Ethel has began

[Silvrzuki77]

What thickness was the wood?

[Ben]

2.7mm meranti

[Ben]

Just in case some one is looking at this as a build guide, not that someone would I used a large tube of pl200 on each sheet of ply when attaching. I use a square notch trowel and spread evenly. As I have stated before I'm always on my own so I usually don't take the time for photos in mid stream sorry. But on the up side I did finish all the roof sheeting. It all looks the same so no since in posting pics. I guess the next step is cpes and funds getting low again so well see what I can find? might be able to make a trip to the scrap yard and a side job to get money back up for Ethel. And next week well be back on 12 hour days for 10 days. So that'll help too. I still have some jobs to do yet that I've been putting off maybe I can get them done. Ill post more after this weekend. As alway more to come and cheers ill be back soon

[Ben]

What do ya think?

[KCStudly]

Light!

Looks good.

[Ben]

I bought one of them trailer wire junction boxes and you can't go by what they say is the color code. I had a bunch wired and ended up having to rewire everything. So needless to say I spent about 2 hours doing a 15 min job. Lol I was scratching my head and bout made a bald spot before I figured out what I had done wrong. Luckily the cover on the truck side had a color/ destination code on it. Man did I feel stupid on that!

[KCStudly]

It doesn't make any sense at all from my perspective, but the 7-pin connector color code is not in agreement with the 4-pin std.

Makes no sense whatsoever to me.

[Corwin C]

Unfortunately, in the real world, wire color coding is merely a suggestion. Colors being reused and coding changed because you've changed plugs, manufacturers, etc. is the norm. I recently worked on a vehicle where EVERY wire was black with unreadable grey letters/numbers ... caused a few choice words and quite a bit of wasted time. If you are able to follow color code, cheer, be thankful, and by all means follow, but ... always wire by function and with plugs/jacks - pin location, not color.

[Ben]

Well I had a little progress today,


And I thought I would see what my side lite would look like soooo,

My main reason to cut the side metal was so I could get a little farther on the doors sooo,


I liked what I seen so I went ahead and glued the shin to the door

I noticed others talking about stapling the aluminum to the exterior so I tested it out,

And I came to the conclusion that I need to use shorter staples,so I dug around the shop and found some 3/8" staples so ill probably use them if I go that route. Has anyone else done it this way? The ones in that I tried was 1 1/4" most went in some didn't but I had to crank the line pressure up to 120psi to get it to drive them and like I said some still didn't go in.
I haven't tried to attach the wall metal yet I just cut it and clamped it to see how it was going to look. And on the door skin I took 80 grit sand paper to rough up the back side so it might grip better. I hope it takes good. Please chim in on a good way on attaching to side and roof metal I would just like some suggestion good bad whatever I would just like to hear some input. TIA, and as always more to come and hope everyone had a good weekend.

[Silvrzuki77]

Looking good.

[Ben]

I just hope I left enough gap for the trim on the doors

[Ben]

It's been a while since I have post an update so here we go

I started installing some of the lights and figure out all the wiring that was ran and identifying what wires were what and tested to make sure that when I enclosed the outer skin that I didn't put a staple through them.

Next up was I ordered my door hinges and installed the passenger side door. It took a little finesse but I think it'll be ok

The door latch was advertised as 1 1/4"-1 1/2" door thickness but their not so I had to mitigate the fitting a little and this is what it took

And on another note I have been working on my a/c system and its not going so good it might get left behind I have another go around at it and if that don't work it's getting scratched off the list!i also was able to order some trim for the door and hatch so I can work on getting that done well see how it goes. But I won't get it til Monday and I have to go to Texas Tuesday through Thursday so I won't be able to do much til the weekend. As always more to come later til the next time.

[Silvrzuki77]

Looking sweet!! I think im going to do external hinge also.

[Ben]

Their not bad to install just use spacers all around your door to make sure your gap is even all the way around

[Silvrzuki77]

Did you bolt them our screw them in?