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so am I understanding this right? Your trailer has no suspension just a rigid axle. I have a custom trailer built by a friend who was a talented fabricator many years ago. I have always been tempted to redo it with a suspension system but maybe he was on to something. He always recommended using...

I had those blowouts back in 1998 on a set of the new Interco radial mud tires that had a 126 load rating 3750 at 80 psi. They were almost new, the rear axle was below their rated weight and they were at 80 psi. I still have the two from the front on my yard trailer that makes an occasional trip...

My conservative approach comes from having a couple of highly rated mud terrains tire that I was running near max capacity come apart at highway speed on a trip to Moab. These were catastrophic blowouts at 65 mph. Both occurred within 500 miles of each other and did substantial damage to the...

Maybe, what is really the important number is how much actual loaded weight you are carrying on your rear axle and how much of a safety margin do you want. In your case with a figure of 10% below max you would have around 6300 pounds of rear axle weight to work with. That’s a number that is very...

I ran various iterations of BFGoodrich all terrains on the superduty front and rear at 80 psi with 3000 mile rotations. The tears wore noticeable faster then the fronts but with steady rotation I would get around 35,000 miles out of a set. The Cooper ST max I have been running 80 rear and 65...

I tend to agree with you, I think a lot of folks think that they are going to drive their truck and camper like a big Jeep and discover the limits of a 11 to 12 thousand pound pretty quickly. My old 2001 superduty with a service body and 8 foot Alaskan camper was on 285/75-16’s for over 120,000...

You might take a closer look at the Cooper St Max , I am running the 295/70-18 on my truck and camper at around 11,500 loaded weight and have been very happy over the last 15,000 miles. They seem to have a lot of fans in the oil fields for use on heavy service trucks. keke

Mine is s Mine is a road master Falcon, they are made to pivot on all planes so you really have to work at it to bind it up. By then you should have unhooked already any way. I think the two things I would worry about on a really big rig is keeping the tow bar level from the hitch to the Toad...

If you get in a tight spot you can put the tow vehicle in neutral and slowly reverse the toad. Not the best plan but it can get you out of a tight spot. If worse comes to worse just unhook and drive on through. This is one of the great attributes of a toad with a large rig. You can easily unhook...

They work great as a drivable trailer. We are pretty heavy on the rear axle of the truck so can’t really add much hitch weight but the 5000 pound Jeep flat towed easily.

This is exactly the vehicle I would envision if I could wave a magic wand and transform my JLUR. I just knocked out a thousand miles in two days traveling from Montana to the Eastern Sierra to my sons cabin. We are heading down to Death Valley to do a back country auto tour and then on to...

Really nice work, the Commando’s are one of the most under appreciated early Jeeps but your build should change a lot of minds. Glad I got mine while they were still cheap!

What would you ask for the camper?

From the picture it looks like your camper has additional options that you haven’t listed. I see a driver side sliding window is there one on the passenger side as well? What type of roof rack is installed, any other options? Thanks

I will watch for your ad.

I am thinking about a Ursa for my JlUR as well. Where are you located? What are you thinking price wise in addition to a hardtop on trade?

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. Is this still available?

Here is a shot of my camper in the Long Pines in eastern Montana.

You might take a look at the Alaskan Campers if you haven’t already. They are totally old school but they will standup to some really rough use. I used one for 15 years and over a thousand nights hunting and fishing from Alaska to Baja and it always kept us warm, safe and comfortable. If you...