Desertikon 4x4 on Iveco Eurocargo 95e21ws (from Nord Est Italy)
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GermanTurtle
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Enrico,
everything on your truck Looks very heavy. Do you know your actual weight?
I was suprised when i got the weight for my truck....
Martin
everything on your truck Looks very heavy. Do you know your actual weight?
I was suprised when i got the weight for my truck....
Martin
underdrive
jackwagon
Enrico, what was the reasoning behind having your rear bumper so low (assuming that big piece of tubing is the rear bumper)? You already tapered your toolboxes nicely to help departure angle, why kill that effect with such a low bumper? It is likely to drag on the ground quite often whenever you go to climb over something and the front axle goes up. Unless you made it on a pivot and it sits down low for on-highway use but can retract up high for offroading?
As for weight, at around 16000 lbs you're doing good considering the size of the truck. A lot of US campers loaded in pickup trucks come close to that weight, only they don't have the monstrous chassis you have. After seeing one of those things flop on its side due to a loose nut behind the wheel, we'd much rather drive behind a home-built camper like yours than something "ready-made" that costs twice as much but the driver has no idea what it's (not) capable of...
As for weight, at around 16000 lbs you're doing good considering the size of the truck. A lot of US campers loaded in pickup trucks come close to that weight, only they don't have the monstrous chassis you have. After seeing one of those things flop on its side due to a loose nut behind the wheel, we'd much rather drive behind a home-built camper like yours than something "ready-made" that costs twice as much but the driver has no idea what it's (not) capable of...
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jackwagon
Yeah kinda figured as much, same reason why US semi-trailers now have the ICC bars on the very rear. Wonder how he went about making it retractable though... We've seen a somewhat similar setup once, but it was on a trailer hitch cause the receiver was way high (for departure angle purposes) and the resulting drop-drawbar made pulling a heavy trailer a scary experience - these people had built a nice A-frame structure that would secure the bottom of the drawbar to the frame rails when towing, while stowing up high flat under the fuel tank (and acting as a rock shield for it) when offroading. Heim joints were their weapon of choice for the A-frame leg pivots, it'd be interesting to see what Enrico came up with for his bumper.
Enrytre
Bye Enrico
Thank's is correct !! E when is up in off road is out of the rear angle ...
at the end of the page seven I put the photos with the bar raised in off-road configuration....
Bye enrico
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jackwagon
Ah yes, I see it now, for some reason not all of your pictures loaded for me the first time around and I missed it. Next question, how do you lift that thing? Is there some sort of assist mechanism, or is it just your muscles doing the work? I see you have air tanks for your air-over-hydraulic brakes (hydraulic brakes with air assist? with a separate master cylinder for each wheel?) so you can use them to do the work for you, all you need is a pair of small air cylinders and a manual valve to fill/dump them (a check valve on the tank is also a good idea so you don't purge all your air out in case your lift cylinders feed line lets go violently).
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jackwagon
Ah ok then, yes, as long as you can lift it without getting herniated there's no reason to overcomplicate the design. Any new progress on rest of truck?
red EOD veteran
Adventurer
Underdrive the air assisted hydraulic brakes are a updated design to what my truck has. Think of it like vacuum assisted brakes that most cars and trucks have, just instead of a little vacuum actuator on the master cylinder, you have an air tank providing higher pressure (stronger brakes).
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jackwagon
Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking of, just haven't seen one with separate air-hydraulic units... Then again I haven't seen many to begin with, lol. Guess it would make sense to have fully separate front and rear circuits for redundancy purposes, as opposed to the typical combined setup with one bore and two stacked pistons inside it.
