Recent content by Jsweezy

Bump for the new week!

Oh I forgot to include that if you want it, I will include this canvas top I made for the truck for when I dont have the camper on as well.

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Hello Forum, I have decided to sell my F150 with a homebuilt flatbed pop top camper. Build thread for the flatbed and camper is here - https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/jsweezys-f150-homebuilt-flatbed-truck-camper.242504/ Truck stuff - CLEAN TITLE IN HAND 2018 F150 3.5l Ecoboost w/...

Hey yall, its up for sale. I want to do more winter camping (more long term ski trips) and as you can guess the pop top is not ideal so I am wanting to build a bigger hard sided camper which means I need to upgrade the truck too. I am willing to sell the whole package (truck, flatbed, camper...

It's a pop top! I hadn't fully figured out how I was going to do the pop up yet, but over the last month or so I finally got her done. Of course not without having to fix a couple issues and while I didnt want to have the complexity of the linear actuators, I sure am glad I went for it... Oh...

Got some more work done this weekend on the interior and opened up the awning for the first time, holy moly its huge!

Here's why things take so long/ cost as much as they do when it comes to these campers and why you find them almost finished and for sale... So I started today telling myself I was going to work on the bench seat and the cover for the electrical... then I walked past my awning ive been trying...

Aaaaand to finally get y'all up to date... I attached the struts to the front and back using lift struts depot 44" 40lb struts, drilled a hole and mounted the heater putting the fuel tank and toilet next to it (these will all be covered by a bench). This is going to be a minimalist build with...

So after my hiatus from the camper as I was feeling overwhelmed with the build process and figuring out the unknown. Amazingly, even though there are alot of different options to choose from in the world of pop top campers, I found there's only so many ways to do it and depending on how much...

Thank you! You have no idea. Sometimes I have to pull the truck out to even get things done 😩.

Thanks! I still have a lot to learn but have had some amazing mentors that basically have told me to just go for it and fix whatever I break as thats the best way to learn. With everything ive done so far there always seems to be things I run into that need to be adjusted or I wasn't...

Once I finished the roof, I threw it on, added a seal along the lower lip, put a handle by the door that needed a 3d printed spacer to sit flush with nutserts in the wall, spent an entire day fixing one of the jacks I accidentally lowered too much and locked up, threw it on the truck so I could...

Next up was getting the insulation, flooring and walls on. This was challenging without the use of floor jacks at this point but I got lucky and found a set of electric jacks for cheap that clearly needed work but the price justified going and grabbing them to mount onto the camper. I was...

Once the basic framing was done, I decided to get to work on the interior, while trying to figure out how I wanted to tackle the roof. I also had to choose materials and decide the best route for enclosing everything. While I was sure I wanted to stick with aluminum for the siding, I had...