Rufus The Doofus

I haven’t posted any updates on the Cruiser in a while. A few weeks after we got home from our West Trip we took the top off of the BJ42. It’s a really fun topless summer vehicle. (That’s it sitting in our “parking spot” up at our camp on Jim Pond.) […]

We’ve done about 500 miles of driving on dirt roads in Colorado and Utah so far this trip. We’ve got more to do tomorrow. Here’s a very short clip of a typical view from the front seat.

This is is our view for the next couple of days through the flyover states. We’re going to end up west of Des Moines later tonight. We’ve gone through Indiana and Illinois already today and it’s a little before 5pm.

We spent an extra day in Hartford trying to get the windows tinted in the back of the cruiser. It didn’t work out.

I reached a major milestone today on the aluminum roof rack for our Land Cruiser. I bolted it in place, climbed up and did a little dance.

This aluminum roof rack project is taking much longer than I thought it would….

It rained most of the day today to I didn’t get much done on the aluminum roof rack for the Landcruiser.
The bottom tray is tack welded together now. I’m still not very good with welding aluminum. I was able to run a few nice beads along the pieces of angle where […]

A few hours after the arc flash eye pain subsided I got back into building the Landcruiser aluminum roof rack. It was going pretty well up until the point where I realized it needed to be six inches wider! I had already cut, notched and bent a bunch of tubing and had a […]

I’m finally getting started on building the roof rack for the Land Cruiser. It’s a huge relief to finally be working on this. It’s the last major project on the BJ42 before our big trip.
As you can see in the photo above I’m building it out of 1″ aluminum tubing. I don’t […]

I’m almost done.