I guess it depends on what you think of as 'bad'. Drove from Whitehorse to Vancouver and back with the soft top, and never used the zip in windows. Some places their horrendous (even by my standards)... while others are not too bad at all. But if you're using the hardtop, then I'd probably use the hard sides too.
Fiberglass M416/M100 Military-style Trailer Tub Kit
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ReconZJ
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...I also plan to do the Alaska trip with the hard sides on the hardtop rather than the roll-up side curtains because everything I read says the bugs up there are unbelievable in the summer so an open vehicle isn't a good idea.
Hmmmm, perhaps you could come up with some mosquito net zip-in curtains!
jscherb
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ReconZJ
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Well, yes, of course! It seems that a fine screen material could be sewn in the soft side panels in place of the clear windows.
But then, for a trip like you're planning, it probably wouldn't be very practical as it wouldn't be weather resistant that way, and bringing along the other set of panels (with the clear windows) would take up too much valuable space. Oh, well...
It seems that a fine screen material could be sewn in the soft side panels in place of the clear windows.But then, for a trip like you're planning, it probably wouldn't be very practical as it wouldn't be weather resistant that way, and bringing along the other set of panels (with the clear windows) would take up too much valuable space. Oh, well...
And would that include half door uppers with screens as well?
I'm not sure about your half doors... but mine flapped like a son of a ***** when doing highway speeds with a wind.... I did a long *** road trip with them once, and will never do it again. Now I take them with me, but use the full doors when traveling.
jscherb
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jscherb
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Thank you very much.
I designed and built this tub kit and trailer just as a hobby project, so I'm not selling them, but as it turned out a company was interested in bringing the kit to market, so I have licensed the kit to that company. When I made the agreement with that company, I posted some info on the company in this thread, but in order to keep this thread from getting too commercial I won't repeat that info now. I'm sure that when the company releases the kits (currently scheduled for late summer), they'll make an announcement.
In the meantime, I'm off on another fiberglass project...
jscherb
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Sorry, An fj40 to look like a truck using your tub as the bed. Kinda like the fj45.....apologies again
I don't have the time to do a full FJ40 drawing right now, so how about I show you some ideas based on Jeeps?
Since this thread is about a military-style tub, here's a photo of a Jeep CJ-10a outfitted with a shortened M416 tub for a bed:
But you're probably asking about the Jeep-tub trailer kit, not the military trailer kit, because that makes a better pickup bed. Here's a concept I call the Rustler (it looks like a CJ because this concept uses my fiberglass CJ front clip set for the TJ/LJ):
And here's a concept based on a TJ, using the fiberglass Jeepster Commando front clip kit
I plan to be doing a TJ pickup with the Jeep-tub trailer kit soon...
jscherb
Expedition Leader
Now that I'm back from my Florida and Colorado trips, and I've sold the black trailer, I finally got around to getting the M72 registered and inspected, so now it's legal on the road (notice the license plate?).
I decided to run it with the Jeep-matching wheels and tires and wide M416-style fenders for a while, so I swapped them on and that's what you see in the photo.
I "made the rounds" around town with it today, stopping at the places that always help me with parts of my projects - Elmira Auto Paint (paint and bodywork supplies and advice), Manchester Body Shop (painting advice), Cedar Street Manufacturing (metal and occasional use of their large shears and bending brakes)... all of them contributed in some way or another to this project, and they always appreciate seeing the end results. That's a nice thing about living in a small town, everyone's willing to take the time to give advice and help, and they seem to like it when I take the finished projects around to them so they can see how their advice and supplies contributed to the project.
While I was at the metal shop, I scrounged enough 1" angle and 1" tubing to be able to frame up the metal tailgate design I've been working on, and I also cut some 14-gauge galvanized steel strips to make some new "side-to-side" hold-down straps for the jerry cans on the trailer; stay tuned for more on those projects soon.
The next trip for the this trailer is to pick up a couple of 4x8 sheets for mold master making on my current project, probably get to that tomorrow or Wednesday. I usually just throw 4x8 sheets in the back of the Suburban, but it's a good opportunity to test the rack on the cover so I'll use the M72.
I decided to run it with the Jeep-matching wheels and tires and wide M416-style fenders for a while, so I swapped them on and that's what you see in the photo.
I "made the rounds" around town with it today, stopping at the places that always help me with parts of my projects - Elmira Auto Paint (paint and bodywork supplies and advice), Manchester Body Shop (painting advice), Cedar Street Manufacturing (metal and occasional use of their large shears and bending brakes)... all of them contributed in some way or another to this project, and they always appreciate seeing the end results. That's a nice thing about living in a small town, everyone's willing to take the time to give advice and help, and they seem to like it when I take the finished projects around to them so they can see how their advice and supplies contributed to the project.
While I was at the metal shop, I scrounged enough 1" angle and 1" tubing to be able to frame up the metal tailgate design I've been working on, and I also cut some 14-gauge galvanized steel strips to make some new "side-to-side" hold-down straps for the jerry cans on the trailer; stay tuned for more on those projects soon.
The next trip for the this trailer is to pick up a couple of 4x8 sheets for mold master making on my current project, probably get to that tomorrow or Wednesday. I usually just throw 4x8 sheets in the back of the Suburban, but it's a good opportunity to test the rack on the cover so I'll use the M72.