gwolff's Cargo Trailer Camper Conversion

Yeah dude. Here is what I'm going to try first. I did some calcs and I think it will move the point of contact away from the tire by about 1.5". Not sure if the drawing makes sense but basically I will open up the angle of the fender on the rear. It's going to take lots of cutting, grinding, and filling. Dunno if I'm even going to be able to do it.. to get the paint off in the corners to reweld. FML

 

Looks like it should work. When I use to weld back vaults together, we sometimes had to turn up the heat on the weld to burn off left on paint and other impurities. Good luck

 

Just start from scratch and make some sick fenders. Might as well.

 

Great stuff! Thanks for letting us into your world!

 

I made these ones from scratch.. it took me a lot of time and around $300 worth of material. I only have two weeks before I'm supposed to take it out, I can't even work on them this week because I don't have access to the lift to take of the tires.

I'm so screwed. I can't believe how bad I messed up. Honestly super down about this whole thing. If I modify the fenders they look like shit. If I make them from scratch then I don't have enough time and I lose a bunch of money

 

Any reason you cant modify the timbren suspension?

 

I don't know of any way I could modify it. Each one is bolted through the frame in 3 places. I wouldn't want to mess with it anyways.

 

Add a spacer, weld spacer to existing frame, rebolt through new "frame" easy peasy

 

So you're saying to raise the trailer another 3 inches? lol. I dunno, not the most practical

 

2" or 3" whatever you feel would give you enough tire clearance.

 

It would have to be high enough to move the suspension to an area where new mounting holes could be located. It would also mean that the piece of tubing I welded in the frame to resist torsional forces of the suspension would not work as well. I think it would be safer from a structural standpoint to just rebuild the fender

 

Is your name garret by chance?
Not being a creeper but I saw your face in a picture an you look hella framiliar.
Used to work with the Scrivens in upland for waterhammer?

 

Lol yeah, are you Natalie's boyfriend Cody?

 

Lol noooo I was zacks buddy was a year younger than him lived basically across the street. My last names Turner.

 

Ohhh I know who you are. Man you're the second person to recognize me from my pictures, I should have known the repercussions! I still hang out with Zack all the time

 

Crazy how small the world is, that's good! He seems like he's doing well.
Anyway, bad ass trailer I showed it to my wife an said we need one.

 

Just make sure you don't fuck up the fenders like I did or you'll want to jump off a cliff for a while. Lol

 

I think I might try to go to a 33 inch tire. If that would solve my problem it would be worth it. I currently have 315/75 R16 Toyo Open Country tires. Not sure what the width of the rim is right now, so I don't know what tires to be looking for

 

You could buy mine, wouldn’t be the first one you’ve bought from me

 

Ill buy. Will your daughter go to college because of me?