Zomblance build up

polksfinest

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Well I have been looking on here for a while, since I have decided to build my ambulance into a camper.
Ok so here is the low down. It was my service truck for three years before I retired it. It sat till last May. That is when I decided to turn it into a 4x4 camper. After watching rock my rv on tv the plan is to have it done next month so I can road test it before I jump in it and drive it 3200 miles across the USA in July on a road trip!
Here is what we started from.


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polksfinest

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This is what I started with


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flightcancled

Explorer
Sweet!

I was too much if a wimp to start with a service truck ambo- good on you!

That battery bank looks a bit funky the way all the power goes to one terminal. What gauge wire is that? Looks like 6. I do like the use of space though.


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polksfinest

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I will try and catch you guys up as fast as I can. I have done a lot since I started.

I decided to start my build with the inside. I went for a total gut for two reasons, one being the whole re-purposed interior is not my thing. Others have done great jobs but it is just not for me. Secondly, I want to be able to camp in this for long periods of time with out the use of a generator or water hook up. So, the factory insulation would not do... out it came. I have to say they build these things like a tank! Everything was made of 3/4 cabinet grade ply wood and heavy as hell
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The million dollar question what to do with all of these wires
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Spaghetti any one?
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polksfinest

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now that the interior was gone I could see what I had to work with. The first thing on the list was to raise the roof I hated having to duck my head when I was inside I had originally planed on doing it when I bought it to use as a service truck but time is money so I left it alone. So I striped the foil bubble wrap and got rid of the red lights all the way around to fill in the holes and start the new wiring before i cut the roof off
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Next on the todo list was repairing the floor when I first bought it it had vinyl floors and I put 16th sheet steel down over the 3/4 plywood floor. when I removed the old vinyl i found a bunch of rotten wood so i had to replace the back half due to a roof leak so now was the time to fix it right
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Abitibi

Explorer
Hahaha! I've been there with the full gut and wires bonanza, fun isn't it! Are your wires marked? Mine were so I saved a lot of them to re-use as needed but just like you I tried to simplify as much as I could.

That thing looks huge, shouldn't be too hard to configure an efficient setup... Good luck!

Cheers
Mr. D


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polksfinest

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yes they where thank god they where it saved a lot of time the ones that where not labeled i put number tags on i planned on moving all of that wiring to a bin on the outside thanks again for that espar heater you will see it again soon enough
 
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polksfinest

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While I had the floor up I figured I would use one of 3 winches I had laying around and mount it in the rear
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I mounted winch plate to the angle iron using 1/2 bolts. 6 bolts per side where use to bolt the angle to the winch plate. The angle is bolted to the frame,body mounts using 5 ,1/2 bolts. The plane is using this as a crossmember as i am removing the gas tank and crossmember to install a much larger fuel tank. I am hoping for 100 gal but we will see. While installing the new wood for the floor I laid down some sound deadener to help with the noise in the back as it was very loud back there. Back when I first bought this thing I had to do it to the cab because you had to yell to the passenger to carry on a conversation. So after installing that layer I put down the foil bubble wrap then the plywood. Looking back I now I wish I would have used marine grade ply wood but its ok (I hope)


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r_w

Adventurer
Love that raised roof. Angular just looks right.

Are you welding in a roof rack while you are at is?
 

AMBOT

Adventurer
What will be the finished interior height with the raised roof? Looks great and happy to see someone has done this already. It would be a necessity for me.
 

MrGrimm

Mall Crawler
You look really familiar. Were you ever in the Marines?

Edit: just saw your shorts and the name tape, Ballard. Now I remember you.
 
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