Best expedition truck interieur.... nobody wanted to make for us!

Expedition Truck Full Build, start to finish. Interieur and exterieur. It might not be a time laps, but still we did our best to show our build, with real information and ideas for your own DIY project.
We bought this Mercedes 1634 Firetruck and converted it into a 4x4 Expedition camper. This video contains the full build, as a Timelapse, what took us nearly 2 years to finish.
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[@nineiron1481]

WOW!! That big rig is SWEET!!!

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@jimmbling]

What an amazing feat. It must cost tons of both money and time. I admire y’all’s skill level and patience. When y’all start teaching classes, sign me up. 😊. Much love and respect to all involved ❤❤❤

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@largemarge1603]

2003, we received a devastating diagnosis. Within a week -- while selling everything -- we acquired a 1996 Ford CF8000 commercial truck and converted it to our concept of an ExpeditionVehicle. Two decades full-time live-aboard. Twenty-four months twenty-four thousand miles around South America. Alaska, Panama, all over North and Central America. Summers up rough logger tracks to remote mountain lakes. Winters on isolated Baja beaches. . And 'yes', we acknowledge some folks prefer building rather than getting out and having fun.

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks for sharing, Sounds like a Wonderfull adventure. 🌎

[@taurota1554]

Awesome.Thanks for sharing and taking us along

[@OhanaTruck]

Glad you enjoyed

[@OliverWolters]

What an amazing build. I hope you'll always have a good journey with it!

[@OhanaTruck]

That's the plan!⛰️

[@oddmundpettersen1057]

Very well done! Well though-through. I wish you safe travels!

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you! 🌍

[@SloMo2723]

That was fun to watch! Amazing job. Thanks for posting

[@OhanaTruck]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@goodevins9408]

What an amazing build. Thanks for sharing and happy travels

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks for watching!

[@vittoriozermo3217]

ragazzi compliment veramente,emozionante guardare il video, frutto del vostro lavoro e, determinazione bravi bravi💪🦾

[@livingworkingoutsidebox]

Great job.👍💪🛠 Thanks for sharing your build with us. The starlights, bunkbeds, slideout, table. Wood ceiling, cab layout, dashboard upgrades, ......ok everything! Just came out awesome.! 😮👍🤯🎯 Hello from Florida 🌊🏄‍♀️🏄‍♂️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️🏖⚓️🐬🐊🌞🍊

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks. We did our best to make it the best home we could ✌🏻

[@HauntedXXXPancake]

Very cool ! As a German I did have to laugh at one point though: Making sure the drawers don't open during off-roading with electro-magnets is a solution one of our guys might have come up with. Not saying it's stupid - just "sophisticated" 🤣

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks :-) yes we had to come up with something. sorry for saying but the other solutions all the specialist came up with are just so awful

[@RichieMtzF]

amazing project!!! Dreaming in something like this sometime soon.. CONGRATULATION for getting all the family involved!! Let me know if you travel to Baja, Mexico and show you around.

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks we have it on our minds somewhere in a year or 2, 3..? depending on the speed we move.. let us know what you think we need to see/experience in your area. 🌎✌️

[@faithmorales9030]

Amazing and Stunning. Safe travels always!

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you!

[@ruudrijkse]

WOW, knap staaltje werk hoor. Prachtig gedaan! Ga jullie volgen ben benieuwd naar de volgende video’s. Goeie en veilige reis!

[@motorsonny]

Insane that you have the skills to do this kind of job very cool !

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you ✌🏻

[@mickfbr]

It's fantastic, very well done. Love the video too... enjoy your travels.

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you! Will do!

[@luisnilson]

Parabéns, excelente projeto, muito capricho!!

[@OhanaTruck]

Muchas gracias

[@ichbins2545]

👍 what a great Job/Transformation 💪

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you 🙌

[@Opplevelseskanalen]

A beautiful job, i am impressed 😊

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jimmbling]

You NAILED it big time. Sign me up. Lololol

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@billyhaddock5540]

What a Cool Looking Camper Conversion for u'all to enjoy with ur Kids. 1 out of a 10, A BIG 10 1/2

[@OhanaTruck]

🙌🏻🙌🏻 thanks 🤙🏻

[@HD.Adventuring]

So sweet!

