DIY Truck Camper | Overland Trial Run
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2024
- I take my DIY truck camper on an overland trial run. Also known as a short camping trip. It's our first time camping in the new camper. We have fun and we find lots of opportunities to improve the camper's functionality.
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Making it out and back is definitely a win. Awesome to see you out using the camper
Sounds like you had a fun getaway! When I put mudflaps that close to my tires, they sometimes got sucked back up over the tire when reversing in rugged terrain. This ended up causing one of them to get ripped off and I only found out about it when a cop gave me a ticket for it! They didn't stop many rocks either until I made them much longer.
Something to think about for sure. I didn't consider reversing on rough terrain
Mat n Amy 👋👋 great seeing y'all!
The truck looks great .
It's nice when in that necessity is the mother of invention but not having to be in a rush. Nice solutions 🙌
Nice camper. I'll have to rewatch your Central America episodes, my favorite Pan American TH-cam channel. I do miss Jaeger though, he was the real star of the show.
Thanks.
We all miss Jaeger bear 🥲
Nice to see you get to use it, looks nice,
Very nice and congrats! I am in baja right now. You two gave me the bug!
Enjoy the peninsula 🤙
That is really impressive. I love it, now if only for a full sized truck.
My friend also just finished building his own truck camper. I think you will like it and maybe see some ideas worth borrowing. It's my newest video, just published yesterday, 01 20 2024
Take care and looking forward to some trip reports when those start happening.
your buddy's camper looks pretty nice.
Nice to see you guys getting out and having some fun. Keep the videos coming.
😎👍
Neat ideas
Bravo my friend . Time to take that beauty south.👏 🙌 👍🏻
Yes please! 😂
Well Done!
This is so awesome! looks so good
Looks amazing!
Always enjoy the updates, been following a long time, cheers
very very cool!
looking great!! thanks for sharing!
So glad to see this video Matt, I've watched it twice 😁 always great seeing your solutions to problems. I agree with the other comment, your mudflap is mounted too close to the rear of the tyre, when backing up offroad that will rip off. Personally I'd solve it by putting a triangular shaped storage box like you see on thousands of Australian 4x4 flat deck utes. How was the standing height and bed comfort? I really thought you'd be ecstatic about being able to stand in there. Thanks again for the great videos
Super happy with the standing height and having the ability to be inside without being in bed. So nice for cooking, getting dressed, and so many little things. The bed is super comfy 6" foam mattress. Not a ton of headroom up there but plenty to crawl into bed and sleep without feeling claustrophobic.
I guess I'll have to put mudflaps back on my to do list. I like those angled storage boxes under the tray, but I'm hesitant to add any more storage/weight behind the rear axle. She's already rear axle heavy.
@@TheTravelingTogetherJournal those triangular shaped under deck storage boxes are also available in rotomoulded plastic which is very lightweight. So could potentially be a good place to store bulky but lightweight items. But if you're happy with the storage capacity you have just moving the mudflaps back should work well. Glad to hear you're enjoying the standing height, we absolutely love it in our build :)
@@sharpsticksnz4112 I haven't seen the rotomoulded versions. I'll check that out. Thanks.
Your build looks very nice I've been following you since you where in Mexico.
Thank you
Sweet
Thanks for the update on issues. I'm watching closely because I keep thinking about putting together a small trailer built on the principles you used. I figure that if I can drop the roof down to the height of the truck cap I'll be getting about 20 mpg (in my dreams). What fuel mileage are you getting?
I haven't figured out fuel mileage yet. It's on the to-do-list.
With our old camper setup we averaged 15mpg
I have a 95 t100 with a modified grandby (1987 ) curious about your details. Length / weight etc. Very nice work.
I haven't weighted it yet, but it is 75.5 inches wide, 89 inches tall, and 209 inches long
@@TheTravelingTogetherJournalwhat is the interior height when roof closed vs roof lifted?
@@Nimesh222 roof lifted = 72 inches
roof closed= 55.5 inches
16.5" difference in standing room with roof down vs. lifted. I just put out a new video with all the dimensions th-cam.com/video/Bwbfe8-MII0/w-d-xo.html
What's the finished weight on your rig ( currently)?
Just weighed it recently. I go into the details in the new video: th-cam.com/video/Bwbfe8-MII0/w-d-xo.html
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