Well, lots has happened in the last month or or so since my last project Troopy update.
All the wiring in the back is finished with just a little bit more to going with wiring a few things behind my dashboard so they can stay on powered by my house battery when I switched off my Truck.
Here is just a little bit of the details that I have been working on.
In this case is the ARB air compressor that I have mounted behind the passenger seat in the wall cavity, and this area is left open so the compressor can stay cool with fresh air around it and also it allows me to have the refrigerator/freezer mounted closer to the wall as the open panel allows airflow to keep cool my fridge/freezer motor.
There’s a problem with the Big open cavity as it may allow something on the top of the fridge lid fall down into the cavity space and only accessible if I remove the fridge unit and get down into that space to retrieve it.
After thinking about it, I worked out that I needed some punched steel plate as a vent/mesh to restrict anything going into this area but to allow airflow.
There’s a number of places where you can purchase this from in a large sheet approximately 1.2 m x 2.4 m with a few other sizes available but they all cost a lot of money in steel, never mind in stainless steel!
Then I tried the number of local engineering for a smaller bit to suit my needs, I finally after try a number of company’s found one in Taupo that had a suitable off Cut.
They even able to cut a piece to the size I was after.
Then it’s a matter of installing it all and finishing it off as you’re seeing the photos below.
My local ARB store in Taupo (FSF) started talking to me about the air compressor air filter and I suddenly realised that despite the space being extremely clean air that I might need to clean this air filter periodically and this would involve removing the fridge/freezer unit, then the wall panel to get to the air filter so instead I fitted a external air intake filter extension kit and mounted the air intake up behind my toilet above the battery.
So unless a major service is involved with the air compressor, all I need to do is remove this filter and clean it and put it back to where it is.
I’m trying to think outside of the square with my build of my Troopy and as you can see is completely different to most vehicle builds as there’s no need for a full cupboard but just walls and Benchtops as the floor utilised to hold the wall or in this case in the photo above the go block cradle is also being utilised to hold the wall too.
Then the brown wall panel is used to mount the benchtop to and also is where the fuse box and electronics is mounted into so it’s removable with half a dozen screws and able to easily be removed to do any wiring or alterations if I need too.
I’m trying to follow the mantra of “Keep it Simple Pete!”