From: D O (dohe69@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 10:27:22 PDT
Here are a couple links I found in the past of other's camper projects.
http://militaryhobbies1.homestead.com/M35A2M109A3.html
http://groups.msn.com/ArizonaNatureLovingCampers/shoebox.msnw
>From: Patrick Jankowiak <eccm@swbell.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] Shop Van setups
>Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 17:57:43 -0700
>
>A shop van is an ideal conversion. The deck is wood planks over steel,
>so you can drill and cut easily. The inside is steel. The M109 also
>has windows, a 4' wide double door in the back which has unequal width
>halves, and a minimal installation of 24V and 120V electrical wiring.
>Some people have said they have put an air conditioner in the front
>window, but I have not seen this and I don't know how it would fit
>with the truck's cab top. One thing to beware of is rust. The steel
>van body has wood inside. Water gets in the top, and saturates and
>rots the wood, and ends up in the floor, where it rusts through.
>Several of the ones I looked at, had a real rust problem below the
>deck, so bad that it was rusted through and the wood was rotted. I can
>only imagine the rest of the insides of the walls was bad as well. The
>van body will give you more flexibility as to where to mount heavy
>items to the walls, since the walls have wood inside. The shop van
>body won't be very airtight, so condensation is not usually a problem
>inside.
>
>This is opposed to some shelters, where you have the shelter's floor,
>and then space underneather due to the skids, then the tough steel bed
>of the truck. Shelters have thin 1/8" aluminum skins over a 3/16" wall
>square tubing skeleton and are filled with 2" or so of foam insulation
>between the inner and outer walls. On a shelter, there are definite
>places where you should and ahould not install blind nuts for
>mounting. Shelters are more energy efficient but are tightly sealed
>and will 'sweat' on the inside.
>
>At purchase time, I would have preferred an M109 to my m35 with
>shelter, but I took what was available. Now I look back on this and
>realize that should my M35 ever die to a degree that it would be
>cheaper to purchase another truck, I can just disconnect a few
>electrical cables, and lift the now-customized shelter off, onto a new
>truck. I now prefer the M35+shelter over the shop van actually.
>
>just my 0.02
>
>Ryan Gill wrote:
> >
> > Who has a 2.5 ton or 5 ton shop van? I'm starting to lean towards
> > that as my Military Truck armored car transport. I'll have to get a
> > trailer, but that's been a plan for a while now. Are the shop vans in
> > the 2.5 ton range, able to only tow 8000 lbs because of the weight of
> > the van body on the back? What's the ease of converting one to a
> > camper section?
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