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Admin, This has been now sold, how do I remove it . colby

Quality hard floor camper trailer. This is a Extreme off-road Aussie Swag Rover LX camper in excellent condition. Comes with 3 way 70 litre Chestcold fridge in its own fridgebox, 40a/hr. battery tek charger, 80litre water tank/ manual or electric water supply, am/fm radio, ensuite attachment...

Hi Prospectorpete I built a slide on myself (this forum under campers,4wd and vans, under "slide on")and as it was made from steel(I cant weld ali) it came out at 750kg wet weight. I too have a land cruiser(96) and when the slide on was finished the ute had a pronounced sag in the rear end and...

Just a couple of pics from this weekend with the canopy in action. Had an explore for some colour out the back of Cairns. Cheers Colby

A few extra pics added on after the build. breather for positive pressure fan. This is simply a bilge fan and moves about 20cf air per min sucking through the filter from the out side and pressurizing the canopy therefore stopping any dust getting in The inlet is stuffed with filter foam from...

Thx Ryan Believe me I am not a boiler maker or fitter welder or a chippy either, I am self taught with the welder and that has taken decades!!!(must be slow learner) but what I did have was time and plenty of it to think the whole project out. It took 9 months to complete working on it every...

Hey thx Doctor. I used it on the last weekend and thought to myself "why didn't I do this before"? Its so easy, I pull up where I want open the doors and start livin', or if I want to go all out spend 3 to 4 minutes setting up the gazebo and have a huge under roof camp. See pic. Now that is all...

Back again finally. The final finish was predominantly carpet and for this I ended up buying this from Bunnings as with most of the stuff on this build. I chose automotive as opposed to marine as there was little chance of the inside getting wet. The draw back here was not much colour selection...

Back again The drawers were a simple matter of working out what I wanted to store and how best to lay out the configuration to achieve max use of the space I had. I ended up with 2 medium, 1 small, 1 large, a storage cubby hole that suited a milk crate and a very small cubby hole. For the...

As the canopy sat on the tray of the ute I was concerned about dust and moisture coming up inside from between the tray and the floor. If you go back to the first frame pics you will see I framed out sufficiently to lay ply down as a weather proofing. I had a friendly neighbor who worked in the...

Pics from the previous post There was additional costs of tools IE crimpers,heat shrink torch,soldering irons, zip ties by the bag, beer, lotsa beer,strippers(for the wires :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ). The 6m of heavy wire from the front batt was a large cost as well as the next size down for...

For the pre wire I first had to have a idea in my mind what I wanted in the way of electrics and their power consumption. There are lots of sites on the net where you can get and individual wattage use for any number of gear that you can instal. I'm going to stick my neck on the block here and...

Thx Luke, it's good to get some encouragement. Will keep up the pics and descriptions. There's plenty more to come and as always if there are questions or comments I'd appreciate them.

For insulation I went to a local appliance store and got permission to take all the sheets of 25mm thick coo-lite foam from the dumpster out the back of their store. This had been used to protect fridges in the box's from the factory. I just cut it size to fit in between the frames behind the...

I cut out for the wind up stands which I made out of jockey wheels cut and extended with steam pipe. The mistake here was leaving the off centre wheels on, which on concrete in the garage worked fine, but as I found out later were useless on soft ground. The best option was to replace the wheels...