REALLY I am just looking to take a peek inside (images) the rear cabs of 80’s premised on extended traveling with more than one person. Read at your peril otherwise.
I just want to assure any who might read this;
I have spent hundreds of hours in the threads: reading: scanning images: and otherwise trying to learn something from those that came before.
I have also spent hundreds of hours on youtube looking at builds and listening to experts in the field of service, ‘overlanding’ and whatever...
I am trying to get a sense and therefor a working budget together for a life out on the road for a year.
The largest part of the budget;
(1) hard parts: lockers/diff/axles related work--I am undecided about T-case spools, hubs: then
(2) suspension and all bushings therein related, and then the
(3) RTT/Custom Load Bar/Rack.
Those three items are effectively over one half of my estimated expense so far.
In those three areas I am not looking to cut any corners where any of that work is concerned. And so I think paying full retail is a fair exchange.
Of course there is other high ticket items like armor and what not that in of themselves might not be expensive per se but add up nevertheless.
My concern is build quality, practicality of products, efficiency of use and I tell you what, youtube is filled with a ton of rear cab builds on legitimate expo builds that are brilliant but the problem is with those particular builds is that they are not typically built in an 80 Series. And the problem in the images posted on MUD is that in most specific builds the poster very rarely makes more than a passing comment about all the chit built up in the rear of their respective rig.
About all I know about space management in the rear cab of the 80 is one; there is not a lot of space per se and second combined weight should not be overlooked.
Where my own build is concerned all I know is that I want a fridge/freezer combo, some configuration of drawers and on-board water tank storage and all of it will sit above an extended fuel tank mounted between the rear rails (I might be one of those that runs an ARB rear bumper?). I’ll make my decision on the rear bumper once the extended tank is installed.
Other than that I have no sense of organization. If I just trust myself to buy an appealing off the rack shelving/rack/drawer unit I feel like it would a huge mistake potentially
I guess images/descriptions of other’s rear cargo builds in their respective 80 is what I am after.
If there are creative solutions to real world shortcomings about rear cab storage and organization I want to know what others are saying about what they have learned...
I just want to assure any who might read this;
I have spent hundreds of hours in the threads: reading: scanning images: and otherwise trying to learn something from those that came before.
I have also spent hundreds of hours on youtube looking at builds and listening to experts in the field of service, ‘overlanding’ and whatever...
I am trying to get a sense and therefor a working budget together for a life out on the road for a year.
The largest part of the budget;
(1) hard parts: lockers/diff/axles related work--I am undecided about T-case spools, hubs: then
(2) suspension and all bushings therein related, and then the
(3) RTT/Custom Load Bar/Rack.
Those three items are effectively over one half of my estimated expense so far.
In those three areas I am not looking to cut any corners where any of that work is concerned. And so I think paying full retail is a fair exchange.
Of course there is other high ticket items like armor and what not that in of themselves might not be expensive per se but add up nevertheless.
My concern is build quality, practicality of products, efficiency of use and I tell you what, youtube is filled with a ton of rear cab builds on legitimate expo builds that are brilliant but the problem is with those particular builds is that they are not typically built in an 80 Series. And the problem in the images posted on MUD is that in most specific builds the poster very rarely makes more than a passing comment about all the chit built up in the rear of their respective rig.
About all I know about space management in the rear cab of the 80 is one; there is not a lot of space per se and second combined weight should not be overlooked.
Where my own build is concerned all I know is that I want a fridge/freezer combo, some configuration of drawers and on-board water tank storage and all of it will sit above an extended fuel tank mounted between the rear rails (I might be one of those that runs an ARB rear bumper?). I’ll make my decision on the rear bumper once the extended tank is installed.
Other than that I have no sense of organization. If I just trust myself to buy an appealing off the rack shelving/rack/drawer unit I feel like it would a huge mistake potentially
I guess images/descriptions of other’s rear cargo builds in their respective 80 is what I am after.
If there are creative solutions to real world shortcomings about rear cab storage and organization I want to know what others are saying about what they have learned...
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