the_fablab_
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I am working on something for Bruce right now Tommy. I'll share it with you later today if I can make some decent headway
1995 Ford F150 DD prelander
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OK got some miles on this thing today st the prerun scouting mission for the clean desert nov 2 cleanup. Drove from Apple Valley Speedway via dirt up to start finish in Barstow. Then took some dirt along outlet center drive to get some Barstow del taco. After Barstow del we went up to the college hills to scout for more trash. Marked some spots on Son's of Smokey app for people to pickup. Also found a nice pile or clean nail free wood so we loaded it into my truck to bring for the Saturday night trunk or treat bonfire on Nov 2nd.
Kellyex1450
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Hows that camper shell holding up? hopefully you have better luck than me. I went through 3 fiberglass campers before I threw in the towel and built my own. one camper only barely made it around the old Barstow course B before it got the jiggly cracks and tried to remove itself from the truck. I built a camper out of 1.5" .065 DOM and paneling that's survived 12 years of abuse so far and the weight ended up being basically the same.
Rear of the shell is cracked and bottom of door ontop of the bed is sliding apart. I'm going to clamp and squeeze shell back into place then I'm planning on building a tube frame inside the shell with multiple bolts through the shell to hopefully hold it together better. If this one is too bad I'll shop for another one and build a solid inner structure before bolting it onto the bed to hopefully hold that together like it should. If it fails then I'll build myself a camper. Possibly cut the shell to bolt the top and sides onto a frame to keep it the shape it needs to stay in.
Successful Thanksgiving trip. Didn't take any photos. Camper shell rear window and frame around it deleted itself, luckily it fell off and landed in the bed and glass didn't break. Truck worked awesome, super smooth when cruising, it's like my offroad couch. Shit mpg I need to get used to, 8 mpg. Water temp would randomly climb so gonna flush coolant system, since it's brown full of rust and changed the heater core since it's plugged and not flowing any water through it. Once those are done the truck will have a full new coolant system so I shouldn't have anymore problems. Also living 45 min from camp some of the friends dropped off their rigs RV and trailer at my home so it's closer to drive to get out to the hammers for gambler cleanup next weekend. I now really want to get a beater crawler to have fun with the boys going slow too. Saw the petroglifs and Checked out lava lubes as well on our run from Cougar Buttes out to Newberry Springs and back on Friday.