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you! 😊

[@tonipeter3428]

Servus. Meine Hochachtung für Eure Arbeit. Ihr könnt wirklich Stolz auf Euch sein. Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne und Unfallfreie Fahrt mit Eurem schönen Fahrzeug. Vielleicht kommt Ihr mal in die Steiermark und besucht uns. Würde sehr gerne das Auto Life zu sehen. Liebe Grüße Toni PETER

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you for your kind words. We crossed your country a couple months back already. ✌🏻

[@nomademcz]

great video, thank you!

[@OhanaTruck]

You are welcome!🤙🏻

[@maximilianocurto5363]

Excellente job!!! Great video!!! Very educative. Tanks.

[@OhanaTruck]

Glad you enjoyed it!👍🏻

[@sebrickard7356]

What a fantastic job you guys did. You must be very proud, the attention to detail is unbelievable. Well done!

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you 🙏

[@jorgearenillas4]

Wow! I love it ❤

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you! 😊

[@e-Traveller]

A LOT of work, but GREAT results! Congrats!

[@OhanaTruck]

Yes it was! But the reward it the best after all those sweat

[@e-Traveller]

@OhanaTruck JUST today driving on highway (up here in Finland) drove past a big rig hauling a similar fire engine you began your project with. Couldn't help but laugh, as it is not 2 days since I watched your build video! What are the odds! Maybe someone took it to themselves to follow in your footsteps. 😁

[@OhanaTruck]

@@e-Traveller awesome, inspire others to do great things and hopefully they will enjoy the rig as much as we do :-) 😎

[@BarneySaysHi]

Ziegler builds some great firetrucks!

[@OhanaTruck]

🚒

[@felixvillalon8909]

What a great, amazing and outstanding job you guys have done! Enjoy it as much as you can!

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you for your kinds words, Will do! 🙏

[@user-gj4lc8wb5j]

What an awesome build but you have both tracks at the beginning playing the same time 😢😅

[@OhanaTruck]

I hope infixed it. My apologies. Hope you still enjoyed the build 😆

[@ollydogtravels9465]

I would have been gutted ripping this out being an engineer but a must keep would be the blues n twos

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@machien321]

" the experts" are talking...😂... The brotherhood of "specialists"... You're fucked when they live next door to you...always something to complain about. It's an incredibly beautiful en impressive machine! Marble tiles or not...this thing wil go places😉...

[@OhanaTruck]

Haha 🙌🏻 Yes this machine has been to places and will go to many more places ✌🏻 🌍

[@joneid1]

Love it👏👏👏👍Hat off from Norway

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks 🙏

[@chono5894]

Super travail !👍🙏

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@siddembowski2844]

Great craftmanship very small should have a walk through from the cab as the kids age or you have more it will be uncomfortable. Good Luck

[@OhanaTruck]

It is a crawl through for emergencies only, not something you use all the time. ✌️

[@fuorisagoma]

one little thing. Add a sunshade on the top of the windscreen. It makes the truck more aggressive

[@OhanaTruck]

Good suggestion 👍🏻

[@user-qd3bh9zb5g]

Excellent!

[@roboost9251]

Knap hoor, prachtige 4x4 en bijzondere kleur!

[@OhanaTruck]

Dankje dat vonden wij ook ✌🏻

[@johnbrumfield6311]

You did a great job 😊❤

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@qualityhoofcare]

That's amazing.

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻✌🏻

[@jackhume4532]

Super cool guys 😊.

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you 🤙🏻

[@ttchicharito5130]

Very good jop 👏

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@wek3000]

Really nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jrambo7495]

8:29 * ourselves

[@jamespaddon6091]

fantastic workmanship, i believe you could add a balcony on the rear, like a tailift that lays flat on the back, simply undo catches, fold down, swing out support legs, steps and safety rail with a cassette roof blind attached to the top of the truck...just an idea I have always had..... can't wait to see your trips.

