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Goodtimes, I cannot disagree. The back seat in the Dodge is an, "as a last resort, short hop, personnel holding pen". Ours is completely removed on longer TC trips, like our 9K mile round trip to AK in 2003. But there are only two consenting adults here. It IS a great area for storage when...

Red and Mag, good to hear from you. I'm of the old school, back when we had a 1980 I.H. Scout Traveller. 118" W.B. This was the last and only year the factory put a Nissan 3.3L I-6 turbo diesel into the truck. The engine weighed 950 pounds, and put out a neck snapping 101 H.P. It did get 20 mpg...

A lot of 'right-on' opinions here. You can't buy experience. My only experience is with an 2001.5 2nd gen. Dodge .75t. It's the extra cab version with suicide doors and we have gone a trip of 4 hrs. with 6 full sized folks. As the driver, I had a great time, but for the 3 in the back seat, not...

Just great build-up! I like the way you think; outside the box. Even with the VW diesel that rig should be very lightweight. All her larger cousins were cut for scrap as they spent a lot of time on their sides or tops. regards, as always, jefe

Here are the sliders I made for my '82 CJ8. 6"X3/16" plate bolted to the lower part of the body. Bolts welded in. 4"x1/4" angle iron welded in a wedge over the plate with darted corners: They've been hammered on well and lived to run another day. jefe

crazed one, this is the link: http://www.industrialinjection.com/shop/category/pumps/dodge-injection-pumps/ for a time they put together a pump with added H.P. and TQ for the Cummins engines in Fedex trucks with no wire. I like no wire. Keeps the turbo cooler and the drivetrain in one piece...

Crazy, Underwear? We doan' need no stinking underwear! You really got me going with that one. I didn't say i had the perfect Expo rig, only describing the most trouble-free starting place. Me thinks the problem is that this site has slowly and inexorably changed from an actual Expedition site...

Bulywif, I fabbed and welded on ears to the top part of the Warn transformer side plates with the big tube on top. My guess is it was about neck high on the Elk. Just enough to repel. The carrier itself is so H.D. that i consider it another crossmember to the frame. The lower diagonal pipes are...

hardtrails, I cannot disagree with your assessment. It's just that my opinion is more humble than yours. I did hit a 300 pound bull elk near Ely NV. one night and lived to tell about it. I thought i was going to die. It was like hitting a brick wall with a 10,000 pound rolling sled. It did not...

It's obvious that there are many approaches to bumpers as there are many requirements for use. I drew my personal line on the bumper by only having as much as I need according to my experience (in about 2 million miles in 14 four wheel drives). Currently I have an '82 CJ8 rockcrawler, a '99 XJ...

David, You are so far in advance of almost anyone one here i don't think anyone is in your league when it comes to major building/re-building. You are an original minimalist, and it's good to put an actual given name to the moniker: seldom seen smith. Now if i could only see an actual picture...

Regcabguy, Good to see you still in business. I thought you were outa here. My trained eye tells me that the front and rear wheels are not the same width. Looks to me like the rear wheels are considerably wider than the fronts. It may be an illusion. If not, I think it's a smashing idea (since...

tommy, we have trod many of the same trails here. Mine is an '01. I do remember when it looked as good as yours. But that was then and this is now. In 2001 when we were young: 33x15.50R16's on 12" wide wheels, aka Redneck dualies: snow can get pretty deep here. This was the winter of 2011/12...

It was a nice trip down memory lane with the 118" wb Traveller. We bought our same yellow 1980 Scout Traveller in 1984. We called it the 'banana' split. It was the last year they made this rig and it fit our family camping/jeeping experiences well. This was the rare one: factory installed 3.3L...

Idasho, What is the style of your pivot system? It looks to me like the pivot bar is on the rear of the truck. Is it so? Yours is a good pictorial representation of what bending forces are between the bed and the truck. Yours is a long bed Ford, the most flexible of all the 90's to 2006 frames...

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I like your whole concept. You have some interesting features like the way the rear spare attaches. This should work well with the small, light wheels/tires you have. Since I must carry two spare tires, I am going to try a spare on a frame similar to yours, only a swing away style that plugs...

It is a good looking rig alright. It's hard to find style AND function in one place with a Dodge anything. Alas, having a 2001 CTD, i'm strapped into the old style flat top front fender openings and too-close bulkhead framing (directly to the rear of the front wheels) which preclude using larger...

It is very simple. With a family of five, if you indeed want to spend a lot of time camping with them: forget about a truck camper. It's just too small a living area. If you go with a TC anyway, it will be an expensive mistake. With five, get a 4-door pickup and a large TT or 5-er. There will be...

I'm afraid not. Not a start or a finish. It's a hobby truck: a show truck. 1. No 4WD. No transfer case. 2. Taller than my Lance on Dodge. 3. I see no situation in which this would be a good idea as an Expo rig, except for show: the "what were they thinking?" factor. I have a friend who took a...