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Sorry I ran out of steam on the thread here. Truck has been rolling around. Bed and toolboxes mounted and new Yoko Geolandar G003 315/75R15 tires and wheels painted I got it into the spring shop and got rear spring packs doctored up. Another extra leaf added, lower overloads tweaked and a...

The frame is in primer. I had to hurry up before the weather changed. This reminded me of building a small building. It looks like a shed on the first day but there's endless details to work out. The last day I built the tailight mounts. Really could have used a torch or a plasma cutter. I...

Yes I could use a better title. It's just a bigfoot camper. Thanks for stopping in. I actually just changed the title ?

I got the heavy bed off the ol' girl. It really looks better already. I just used jacks and blocks and a few timbers as beams to get the blocks nice and outboard so we can back a trailer under it. I made some progress on the frame. I used an angle grinder to make all of the cuts and just using...

I was thinking about a SRW conversion using 24 Bolt HMMWV beadlocks and surplus Baja tires. The backspacing makes them work out for this truck with adding some small spacers in the rear, or not at all. They seemed like a heavy tire and wheel and with bad road manners and hard to balance, that...

So I took the old camper to the dump! It was broken in a few places. With the empty camper, some tools and a sidekick I rolled into the dump at 10340 lb. Left the dump at 7980. After tallying some weights of the materials used to make the bed I arrived and estimate of 1500-1700 lbs that the bed...

Thanks Jerry! I will check that. I am enjoying the new big fridge as I'm coming from a 70qt wynter compressor fridge. I'm tinkering around this morning and stripping the old camper. Did a quick calculation and the 3/16 sheet steel and 3" channel on this bed weighs 1000lbs by itself. That...

I'm really wishing that I didn't waste my time and money on trying to make these skyjacker springs work out. I finally got the rear to be firm enough to control the body roll and now it's too high! I used hellwig helper springs for an OBD chevy, since they didn't have any specified to the...

Even the 2wd made it some cool places in dry weather. I gotta get this thing to going and get out in the Desert for a bit.

I really like your exo-skeleton design and your videos are great without boring fluff. The exo-skeleton will be great for those eventual trees and rocks. I appreciate what you said about building in a manner that aligns with what you confidently had as far as equipment, materials, knowledge...

While trying to figure out the rear suspension and driving to work my 2 of 4 of the bolts that hold the steering box of to the steering box frame bracket broke. I borrowed my old 2nd gen to grab the new camper. It's a 2004 Bigfoot 9'6". Yes it's a shortbed and handled well mounted like that...

The suspension needed some work next. While away on a fire I decided to order a Skyjacker 2.5" system. My memory was that lift springs were pretty firm and with the good price that they would be a good starting point. Wrong. The rear springs were intended to be about 2" lift without the factory...

Photo didn't attach the first time. Some other background is I work as a wildland firefighter and haven't had any time to work on this all summer. I've been gone constantly but am having time to catch up now. One of my first mods was ditching those trucker mirrors for some second gen mirrors...

Welcome to my low budget home and exploration rig. I live and and work in the forest and have enjoyed traveling all over by foot, boat, bike and truck. I've been living full-time for over 2 years in a 2WD '96 Second Gen Dodge Cummins with a 1989 Wilderness camper. I traded the second gen to...