As anyone who's driven a defender pick up knows, the cab is somewhat cramped as standard, and after fitting aftermarket seats it's even worse. I'm not exactly tall at 5'5" but even I was dissapionted with the space available after fitting my truck cab, so I decided to do something about it. I have seen quite a few extended cab conversions knocking around and there seems to be a few ways of doing it, using a cut down van back or extending the truck cab. I had the opportunity to do it either way has I still had my van back, but I preffered the rounded look of the truck cab. I started by removing the cab and moving the bulkhead back by 120mm, rather that cut all of the bulkhead out I cut the top half out cutting along the lower seam and using a length of aluminium angle I made a shelve accross the rear. I then cut off the front couple of inches of my truck cab roof and then cut the front of my van roof making the new roof 120mm longer, this was then rivetted together using a 4" strip of ally. I then filled and sanded the out roof. To make sure it was water tight I fibreglassed the whole of the inside of the roof, I then sanded this down and painted it.
For the side pieces I simply cut 120mm from the front edge of my old van sides and using a piece ally I rivetted it to the truck cab. I'm quite please with how it's turned out, and I will be trimming the inside as soon as my trimming carpet comes. What do you think?
For the side pieces I simply cut 120mm from the front edge of my old van sides and using a piece ally I rivetted it to the truck cab. I'm quite please with how it's turned out, and I will be trimming the inside as soon as my trimming carpet comes. What do you think?
