Recent content by longroad2nowhere

Not much has happened to the truck lately. My wife and I have our own business and we are currently the busiest we've ever been, which is great, but really hasnt given me much time for truck stuff. Also made me realize I'm not building a custom camper anytime soon, which got me cruising CL and...

We did find the truck already drawn up in the google warehouse. There are quite a few OBS ford models actually. We modded it a bit to match our truck, and then obviously drew up the flatbed and camper.

So my lady and I really geeked out on sketchup last night, and I finally think I have a camper design I am happy with. Pretty minimalist. Lots of storage. The idea is basically build my own extremely large version of an AT summit camper, and then set it on top of some custom built storage...

Was up in Mammoth all last week working on a project, and finally picked up the bumper from the powdercoat. Ended up going with a textured grey powdercoat. Got my lights and winch mounted, and waited till the nexy morning when the sun was out to install so I didnt freeze my fingers off. Got...

I actually looked into steel-it, but ******** aint cheap. Actually got it powdercoated for less than a gallon of the stuff costs. It does look cool tho!

Fabbed up some brackets for the teralume lights. My lady is the welder of the family, and shes out of town, so today was the first time I fired up the welder myself in like 4 years, so I just threw down some tack welds so she can come fill them in tmw. I ended up mounting them a little too far...

Got some updates from the last few days. Getting things a bit closer to being back in action. My mishimoto radiator showed up and I got that in. Went in quick and easy. I thought I had drained all the coolant out of the system, but the info I found said the truck should take 8 gallons and...

Thats all I'm really hoping for. I do a lot of mountain pass driving, and not having to stare at the EGT gauge would make my drives much more chill. ha.

Still waiting on parts, but while I had a little time to kill at my shop I fabbed up a little bracket to mount my ARB compressor. Nothing too exciting, but always nice when you can tick a little something off in the middle of the day. New radiator shows up tmw, so may try and get in...

I was looking at a few options for the e4OD, John woods has great reviews, tons of dudes use his build for baja chase trucks, so i figured it could handle some abuse. His valve body work seems to be really good, but the deciding factor was he was local-ish. If I have warranty issues I can just...

My buddy brandon asked if I'd be interested in helping him build a drawer slide and storage system for his truck. He's very mechanically inclined and I am a woodworker by trade, so I said, how bout you help me get my intercooler installed, and I'll help with your drawers/sleeping deck. A deal...

having a curved side and top is the main reason I have considered wood and fiberglass. The shape of the camper would be so much better than aluminum or composite walls. I actually was thinking about making a sandwich panel as a test a couple months back. Just to see how much it weighed, and...

Yea I keep going back and forth between doing the cabover or not. Kinda leaning back towards doing it. Doing the cabover out of wood worries me a bit though, seems like I would need a pretty hefty piece of wood to support that, but maybe I'm underestimating the strength the fiberglass will...

No, funds were low for a while, and when they finally started to come in again I just decided i wanted my truck back up an running asap, so I got a john woods e4OD built. Only driven it a couple times, but feels good so far, but a bit sad i wasnt able to do the ZF5 swap.

So my Banks intercooler showed up today, and I starting doing some research on the install, and came across something that I hadnt thought about...I have an s&b cold air intake, and it looks like fitting the intercooler with the s&b may cause some issues. People have done it, but takes some...