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Odometer

Happy 100.000

Our van is now official broken in. :) After our last little road/camping-trip DinoEvo made it over the 100,000 km mark. Hopefully …

Hot Water Tank

Hot Water Tank

Santa Claus was good to us and brought another part for our fresh-water setup straight from Germany. An Elgena Nautic-Junior M. It’s …

LED Interior Lights

LED Flood Light

Due the lack of interior light from the roof insulation project I went on and installed a Vision X LED utility flood …

Roof Insulation

Roof Insulation

The insulation of the roof is done. At first the old headliner came off. Hidden behind was a wimpy layer of flees …

Factory Accessories Catalogue

Beside old photos of l300s, I also found a original factory accessories catalogue. It’s really entertaining to see all this fancy and …

Great article about repairing your tire on the trail: http://ow.ly/3iu2S # Uploaded a ton of new photos to the gallery: http://dinoevo.de/photos/ # … → 30/11/2010

Backup Lights

Backup Lights

Reversing at night with the flimsy stock backup lights and limo tinting is quite challenging. To make it easier we have two …

Sound Dampening

Sound Dampening

I assume 16+ years ago engineers haven’t worried that much about interior noise as most of the body panels had no dampening …

Hella Supertones

Electrical Work

A few electrical projects got done over the last week with the kind help of a friend. Usually, I don’t use the …

New Wheels

Wheels 2.0

After using those tires and rims for about 10 month I came to the conclusion they were not the right fit for …

Ladder

New Ladder

I was not really happy with the aftermarket ladder which came with the Delica, even it was stainless steel and well done, …

Rear AC is out and give us now room to install more useful stuff. # Updated the website. Including new photos and … → 31/10/2010

Lift

Rear Leaf Springs

Due the age of the car the rear leaf springs as well as the shackle rubber bushings were already quite out of …

A few small jobs

Beside larger modifications I also worked on some small jobs over the last few weeks: A good indicator to see if someone …

Window Replacement

Window Replacement

The first step to a better insulation for our van was to get rid off unnecessary windows. In our old l300 we …

Is there really no alloy 16×7 with 6 on 5.5 and at least 4" backspacing rim out there? Really?! # Heading to … → 30/09/2010

Trabold Filter

Bypass Oil Filter

It was time for another oil change so I used the opportunity to install a Trabold bypass oil filter and changed the …

Whipsaw 4×4 Camping Trip

Last weekend I joined a group from Delica.ca who made a road trip to the Whipsaw, one of British Columbia most famous …

Anybody interested in getting the legendary TX-1 offroad rims? Almost as strong as steel but still light weight: http://ow.ly/2wQF4 # Picked up … → 31/08/2010

Larger Brakes

Brake Upgrade

Finally another upgrade to our van. Converting it from a single piston caliper to dual pistons including slotted rotors and braided steel …