replacements and have come up with nothing. I have contacted ALCOA and they no longer produce that size. So if you have 16X8's that may be my only option at this point.

 

[soenke]

http://www.tourfactory.de/downloads/Katalog2010w.pdf

Tourfactory has the ALCOAs for the HZJ71-79, maybe they have some for the old axle too??

 

[bruff]

This is the best thread I have read here on MUD since finding this forum 2 (or so) years ago! Nice work on that rig. Your hard work has given a goal that will never be attainable in my garage. Stunning!

 

[crushers]

so, i am considering a camper similar to your for the back of the FJ75...
i would love to see more detailed pics of the construction... if you don't mind.

cheers

 

[soenke]

Thanks Bruff,

Crushers, what do you wnat to see or know? Give me a hint which pics could be interesting for you...I think most of them you have already seen...

 

[Bogo]

so, i am considering a camper similar to your for the back of the FJ75...
i would love to see more detailed pics of the construction... if you don't mind.

cheers

There have been some body construction technique threads over at Expedition Portal.

Effectively the frame of his is rounded corner AL angle irons welded at the corners with panels glued into them to make the sides. The panels are pre-made composite panels.

This is a quick detail for the box corner I designed showing both the lifting top and the base in a 3D cross section. Lifting top has the curved corner for the outside and a angle iron for the inside. The base has both inside and out as angle irons. The red pieces are delrin plastic glides, and likely need to be thinner to prevent binding. The panels are 1" thick AL/foam/AL composite panels. Their skins will be on the order of .032" thick. The outside curved corner can be formed from a 1/8" thick sheet AL plate. No need for a custom extrusion of that shape. The panels will be glued to the outside corner pieces first. Then the inside corner angle irons will be glued in place to finish off the corner. The inside angle irons are not welded to the frame. They are only glued in place.

For lifting the top I was thinking of savaging the coil lift springs from a popup RV trailer and using a small hydraulic cylinder to move them. Basically the lift springs are a tightly packed spring that is run in a conduit tube. When one end is pushed on the other end moves. The conduits can be bent. The conduit tubes routs the spring from the actuation area to a corner. One is used at each corner.

 

[soenke]

as Bogo says

at the top the panels are adapted into the AL-frame from the inside, the middle-part-walls from the outside and into the bottom-part again from the inside. Hopefuly the welded frame will help the construktions to become more stable then it would be by just glueing f/g panels together...

 

[crushers]

i will go back through the thread and check again.

i am mostly interested in the solid wall lift and drop rear entrance assembly. i have been shopping here and nothing even comes close to what you have there...

sooooo bloody sweet!!

cheers

 

[MILLSY]

WOW this cruiser is so cool.And I'am so glade i found this build.I have been looking at doing this to my HJ47. Soenke if you dont mind I have a few questions.
1- Have you got any pitcures of the cab mounts that you made and did you use the factory mounting points on the cab and weld the new mounts to the chassis?.
2- what is the steering made up from between the 80 and 45 all is it all 80 series?.
Keeping in mind that mine will be Right hand drive.
Cab is a 8-84 HJ47 and chassis and drive line will be a 1997 HZJ80.
Pic's of the HJ47.

Cheers
Millsy

 

[soenke]

Hey Millsy, thanks and good luck with your build...

we made a frame to match the 45 and 80 mounts, works as a body lift too.

Steering is all 80.
But I know of other builds wich used the original steering column and a mixture of 45 and 60 parts:
[www.buschtaxi.de] - Thema anzeigen - Nr3 HDJ45

just give Heity a pm in case....

greetings Sönke

 

[MILLSY]

Thanks Mate. I'll check out the link.
Cheers
Millsy

 

[vladi80]

woow camping to another level. Awesome

 

[soenke]

thanks.

Driving is much fun ...on our way we dropped in at the anual LandCruiser Club meeting.
After raining hard the ground became very slippery...

 

[ForealBoreal]

your builds are way to cool.