Black95
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The latest addition to my camper van is nothing very spectacular, but it sure comes in handy! It has a small Velcro patch glued on the back so it is always handy by the door.
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To make sure my box and tray are visible to all drivers all the time, I added some of those strip light LED's that you usually see below the tailgate of pickup trucks. The nice thing about the installation was that it came with a 4-wire trailer adapter that plugged right into my van. The lights work with my turn signals, brake lights and tail lights. The width was a perfect fit for my tray.
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Love your Stealth Van. Do you have a YOUTUBE channel? Love to see the stealth van videos. Keep up the good work.
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Black95
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goreds2 wrote:Love your Stealth Van. Do you have a YOUTUBE channel? Love to see the stealth van videos. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, I am having a great time using it and working on it. We just came back from a weekend camping trip in October to Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I do not have any YOUTUBE videos. It is something that you have got me thinking about now. If I do produce any, I will email you in the future and post a link on this forum thread.
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The latest update to my camper van was the addition of a roof rack. I needed one that did not stick up too high so I could get the van in the garage without removing the roof rack. I opted for the VanTech model.
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I cut the cross bars shorter so I could mount the bars below the brackets. Before mounting it, I repainted it to match the color of the van. Now I have room to carry our camper recliner chairs or bring back any thing really large we may pick up on our trips.
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This is not a modification to my camper van, but it is one that helps save room when packing. I found a link on a website that showed me how to make some clamps for my picnic table cloth. They are made by cutting 1 inch rings from a piece of 4 inch PVC pipe. Then I cut the ring open, sanded the sharp edges, and covered the ends with some sticky-back white felt. I got this idea from an idea submitted to Trailer Life magazine's column called 10-Minute Tech by Robert White from Franklin, Kentucky.
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The beauty of the clamps is that they fit perfectly around the propane tanks I carry for my campstove, taking up almost no extra room when I pack.
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Having some free time on my hands because I am retired, I dug these old solar chargers out of the debris of my garage. I have not used them for many years. I had three of them, so I made a board I could mount the three of them on. I wired up a set of connectors to connect them all in parallel mode and added a cigarette lighter connector so I could plug it in. During daylight hours them will help charge my isolated camper battery when boon docking in national forest campgrounds.
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To save some room when packing in my van, I put one solar charger on a hinge and added some legs so it sits at an angle in the sun.
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My latest addition to my camper van conversion is a dash camera. I wanted something that would record everything while driving for accident recording and image capture while vacationing, like buffalo on the road in Custer State Park! I like this one because it can save files in 1,2,3,4,5 or 10 minute intervals and you can protect them from being overwritten when the memory card gets full. It also activates every time I turn on the ignition. It uses micro SD type cards up to 128 gb and plugs into my computer for file transfer just like a flashdrive. I mounted it on a bag mount so I could easily access it and transfer it from one vehicle to another.
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I found the roof rack basket for my van camper. Now I will be able to carry our recliner camp chairs with us as it is 60" long. I had to mount it low on the roof rack brackets due to the clearance with my garage door, but it works quite well. Also got a hook net set-up to hold everything in place. Will add a "packed for travel" picture later.
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ChrisToeFur
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Looks great, I like the lower profile you achieved, Can I ask where you got the gutter mount cross bars? I haven't found any that are as low profile as those Just the ladder rack type that are much taller.
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