MatthewMay1's SUPERCHARGED Build Thread

Was supposed to fly down to Dallas yesterday, but the plane broke so I made the best of the day and drove to the woods. Ran some SxS trails, lots of water crossings, and got a couple new pinstripes but I have silver paint soooo





Jeep at the trail head parked instead of on the trails.....


Hmmm, looks like the drag-&-drop upload method lowers the resolution of the images

 

One man's trash is another man's treasure. I've got some new projects in the works!

 

I picked up something new today

 

Appropriate that the picture is in front of an ATM because I'm sure that wasn't cheap.

 

Haha, I didn’t even realize that. I actually got a great deal on the tent

 

So, what you’re looking at is a new Mombasa RTT. I got the 5’ version so I won’t have to hassle with raising my bed rack or having it hang off the rear of the truck. Only thing missing is the ladder, which I can pick up from their office about 40 min away on Tuesday. I have noticed two small holes that I will need to patch up, but for the price, I wasn’t expecting it to be perfect. If I can get 4 years out of it I’ll be happy. Some reviews online complain about the cover, but it seems that if I take care of it, it ought to treat me fine. Worst case I’ll have a cover made for it or see if a different RTT cover will fit. I could buy another cover and still be saving money on a new tent. I can’t wait to get my rack built! This is going to be awesome for next fall in Arkansas. I think I’m glad I went with the 5’ tent instead of the 6’. It’ll fit my truck better and I fit very comfortably inside the tent. I imagine it would be just fine for 2 people with space for clothes too.



Edit:

The cover sucks. All the reviews online are correct. I’m hoping it will be easier to zip around when the tent is actually on the truck, and I can see where it will wear out pretty quick on the corners. There are some pretty crummy stitches on the cover and parts of the tent as well. Also, my floor has a dent in it which is no big deal to me, but I guess is noteworthy. I’m still happy with the tent for the price, but if I paid MSRP of $1400 for this, I’d be disappointed.

 

Might order a roll of this stuff if I can't find something similar locally. It looks to be exactly what I need for those two little holes in the tent.

https://www.gearaid.com/products/tenacious-tape-repair?variant=28044148689

 

Did you have to trim anything besides the grille for the winch? I have the same one with synthetic line sitting in my garage

 

Nope, just had to trim the grill for the solenoid and the clutch lever. Don’t forget to cut a hole for that. I had to go back and cut it later cause I didn’t notice at first. Haha

 

Oil change and tire rotation yesterday....thanks @PinnaclePete for the Fumoto valve

 

I put one of those on at my last oil change, haven't got to use it yet. Stupid 10k intervals lol

 

I’ve wanted one for a while and always forget to get it befor the oil change. Finally got one installed now though. Guess I’ll see how it works in 7000 miles

 

Really cool pictures!

 

Thanks!

 

I finally got around to making a cover for my winch rope. I went to an upholstery shop and had them cut me out a section of a scrapped convertible top. Pretty happy with how it came out.

 

Got some projects lined up for the long weekend coming up!

 

I used the long weekend off from school to build my bed rack and mount my RTT in time for Fall camping season! I'm very happy with how square the whole thing turned out by doing it all by hand. I notched the pipe with a hole saw on the dill press so I got almost a perfect notch every time. Squeezed it all together with the big ratchet straps to make it fit as snug as possible and burned it all together. The rack is just tall enough to allow my bed extender to flip in and out, which is a huge plus!



My leaf springs REALLY hate me now, so I have some Chevy donor springs in my shop waiting for me to have time to add them to my stock pack. I'm not sure when I'll get around to that since I'm away at college for the semester. I'll need to find another weekend I'm not busy to drive back home and get that done I guess.

 

Damn that's a beefy setup. How did you bend them?

 

A friend had them in his shop for a bed rack, but he never got around to building it so he gave them to me. It’s all 1-1/4” Sch 40 pipe so it’s pretty stout. I didn’t want my tent held up with dinky little pipes

 

I noticed some corners on my RTT cover that were being stretched pretty badly, so I came up with what I think to be a clever way to combat this problem and prevent a hole in the future. I used some left over convertible top material from my winch cover and some contact cement to attach it to the inside of the tent cover. The cover is the most poorly reviewed part of this RTT, but I hope I can improve its lifespan with some more of these patches.