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My sliders are on, next up is probably finishing the projectors and starting my storage/sleeping system for the bed. If you call camping, road trips, and light wheeling an expedition then I'm all over it haha










I wanted them tucked in about another 1/4" and turned up about the same but overall very happy with them.




58" with signature slight taper getting wider at the rear and top plates

Boom, there it is:

 

Who makes those sliders?

 

Jerry, Bay Area Metal Fab (BAMF) They're perfect

 

Well it looks like I'll be building a trailer this summer. Stay tuned for that. I'll probably do a build thread for it
Should be sick, but I want it to be as functional as possible so I'm looking fir your best ideas. What would you want on your trailer? Some stipulations...it needs to be ready for deep water crossings, so either float or be water toght, but probably needs both. I'll have the fridge, oven, propane, sink, shower, RTT, and various other things in it. One build that I liked a great deal had 24" actuators that actually raised the lid and sleeping platform so that the full awning could be used. Seems complicated, but I love the end result.

Any ideas would be helpful

Oh! And itll sit on 35's with its own IFS system

 

You should link it like Colin did with his.

 

You'll probably want to build it without a tailgate like the old M416 military trailers. They were just a sealed box basically so that they could float. You shouldn't need to worry about the lid seal being completely water tight since the tub should keep it afloat. the M416s could carry a couple thousand pounds of ammunitions and still float.

If you can keep from having any openings or seams in the main tub (like for tailgate, drawers etc) the easier it will be to keep it watertight and bouyant.

take a look at Expedition Ops trailer. There are even some videos on youtube. He built it to use some gas struts to raise the tent platform like you describe. Much easier to make work without having to worry about electric actuators especially if your gonna have the thing in water.

 

Here's the vid.

First attempt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tF9Iy6nQo8?version=3

final version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D17cgA8zyKQ?hl=en_US

 

Love that idea. I'll have to do some digging and find out where he got those struts. That looks ideal.

I was secretly hoping you'd chime in adam

 

How do you get it down???

 

It's just like a liftgate on a 4Runner or something like that. The gas struts just provide enough pressure to lift it. The locking pins are what keeps it up. Pull the pins and pull it down until the pins lock in the bottom setting.

 

Ohhhh that makes sense

 

nice. How do you mount them? pix?

 

RotoPAx Mounts ( 1 2)
Rotopax Discount For TW Members ( 1 2 3)

 

I mounted (1) 3 gallon gas rotopax & (1) 2 gallon gas rotopax on my CBI swingout. Once my bedrack arrives I will mount (2) 2 gallon gas rotopax on the drivers side and then the (2) 2 gallon water rotopax on the passenger side using these mounts

http://rotopax.com/Universal-Mounting-Plate.html

Since I don't have my bedrack as of yet, I can only provide a pic of the rotopax mounted on my swingout

 

Here's a pic from a 3 day trip out to St. Elmo, Colorado. Beautiful country out there...



And here are some from 4 day trip outside Idaho Springs, Colorado.

 

what trail^

 

It looks like the empire loop.

 

looked familiar

 

The first trail is Pomeroy Lakes and the second is Cascade Creek.