Shortening the Cab

Shortening the cab? Why?

I really got asked this question a lot. Why buy a truck only to cut it shorter?

The answer is simple: the crew cab is much less usable than the same space in the wider and taller GRP habitation box.
Since the conversion was going to be fairly extensive anyway, shortening the truck made sense to me.

The cab sits on a sprung mount and is locked in place there. Interestingly, when taking it apart we noticed that the lock was broken and the cab had never been properly latched. So in theory the cab could have tipped. Thanks to the long cab and the pressure of the cylinder it didn’t happen ... but it wasn’t good either.

I was able to fix this defect easily, and Daniel moved and adapted the mount to ensure proper fixing in the future.

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