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Kolcobrzuch]

Is it your first project? Amazing, well planned and even better built. One question - looks like you used a lot of pretty heavy stuff - what it the weight of the complete, ready to drive truck?

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you. Yes this is our First project. We didn’t care of the weight as we have a 16 ton chassis and 3 spares. We are planning to life fulltime in it for a couple of years so we needed it to be and feel like our home without holding back with our comforts. The total weight ready to drive is 13.000 kg, including everything we have on board.

[@rafathebroken9083]

78.000 km for merceses consider as brand new . nice work!

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks 🤙

[@8628rudeboy]

Love the build but I would have kept the cab the way it was seein as your plan was to extend the bed anyway. Front space is awesome.

[@OhanaTruck]

t✌️

[@bokitaki5685]

Nice work, amazing skill 👍 Video needs a little bit of editing 😉

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks for the tip, everyone their skills right 😆

[@phillipmonroy]

Thank you for the informative video! Could you reveal more on your engine size, transmission etc... Will the engine be easy to get to and serviced? Thank you!

[@OhanaTruck]

engine is a 340 HP, we have a standard 6 shifts hand gear with the option for 6 more low. As you can see. for the rest you should not ask me as I know very little of our engine. The entire cab can go up so service is not really a problem. we leave that to the mechanics 😉

[@user-oh6gk8bk3o]

Доброго времени суток. Это когда руки золотые и мозгов вагон. Очень классно сделано.

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks ✌🏻🧠

[@moaly4738]

wonderful !!!!!

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@federicomasiero5736]

Very a God job. Ciao

[@OhanaTruck]

Many thanks

[@joscs9291]

Netjes gemaakt hoor! 👍🏼

[@OhanaTruck]

Thanks ✌🏻

[@earthcruiser6314]

Very good Job ! Can you tell me more about the tumble dryer that is mounted outside. I think that's awesome. Where can I buy it? greetings Peter....

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you Peter, we bought it in the Netherlands. Can find it here. Maybe will be possible to buy in you country www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/brabantia-wallfix-wanddroogrek-met-beschermhoes-24-m-metallic-grey/9200000002653124/?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002032-G-141262464603-S-1773796344716-9200000002653124&gbraid=0AAAAAD5OnmPQFQ7bDJQ__ZoflQk3iTALm&gclid=CjwKCAjw6eWnBhAKEiwADpnw9rsODuEuw-JhC3qL0lRZS9iUhiCAtE4H5S-EUoRTXcv5k_KuLVuMbBoCPBUQAvD_BwE

[@derov4132]

Complimenti! from Dolomiti. 👍

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@BarneySaysHi]

Echt ontzettend gaaf gemaakt!

[@OhanaTruck]

Dankje 🤙🏻

[@tashuawheeler1834]

This Is Why My Full Time Tiny Home Will Be A All Season Off-Grid Land and Water Drivable 70 Person Bunker Lifeboat Built Within A Extreme Overland Tank RV So I Can Be Safe From Zombies and Warm From A Ice Age Like Cold and CCTV/A Wood Stove/Solar and Wind Power Plus A Place To Cook My Food/Bathroom and Bedroom To Use As I Drive My Tiny Home To and From Work Or In and Out Of Really Bad Traffic/Ice/Snow/Wild Fires/Mud/Sand/Woodlands/Flood Water and F Up Cities and Towns If Need Be Here In The USA That Way I Won't Need A Landlocked House Just Some Land To Rent/Park My Tiny Home On + I Love YA KZbin Lots and Lots

[@OhanaTruck]

✌🏻

[@NihonjinAdik]

Wonderful job, beautifull small house on wheels with everything you need to live... But 25 years old diesel truck? In Europe? With all those Eco restriction...

