Recent content by Christo54

lookin good (y)

Been a while since I posted because, after building my offroad trailer, I've been using and abusing (enjoying) the rig, and not changing much. I did add some baja designs lights to the front, and a coastal offroad bumper to the rear. I wish I had documented the rear bumper better, but It was a...

Here it is in Baja and as it sits now. I don’t have a pic with the battery system and fridge installed, but I’m going to change quite a bit over the next month and I will make sure to document better.

Forgot to take pictures, so I’m lacking a bit of documentation for these steps, but I skinned it with silver painted aluminum And attached it with 3m adhesive tape. Trimmed it in aluminum and sealed everything with level. Attached the trim with self tappers.

Made a make-shift paint booth in the garage and did a duplicolor three step paint job.

I decided I didn’t have time to fabricate the fenders I wanted, so I bought some off Amazon and bent them with to fit by stepping on them and pulling.

I got a black series coupler for cheap off of the classifieds, but it’s not exactly meant for this design of trailer so I had to fabricate a tongue extension for it. Also I welded on the mount for my Fulton tongue jack

Alright, the trailer is mostly done, but I had to push to get it done enough so that we could take it on our Baja trip. I’ll try to catch up on the progress till now. It did tow like a dream on the highway and Offroad. So that’s a load off. Here are some progress pics: I finished up the timbren...

Thanks!

Finished the doors and the hitch. Just need to add frames for the door latches. using a black series trailer coupler that I got off of the classifieds.

I finally almost finished the bumper. I made some artistic changes in the design of the bars on the wings. I think it came out pretty well. Decided not to finish the Bill bar tonight because it was packed in spray foam which is probably the MOST inconvenient way to package anything. Also they...

Finished welding the box for the frame today, and welded in the cross-bracing. Then tacked in the door stops for the rear swing out door. I used 3/4” flat bar 1/8” thick for the door jams. Ok

Got the box framed out and mostly welded together tonight. The walls are 1.5” square tube 0.065 wall. The top rails are 1.75” square .083 wall. Trying to keep this puppy light and strong. Tomorrow I’ll weld on the roof bars. They’ll be 1x2” by 0.083 wall. Then I’ll do some corner bracing and...

Do you mean to ease the corners of the plywood So it’s more rounded?

I hadn’t thought of that, thanks man. Maybe I’ll cut a small piece off and bend it to see what happens.