Sleeping in your truck!
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mhiscox
Exp. Leader Emeritus
Do you need to keep the rear seats? If you can take them out (as I've done in my LC80) you can make a very nice sleeping system by having drawers in the rear that extend forwards to where the rear seat backs would be. Then use a removable plywood piece of appropriate size to go from the front edge of the drawer on the driver's side to near the front driver's seat back--leave room to recline--where it sits on a supporting frame screwed into the now-empty seat mount holes.
There's room for storage in the drawers and underneath the bed extension and, in my case, just needing enough width for one, there's room for a fridge on the floor on the passenger's side in front of the drawers.
Of course, I have the advantage of having a vehicle that has prebuilt dedicated drawers and bed extensions available, which is not the case for the GX. But my guess is that the new composite drawers Adventure Trailers sells will fit and be a good starting point.
http://www.adventuretrailers.com/drawer.html
There's room for storage in the drawers and underneath the bed extension and, in my case, just needing enough width for one, there's room for a fridge on the floor on the passenger's side in front of the drawers.
Of course, I have the advantage of having a vehicle that has prebuilt dedicated drawers and bed extensions available, which is not the case for the GX. But my guess is that the new composite drawers Adventure Trailers sells will fit and be a good starting point.
http://www.adventuretrailers.com/drawer.html
LexusAllTerrain
Expedition Leader
Im not sure how difficult it really was but it took me a while to get it the way I wanted it.
I needed a first project to learn to weld aluminum, so that slowed me down a bit.
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PajEvo
JDM Journeys
Wow. That is a piece of work. I'm almost embarrassed to show mine, after something that polished!
I wanted to be able to leave middle seat in (but folded down), and leave the bed/drawer in place when I needed the middle bench. So I came up with a folding design, which allows me to leave it all in the truck...
I also wanted my head at the front, so I could lie on my bed and look out through the cavernous sunroof...And I wanted it to be a half unit so I could pack tall stuff low on the floor. Only needed to be a single, since my dog is small, and my wife will be along when we have the trailer behind us...
Anyways, here's mine (just did it yesterday, so there are finishing touches yet to add)
Battery compartment for a third battery, inverter, etc, in front of the drawer:
If I have rear passengers, its just a matter of flip-flip, and the front half of the bed flips back on itself, and is still usable as a storage surface and drawer.
BTW, vehicle is 93 Mitsubishi Pajero (like the US Montero, except I have a JDM diesel that I imported from Japan)
(looks a little different than this now)
I wanted to be able to leave middle seat in (but folded down), and leave the bed/drawer in place when I needed the middle bench. So I came up with a folding design, which allows me to leave it all in the truck...
I also wanted my head at the front, so I could lie on my bed and look out through the cavernous sunroof...And I wanted it to be a half unit so I could pack tall stuff low on the floor. Only needed to be a single, since my dog is small, and my wife will be along when we have the trailer behind us...
Anyways, here's mine (just did it yesterday, so there are finishing touches yet to add)
Battery compartment for a third battery, inverter, etc, in front of the drawer:
If I have rear passengers, its just a matter of flip-flip, and the front half of the bed flips back on itself, and is still usable as a storage surface and drawer.
BTW, vehicle is 93 Mitsubishi Pajero (like the US Montero, except I have a JDM diesel that I imported from Japan)
(looks a little different than this now)