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I haven't handled just the frame yet... my wife and I flipped it over the other day with the 4' x 8' x 5/8" plywood still attached to the bottom, and that felt like maybe 200 lbs. If I pull the new plywood off before gluing/screwing it to the frame, I'll weigh the frame. When the heater was...

Sweet setup. It'll be nice to be able to push it around the driveway when it's in the way and not being used. :)

A bit of structural stuff today. I flipped over the Shell of the old camper and built a new tub for it. I trimmed the aluminum frame to fit the bed of the taco. I picked up a tool to do the pocket screws thing to hold it all together with wood glue. I really really like using pocket screws now...

More progress! All four windows are done with removable storm flaps on the outside, inspired by how atc does them. I have to order another bucket of hh-66 glue to put all of the panels together. I'm hoping to start cutting on the camper frame tomorrow and attach new plywood. The plan is...

Not sure it's kosher to hijack classified ads, but same here. If anyone has some cheap mechanical jacks that Stan doesn't want, ping me. :) I'm also in NorCal.

The 4cyl taco is fine as long as you don't want to blaze up hills. I'm slimming down an old Granby to build basically a big shell for my 4cyl manual trans taco. No worries as long as you stick to the weight limits and don't overload the suspension. I used to have a first gen 5 lug 4cyl taco...

The window panels are basically complete as originally designed. I'm going to add removable storm flaps, similarly to what I've read atc uses, and also glue a patch over the bottom exterior corner of each window opening, as that's the one easy spot for water to wick in. Also I'll probably use...

Oh man, this is a sexy build! You must be having fun w/ all of the metalwork. It'd be pretty cool if you had some fold down legs that would pop down as you slide it off of the back, or collapse up as you pull it back on, kind of like the gurneys do when they roll into an ambulance, and then...

Well, the four window panels are finally about 95% done. I just need to add a stitch along the bottom of each one to affix the bug netting and clear vinyl. I recorded a couple of videos to document how I put them together... so I just need to figure out how to patch the videos together and...

Small update from this weekend. We had some more time to work on the camper and made headway on the new vinlyl sides and rebuilding the base. [sharedmedia=gallery:albums:1313] The polyester/vinyl was giving me difficulty when I tried to work on it last month; It would constantly break the...

Did you end up selling those mounting bars locally?

I had some free time today and spent about 5 hours making a 2ft by 1ft test-window out of 14oz fabric to see if It was going to be possible to make the cloth sides myself. It came out pretty good, aside from just being slopping from hustling to get it done. I think I can improve the stitching...