G'day legends I'm Brenno and that there in the background is my 2013 Spacecab D-MAX now seen
a couple of requests in the comments for a bit more of a look at what I've done to the ute so I
figured it was the perfect opportunity to take you for a walk through and show you things like the
12-volt system the storage setup the suspension the wheels and tires let's have a look so I added
it up in my head and I've had over twenty 4WDs over these and this right here is definitely my
latest one it's a couple years old this was the 2013 I bought it last year so it was six years
old had about 130 thousand kilometres on it and a few of those more expensive mods had already been
done that full bar and the lift and all those kind of things and recon that's the perfect way
to buy a second-hand for drive that way I could get straight into doing the things to customise
it for my own needs so suspension and tire so it's rating a basic two inch lift and a set of 265 75
to 16 or 31 inch tires a good thing about keeping two relatively small tires with a 4WD like this
that you go I'm doing a lot of camping entering in is that doesn't too badly affect your fuel economy
I do a heap of km's in this thing last year I did 40,000 kilometres and I averaged about eleven and
a half to twelve wedges 100 km's combined you know it's had a tune it's running about thirty
extra horsepower and about 70 Newton meters of extra torque it's not massive but you definitely
notice if you sink your boot in the thing plumes black smoke out the back but the cool thing about
it is if you're pretty moderate on the throttle if you just drive it pretty sedately sit on the
cruise control that on the highway 110 km an hour this thing actually records excellent fuel economy
compared to the silver d-max we've got at work it's probably only doing about a litre to one
hundred caves more but this thing has probably got another five six hundred kilos of weight on it
so I reckon that's a bit of a win and if there's one lesson I've definitely learned over the years
it's that you need one of those things on your vehicle a which is such a good investment here's
the funny thing about diff locks they are awesome there is no doubting it the diff lock can get you
into way more strife that they can get you out of lose when you get stuck with a diff lock in with
all those wheels turning at the same time if you are seriously stuck my theory is put a winch on
the front of your four-wheel drive that way if you do lose a bit of momentum you know to stop
straightaway reassess the situation get the winch out nine times out of ten it's not going to be one
of those epic four-hour recoveries so the winch is one of the Dominator extreme 7.2 horse powers and
I'm also running a set of the new Adventure Kings Dominator extreme nine inch LED spotlights these
things are blisteringly bright so it's pretty obvious the ute it hasn't been built for the
biggest toughest tracks out there now it's not bad at those things with the winch and the tires but
this thing has been built to go camping so let's talk canopy first paid about $3000 for it came
powder-coated couple little cracks here and there but overall it's got some good bracing underneath
it goes all the way down through the floor perfect for the rooftop tent I've chucked it on in the
shed at work and I think I've probably spent just about every weekend over the last 12 months or so
closely changing this setup so this side call it the living room this is where you camp out under
got the awning happening over this side 90 litre fridge on the hundred litre fridge slide and the
crazy thing about fridges is they don't really start to suck too much more power comparatively
the bigger that you get so my theory with fridges is if you can fit it in the back in your 4WD
definitely go for a bigger one and what I've done with the fridge slide and these drawers as well
so it had to space them up to clear this lip here pretty easy just got some 50 by 100 mil steel some
RHS so for drawers well pretty obvious three Titan drawers and I reckon it's a cracking setup what I
like about this setup that I've customised I've actually taken the fridge slide off remove the
carpet off the top of it and replace it with some gal steel now I just bolted a little gas burner on
top of it and you've got a cool little pullout BBQ connected to the gas bottle and you're ready to go
and now to the other side of the canopy uses all about Kings gear got everything from the 12-volt
control box with a DC charger even further the battery in the battery box there's got a bit of
17 mil plywood bit of marine carpet then I made them and brought up with and that way it's super
easy to install everything enter keep it neat and the cool part about all this stuff is you can do
it yourself if you're willing to have a little bit of a go if you want some good in-depth information
but my mate Cahn has done some cracking 12 volt videos that go through every single part of
this set up here click that link in the top right corner and you'll take straight to that video the
cool part about this setup is that it runs the fridge permanently this whole setup there will
keep the battery charged and does it a couple of ways first of all you've got the DC charger so I'm
charging it as I'm driving and the cool thing about those DC charges is they hammer heats of
juice into the battery so even if you're driving short distances your battery's still getting nice
and full if I'm parked up at home for a little while but I've got the 110 watt semi flexible
solar panel on the roof that way you get in solar charge into the battery as well so with 240 volt
chargers as part of a 12-block system I really learn the value of them a couple of years ago when
you're doing bigger trip to be gone to the Cape or crossing the Simo that sort of stuff if you
get to a part in your trip where you're not doing keeps of driving you might be camp somewhere for
a couple days at a time pretty easy to let your batteries get down low even if you've got solar
there's nothing better after a couple of days of camping with a bit of a flat battery than being
able to pull into a caravan park have a nice hot shower pay for a powered site for the night you
plug your 240 volt charger in and then overnight your batteries back up to a hundred percent it's
great when you're at home as well because as I was saying before if you get that bit of rainy weather
at home haven't done a lot of driving haven't been out anywhere well you just run the extension cord
down the driveway plug it in overnight and the next morning the battery is charged again so
the one thing I haven't quite got sorted yet and I'd actually like your opinion on it so please
drop me a comment below there's water storage at the moment I'm just lugging around jerrycans and
water and so ok it's a good basic simple setup but I do want to put a water tank underneath now in
a previous shoot I had a pretty well set up d-22 Navarra put a couple of jerry cans in the back and
i run it through a 12-volt pump but i still reckon there's some better ways to do it i'm starting to
look at caravan water tanks to put underneath but i'd love to hear your thoughts so please let me
know what you think so when I get bored I modify my you a little bit more one of the latest things
I've done is right down here in the dog box I've hard mounted some time active air compressor up in
there it's hardwired it's will run to a nice big circuit breaker up into the battery there what's
cool about that is when you 4WD'ing end of the day don't even have to pull the air compressor out the
back of the for drive especially if it's buried in the back of the four-wheel drive it's there ready
to go literally at the flick of the switch we'll set up so camping accommodation well that up the
top air is Grand Tour Mark11 rooftop tent I love that thing it is so quick to set up I hate setting
up and packing up stuff that takes forever to do there is nothing worse to me especially when all
you want to do is sit down have a nice cold beer and get the fire going got the King wing wrap
around morning that's awesome as well it's great especially when the weather's not fantastic but
you've got that area over there that you can cook under then there's this whole other area at the
back that you can live under so it's all mounted to a steel flat raft I had to make some custom
mounts up there just made out of a box section to that 100 mils long or so I had to raise it up just
so I could mount the kindling on the side of the rooftop tent and still be able to open the canopy
door so it's always that juggling act just trying to make things fit and that right there is why
I've always wanted a space cab why I'm stoked I bought a space cab those suicide doors are awesome
just made enough room for a little boofhead in the back here and these little brother as well
made a nice little basic platform up just out of plywood a marine carpet just so they've got some
way flat to sit and this right here burn me so many branding points with the Misses it's probably
the cheapest modification I've done to the whole year just an old ratchet strap I've tied between
the grab handles just let your hand close up well there you go a bit of a walk through my youth now
I hope you took a couple of ideas away from that and if you did let me know in the comments hope
that ute proves you don't need to spend a million dollars to have a four-wheel drive that'll do just
about anything that thing's ready to go across Australia and before I go just a quick reminder
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