Jeep camper.

[scosanf]

New to the site, but I just started this weekend building a small camp trailer to haul behind the Jeep. It will sit on an aluminum stand, and slide into this trailer.

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This weekend, I got it framed out, with a floor and the top skinned.

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[Lead Dog]

How about some more pictures of your Jeep? Welcome to the site!

[scosanf]

Here are a few.

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I bought it pretty much built. All I've done is the wheels and tires, shocks, a few other minor things. Now I'm in the process of changing the rear locker and gears. The last of the parts was actually just delivered to the house about an hour ago.

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[scosanf]

The main reason I'm building the camper is for a trip to Ouray this July. Looking around the forum here, looks like I may get the chance to see some cool rigs when we're there.

I've been researching how to do my power supply, and think I have it figured out. I work for an engineering company, so I called in some experts for advice, namely the electrical lead and an HVAC lead. I won't need accurate for Ouray, but will for Gilmer or Marble Falls in the summer.

I will run a modified 1000 btu personal ac that only draws 240 watts, off of a 500 watt inverter, with a 115 A/H battery, and carry an 1100 watt inverter generator to recharge in the morning. I did all the calculations, then went through it with the lead elect. engineer and to my surprise I had it right.

I was having trouble keeping the A/H part straight in my head, but now I have the formulas all set up in a spreadsheet so I can play around with different loads, inverters, batteries, and generators.

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[scosanf]

Got a little more work done this weekend. Decided to go ahead and plywood the inside of the front wall, to simplify the shelf and a few other things. Framed the shelf, and notched spots for the windows.

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Decided not to go any farther with the woodwork, I need to get the aluminum subfloor and base fabricated and installed first. Planning on doing that next weekend.

This design should work out well for the style of Jeeping I want to do. I can drop the camper off as a base camp, and still have my 4' x 6' trailer to drag through the trails.

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[Woods]

What are you going to do for outsiding and inside paneling?

Are you using glue at all? *Have you checked to see what the RV manufactures do with this type of construction?

I like what you've done so far. Will be interested to see where it goes. Subscribed.

[scosanf]

Exterior is 1/4" plywood, and will have frp panels glued on over that. Everywhere wood touches wood there are copious amounts of liquid nails high strength glue. I wasn't sure how much difference the glue would make, but it is really solid right now even without the plywood. Inside will be just cheap luann paneling.

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[Titanpat57]

GLUE!!!

It's what's for breakfast!!


Glue the freakin' bejebus out of anything sitting still long enough to get a bead on it!

You won't be disappointed, it bonds it all into one piece!

[scosanf]

I'm not disappointed with it, but really impressed so far. Got out there yesterday and tried twisting and torquing the bare frame, and can't even get a creak out of it. once the 1/4" is glued/screwed on, it will be rock solid.

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[scosanf]

Had to pull off of the camper for a couple of weeks. Started back last weekend, but made modifications to the trailer to prepare for the next step. Lifted the trailer 2", removed the tiny fenders and replaced with larger ones. Actually I have to finish up one of the fenders this weekend. Hopefully, I can get started on the aluminum work this weekend as well. Need to have the exterior complete by the last weekend in March, for a trip to Barnwell Mountain.

Here are some rough sketches of what it will end up as. Scale is not perfect, I was missing some dimensions, but it is pretty close.

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