Bradders
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Good evening/morning folks. I am new to this forum so I thought I might introduce myself. My apologies by the way if this is not the right place for this particular topic so please feel free to direct me otherwise if needs be.
I am from a very cold Southampton in the UK and have recently purchased a Wildcat FWC with front dinette, from Germany. I think the equivalent in the States is a Fleet or similar. I have to say that I was originally going to buy it from the States as it was cheaper, but due to the strength of the dollar against the pound recently, I had to go to Germany instead.
I have had it about 4 weeks now and I’m trying to get it ready for hauling out to the countryside in the next month or so. It is going onto the rear of a Land Rover Defender 130, high capacity pickup (HCPU). However, due to the height of the truck, I need to lift the camper off the floor of the load bay by about 7” in order for the cabover to the roof. Apparently, the way to do this is to fit two lengths of 1/8” box section aluminium along the underside of the camper down both sides. The attached photo should show what I mean, not my camper, but it should explain things.
Between the box sections there will be an aluminium drawer with runners fastened accordingly. The drawer will create a great deal of storage space, but when filled, may weigh 50kgs or about a 100lbs. This is not too much of a problem when the camper is on the back of the truck, but when it is fully extended and on its stilts, the weight acting on the box section aluminium at the back will be at least double this. As such, the box section will need to be bolted with 3/8” bolts into the the floor of the camper at both the front and rear of both lengths. My problem is that I don’t really know how the floor is constructed so that I drill into the right place. The other photo shows a number of batons which run laterally along the bottom…
The obvious place to drill through the floor is at both ends of the front and rear batons, but it would be good to know where the frames is so that I can drill accordingly.
I have tried to get in touch with the service dep’t at FWC and received an email back from Brenda Cary who said that she could not help me, but would send me some photos of the floor framing. However, when these didn’t appear, I sent a very polite follow up, only to receive a very terse reply saying, “here was my reply”. I am not out to have a dig at FWC, but it would be great if someone was able to help me out with any photos or schematics they may have of the floor framing and construction, or even know someone at FWC who is able to assist.
Any help will be very gratefully received.
Thanks in anticipation
Bradders
I am from a very cold Southampton in the UK and have recently purchased a Wildcat FWC with front dinette, from Germany. I think the equivalent in the States is a Fleet or similar. I have to say that I was originally going to buy it from the States as it was cheaper, but due to the strength of the dollar against the pound recently, I had to go to Germany instead.
I have had it about 4 weeks now and I’m trying to get it ready for hauling out to the countryside in the next month or so. It is going onto the rear of a Land Rover Defender 130, high capacity pickup (HCPU). However, due to the height of the truck, I need to lift the camper off the floor of the load bay by about 7” in order for the cabover to the roof. Apparently, the way to do this is to fit two lengths of 1/8” box section aluminium along the underside of the camper down both sides. The attached photo should show what I mean, not my camper, but it should explain things.
Between the box sections there will be an aluminium drawer with runners fastened accordingly. The drawer will create a great deal of storage space, but when filled, may weigh 50kgs or about a 100lbs. This is not too much of a problem when the camper is on the back of the truck, but when it is fully extended and on its stilts, the weight acting on the box section aluminium at the back will be at least double this. As such, the box section will need to be bolted with 3/8” bolts into the the floor of the camper at both the front and rear of both lengths. My problem is that I don’t really know how the floor is constructed so that I drill into the right place. The other photo shows a number of batons which run laterally along the bottom…
The obvious place to drill through the floor is at both ends of the front and rear batons, but it would be good to know where the frames is so that I can drill accordingly.
I have tried to get in touch with the service dep’t at FWC and received an email back from Brenda Cary who said that she could not help me, but would send me some photos of the floor framing. However, when these didn’t appear, I sent a very polite follow up, only to receive a very terse reply saying, “here was my reply”. I am not out to have a dig at FWC, but it would be great if someone was able to help me out with any photos or schematics they may have of the floor framing and construction, or even know someone at FWC who is able to assist.
Any help will be very gratefully received.
Thanks in anticipation
Bradders