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Test install (in the living room): From the back to show the mounting: The glued on 6mm pieces slot into the extrusion and the panel sits nicely. To make it "non-rattle" (the slot is a bit more than 6mm) there are two options: a strip of Gaffer's tape or a panel mount: The panel...

For those interested in working with 80/20, here are some tricks and lessons learned from various projects I have done with it: It will be expensive. Don't kid yourself. Precision is everything – getting lengths and cuts just right means you get things square. We use a miter saw for our cuts...

Bench in the truck: With interior "shelf": As said, upper part will be accessible through a big lid from the top, lower part through two smaller doors. Upper front will be a fixed panel.

Here's a close-up of the bench: This is from the rear, you can just see the wheelhouse cutout showing on the left corner, it's supported from above and connects to the rear strut and the middle shelf support. Most of the panels that will close up the box will be 6mm Baltic Birch, so super...

It's been quiet here, but we are making slow progress. From this: To this: We are closing in. The compartment towards the truck cabin 80/20 portion is 99% done. The driver's side bench 80/20 portion is 99% done. The 1% missing is just for things we forgot, a fastener here, a mount...

Love it! I'll wait for more things to show up and then probably order more than one of your new things!

As some of you may know from my build thread, I've been working with 80/20 material quite a bit for my camper interior build. While this is going on, I also searched for options to mount materials nicely to the extrusion in the camper. Here's what I have found to be pretty good options so far...

Partly installed, 3x front vertical legs and the front connectors to the sides missing. Hours of cutting, drilling access holes, hand-cutting (after our tap bit broke) 6mm thread into ends, etc. The finished frame (minus the long cross-member that is fixed in the truck): For anyone...

Making of ... inverter wiring ...

@smlobx – Thanks for the tip. We normally have a tiny aluminum table stashed somewhere. Might not put our legs up on that, but it works great as a small sidetable. Still haven't found a good way to stash a larger table, but also haven't really invested all that much thought into it yet.

While I'm partly out of commission, progress is slow, but since my wife is back from her climbing trip, at least we are making some progress. She's doing all the hard work with tools and everything that throws "stuff" (wood splinters, saw dust, aluminum shavings, etc.) around. Be that a track...

Thank you. I had it checked by a hand surgeon now and unfortunately, the suspicion of a small crack was correct. Which now means that my hand is in a cast for the next four weeks and then in the brace for another two or so. I'm ticked off beyond belief since this will set me back quite a bit. I...

Started the build for electrics compartment: And received the backing plate for the table build: And it actually fits and it looks totally amazing. We'll have to obviously drill all the mounting holes, but that should be straightforward. Unfortuntaly, clumsy self has prevented further...

Oh, and if someone is in the SF Bay Area (San Jose etc) and wants to do the same: I have lots of tape left and nothing to do with it …

Cheap and simple: Simple 3" traction tape on the sills. Makes life easier. Didn't want to pay for one of the fancy sill protectors, so just used this.

Progress Report Haven't made much actual progress in terms of things going into the truck or camper. Rear Seat Delete The "rear seat delete platform" is in testing and has been awesome so far (some improvements to come though, I just can't leave it alone ...). Electrics For the camper, we...

Mule Expedition Outfitters Rear Camera Relocation Bracket When I received the bracket, I was surprised that the camera just didn't fit. Here's the continuation of that. Okay, had to call Mule again to find out what the problem is: they claim that they changed vendors to produce the bracket...

Hey All, question to all of you: have any of you found a car/truck cover that fits the truck with the camper on? We are sometimes away for extended times and the truck doesn't fit any garage.

Finally, the remaining pieces arrived and – what a surprise – everything fits exactly as planned:

Finally the remaining L-track arrived and I bolted it in – the holes and teenuts were already in the platform. And with that, the final piece of the 3D-puzzle also fell into place. It fits: Something that came together exactly as planned. A rare occurrence on this project ... This reminds...