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here's what i bought today. plans are making it into a camper. its a well body off the back of an import Ford F250 with a flexi glass canopy. its 8ft x 6ft and about 1100mm tall inside when canopy is on. plan is to have a roof top tent on top, use the tray/canopy for luggage/storage/dogs room, and make it with a nice extended draw bar for some custom checkerplate storage system up front.

got the tray, liner and canopy for $1100 which i reckon is a steal. gonna be making it into a basic trailer first for moving house stuff and taking stuff to the tip etc etc, then eventually make it into a camper





there is 2 outlets visible in the second photo, one will be the filler for a water tank and the other either a power plug or outlet. will probably set it up with some kind of 12v system.

canopy is a bit saggy in the photo but once bolted onto tray it stiffens up heaps apparently

Pity you didnt get this a few months ago. I was working for pioneer campers and could have hooked you up with cheap bits and pieces...

got it to my house today. Have measured and drawn up the chassis i need to mount it, nice long draw bar for future addition. found a 70L water tank that'll fit in nicely up high and between my chassis, mounting that behind the axle coz i figure when its loaded to go camping, most the weight will be in front of the axle so put it behind to counter weight.

then i just have to hitch it to the back of my car, get it level and sort out what suspension i need to keep it the same height as the car.

probably start making the chassis tomorrow depending on other commitments.

its gonna be one hell of a trailer/camper.

also tossing up whether to go for the more expensive heavy duty independent suspension.

better give it an Orange paint job


looks like itll turn out good, cant wait to see it behind ur car

should be interesting. i wonder how the weight will compare to a similarly sized/capacity camper trailer. its not too heavy it it?

Im interested in this water tank Jay... im still trying to find one for my camper.

Dave

I just picked up a water tank for under my trailer from Super Cheap of all places, they have 2 sizes available, mine is the smaller one at 59 litres and there is a larger one looks to be about 90 litres or so. I think I paid about 60 bucks for mine.
Cheers
Grant

Subaman... PM sent.

Dave

Used to buy the water tanks from camec. They are in welshpool. Pretty sure they deal with the public also...

ordered the steel this arvo, picking it next wed when i fly back in, probably have the chassis made that day, worst case on thursday. depending on funds will also get the running gear and get it rolling

here is the chassis design

gonna be strong as a mongrel. will be kitting it with standard trailer suspension now and independent at a later date

here's my progress today, ran out of gas so couldn't weld it. thats on the cards tomorrow.









only bad thing i think is the distance between the springs and the hubs. probably should have made the frame wider but too late now. I cut the steel to length at the place i bought it from so i had to stick with what i designed

overall length from tow ball to back is 4570mm, so its a huge trailer, but once i box up the front and turn it into a camper, it should look decent

Far out man... your keen to get this thing on the road. Good stuff man.

Dave

yeah, hoping to get it on the road by the wknd. but i gotta find $200 for another bottle of gas somewhere.

just take that bottle back & say it has a leek , works for me

Wow Jay very impressive progress there! I think i might have to hit you up for a little more welding work soon, on my own long overdue trailer project! The L series Wagon rear end. I want to turn that into a camper too, kitchen etc.
(Also a little more on WackyBug )

i'll have to start charging for gas now that i no longer get it free though:)