Recent content by grummy

I'm going to recommend the Diesel Bunk Heater option. Kerosene or diesel is plenty easy to find no matter where you go, and is a fuel that is not flash problematic. My older 6000 Btu Espar/Eberspacher could easily heat you out of a 7' x 7' x 14' box, automatically turning on and off when...

Lol.. I just looked at a pack I have here... a PACK of FOUR in plastic wrap. The FOUR is the qty !

In my circle of friends, there are numerous real life heartaches of their "Diesel Experiences". From Snapped cranks, Blown Turbo's and $1000+ USED junkyard computers.... It's because of them that I've always been dead set on a Gas engine (for most people vehicles). Always rubbed my funny the...

OSI Quad 4. This stuff continues to impress me. Everything I need in a modern caulk. I used it on my trailer seams. Affordable, available at an awful lot of home improvement stores. https://www.ositough.com/en/products/view-all-products/weather-resistant-sealant-quad.html

>>>Any lil bit of trash we can keep out of the landfills just makes us feel good inside. I did some welding work at a landfill once. I've got no problem with the concept of "landfills". The volume of methane generated at the one I was at was powering thousands of homes with the on location...

>>>> we couldn't find very much in the book on wiring bread vans! How very true. There are some guidelines I follow... But first: We see PLENTY of people take regular old Solid Wire NM cable and pull it around in their mobile environments. I'll admit that 99.99% of the time, as long as the...

The rockwool is just fine... it will not "settle" if one glues it to the walls. For this, I just pour plain old Weldwood contact cement into an old Paint gun and spray away. It tends to spiderweb, but its cheaper than dedicated upholstery (vinyl Top) type sprayables. In one photo, it looks like...

I often wondered about running mine with just the outer rear dual... well, up until I put the aluminum rims on. After all, they did make 10,000lb gross trucks with a single rear. Ideally though, one would want to use a rim made for a slightly wider tire perhaps, and with an offset that keeps...

On your Wheel Wells.... Note that I Lowered my truck substantially. I had a perfect 11.5" of gap between the side skirts and the pavement. With that, I only had about 1.5" of space between the stock rear axle rubber snubbers and the Axle tube, so the most the axle could go up was perhaps 4"...

My earlier trucks, I spent the time removing the aluminum ceiling. Yes, waste of time. In Grumliner, I simply ran firring strips OVER (under in this case) the aluminum the length of the vehicle, insulated between them, then Luan screwed to the wood strips. Creates the perfect thermal break, and...

Now, I just gotta say it again.. There is no reason to pound ANY holes thru the side walls to hold your interior walls in place. 3/4" Oak, bonded with a good adhesive and secured with a few stainless screws into those uprights, and you can build inside of those wooden uprights without any...

Well, Depending on what loads you end up with, you probably want to address that stack of leafs in the rear. I did not have the money some guys got to pay a spring shop to get some newer leaf stacks.... I must have pulled my spring packs apart 5 times each as I dialed in what I wanted for the...

  In defence of the OP, He has a Grumman -BOX- truck above that frame, not something flexible like a separate cab and box arrangement. The Grumman box is also much tougher than the competitor bodies that had been built with a lot of steel supports mixed in with the aluminum (they were corrosion...

Now that you started thinking VW Diesel Tourareg's.... (ugh) I've got your best scenario based on everything you said. Buy a full size gas powered Chevy Van. Tow any readily available 7x14 tandem axle cargo trailer. Nothing to "build", no concerns about the "weights" you have indicated. Tons...