Northern Explorer
Explorer
Very clever.
building the Bullet XV
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sarconcepts
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those two pulley bars unscrew (they're just galvanized pipe with a poly sleeve that can spin around them, threaded into 5" deep recievers) & i'll make two shorter ones that thread in, & have a bend in them to be a mountain bike rack when needed.
The Adam Blaster
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I've always heard you're not supposed to grab the winch line with the hook.
Otherwise, it looks like a good solution to getting a heavy ***** tire 8 feet off the ground.
Otherwise, it looks like a good solution to getting a heavy ***** tire 8 feet off the ground.
I think you mounted your bumper crooked... 
I got the rear winch going & lifted the spare tire into place this past weekend, plus did a bunch of 'utility' work inside
you can see how the winch cable goes up & across the pulley bars, then down & around the spare.
sarconcepts
Adventurer
no, actually chrismc, (& i know you're joking) the bumper is mounted to the frame of the truck, the box is on my pivot frame,floating free of the truck frame, & my driveway has a pretty extreme twist to it, so what you're seeing is actually my box staying true with the cab of the truck, & the back of the frame & bumper twisting as it tweaks over my driveways twist.
if you look back at post #48, on page 5, you'll see pics of the pivot frame & the twist just in my driveway
it was designed to do exactly this vs. twisting the box & all the interior cabs.
once I pull onto level ground, the bumper is parallel with the box
the bumper is attached to the truck frame (as opposed to the box) so that if any one rear-ends me, the force is taken into the frame not my camper box
if you look back at post #48, on page 5, you'll see pics of the pivot frame & the twist just in my driveway
it was designed to do exactly this vs. twisting the box & all the interior cabs.
once I pull onto level ground, the bumper is parallel with the box
the bumper is attached to the truck frame (as opposed to the box) so that if any one rear-ends me, the force is taken into the frame not my camper box
sarconcepts
Adventurer
yeah I could!
here's a couple more pictures taken back when the pivot frame was being built, showing just how much frame flex it can accommodate,
sitting on flat ground
& with the passenger rear tire lifted about 14"
do you know how hard it is to train a truck to pee like a dog!
here's a couple more pictures taken back when the pivot frame was being built, showing just how much frame flex it can accommodate,
sitting on flat ground
& with the passenger rear tire lifted about 14"
do you know how hard it is to train a truck to pee like a dog!
sarconcepts
Adventurer
test fitted the softwalls for sewing the last seam, the bottom's not mounted so they are hanging loose in these pics, I will permanently install them in a couple weeks, after I make more progress on the interior walls & cabinets
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Accrete
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following the thread with great interest !
:victory:
As a fellow Oregonian (live on the northcoast near Astoria) i resemble that remark : ) I remember the first winter my wife and i moved to the coast from the Nevada desert. One day arriving at home on our "hill" all iced over... i decided the best way to park was facing traffic downhill with my tires curbed. Woke up to a ticket on my windshield stating it was a no no. Called to explain myself. . . was told the ticket was torn up as the ticketing officer had to have her car towed off the hill.
:victory:
Overland Hadley
on a journey
Looking good!
sarconcepts
Adventurer
beginning the interior, front & side interior walls are on, working on the rear. hopefully cabinets start this next weekend
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sarconcepts
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Cabinets finally!,
i'm being anally methodic to try to prethink everything i can the first time, but i do have the ability to revise things,as i'm making everything in a manor that can be taken apart, as the entire interior will come out to install the teak veneer (yup, i'm back to teak)
this also makes the challenge of building everything smaller than my door opening, or it has to come apart in pieces
much more on the website
www.bulletxv.wordpress.com
i'm being anally methodic to try to prethink everything i can the first time, but i do have the ability to revise things,as i'm making everything in a manor that can be taken apart, as the entire interior will come out to install the teak veneer (yup, i'm back to teak)
this also makes the challenge of building everything smaller than my door opening, or it has to come apart in pieces
much more on the website
www.bulletxv.wordpress.com
LOL:wings:I know where your driveway is and "extreme twist" is an understatement!!! You should rent it out for flex testing.
P.S. sine I know where you live you aren't going to have to kill me are you?
Looking at the build and thinking about how cool the gas cans looked, I realized that you would have done well to have 2 spare tires and maybe mounted the cans lower if possible.
sarconcepts
Adventurer
The thought has occurred to me
For my use, I thought that one spare was enough (I did think about this years ago when I started)
As far as putting the fuel cans below, you can see from the picture that there's no room. The back wall panel is 48 3/4" tall. The spare is a 35" tire, the spare mount is 2" bigger all the way around (in case I ever size up), hence 39", plus a 2" lip around, hence 43" in diameter. The top rail across the wall comes down about 2", the bottom up 1" leaves me with 45" . The receiver up above takes up the 2", so I'm tight.
If you look way back at my earliest sketches on the bullet website, you can see I first did sketch the jerry cans on the rear of the sidewalls. I liked this placement but things evolved.. ..I like this layout much better now.
here's my first sketch from about 2 1/2 years ago, I look sort of perplexed! .. ...& my hair's spikey!
& the image the fuel can holders came from (blizzard 4x4 kit car)
although I always planned to have mine hang out from the body by a couple inches, I don't like the flush look, plus it gives me more room inside, which I just took advantage of with the cabinets.
here's another one of the blizzard www.rhinobuggies.com.au4x4 built on the nissan patrol chassis, this one's the short wheel base
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