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    The Alu-Cab Khaya thread, share and ask

    If the tank is not easy (and I mean SUPER easy) to remove, then I'd probably go with a squeeze bulb transfer pump or something similar. This assumes you're transferring from an intermediate vessel. (If it were me, I'd be using Kerosene in the hopes of slightly cleaner running, but if you're...
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    Kitchen placement

    I'm not sure I accept your premise - there are tons of vehicles with street-side kitchen layouts. Everything from the classic Volkswagen Westfalia and Sportsmobile Westy, to most slide-in truck campers, to every Earthcruiser I've stuck my head into has had the kitchen on the...
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    Best hoses and connectors for plumbing a water system?

    I feel like that is a point worth visiting right there. Not sure if you've read "Engineer to Win" (Carroll Smith's seminal work on race car fabrication and design), but if you could boil the philosophy of the whole book down to one sentence, it would be "If the failure of a 5-cent part is what...
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    2011 F-350 4WD Tiger Camper, Fully Self Contained, in Arizona

    Nice to see one that isn't either clapped out or over-spec'd. GLWS, that should fly.
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    Roof Top Cargo Box Mounting Q

    I went through a whole mess of cargo boxes on top of my van. All of them were bigger than I ended up needing, especially as I shed unnecessary gear and got more and more conscious about weight up high. They are also all TALLER than I wanted - the market seems to think that if you have a...
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    The Alu-Cab Khaya thread, share and ask

    Every Khaya I've see on a full-size truck looked absolutely awesome. Personally, I think having a little extra headroom on the payload would be awesome, so that's the way I'd go.
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    Cabover vs. Long-Nose Platform

    Like I said, question #1 is whether shipping is even a needed criteria. I built my first adventure van w/ shipping in mind, which turns out to have been a silly daydream, since I had a grade-school aged daughter and was in a growing career, long-term international travel wasn't really in my...
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    Cabover vs. Long-Nose Platform

    This is a mission criteria that may or may not matter to all users, but "fits into a shipping container" is definitely an open question. Depending on your needs and build, a small cabover truck can be made to fit into a 20ft container. A "long nose" truck almost certainly will not, unless...
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    ATO AterraXL composite flatbed camper (pagoda roof)

    I have the same issue. For a few more years, at least, we sleep three in our camper, meaning that the cabover bed and dinette-bed are both in-use at night. Our 4WC Flatbed Hawk was not ordered with the cassette toilet, but we do keep a Thetford Curve in the lower cabinet next to the entry...
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    Looking for rigs w. 33", 34" or lager tires with swingouts.

    If I did not have a vehicle with an underbody tire winch (or my tire didn't fit there), I'd definitely be looking for some way to include a mechanical advantage. I've seen a number of tire carriers that hinged down on one axis or another, so that the spare tire can be rolled into position and...
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    Shovel / Axe Mount

    Since my shovel is part of my firefighting gear, I prefer to leave it in quickfists without a lock, so that I can grab it whenever needed. As such, I just make sure I can afford to have the shovel stolen. So far my $20 big box store special has gone unmolested.
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    Spare Tire Trash Bag

    Sun exposure seems to be a big factor in bag life. My name-brand Trasharoo went 7+ years w/o issue, but I stowed it in the garage between trips. I didn't like the "saggy butt" effect I got on my Van (because I was mounting it over a small cargo box instead of a large tire), so I replaced it...
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    Four Wheel Camper - A Review

    Agreed. There are a lot of variables there, but a more "conservative" tire size and flatbed placement definitely equates to a tighter cab-to-cabover gap.
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