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That my friend is a really cool out of the box idea, I love it!! 1- a vertical post built into the wall, 2- a manual slide out beam on a pivot 3- hook a winch to the post to lift the front of the car. 4-once lifted, insert a second pin 1" diameter or bigger, release and store the winch and down...

I'd think a 387 would make a slick, toterhome, still a fairly new model, so its some what pricy yet, but killer looks. Have you found a truck? year? Miles? Specs? I vote go 4 it! blizz

copied from my thread on the Escapees MDT Forum Well I have a few minutes tonight to let you in on some of the "Progress" The truck had a vibration on deaccell when I brought it home, 600 dollars later we managed to change the pinion angle on the rear end by reversing the z-spring mounting...

link to photo section w/ pictures Stealth RV blizz

Just think it could be worse, you could be your wife, 9 months pregnant, on bedrest and be in Texas with you w/o air conditioning. Now that would be a bad week. Good luck to you, your wife and your new growing family God bless, -blizz

Duff, welcome to the forum, I think I might have some insight on this, having learned from the school of hard knock, where they don't give grades, just invoices and bills. While my truck is't as big as yours it is a bit more compact which causes more problems then building big. Big is easy...

I'll post a picture tomorrow, they are basically a 2 piece plastic electrical outlet it does not need a box and the face plates are a bit different too, I think they snap together rather than a screw in the center like a standard outlet in your house. I bought a whole bag of the outlets and...

I was thinking today, if I was to convert a box truck to a rv, I would search out a used trailer type camper of an equal size, then carefully dissasemble the camper, then re-assemble inside the frp or aluminuim shell on the truck. this would save a fortune in trips to Home depot or menards, you...

Rod, good luck with your project, I'll be following as you go. This forum has a good deal of traffic, but not a lot of folks that post. So I thought I'd stop in a cheer you on. And to pass on a shameless plug for my leftover parts. I have a stash of leftover parts from my project, (lots of...

Bob, Thanks for coming over yesterday, Darcy and I had a great time! Thank your son again for us for his service for our country. (Bob's son just returned home from Iraq a week ago) I'll get some interior pics posted after I get the fridge back in and the cabinets doors re-hung. 'till then...

Hey Bob, are ya going home thru Fargo? I'd love to see your conversion, we aren't too far off 94,a mile straight up Sheyenne st. and I spend most of my weekends and eves working on ours. give me a call if you travel thru todd 701-793-0919 -blizz

Getting this train back on track... GEPatch, you first posted in April, how is the search going? Have you found anything worth testing out? If ya found something, we dig pictures! -blizz

The twins coaches, Has anyone seen or heard from them or any of their products? That site and articles are all over 2 years old. Are they still surviving and building? -blizz

Ha! Finance Director/Wife... I hate when she asks for receipts, but she learned right after we were married 20 years ago that my idea of balancing a checkbook was to wait for the autotransfer and then deposit more money. When we first got that IBM 286 computer I said I can play games on it...

I have been asked several times how the little things add up, I have this spreadsheet that track every penny. (actually the Finance director keeps track for me) it doesn't work very well on this format but you can get the idea- note I removed the price of the truck and all the labor. The 4 RV...

You must first answer Geofkaye's 1st question first, Do ya have 50K to get started? I can tell you that you will have a tough time beating the prices I paid for my materials for a 22' box on a GMC 6500, the big stuff you can budget for, the little crap will double that number. You have no...

1000 dollars a foot? windows and doors included? Plus cutting out your cab/box entrance? Sounds like a great deal to me. I'd have him get started asap before he changes his mind. -blizz Whose doing it? Has he done a Volvo before? Just wondering who else is up in this region (I'm in Fargo)

I don't know what the overall height limit is for you, Chucks Volvo is 13'-6" with a dropped roof for his 2 AC units. That's as high as I'd ever go. My height limit is set by a 9'-0" Garage door to store my rig, right now she is 8'-10.5" Because of the spread on my axles and the dropped driveway...

Thanks Geofkaye, yes I'd like a couple of do-overs, first would be to spend the money on basement ducted AC, that would really help narrow the drop roof. second, a more conventional lower side build out of tubing rather than laser cut sheet would have simplified things and possibly save me...

She made it home! Chuck and his crew did a great job and we are very happy "campers"

Have deep pockets? check out Earthroamer link; http://www.earthroamer.com/ There is entire world and website full of expedition type rv's you might Google that and get a week or 2 worth of reading for ideas. the link is on my home laptop. -blizz

What is the best way to test this? I am having my conversion wired up, the guy is a licensed electrician, but I would imagine the fellow that wired that grandmas RV up was licensed also.

I would defiantly agree with Price over construction. With this economy, and the 100's of conversions available for sale right now, buying a completed one at a discount will be much cheaper and far quicker than spec'ing one out and having one built. So far, having started with a $16,000 truck...

I have been very impressed with my last 2 calls to Chuck, he has told me of several things that they have fixed (including the closeness of the muffler to wiring) he has 3 (Experienced)guys on the project, and I believe today they will start with the walls. My project is the only one in the...

wow, I cannot believe that I have been registered on his forum for an entire year already, a lot has happened in that year, We found a truck, sold our Roadtrek, and started on the conversion. This week was a new turn, after having our truck at a local trailer repair shop, we have pulled it and...