[@OhanaTruck]

Not only Europe, every continent it is. that would be a bad choice to make an off road for just Europe…

[@ClaudioS857]

Cool

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@jrockett11]

WOW----WEE----WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You out done your selves just breathe taking! After reading some of the comments about the larger tires that you put on, did you by any chance take the truck to check the alignment? I know every time I get new tires thats the first thing I do.... Alignment is relatively cheaper than preserving those expensive tires. Just a thought! May you and the family have many many safe and HAPPY times. :) :) :)

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you for your comment.. yes we have had them checked out before going on the road. 🤙

[@marcellebaudry5786]

bravo

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@parefnyman4739]

WOW!!!

[@OhanaTruck]

👌

[@ollydogtravels9465]

jelous, envious please feel free to add more words

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@eenl391]

عمل جبار

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you 🤙🏻

[@williammistler5703]

wow

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙

[@anautoenthusiasist...3832]

Come to india broo❤️❤️❤️

[@OhanaTruck]

We will see 🤙🏻🇮🇳

[@buildyourowncampermercedes7040]

Top🙂

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙

[@jimnyontheroad]

Impressive job May i know where you bought the truck? Ciao

[@OhanaTruck]

Germany from a truck selling platform

[@pebru2712.]

Geweldig super .veel werk maar een juweeltje super 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@OhanaTruck]

Bedankt. 🤙🏻

[@Christian.Kuestenkind]

Super schönen LKW habt ihr euch da gebaut. Respekt dafür 👍🏻. Darf man fragen was ihr für das ganze Projekt ausgegeben habt? Schöne Grüße aus Kiel

[@OhanaTruck]

Danke shön ✌️

[@user-hq1cm8vg9l]

@ohanatruck great work when you said you had professionals do the next phase of the work in June 2021 - who was the company that did that bit? I love what you've done! thank you for teh info in advance.

[@OhanaTruck]

Hi. The company is not doing truck no more. Only Toyota helix pre built for Toyota.

[@Ka0s007]

Just a personal opinion - The rear sticks out too far from the rear axle - looks a bit "odd"

[@endofsociety]

I wish i had the money to do something like this

[@OhanaTruck]

It all starts with a dream, who can become a detailed building plan for free and the rest can be one step at the time ✌🏻

[@leglessnotlifeless]

What's the drying rack that you fold out called and where did you get it?

[@OhanaTruck]

www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/brabantia-wallfix-wanddroogrek-met-beschermhoes-24-m-metallic-grey/9200000002653124/?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002032-S--9200000002653124&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA67CrBhC1ARIsACKAa8Q0nT-r1b7l4qGYingvsOPHPKnUiQXoc6vtw-mHusWrD2ixWgXhjHoaAr0BEALw_wcB

[@OhanaTruck]

😉

[@castaway3214]

Can i ask what is the maker of your induction countertop?

[@OhanaTruck]

Sure it is a spanish company TPB Tech.

[@halfabee]

How heavy is the final build?

[@OhanaTruck]

Somewhere between 12 and 13 ton when we are all geared up and ready to go on the road.

[@dansrene]

Wat hebben jullie gebruikt voor de ramen?? En staat de box rechtstreeks op het chassie van de vrachtwagen of via een torsie vrij frame?

[@OhanaTruck]

@dansrene. Sideway ramen, en de box zit met en torsie vrij frame gemonteerd, anders heb je bij offroad een uitdaging

[@JR-wk4dj]

Very nice. Narrow screen was annoying and took away from the quality of the video.

[@OhanaTruck]

Sorry about that

[@denistate3697]

👍👏😊

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@KnightHawkUK]

Looks good but i bet its heavy. Sound throughout the video drive me mad though.

[@OhanaTruck]

Sound drives us crazy as well KZbin screwed it up and we are not allowed to change it no more. Not that heavy 12tons

[@rajatanpacelana]

Topper man.... Dus ik neem aan binnenkort go around the world....Dan zou ik zeggen kom maar dan naar Indonesie..

[@OhanaTruck]

Dank, wellicht ook die kant op.

