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Depreciation on RV's is Brutal!! the higher price you pay for the unit the more you notice it. in my case I'll take about a 10K per year hit. Like Hot Rods dad, the fellow I talked to about consigning it, told me some people dream of only 10K per year depreciation. on a side note, I always...

after much thought and admittance that we just don't use her like we should, the Finance Dir and I have listed our TC on Racing Junk and a few local sites. It's a lesson on truck conversions, if you put a lot of money in an OLD TRUCK, you wind up with alot of Money on a OLD truck, which means...

What to learn the home built truck conversion? Do you have lots of money? From experience.. the tuition is way, way, higher than you will ever get any kind of return on. Here's the short course... shop Racingjunk.com, find a truck conversion that is close to what works for you, buy it for...

Wow.. where to start.. lets just cut to the chase... spend 2-4 weeks on Racing junk opening and reading all the toterhome and motorhome ads.. you will find that 99.9% of the rigs for sale are being sold for pennys on the dollar, want a high end 300K truck? they are for sale for 180-190k...

For as much detail as you would ever want to know about travel to Alaska, go to the Escapees forum under "travel" then look for the Alaska threads some of which are quite long so make popcorn and read away... Travel - Escapees Discussion Forum the forum is for all types of RVing but it...

looked and didn't see his rig in any of the pictures.. :( -blizz

My '500 pictures are at the office, I might have taken a picture of it by accident when we were on the top of the garages in the infield on Sunday

It was a brand new factory built Ice Castle. First time out, they bought it as a family Christmas present.

it will be interesting to find out what happened on Lake of the Woods, % guys spending their very first night in a brand new portable ice house when she went BOOM. 5 remain hospitalized after ice house explosion | kare11.com 5 guys whom life will never be the same.. -blizz

"These new toyhaulers have far surpassed 350/3500 pickups." Na, the dealers will tell the purchaser "it only weighs 15,000 and that new F350 is rated to tow 21,000 so you have plenty of capacity, no problems!" The wife will tell her husband "honey that trailer looks so big behind our little...

I live along I-94 in Fargo ND As you have probably learned by now ND is a great place for our dozens of huge windfarms, but a terrible state to cross with a 43' toyhauler behind a pickup. I see those Transports heading west every time I return from western ND every 5 miles or so I will meet...

the nice thing about the HDT over the MDT is many times the wheel cut on a HDT is much tighter than a MDT, add a hitch further back behind the singled axle and the HDT will turn inside the radius of the f450 super-cab duelly. I would not by new in this economic environment, the race car guys...

I'd look at a toterhome with a real shower, dinette and bed. the Power and braking of a HDT would beat almost anything in the MDT lines something like this on RJ is cheaper than a new F450 and has only 250K miles, you will never tax this truck pulling campers...

better keep your eyes open for a Pup style fuel tank, that bad boy will be lucky to get 5 mpg, keep dentist on cell phone too! Fillings will rattle out by every oil change :) I think there are better options.. for all wheel drive look at utility trucks, line man trucks, then put the big box...

welcome to the forum, sounds like quite the project. for Ideas spend a few evenings on Racingjunk.com search living quarters trailers lots of big race trailers that can get the front figured out, then let your imagination finish the rear. blizz

Looks great, just make sure you don't slide her back in till it cools down. Snkbite, this site you will find is a 3rd or 4th site for most of the members here, I have noticed even if you look at the views that it isn't a site many members visit more than once every week or so. I don't have...

to insulate under the truck see if you could get a spray foam guy to spay the hell out of it after you have finished everything on the inside, run all your wires though bigger pvc so the can be pulled or added to later, unless you want to try to dig through the spray foam, I would think they...

Welcome to the forum!! :) you need to go to that escappees site and read up on the Jackolope, its a box specifically designed to convert semi truck to RV wiring with out sending error codes to the CPU on the semi, then on to the dash. Follow Bobs advise and lurk or join the Escappees HDT...

Fresno is too far from LA ?? Come live in Fargo ND and tell me how dar it is to anyflipping where! :) good luck with your project and welcome to the forum.. -blizznd

Google one stop cop shop in Colorado I bought my Xantrex unit from him, he does a lot of ambulances and saftey vehicles great guy to do biz with regarding inverters and converter chargers, he understands our truck are unique compared to class A and B motor-homes good guy -blizz

Nice truck! 1) backup camera... shouldnt be too bad, worst case go with a wireless uint but you might still have to fish power wires to it. there is a newer topic on the escappees forum regarding back up cameras. 2)the sattlite dish should just be mounting to the roof, sealing the wires...

Racing junk is you best bet, buy a truck someone has invested 3-4 times what he is asking for it, make a road trip out the inspect your purchase, (could be a good time in itself) then drive the truck home. When you start adding things up like an angle iron here, tires there, in-dash stereo...

there was a guy that did just that a while back, no sure if it was here or escappees.. he posted a pile of pics. going to have to search for it. I suppose you could go all out, remove all the rivits and replace the short walls with longer structures the go from the front of the front box to the...

just thinking, maybe build a steel rect frame to support the cab and your sleeper assy, then support it with a pair of car leaf springs in the back with a firestone airbags for the lift, add a pair of small car shocks and the whole thing should ride nice, independent of the twisting main...

Nice rig!! I hope you use it as much as you plan to, those bad boys make awesome motorhomes. enjoy! -blizz