Cug, from a previous post, I noticed that your back door does not have anything mounted to it. Neither did mine until I built sort of a vertical roof-rack for the back door for carrying Jerry cans or propane or the things you don't want in the interior. I'll get a pic posted when there's daylight to work with, since this may facilitate some ideas for you.
I am also mulling over a wind-shelter-for-cooking/shower-enclosure I'll pass along if I can wrap my head around some of the limitations and figure it out.
Hey, yes, you are right, the backdoor has been a recent project. We started with planning a few weeks ago and have been slowly working our way through the various items.
From the "bracket screenshot" above, the left two are for mounting Rotopax or similar items to the outside of the rear door. The upper left will take a Redvision display (and possibly other stuff later on), the lower left is the enclosure for the outside parts of the diesel heater, and the top row middle is for holding our trash can (a bear safe container, secured with a RokStrap).
Here's the door, when we attached the RhinoRack loadbars:
The blue masking tape was just for mounting. The left side of the door will get two 2G Rotopax, and between Rotopax and shovel, there will be a small Pelican case where we'll put dirty diesel stuff (gloves, spout, etc.).
Regarding the shower enclosure, we do have the Alu-Cab shower cube, it's mounted on the driver's side.
not spend too much time setting up and spreading out since all this needs to be broken down in the morning
This has been one of the declared goals of our build: there is a place for everything and we generally don't want to move something to get to something else. Goal was 2 Minute set up and break down times, including bed and awning. It's doable with our setup, since most things are stored in a way that they pack away easily after use.
It also seems like one can easily spend $10K on fabricated products that don't really check all the boxes, and seem kind of limited in application scope.
This is incredibly true! I was looking at the Goose Gear build-out for the Gladiator and while it would have saved us a lot of time, it just wouldn't have done what we wanted it to do. Weight wise, our setup is actually slightly lighter than a full Goose Gear setup, but about a billion times more comfortable in use. It wasn't all that much cheaper though, maybe a bit under half the price or so. Building with 80/20 gets out of hand VERY quickly.
We have saved money on the build, but on the other hand, we would have been last year if we had purchased the parts. We probably could make do with these as well, it just wouldn't have been as nice, and we are an age where nice and comfortable is important. But you also end up doing a lot of stuff once, and once only, even though they are at a quality level that could be sold with good consciousness to other people.
Like the mosquito net (me holding it on during a "does it fit" test):
It does not have the canvas like the Alu-Cab net, but it's the same ultrafine netting, high quality zippers, etc.
Then my wife maid cushions, including anti-slip bottom:
And here's a demonstration of the table in the high cabinet while we were still working on it:
Oh, and yes, we do bring the kitchen sink, really:
But I have to agree, the DIY part has enabled us to build the truck exactly the way we envisioned it, not some put together interpretation of a shop not understanding our ideas and just using what they know and have always used or done.
