M1010 Build. The Rompulance

[SDDiver5]

Looks awesome! From the pic it looks very tall- concerned about it being top heavy?

 

[dakota123]

Thanks guys I’ll post up some more pics later today. The overall height is 11 feet two inches. It was important to me to have head room in bed after my mattress and bed platform was put in.

Not worried about it being top heavy because the aluminum frame itself weighs about 45 pounds. And after having the water tank mounted on the floor as well as all the other storage it shouldn’t be an issue.


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[dakota123]

Heres a few more pictures of the process. We removed the rivets holding the stock roof and cut down and left a 2 inch gap between the cab and cabover. Built the frame off of the truck and installed it.

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[dakota123]

Been messing around with some CAD designs for the interior as well. The only thing not in there is the pull out floor deck, the toe kick drawers and heated floors.

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[ExpoMike]

Man, that took some serious guts to do that! Looking good!

 

[TwinDuro]

Very cool! All of that headroom looks like it will make for a very practical, comfortable set up! I absolutely understand the want to have headroom in the cab-over/bed portion. There's nothing more annoying then having to sit at a weird angle while reading or working on a device while laying in bed.

 

[dakota123]

Very cool! All of that headroom looks like it will make for a very practical, comfortable set up! I absolutely understand the want to have headroom in the cab-over/bed portion. There's nothing more annoying then having to sit at a weird angle while reading or working on a device while laying in bed.

Thanks! I’m pretty stoked to be able to stand completely up in it while I cook and sit up in bed. I moved into it full time 6 months ago. So this is well overdue!


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[dakota123]

Man, that took some serious guts to do that! Looking good!

Took me 6 months to finally pull the trigger lol. Really pleased it’s all working out or the whole truck would of been a flat bed


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[dakota123]

Made some progress today and got both sides up. Hopefully if I get some time tomorrow I can get the front piece on and the window cut out.

Before we had a ladder we broke out the climbing gear haha

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[dakota123]

Made some more progress today. Tomorrow will be spending the morning getting the 2 inch angle on the corners and the roof 1x1 aluminum over the seams for the solar panels.


The capping for the side seam is going to be ready for pick up next week so hopefully when that comes I can finally add that to get rid of the ugly

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