2018 Ram Megacab Swiss Army Knife Build with trailer

[monodraken]

Have had pretty much all name brand kits and Thuren/Carli by far supersedes. You won't be disappointed.

 

[getlost4x4]

Thanks for the replies, I'll look into their stuff.

 

[getlost4x4]

Last week when we were out in the sand dunes, I was finally able to try out my ARB Tred Pros. I think they work alright, but the shovel feature, is kind of dumb, I'd rather just use a real shovel. A real shovel worked a lot better and took less time to dig our the rear tires. I definitely think the traction boards work good. But I think if you really want to be able to get free, having 4 of them is the key. I didn't bury it too bad, but just enough to see if we could get free with them. We were just starting to get get bogged when I stopped to see if they would help get us out.

This was filmed at the Little Sahara Sand Dunes, in Utah.

 

[getlost4x4]

Just did a quick overnight trip. We converted our garbage hauling military trailer for double duty. Now its an overlanding / garbage trailer. LOL

Anyway went out for an overnight to try it out and see how the Smittybilt RTT does. And I'll have to say not bad. I've had a Tepui before this and I think I like the Smittybilt a bit better. Wife was happy to sleep in it, instead of on the ground in a tent.

I'd post pictures, but they are always too big to upload. But here is a video I put together so show one of the roads we were one and some of the mining in the area.

 

[getlost4x4]

So I'm converting my old dump trailer, its an M116A2 military trailer. Decommissioned. I bought it to haul garbage to the dump originally and wanted to build an overlanding trailer eventually out of it. I don't see the point of spending $20K on one of the fancy ones. While they look really cool and probably function really awesome. I have 33ft Bumper Pull if I'm going to live in luxury anyway. So the point of this is to just get out of town for a couple days when I don't want to get the beast out of the backyard and fill it up with water and food, and then fight idiots in traffic who swerve in-front of a large truck with a huge trailer and then slam on the brakes.

Anyway, this is going to be a series of videos, here is the first one if you want to watch it. Thanks

 

[getlost4x4]

Part 2 of our overlanding trailer build. We remove the crappy old wiring job, and build a new roof top tent rack.

 

[getlost4x4]

Got the rack all welded up of the weekend. Added some cross bars and installed a new trailer jack. Tossed the old crappy harbor freight jack in the trash. Working on another video. Still waiting on lights and some other parts.

 

[getlost4x4]

Alright, I got Part 3 done. The boring stuff is finished, now onto the wiring, and major modes to finish this up. So far, I'm staying on budget.

I need some ideas for storage, tool boxes or drawers. What do you think would be good? I can't seem to find anything, and I'm not a carpenter. I actually hate working with wood, but I'd be willing to take some suggestions!

Here's the newest video.

 

[getlost4x4]

Update. More done, on the downward slope.

 

[getlost4x4]

Got a bunch more finished up today. It’ll be updated in the next video.

 

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[getlost4x4]

Trailer is almost done. We leave this weekend to social distance ourselves in the desert.

 

[getlost4x4]

Finally wrapping up the off-road trailer build. And pay attention for future videos, we took it out and tested it.

 

[getlost4x4]

I finally got the trailer finished up and we took it out to do some off-road testing to see how it goes over obstacles.