-Defender110-
Well-Known Member
Small bit of an update lads and ladies!
Since the last post, i was a bit side tracked semi-rebuilding a trayback project for a mate, rewiring, led lights, pump tweaking, full raptor respray, new door tops, seat belts and windscreen:
Now that that is out of the way, i pulled the camper build out of the shed to get a better look at it. All looked pretty good but i did notice a small bit of an unlevelness on the sub floor front section, so that was first to be sorted out:
Next up i started to build the camper box frame... First step in that process was to weigh it as was in the photo above... i had done some ''back of a napkin'' maths to guess at a weight, but its chassis cab weight was going to hugely influence the method of construction that would be used for the body..
Amazingly it came in about 200kg under what i was expecting, it came in at 1820kg. This allowed me to go with my most preferred method of building the body. I went with a box frame construction, unto which ill be bonding GRP sheeting, and insulating from behind. I preferred this method as its a strong frame from which ill be able to mount things if needed, works well to my abilities, i can Mig weld etc, and its arguably the cheapest method of achieving what i want, so heres the start of the frame build!:
So right now thats how it sits, its all just tacked in place for now, as i dont want to fully weld anything until i have the frame squared properly and braced for welding.
A long road to go with the frame yet, but the bulk of the shape is now visible at least!
Since the last post, i was a bit side tracked semi-rebuilding a trayback project for a mate, rewiring, led lights, pump tweaking, full raptor respray, new door tops, seat belts and windscreen:
Now that that is out of the way, i pulled the camper build out of the shed to get a better look at it. All looked pretty good but i did notice a small bit of an unlevelness on the sub floor front section, so that was first to be sorted out:
Next up i started to build the camper box frame... First step in that process was to weigh it as was in the photo above... i had done some ''back of a napkin'' maths to guess at a weight, but its chassis cab weight was going to hugely influence the method of construction that would be used for the body..
Amazingly it came in about 200kg under what i was expecting, it came in at 1820kg. This allowed me to go with my most preferred method of building the body. I went with a box frame construction, unto which ill be bonding GRP sheeting, and insulating from behind. I preferred this method as its a strong frame from which ill be able to mount things if needed, works well to my abilities, i can Mig weld etc, and its arguably the cheapest method of achieving what i want, so heres the start of the frame build!:
So right now thats how it sits, its all just tacked in place for now, as i dont want to fully weld anything until i have the frame squared properly and braced for welding.
A long road to go with the frame yet, but the bulk of the shape is now visible at least!
