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Here's a better photo of the ceiling insulation completed: The lighting project is a chore. I temporarily reinstall the ceiling panels to measure out and mark locations for each light I'm installing. Then I remove the panel to mount the lights. When I am ready to fully reinstall each...

I taped my lighting plan to the wall: The red circles indicate NEW lights. The blue rectangles and circles indicate existing lights, which are getting replaced with something new. The green circles were an idea for under cabinet lighting - but I haven't made a final decision on what style and...

Ceiling insulation: 1" thick foiled backed foam board worked perfect: I think I used 5 sheets of it. This photo shows some of the wiring for the new lights. I installed a LOT of new wiring.

All of the new DC powered items will be fused through a 12 circuit fuse panel with negative bus:

I put some butyl tape around the vent flange prior bolting the vent to the roof. I also put a wad of it in the screw holes. Interior view. The foil backed bubble wrap was installed at the factory. These photos were taken prior to drilling the hole for the wiring.

When I bought my Arctic Fox truck camper, I removed the Fantastic fan/vent and installed a MaxxAir fan/vent that I kept out of my Desert Fox. I finally am putting the nearly new Fantastic vent to use, in the trailer, in place of an exiting vent. It's something I've wanted to do for several...

Fast forward to this year: It's time to do more upgrades!! Planned mods and upgrades: (still a work in progress) Insulate the ceiling Upgrade the interior lighting (round 2) Install a powered vent fan Install more switches for the plethora of interior lights I am installing Add a DC fuse...

Brake wiring - it amazes me how shoddy some of the wiring is on trailers. I've seen all sorts of low budget connectors used on the undercarriage, but this one tops them all. I replaced all of this mess with heat shrink sealing butt-splices.

It was time to install a wheel chock in the floor to accommodate easier transport of motorcycles. I had been hauling bikes with them loaded backwards in the trailer, with the front tire up against the ramp door. It worked, but pushing a bike up the ramp backwards was getting old, as was having...

June 2012, I took the trailer on the first motorcycle camping outing - wow it was nice having a garage to finish installing bike upgrades onto my newly acquired KTM 500 EXC. Later that summer I did another long trip with the trailer, using it as my motorcycle hauler. I camped with friends...

May 2012, the trailer was ready to hit the road for OX12. The trip was going to be about 3 weeks long, and I had the Jeep in the trailer. I ordered a longer Supertruss Hitch extension, thinking for sure I'd need it to prevent the camper jacks from smacking the trailer on sharp turns...

There were four of these old school 12vdc lights, which looked like something that belonged in the cockpit of a law enforcement boat. I replaced them with some RV style fixtures. There were originally 4 light fixtures. 2 up front (shown) and 2 more further back, but centered across the...

The battery was mounted in a box inside the cabinet, with a vent hose going to a wall vent. The battery would barely hold a charge. During the process of redoing some of the wiring, I removed the battery and box. It turns out the battery had a hole in the bottom of it from rubbing on one of...

Jeep in the trailer: The hard top barely cleared the enclosure that surrounds the spring for the ramp door. When I loaded/unloaded the Jeep later, I always aired down the tires.

I installed some floor mounted D rings in the front to accommodate my Jeep. If you look closely, you can see to existing D rings up near the cabinets. They were too far forward to suit my needs, plus the tie down straps would make using the front section of the trailer very difficult (for...

Next up was an awning. I took the trailer to a local RV repair shop and had them install it. I bought the awning elsewhere, and they were totally fine installing it. It was far less expensive to have them do it instead of the local cargo trailer dealer, and it was done much sooner than if I'd...

I ordered a spare tire and wheel from Les Schwab. I told them I wanted a cheap steel wheel. Les Schwab is a tire dealer in the Pacific Northwest. The one on the right is what they ordered: (wheel on the left is what came on the trailer) A few weeks later, I decided to just go ahead and...

The umbilical cord had been repaired by the previous owner. The must have severed the cord by pinching between the ball mount and the coupler on a sharp turn. I removed the taped and found that all of the wires had been spliced back together. I replaced the cord. I also installed a trailer...

The trailer sat on jack stands for at least two weeks while I worked on them a little bit in the evenings after work.

I forgot to explain what an IBC is when I was rambling about that earlier - it's an "Integrated Brake Controller". The big 3 have it (GM, Dodge/Ram, Ford). I don't know if other manufacturers of trucks have gone this route. It used to be an option, but might be standard with a tow package -...