HOW TO BUILD A HDT SMART CAR BED | EPISODE 3 | HDT RV LIFE
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- HOW TO BUILD A HDT SMART CAR BED | EPISODE 3 | HDT RV LIFE
✔️About this Episode:
Join us in this episode where we complete our Smart Car bed build on the Volvo HDT. It turns out pretty awesome and we couldn’t be happier with it. We also use a new product called Raptor Liner from Amazon and it was awesome. Check out how we did it in this final episode of the 3-part bed build series 😊
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What a fantastic job you done just the two of you you done really well !!
Thank you Jim. Safe Travels
Man I just love the way everything has turned out and the best part is you done it yourself. When your able to use your own hands and brain it just seems to feel much better. Great job
Thanks Nathan. It does feel great to be able to say I did it myself. Some people just can't believe it but when you have the right tools and some professional help, father-in-law, its really does turn out great. Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
So nice to have access to the shop, hoist, welders and specialized tools. That’s the perfect choice to spray all that metal. Just an outstanding job of customizing the back of your truck. I think I’d want to go double-wide on your car loading ramps if they weren’t too heavy. Driving off the side would be a nightmare. 👍👏
Thank you. We had a ton of fun doing this build but it was a ton of work. So much more rewarding than writing a check LOL. Thanks for checking out the video and following along. Safe Travels
great looking build. While i don't have an HDT, i still really enjoyed the buying series and the bed build. keep up the great work and safe travels.
Thank you Jonathan. I really appreciate that and I am proud to hear that you enjoyed the series. Safe Travels
Thanks for all the great information. I have been watching and learning for a while now. Keep up with the fantastic videos.
Will do. Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
Nice work! Great to see folks doing their own work and saving money. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Mark. So glad you enjoyed and we are happy to have you following along. Safe Travels
Thanks for sharing your build. Great ideas. Now if I can convince the boss a HDT is the best option for our TV.
Hi George. Thanks for checking out our build series. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it. I had to convince Tina a bit too. She was mostly impressed with the safety aspects, stopping, towing with a heavier vehicle etc. Best of luck :) Safe Travels
great fab project!
Thank you! 😊
The truck bed really came together nicely!
Thanks Tod. We appreciate you following along. Safe Travels
Howdy Aaron and Tina,
I waited to comment until you were done with this task, GREAT, well done. It's wonderful that you had family who have a huge shop and all the tools needed to build your deck, I wish I had had such a shop to work in when my deck was built. I remember whilst boon docking near Quartszite we talked about Smart Car, decks and then things started to happen. You found a trailer that you wanted, then you found the hitch, when we parted last spring you were just beginning to look for an a Smart Car and HDT, and now you have the "full meal deal". Welcome to the club of HTD'ers that haul a Smart Car, on the truck. Your going to LOVE IT.
Dave, Donna, Newt and Willy
Thank you so much Dave. You inspired me to go for it :) See you back in Quartzsite. Say hi to Donna for us and give Newt and Willie a treat :) Safe Travels Friends.
Good job👍👍👍
Thank you. Thanks for checking out the video. Safe Travels
You guys did a very good job on this project. Probably saved you close to 15k doing it yourself. 👍🏻
I thinks so or maybe even more. :) Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
Turned out nice Aaron. Great job.
Thank you guys. :) See you soon.
Mag drill! Yes!!!! Really fantastic series. Thanks for posting!
Thanks Chip. So glad you liked it. Trouble is now we have to find more cool stuff to do LOL Stay safe out there. :) Safe Travels
Is that your shop? Enjoy your videos.
The shop belongs to a cousin of Tina's. Was awesome to have the right facilities. :) Safe Travels
That turned out awesome, great job to you and the in laws. After driving a rig for 10 yrs I can definitely imagine the difference of the added weight would make when hitched or not in ride comfort. Look forward to seeing more adventures and upgrades.
Thanks Kevin. I didn't know the truck could ride so good :) More to come for sure. Thanks for delivering the goods. :) Safe Travels
Wow is the job you could be proud of you guys done that all yourself very nice👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks Howard. Really appreciate the feedback and appreciate you for following along. Safe Travels
Looks good. I rebuilt most of the flatbed on my trk to suit my needs it aint pretty. I need to take my bed off to finish it out. Some changes and some fixes. I did all my mig welding outside. What a pain. Im hoping to be able to buy my own house in 2021 and i want a barn to store tractor in and be nice for winter if trk could fit in also otherwise if need to work on trk to be able to kick tractor out. I would like to insulate it also with maybe a small heater to keep off chill but i also have a torpedo if doing work in real cold. When im able to finish i want a nice paint job. I want a flat black look for non body panels like bed, front bumper, mirrors,door handles, rims. No to chrome. Its a working cab n chassis trk no need for shiny
Sounds like a great plan. Thanks for following along. Safe Travels. :)
You did a great job and saved a lot of money
Thanks Kevin. I've always figured that If I can do it myself then why not save the money :) Safe Travels
Hi guys ..looks really good 👍...thanks for showing how you did it...what about Underneath...did it get sprayed also...take care...thanks...J&A
Thanks guys. We sprayed the underneath with spray paint, If it doesn't hold up we can always pull the bed off and spray it with bedliner later on. Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
Turned out Great!!! Thanks for sharing the series!!! How is the raptor lining holding up??
Hi Brent. The Raptor liner is still like new. Just make sure you apply at least 2 coats. I had some spots that were too thin, so I touched it up about a year later. Sprayed over the existing without any issues. Hope that helps. Safe Travels
Looks good nice job see you soon. Safe travels.
