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Diy home build is what I called the thread...or something close to that. A good friend who's been building boats and planes for years gave me the courage I needed to do the project. With no experience, I used a lot of wood. Probably way more than is needed. The pop up has four 90# struts and...

It's been a few months since the op started this. Still considering the project? If so I can share info on our all wood camper (built last year) and a boat builders perspective on the project.

After 6000 miles and three weeks of living in the camper, it survived. We were comfortable and dry and everything worked out great. There's a few things we want to tweak but overall were real happy with the camper. Driving on flat land and with a tail wind we got the same mpgs as unloaded and...

We've had gorgeous weather here for a few days so I took advantage of the time get this double window trimmed out. Next the Mrs is going to stitch up some curtains for us. The first road trip where we actually use the camper will be over easter. We'll have a 10hr round trip ride to CT. If all...

The road test went well. No movement of the camper on the flatbed. No sway like with a full size truck camper. Braking distance was good. The truck with camper scaled at 9080 lbs. Unloaded weight is 7630 lbs. Camper weight is 1450 lbs. I'm happy with that weight.

Not yet Chris. I will be driving with it on the truck in the next few days. The truck is not really set up for 4 wheeling. We do travel on BLM and forest service roads but nothing too crazy. So we hope clearance won't be an issue for us. Stay tuned though because I'll do a trip report of its...

The camper went back on the truck today. My goal for the day was to get the tie downs worked out. It went well. The levers are right up against the walls so I cut some hose scraps to act as a shield against damage to the wood sides. I didn't get pics of that but I will later. We've got some...

Yesterday I got the Froli sleep system put together and added a 4" foam mattress on top (3" hd foam plus 1" memory foam). It tested pretty comfy. I also hung the ceiling track for a shower curtain in the bathroom. It needs some tweaking still. The Mrs. hemmed a long shower curtain I had picked...

Thanks for the words of encouragement guys. It's great to have folks cheering me on!! Chris, the bathroom is 24"x32". It's just big enough to do your business without banging into the walls, in theory. I haven't tried it out yet.

I was all set to load the camper on the truck for the first time. My excitement turned to shock when I found two of the gas strut roof lifters had broken screws on the bottom mounts. I had used deck screws to install them because they were the right length. Silly me didn't realize that there's...

There's plenty of good deals out there. Lots of folks live in rural areas where there's not much choice for service providers. Obviously I'm partial to Verizon but it's fair to say that you can get coverage from them most places. That's why they call it america's largest network.

Today I made extension plates for the front jacks. I also cut out the wing pieces at the base of the trucks headache rack. It dressed up real nice with flapper wheels on the angle grinder.

Nice job Steve!

Forgot to mention that you can use your phone as a hotspot with unlimited data to one device at a time. It used to be less restrictive but apparently some people were using the visible sim card in high end routers and selling data usage to neighbors. We have started using this service and we...

I hope I've got this in the right place. Recently I stumbled across the Visible cell phone plan. Visible is owned by Verizon and uses their towers. It's $40/mo. For truly unlimited everything. There are no caps on data, but they can throttle speeds at any time when there is congestion in your...

It reads to me like if you have one of the forms of ID mentioned, you get access. No other pass or voucher needed. Anybody read it different?

Here's the finished bathroom door. I had been racking my brain about what to hang for a mirror and where to put it. Recently I found a blind spot mirror that's good size and has adhesive strips on the back. I mounted it above the towel bars on the inside of the door and it is gonna work good...

I've been working on finishing the bench where it covers the water pump and heater. I'm not super excited with how it turned out, but it's going to be good enough for now. It provides a place to step up onto the bed and also a back rest for lounging. I've got some paint work to do still. I'll...

Bike_mech, you were asking about where the heater fuel was coming from...here are a couple pics of the fuel compartment.

Dry heat in a camper is crucial to being comfortable. Having used a blue flame heater, a buddy heater, a wave catalytic heater, and now a diesel heater to heat campers, the diesel heater gives the most pleasant experience.

I ran the furnace some more today while I hung and adjusted the bathroom door. Pics to come of that. While the furnace was running I worked on the fuel pump mount. It's tap tap tapping was too loud in the living area. Putting a piece of foam between the pump and the compartment wall it's mounted...

Thanks for reading the thread JD. It's been fun to build and I'm still working to finish it.

The new motherboard for the heater was installed this afternoon. Initially it gave another error code e-01 low voltage. After some digging, I found a Chinese language YouTube video on how to get into the menu where voltage is. It came set for 24v so I changed that to 12v and the code went away...

The Iceco fridge is now in place and wired direct to the fuse block. It was 55°F in the camper and the fridge cooled to 37°F in about 20 minutes drawing about 2.5 amps. The meter shows more but I had a couple of lights on. In the dark it read 2.5.