{"id":1263,"date":"2019-02-12T17:32:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?page_id=1263"},"modified":"2020-10-25T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T13:09:51","slug":"range-rover-overland-camper-build-diary-part-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/my-mission-to-build-the-best-overland-camper-ever\/range-rover-overland-camper-build-diary-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Range Rover Overland camper build diary : part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the engine and wiring sorted we ran it around and offroaded it to test it all worked, before starting on the living part of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Off<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Barmouth<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"camping<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Bialey<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

even Bailey the garage dog wanted to try it out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

two engines later 😒 dont ask …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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we started the camper body build in late 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CAD model was pretty final but we had to test that it worked in real life, so with the help of some wood roof lath we built a mockup to test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Milly<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

so the long slog of cutting of the rear body began and all the down to the chassis we went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"cutting<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Range<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Range<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It might be muddy but there is zero rot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Range<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Only the floor pan of the Range Rover left to cut out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"the<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Chris taking it to be sandblasted and painted<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"range<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Range<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

refitting the rear axle after the paint has dried<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"refitting<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Make sure everything is sealed when you got into the artificial desert of the shotblasters \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"air<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The floor cross member is prepared to receive the new alloy rear frame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to remake a ridged monocoque body as the vehicle is short and twisting shouldn’t affect it too much…hopefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"centre<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First we start with the new floor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

here is the CAD model<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"3d<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

and here it is being made..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"alloy<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The underfloor heating pipes are made ready to be bonded into the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"underfloor<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"underfloor<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The floor comes back from the manufacturers and is cut down to size<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"bonded<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


The floor is tested it fits and now off back to Kev’s to fabricate the rear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Stubbs
Kev shows his appreciation of the complicated design ..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

the rubber buffers for the roof pop up to sit on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fuel filler from a defender has a filter and an extending neck to help filling from a can,They are available new from Britpart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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Testing the pop up roof design works, and it  does very good and very stable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

now it is named the Milk float because it looks like one..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"pop<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Body returns to my garage to continue with the panels roof build and the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Interior build begins\u00a0 in PART\u00a0 3 ->><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the engine and wiring sorted we ran it around and offroaded it to test it all worked, before starting on the living part of the body. even Bailey the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":766,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263\/revisions\/1946"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}