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One of my cars has a light on each rear pillar shining forwards into the load bay. Works great when you open the tailgate, nicely illuminates everything.

Just in case you had a couple of spare lights!
 
Dougal said:
One of my cars has a light on each rear pillar shining forwards into the load bay. Works great when you open the tailgate, nicely illuminates everything.

Just in case you had a couple of spare lights!
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Thats actually a super good idea. The 60 only has a small rear dome light and no passenger dome and working with the headliner is almost impossible for a guy like me.
 
Getting her done. You going to be sleeping in the back or camping, rooftop tent?
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kowalski said:
Roof top tent! My wife is coming with so I'm trying to make it as luxurious as possible so we don't end up cutting the trip short :p

Still trying to figure out how to fasten a couple of bicycles to it...
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that fridge is huge!!

How does the spare wheel mount to the carrier?

I had ideas of making a bike carrier to attach to the spare wheel carrier using an adapter with flanged 2.5", (1/4" wall) square tube that bolted on behind/through the spare wheel.
slip the adapter flange over the wheel carrier wheel studs, bolt the spare in place with square tube extending through the center of the rim, then use smaller square tube (2" tube) sleeved and bolted inside the adapter to attach a bike carrier so bikes are mounted on the wheel carrier.

it would keep bikes up high for good ground clearance, and being mounted on the swing out wheel carrier they don't need to be unloaded to access the rear of the truck.

In the rare instance you need to change wheels, you'd have to unbolt the bike carrier.

hope that makes sense?
 
mudgudgeon said:
that fridge is huge!!

How does the spare wheel mount to the carrier?

I had ideas of making a bike carrier to attach to the spare wheel carrier using an adapter with flanged 2.5", (1/4" wall) square tube that bolted on behind/through the spare wheel.
slip the adapter flange over the wheel carrier wheel studs, bolt the spare in place with square tube extending through the center of the rim, then use smaller square tube (2" tube) sleeved and bolted inside the adapter to attach a bike carrier so bikes are mounted on the wheel carrier.

it would keep bikes up high for good ground clearance, and being mounted on the swing out wheel carrier they don't need to be unloaded to access the rear of the truck.

In the rare instance you need to change wheels, you'd have to unbolt the bike carrier.

hope that makes sense?
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The Fridge is HUGE, yes! We have done a trip like this once before, and having a small fridge hindered the meal situation pretty bad so we wanted to make sure we had ample room for everything.

I have been considering modifying the swing out to make it into a receiver, and make a receiver mount bike holder pretty much like you described but using a hitch pin instead of bolts to hold it on. I just wasn't sure how much weight the swingouts can support, it's already got a fair bit of stuff on it.
 
Make sure the bikes look s***ty or else they WILL ride away on you. BIGREDTOY has his bicycle rack cantilevering from the middle of his spare.
 
cruisedeisel said:
Make sure the bikes look s***ty or else they WILL ride away on you. BIGREDTOY has his bicycle rack cantilevering from the middle of his spare.
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Good recommendation, Our bikes already look sufficiently Hobo-ish... I'm hoping the current paint scheme deters most...

Mounted my rear AUX fuse panel just above the filler access in the rear fender. Drilled out lug nuts turned out to space the mount perfectly into the fender so I can still put my interior back together.

 
Compressors hard wired in, batteries wired in with Blue Sea relay kit including battery switch to combine all batteries for long winch sessions and self jump starting.

Aux fuse panel on 120A breaker, 200A breaker at each end of 2/0 cable connecting front and back batteries, compressors on 60A breaker, and solar system on 60A breaker.



 
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LOOKING GOOD!!!! sick solar. Are you able to charge the engine batteries too?
 
Very nice Mike, it's definately coming along. Will you have room for more than one panel under the tent? Those panels are extremely cool. I'll be getting a couple for my rv roof. They are quite flexible and basically weigh nothing. Every cruiser should have one!
 
cruisedeisel said:
LOOKING GOOD!!!! sick solar. Are you able to charge the engine batteries too?
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Thank you!

Solar will charge starting batteries once house batteries are charged. Starting batteries will charge house batteries when fully charged. Red combination switch has a selection that bypasses relay to link starting and house batteries and doubles as a battery disconnect for rear power.
 
gerg said:
Very nice Mike, it's definately coming along. Will you have room for more than one panel under the tent? Those panels are extremely cool. I'll be getting a couple for my rv roof. They are quite flexible and basically weigh nothing. Every cruiser should have one!
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Thank you, yes we made some significant progress this weekend, thankfully! I just setup 1 panel to test the system, but we have 4 panels for a total of 400 watts and the solar controller allows me to hook the panels up in series
 
The screw aint no problem. a plug or two should fix that. I have never seen a plug fail yet. Nice clean wiring. Not one of my specialties.
 
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