my Chinese thing... (1 Viewer)

[Sput]

Hello,
I'm from Angola - Africa, and we go a lot to the beach on weekends.
Because of my work I do not have many time to prepare the car with all the things we need during the week, so the best solution was a small trailer always ready to rock !!
So, I started do look for a trailer, but, Angola doesn't have any dealers, if we need something we need to go by car to Namibia to buy, in this case an off road trailer.

So, I'm working on a maintenance company, and sometimes we need to visit suppliers, and thats how I found this Chinese trailer abandoned on a warehouse, didn't have the floor or electrical installation.

This is day one

start dismantling

Start to reinforce the chassis, welding everything

shocks installation

the lid structure to suport an 1.6 roof top tent

the lid shocks that I bought on a junkyard, and they do lift everything.

Start wiring.

power inlet

water tank, 120 liter

painted with durabak

12v pump installation

My wife demands....

working on the power box

lid light (led bar)

last weekend finished all wiring.

ready to try it on the next weekend.

just want to say thank you all, I spent a lot of hours reading this forum, taking ideas from your projects.

Thank you again,

Regards,

Pedro


PS: Sorry my English.

 

[skersfan]

Pedro,

What a fantastic job, very professional in appearance and quality. Some may knock the origin, but metal it metal normally and you have taken something and made it many times better. You should be very proud of your trailer, I know it it was mine I sure would be.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

 

[titanpat57]

Fantastic job Pedro!!

Best of luck camping!

 

[greentruck]

Nice work! Lots of useful details to serve as examples for others.

One thing you may want to consider is some sort of panel or bulkhead to keep cargo from rubbing on or shifting into the installed gear in the front of the bed. Once things start bouncing around on the trail, this might be useful.

 

[Combat Chuck]

That's a really nicely built trailer.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[e9999]

Nice work.
I would have assumed it would be hard to get all the hardware, nice tools etc. It's all there to be bought easily in town? Or did you bring it all from the outside? (Sorry, not exactly familiar with the store situation in Angola... )

 

[Sput]

Yes it's quite easy to get the right tools. There are big builders shops with the best brands.

This country right now is like Dubai a few years ago, constructions everywhere. So yes, it's easy.

 

[angerhater]

very nice build....love the simple kitchen sink setup...i can see it very adaptable...

 

[rusty_tlc]

Are those just regular shelf bracket holding the sink and drain board? Great idea!
I've been looking for an easy way to add an outside table to my trailer and that looks like it would work very nicely.

 

[sseaman]

Nice built, when I saw the first picture I thought there was no way it would hold up, after your upgrades it looks ready to go.

 

[Sput]

Are those just regular shelf bracket holding the sink and drain board? Great idea!
I've been looking for an easy way to add an outside table to my trailer and that looks like it would work very nicely.

Yes, with one meter I was able to cut in four (20 cm each) and I still have two possible positions.

Sorry we use the metric system.

Regards,

Pedro

 

[Sput]

Another test, It's easy to open the lid with the roof tent open.

cheers,

Pedro

 

[Thornton]

Excellent, well done

 

[skidplate]

A man after my own heart! I love the way you took something similar to what you wanted, and made it in to something you DID want!

 

[Sput]

Thank you !!!
Good weekend, nice test! rough roads! Saturday lots of sun, On Sunday lots of tropical rain... lots of mud !! and everything went well.

I didn't know.... I'm the drift king on the mud !! with a trailer

have to install bigger mud flaps

 

[skidplate]

Well done!

 

[Corprin]

anyone else in love with his swing away tire... racks?