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I have 200 watts of solar on the roof and I never sweat the juice for the fridge and seem to be able to run it as often as needed. I can actually just leave food in it and run it when parked for weeks. The fridge only draws 2.5 amps. I will say in the winter months the batteries deplete faster...

I ditched my 3 way fridge and replaced it with a "Truckfridge" brand 12v compressor fridge and couldn't be happier. Those old 3 ways are a headache to maintain imo and don't really work that great even when they are running as intended.

Can you spy the rig in this shot? Now?

I also live in Cal and have 2 policies - Truck & Camper. If I were to experience a total loss they use local market value as a guideline for a pay out. It's like 100 bucks a year for the camper and totally worth it in my opinion. the camper is a 2000 Alaskan. I use AAA

This all came together just in time to hit the road for some great exploring through Colorado and New Mexico, with the exception of a few other issues I had to deal with on the fly, the truck did great and the new mounting system seems to be quite solid.

Excellent work you are quite thorough! Looking forward to more pics

I haven't had much issue with tire wear and got over 30k out of my last set of BFG AT, pretty even wear and I always have my camper mounted too. Maybe I'd get longer tire life with a solid axle ..I don't know

Nice rig! I've got a 97 OBS 7.3 F250. it is still using the TTB wich I actually have no problem with, after freshening up the ball joints, pivot bushings, tie rods etc it handles great on and off road and I feel no need to do a D60 swap. I had a 99 with a solid D60 and think this truck handles...

Pics of of new bed mounts Here's the piece of mega destruction that I had to McGyver with the steel splint to continue my Utah trip! After hacking out the destroyed section of C channel and grafting in some angle stock to replace it, I welded on this 1/4 in thick piece of angle iron and...

Just recently re-worked the ute bed mounts and re-designed / re-enforced the way it all mounts to the frame. The beta version revealed some inherent flaws for the trucks intended uses. Because of how much the frame flexes and the bed doesn't, it was creating some ...conflict shall we say. I...

I'd be interested in seeing how long they last. I've had good luck running the K60 f&r on my KTM 950. They last a looooong time even beating the hell out of them. I do say though they require a bit of a pressure drop to do well off road, I drop em to about 27 to inspire any confidence in the...

Gotcha I had a feeling due to the fwc design. I had to lose a little of storage in the rear box on mine but Alaskan doesn't use the space above the wheel wells. Did you bother to weld the cut sections back in to seal em? I thought about the option of a fwc as my next camper but im not sure about...

I see, did you lose a lot of the capacity in the utility bed storage compartments? Got any pics by chance of the bed after modding? Thanks!

I'm curious if you had to cut up the camper to make it fit into the utility bed. I have an Alaskan in a ute bed and modded the bed to fit the camper.

Exploring Colorado

I ended using the talents of my good friend to repair the frame using a 220 mig, he added a v groove and welded up all holes from the brackets and then we added a 3/16 "fish plate" over the repair which is basically a diamond shape and still allows frame flex without stress risers. It should be...

A frame repair shop I spoke with said they've seen it 3 times already, and some searching turned up several posts of it happening under "normal driving" conditions too. Best of luck though!

Yeah I haul an Alaskan Camper in a utility bed with a dirt bike on a hauler sometimes. I only keep fairly light weight items in the ute bed. I do run it off road quite often like this but I firmly believe the frame crack would've never happen without the air bags pushing and twisting on the...

Having been down the bad road of a cracked frame I would stay far away from air bags. Just build a proper spring pack or add a mechanical helper spring. An air bag takes the upward travel of your axle and puts it on a bracket attached to the frame where it wasn't designed to take stress. In fact...

This really makes me want a drone great job on the movie!