- Prepped, tacked, and welded on rear tire mount frame:
- Marker light mounts
- Upper driver side grab handle
- Sand ladder mount studs
- Tire mount plate assembly
- Tire lift strap clearance slot
- Ladder mount tabs
- Final welded all tire mount frame structural joints
- Welded sand ladder hold down nuts
- Sandblasted, primed, and painted sand ladder hold down nuts
- Final match drilled ladder to rear steel mount frame
- Fabricated locking tab for spare tire
- Ordered flooring samples
- Ordered ARB awning
- Ordered assorted electrical components and hardware for rear tire mount
- Machined, sand blasted, primed, and painted tire locking plate
- Welded tire locking tab to tire mount
- Drilled solar wire passthrough holes in rear frame
- Machined steel solar wire passthrough tube
- Drilled, prepped, and welded in steel passthrough tube in upper frame beam
- Received flooring smaples
- Machined and welded to rear frame marker light wire guide mount tabs
- Received ARB awning
- Received from McMaster-Carr:
- 4-gauge welding wire (for solar panels)
- 3M VHB to mount solar panels
- Assorted hardware
- Aluminum tube for forward marker light mounts
- Aluminum angle for mounting solar panels
- Solar panel wire guide tube
- Started ordering process for (3) lithium BattleBorn 100 Amp-Hr 10012 batteries
- Machined nylon spacer sleeves for sand ladder mount
- Machined aluminum sand ladder retaining caps
- Test fit sand ladders on rear frame
- Drilled mounting holes for wire support adel clamps
- Cut aluminum solar wire guard tube
- Prepped, masked, primed, and painted rear frame
- Started solar panel mounting plan
- Reviewed door installation instructions
- Started prepping interior cabinets for painting
- Started fabricating forward marker light mount
- Final sealed rear habitat wall to extrusion joints with Korapop 225
- Installed door in habitat