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Building The Worlds Craziest Overlanding Camper Truck – Doors and Windows

   03/25/2024  30 Comments on Building The Worlds Craziest Overlanding Camper Truck – Doors and Windows

In today’s episode we’re building out the door, steps, and windows!
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30 thoughts on “Building The Worlds Craziest Overlanding Camper Truck – Doors and Windows”

  4. 18:02
    We built our ExpeditionVehicle with 3010 (three feet wide by a foot tall) dual-pane sliders designed for a stand-still house.
    We mounted these at our eye-level standing inside, about eight feet above pavement.
    .
    Twenty-four months twenty-four thousand miles around South America.
    Alaska, Panama, multiple times across North and Central America.
    .
    Our windows are original.
    Zero issues.

  5. 13:52
    On our ExpeditionVehicle, our porch is expanded steel, similar to stout window-screen.
    For your steps, expanded steel would act as a spot to stamp dirt and sand from feet, reducing grime inside the rig.
    .
    Additionally, expanded steel is lighter than steel plate.
    Lifting the gross tonnage of your door might be easier with a boat-winch at a point furthest from the hinge?
    I would forgo using the door as storage; the dang thing is already a beast without adding
    spaces to accumulate more junk.

  6. 12:52
    Coated aircraft cable with turn-buckles?
    On your aircraft role-model, the door with steps floats without ground contact.
    .
    The cables also act as hand-rails.
    A potentially lethal problem with a RecreateVehicle side-entry is lack of hand-rails… violating the 'Three Points Of Contact' rule for climbing on equipment (without both feet on the ground).

  7. 10:07
    Diagonals to reduce oil-canning?
    Diagonals to increase rigidity?
    Weld cabinets and other interior structures to walls to increase rigidity and prevent a box collapse during a roll-over (similar to bulkheads in a boat)?
    .
    One of my hobbies is walking wrecking-yards aka 'dismantlers'.
    Factory RecreateVehicles always collapse during a roll-over because:
    * nothing ties opposite walls
    * cabinets merely sit on the floor, secured with a few wood-screws…
    …and…
    * staples into particle-board.

  8. One side-entry limits the global utility.
    Some nations drive on the left, an entry on the right puts you in traffic.
    .
    2003, we engineered our ExpeditionVehicle with a rear entry.
    Irregardless of traffic on either side, we are away from vehicles moving past.
    .
    Additionally, we prefer the visual and visceral openness.
    A side-entry immediately slams the sight-lines into the opposite wall or cabinets on that wall… creating the impression of a much smaller interior.

  12. Airstream Crude. Not really — just teasing. You guys are doing a great job. Not sure about all steel — aluminum seems much more suited to this construction. Love the folding door/steps.

  19. Are you concerned about the weight at all? Seems like it is going to be top heavy, not a big deal on the highway but for off roading I'm not so sure especially in the sand.

  26. all that negative space behind the steps… good idea not making shelves there, but what if you could throw in small air compressor tanks or something?

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