Thanks for the spilt.
I thought you snapped the structure off the body
You and many other people. See the car in the first photo, he thought we had broken it as well and stopped to see if we needed a hand.
There are two main ways to do a torsion mount, I describe them in this part of my build blog.
http://robgray.com/graynomad/wothahellizat/wot2/diaries/diary_06/index.php#twistDo you intend of fabricating the modifications yourself or contract them out?
I do (almost) everything myself, always have and I suppose always will. The Landscruiser job is pretty small potatoes compared to building the truck bodies. I originally planned to use my mate's workshop again but have been building up the capabilities of my BOL so should be able to do all the work here.
Is long-travel suspension going to play a role in your new build?
No, AFAIK the Cruisers have pretty hard suspension and flexible chassis, so I will use the same technique I did on the truck but with smaller resilient mounts (the rubber donuts). Those mounts are great as they isolate the body from a heck of a lot of the road vibration.
And how do you finance this fantastical lifestyle of yours!
Short answer: No debt, no kids, good jobs, live cheap. In other words don't play the BS game that society demands.
Long answer: Almost never been in debt (paid first two houses off in a couple of years, bought the 3rd one for cash). Both had good professional jobs and no kids. Never been interested in expensive lifestyle (no new cars, big TVs, not even a dishwasher or AC etc). When we paid off the first house we said we would try a different restaurant every week, never went to a single one, I just can't see the point in paying $100 for a $10 meal then coming home and making a sandwich because there was not enough on the plate.
Then at 45 had a mid-life crisis, sold everything, lived under a tarp inside my workshop while I built Wothehellizat Mk1 then hit the road. The money from selling houses and junk saw us right for a long time, then we pulled our superannuation (= 401k ?), then my dad died and left us a bit (used to buy the land we now live on). We have one more investment to liquefy and when that's gone we'll get the aged pension. Meanwhile I'm setting up the BOL so (hopefully) we can live on the smell of a can of baked beans, just in case something goes pair-shaped with the pension or whatever.
The pension here in Oz is about $28k for a married couple AFAIK, that's almost 2x what we've been living off and probably 3-4x what we could live of if we really pull the belts in and also get more into homesteading which is my current project. Some time ago I estimated that my wife could live quite comfortably on about $5000 pa.
For the last year I have been doing some contract electronics design, but that's just been pocket money really that I've left in Paypal, I will probably use that for some nice toys like tools or guns.
Ok spiel over, as you can probably tell alternate lifestyles are something of a pet subject of mine, maybe we need another split
