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Again, super slow progress over the last few days. My wife has been busy with sewing things, like small bags for easy access of common items, like an Element Fire extinguisher, small water spray bottle for toilet use, small trash bag, mosquito netting for the passenger side window and so on...

Today we finally installed the rear door mosquito netting, we held back since we didn't want to damage anything will all the back and forth we've been doing, but we needed this to be done, to know that nothing needs fixing. It's a copy of the AluCab mozzie net, just without the canvas layer...

We have ours here for disaster preparedness (earthquakes) more than anything else. It's still unused in its original box. I read that too, and it's one of the reasons, we aren't too keen on using it. Oh, and we have the same problem with an ultrafine water filter we have in our other truck -...

Some more notes on the Webasto heater install: We got the one with the SmartTemp 3 Bluetooth controller. That thing is expensive and feels like the cheapest piece of plastic I've seen in a while. What a disappointment. The wiring harness for the SmartTemp 3 tries to beat the controller in what...

Inside the "heater outside compartment":

We've had this deadline for a while now, but since I'm back from Europe, I've really been tracking our task list more closely. We'll be leaving on a trip with this truck and we at: 67 tasks remaining, about 350 have been completed

Things are coming together. Heater is all hooked up and working: The box turned out pretty nice. As did the new "connector lids" for the Rotopax: These arrived earlier today and worked out great. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the install.

So, door interior more or less sorted: Only things missing: Osmo treatment for the upper wood panels – we did this with wood for now, since we really didn't know enough to design an aluminium panel. Maybe in the future. Simple fire extinguisher mount for an Element Fire 50. Just two clips...

And the reason we didn’t get much done today was that we had to take the GP Factor Redarc unit out and apart to get a longer Ethernet cable in there. What an ordeal …

Slight progess ...

Background To get to these parts, I learned the bare minimum usage of Autodesk Fusion 360, it's free to use if you only have less than 10 active designs, which is easy for me. The ones that were done, were marked as "Read only" and I moved on. Then, to get get them cut and bent, I used either...

We have one of these, but right now don’t have space for it. But that’s something I can keep in mind as well.

Single batch. Rest => PM.

And done, just one day, super happy! We'll install most of them over the weekend, then the door and the heater will be DONE. ;-) And a massive shout-out to our local powdercoater JIP Finishing! They turned this around in 24h with amazing quality at a very reasonable price. If you are in...

An a related note, our self designed custom aluminium parts turned out absolutely amazing : We'll install most of them over the weekend, then the door and the heater will be DONE. ;-) And a massive shout-out to our local powdercoater JIP Finishing! They turned this around in 24h with...

We have this here: https://kickassproducts.com/collections/best-selling-products/products/kickass-portable-12v-camping-shower-with-lithium-battery for showering. We'll heat a bit of water in our kettle, mix it in a collapsible bucketm with cold water to get to a reasonably temperature and then...

That’s what I’m thinking. I can use the same type of pump I’m using in the camper, which means it’ll be cheap (for once) and I have a spare for the installed one … it’ll be slow, but I don’t care too much about that.

I do have a water hose, so that's not the problem. Will have to see how I work out cases in Alaska where I can only fill jugs.

Hey folks, on a practical not, for those with the AC water tank, how do you find refilling the tank when on the road? Do you usually find a place with a water hose? Because I don't think refilling from a container is easy, given where the cap is located. Haven't had this problem before with the...