Recent content by CJV8

That's something I considered, however all of the used canopies I've seen available aren't load bearing (little more than a fibreglass rain cover) and are being sold at fairly high prices. For the cost of the materials I reckon I can have what I need for about the same, or slightly higher cost...

I'm in the process of designing a 3/4 height canopy for our Hilux, the intention being to mount the softshell RTT on top and have the top of the folded tent approximately the same height as the roof bars, therefore allowing us to mount our kayak by sitting it on the roof bars to the front, and...

That's a novel solution, quite impressive!

I think custom brackets will be the way to go, it'll allow me to have a lower attachement points for the rear as it'd be good to be able to have the rear turnbuckle/strap arrangements pointing down as well as forwards to better secure the camper. Thanks all, gradually homing in on a workable...

If by external you mean the type that sit outside the truck bed and attach to the chassis via some bracketry, no I'm not considering that. I want to keep the truck at the standard width, we have a lot of single track roads here in Scotland which can be a tight squeze in a small car, so I'd like...

We're currently working on a design for a slide in camper for our Toyota Hilux, however the attachment of the camper to the truck bed is causing some head-scratching. All the designs I've looked at use either hooks, chains and turnbuckles, or ratchet straps to attached to the tie-down points in...