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Here's mine, currently still a project. It's a Mighty Max box on a frame I built, with 3500# axle, shocks, and 6-lug hubs so it can use matching wheels to my Raider. Will be used for utility stuff, some adventure stuff, and as a support/gear trailer for our stage rally team. There's a build...

Cut some plate/connectors for the rear corners and welded them in tonight, then took the flap wheel to them and smoothed and rounded all the edges, because I know for a fact I'll knock a kneecap on it at somepont and would rather it not be a hard angle... After that, I got under the bed to...

Halftime of the football game, so will do a quick update on some progress this morning. First order of business was to finish up wiring and run all the stuff under the bed and install some hangers for the wiring. Makes it easier when you can tilt the trailer upward for access :) Also, it's...

Cold AF today, so I cruised up to Annapolis to visit a friend and visited the Academy while I was there... Did a bit of trailer work, but again, pretty cold so only for about an hour. First, a new tailgate handle came in, so I installed that so I can open the tailgate (the PO had an old...

Totay cruised up to Annapolis in the Porsche where a buddy had made me some little 3D-printed "wedges" for the mirror project. Because this isn't a very exciting post, here's a couple pics from the trip (and his awesome Lotus) In any case, it was a good excuse to make a visit to an old...

haha yeah, I was looking for a production date on them but couldn't find them. Since the D50 they came off of spent most of its life on a farm, I'm guessing there wasn't much tire wear (they're probably still over 50% tread). But, they'll be replaced once I'm ready to tow this thing. According...

Federal day off here in the DC area for the inaugeration, so couldn't go to the office. So let's do some more trailer work. Had some stuff arriving today and UPS, Amazon, and FedEx all showed up before noon (!!!) with stuff I was waiting for so was able to get several projects done today...

Besides getting the neck painted up today, as well as the front basket (no pics) I decided to try to do some work on the bed. The bed overall is in pretty good shape with no significant rust, just that one spot I repaired earlier, which now that the bed is flipped I could clean up the top side...

Continuing on today. First order of business was installing a 7-pin plug in the Raider, which has no trailer wiring. I went with 7-pin so I have the option to add brakes to the trailer later, and also have reverse lights and aux power available On the trailer end, I didn't do any wiring yet...

Was mostly doing trailer work today, but had a related thing on the Raider - installation of trailer plug and wiring. For some reason the Raider has NO trailer wiring at all (nor a pigtail for it). Apparently the 4-door Monteros from the same year has this stuff, but whatever. Shouldn't be too...

For those not following the trailer build thread, 1. The D50 departed today and left me a set of Pomegranites and a tailgate. 2. The trailer is coming along nicely

So busy day with regard to the trailer. First thing, the guy showed up to pick up the D50 (and the rear half of the frame from the other Mighty Max) and towed it back up to PA. He may refurb it to use, or may pull the drivetrain for his Raider. Apparently when they got it home, they jumped it...

So I probably mentioned I've been looking for some wheels and a tailgate for my Raider/Mighty Max trailer project. Been to a few junkyards in the past few weeks and come up empty, and everyone parting out stuff seems to be too far away. I really wanted to get matching "pomegranite" wheels liek...

So a few things today: First, FedEx arrived with my springs but NOT the axle (which was scheduled to be here today as well). So, FedEx continues to suck. Whatever. The box the springs were in looked like it went through a war on the way here, but nothing fell out so again, whatever. Anyhow...

My hubs came in last night. Or, more accurately, the box they were supposed to be in. Apparently at some point during shipment the box tore open and one of the two hubs and all the bearings, lugnuts, etc fell out. So FedEx person just picked up the box and taped it back shut (without putting the...

Here's the other thing I'm working on......build thread for it in the trailer section :)

After 28 days, my Priority Mail package finally arrived! Took 3 weeks to get out of New York, and another week of bouncing around 3 facilities within 20 miles of my house to finally get here lol. Anyhow, here's what's in it: A pair of mirrors for a Defender 90/110 (the old one, not the new...

Not that exciting, but I went ahead and painted the underside of the bed today after cleaning up a few surface rust spots. In this pic it's still wet, but it's actually flat black, as if it matters. Now I can put the frame on and bolt it in place in preparation for installing the suspension...

Someone on another forum wanted pics of the awning out to see rear door clearances, etc, so figured I'd post them here as well Antenna clearance with door open

While doing other projects today I did take a quick break to do a bit of rust repair on the bed. From what I can tell, this is the only area where there is any real rust on the bed, it's righ at a seam between the main bed panel and the wheel arch panel, and it looks like moisture got into the...