[@easydoesittruckerslife4166]

No lights or wall outlets so I guess it's a total camper without electricity

[@OhanaTruck]

Might want to watch the video again. 😉

[@recepsevci6793]

👏👏👏👏👌

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙🏻

[@conquino2217]

High quality result, luxury with a lot of autarchy. Well done! I have a question: Where did you register the bigger weels on the truck's documents? In Germany or in The Netherlands? Because in Germany I found (in internet) that, since the bigger weels change the emissions, a new emission test is required to have them registered, and it's not the easy test that you have to do for the periodical technik control, but the same hard test that the car makers have to do in order to "homologate" their cars. It's very expensive and often it results in rejections. What is your experience? Did you have to do something like that? And where? Thanks

[@sebrickard7356]

🤫

[@OhanaTruck]

Hi. We did the registration in the Netherlands. But this also took me a hard time. Because of the higher weight and the bigger tires, it didn’t pass the breaking tests. We got in contact with the fabric (Daimler truck) and asked for what could be a solution. They gave us a document that the inspectors could do the test with more pressure (normally they test with 7 bar but our system has 8,5) so the test was run again with 7,5 and we passed the tests without any problems. Hope this helped. Ps. The professionals we asked told us that it is easier in the Netherlands and for example spain to convert a vehicle because of the regulations

[@conquino2217]

@@OhanaTruck Yep, you did, thank you very much! Your truck is considered suitable for such tires by the carmaker, evidently they made the very same truck of yours with such big wheels originally from the factory, so you are allright; however kudos to Mercedes that is backing the owners who gets their trucks also after many years, I think that it's not smth that someone should give for discounted. Sadly I was hoping for a story like one of the guys in America: "I put the tires on place, went to the local autority and got them registered, all alone, coz the Netherlands are awesome! We have freedoom!"; which is pretty much what I need because no carmaker will ever back me on placing bigger tires on a regoular 4x4 van like a sprinter, and no stock 4x4 van has enough ground clearance and wheels that are big enough. Then, after getting the stuff written on the papers, I could have imported the van in my country because they are forced to accept whatever vehicle with whatever MOD if it has been registered in any country of the EU... So now I know that what I would like to do is not possible in the Netherlands too 😭😭😭 And to legally get some clearance for a van, the only way I know so far for ppl in europe is to go for a professional conversion that will cost starting from 40 grands...😱

[@shanjoe4472]

May i know what is the name of the air conditioning system?

[@OhanaTruck]

Dometic Freshwell 3000 airco

[@shanjoe4472]

@@OhanaTruck thank you my friend,I can't wait see your journeys around the world.

[@simonhsueh1898]

May I ask how to buy the Mercedes 1634 Firetruck?

[@OhanaTruck]

Sure. Just have a search on the internet. They are offered on regular websites by companies who buy them from the fire department. In Germany there are a few big sites where you can buy trucks. We found ours on one of these sites.

[@simonhsueh1898]

Thanks!

[@jrambo7495]

20:25 * glue

[@butterflydream5585]

A-May-Sing........!

[@jacekkuszkowski9146]

😊😊😊

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙😎

[@kaktus6363]

SUBLIME !

[@OhanaTruck]

✌🏻

[@AndriiSikorskyi]

What is the weight?

[@OhanaTruck]

Approx. 13.000 kg with all our stuf.

[@jrambo7495]

20:31 * measuring ** waste

[@Ismoh0815]

awesome! btw your webpage is broken! besides that, really nice conversion! well done

[@OhanaTruck]

Thank you. Will have a look at it.

[@jochenwagner593]

Congrats on the project. But testing the horns while the dog is tied to the bumper? Come on...

[@jimzucker]

The money smt like thins will cost....

[@OhanaTruck]

It does but not a bad investment for the long run 😉

[@garethbrooke9663]

I wanted to see a hammer ,they showed me a cordless drill...✌️ ♥

[@OhanaTruck]

Sorry Thor was to busy, couldn't wait for him to show up ⚒️

[@aleccolinpierson1233]

😍💪👍🇩🇰

[@OhanaTruck]

🤙😎

[@EdgarMoraes]

Whose idea was it to put this song on, for God's sake.