Thank you guys. Travel safe. Can't wait to hang out again :)
Looks great, keep up the good work.
Thank you Antonio. Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
Looks good Aaron.
Thanks Matt. Safe Travels
Looks really good bro well done!
Thanks Drew. I really appreciate that my friend. Safe Travels
Would be col to add a tray slider for those tool box areas.
Hey Steve, that is an excellent idea. They are kind of like my tool bag, what you need is always at the bottom or in the back of the tool box LOL Thanks for checking out the video. Safe Travels
Good video. I used the raptor liner for my Ram... problem was It took a lot to cover since the bed was white. I’ve had some chipping but I think it’s because I didn’t have enough for a 2nd coat. I got another kit and one of these days I plan on layering it a couple light coats which think will fix my issues
I am at the same point with mine. It covered great but it really does need a second coat. I underestimated how much product it would require. I'll get another kit too and do mine maybe next summer when I'm back in MO. :) Safe Travels
That looks good.
Thank you so much. Safe Travels
Great job my friend!
Thank you. :) Stay safe out there!
Looks like good fun
Thank you. Safe Travels
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Is there room under the sides of the bed to tie any supports to the truck frame? Looks like the bed overhangs the frame about two feet or so on each side, although it you aren't loading anything heavier than the smart car then it would probably never be an issue.
The bed sits on 2 4x4 running the length of the bed and a 2.5x2.5 cross support every 24 inches so you're right, the smart car isn't nearly heavy enough to causer any issues and I doubt I'll ever load anything heavy enough to require extra supports. So far so good :) Safe Travels
Looks good 👍
Thank you. :) Safe Travels
Sitting here in New Zealand watching all your videos, I did wonder why steel deck, I would use 32mm industrial ply like you use for the bottom on a container. Any reason? We hope to return to Canada and do something similar if covid let’s us travel. Safe travelling guys, and big thanks for the videos.
Hi Ian. I'm not sure we even have access to that industrial ply and if we do I don't know where to get it. The steel will last almost indefinitely through all types of climates here in the states and its strong enough to hold the smart car. I don't see any reason not to use the ply you mention but I don't have any experience with it :) Thanks for following along from New Zealand, we appreciate you. Safe Travels
Looks awesome!!!
Thank guys. Safe Travels
Great job y’all that spray on product is very nice Will this be a drive on or a electric winch type set up ?
Thank you. Yes, I really liked the spray on liner. I'll probably do another coat or two later on. I may have under estimated how much it would take :) For now its drive on but i can always modify it later and add a winch setup. Driving it on doesn't bother me at all at this point but I may still want to winch it on someday. Thanks for checking out the video. Safe Travels
Have you seen how rvh is building a generator box under the hitch? Clean build. Could a newbie welder build this?
Hi Frank. I haven't seen that yet but I'll check it out. If you have the right welder then you probably could. The steel is pretty heavy duty so you want to make sure you get good penetration on your welds. Personally I would get someone to do the frame work just to be safe. :) Hope that helps. Safe Travels
Oak Grove thats in my backyard. We live in Marshfield Mo.
Awesome. Well if you need structural steel you know who to call LOL Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
The build looks awesome!! What size and thickness of tube steel did you use on the cross members and main support steel??
Thank you. We used 4" x 4" schedule 40 for the beam on top of the truck frame and then 2.5" x 2.5" schedule 40 tubing for the cross frame. Then we topped that with 3/16 diamond plate. Hope that helps. Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
Aaron I am about to raptor line my bare steel diamond plate bed similar to yours. Do I need to sand and etching prime it first or can I wipe it down with acetone and bedline it.
Hey Eric. I believe Raptor recommends to prime it. We didn't prime ours but now I wish we had. A little rust peeking through the liner where I applied it too thin. Make sure to do 2 good coats of liner as well. Hope that helps. :) Safe Travels
@@JonesN2Travel thank you Aaron for the information.
Do you know how much weight that project added to your truck?
Hi Carlos. I've roughly estimate about 3k pounds but the drom box added another few hundred pounds so I'd say somewhere just south of 5k pounds. Hope that helps. Safe Travels
Is that hitch position legal? I remember seeing a post somewhere that the hitch position is to be over the axel. Or is that for commercial only?
That's probably commercial only. I've never seen or heard otherwise. Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
There’s no legal position for the hitch. Look at car haulers, they have a stinger out the back if the tractor way behind the drives.
I have. A jeep renegade could I fit that on the truck
Hi Desiree. We've seen someone before with a Jeep Renegade on their truck but you would have to extend the truck bed just a little more and park it front to back. The jeep is too long to park it sideways like we do our Smart car. Hope that helps. Thanks for checking out the video. Safe Travels
@@JonesN2Travel it did thank u so much
Did you coat the bottom of the new bed?
Yes, we spray painted it. I'll keep and eye on it and if it doesn't hold up I can always pull the bed back off and liner it. :) Safe Travels
@@JonesN2Travel i figured you did just would hate to see that awesome bed destroyed by rust!
Looks “ awesome”
Thanks Jim. Stay safe out there. :)
How much do you estimate the bed weighs?
A rough guess is about 1500 pounds. I know that the 3/16 diamond plate is about 8 lbs. per square foot. That stuff is heavy LOL. The truck rides so much better with the bad and then a little better still with the car loaded up. :) Thanks for following along. Safe Travels
Looks real good
Thank you Mark. Safe Tavels