Australian Style Flatbed and Canopy Build

[TopoRanger]

Very cool Brad,

How do you like those TOUGHBUILT saw horses? I love mine and I see you’re using one of their features properly. ?

dude they are amazing! I absolutely love them! Totally worth the money and it’s really not much more than the crappy ones!

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[Wes Siler]

- What're you doing about gears?

- Is LRA going to start importing tanks for the Ranger?

 

[UnregistredHypercam2]

Following. I am absolutely in love with Aussie style touring setups, but they are so expensive here. Really interested to see how it comes out and what your final cost looks like. I watch a ridiculous amount of 4WD 247 and have fallen in love with touring down under.

 

[TopoRanger]

- What're you doing about gears?

- Is LRA going to start importing tanks for the Ranger?

no one makes gears for the Ranger yet. So no one is doing anything. I’ll give it sometime but I’ve thought about swapping the front out with a Sasquatch Bronco to get something different. But for now I’ll be sticking with 3.73s.

LRA is but they are having some redesigns on the tank and it is taking some time to do it.

 

[TopoRanger]

Following. I am absolutely in love with Aussie style touring setups, but they are so expensive here. Really interested to see how it comes out and what your final cost looks like. I watch a ridiculous amount of 4WD 247 and have fallen in love with touring down under.

Yes they are high as camel cock dude. I got quoted just a tray with the drawer and storage with a discount and it’s still $10k. Normally it would have been $16k

Just in steel, for the tray I’ve got around $700. I’m sure I’ll need a couple more little pieces.

I’ll share the full priced out build list.

 

[TopoRanger]

okay so the tray was test fitted once I got everything tacked up and still super square. When I drew it the width matched the width of the Advanced Fiberglass Concepts bedsides. Mentally I thought it would look good, visually it’s a damn dump truck haha. So the tray is getting

As you can see it’s just way too wide. I don’t want it the same width as the cab but I don’t want it 6” wider on each side kind of wide.

 

[TopoRanger]

I had to send a selfie to the girlfriend while I was losing my mind narrowing the tray.

It’s narrowed 4” and getting it back square seemed like a fairly simple task. Well I wanted to just quit that day. Finally got it back and it’s still less than a 1/16” so it’s good to go!

 

[TopoRanger]

Oh yeah the tail lights are changing again haha. Trying to get rid of the dump truck look.

 

[Dr3wDrop]

okay so the tray was test fitted once I got everything tacked up and still super square. When I drew it the width matched the width of the Advanced Fiberglass Concepts bedsides. Mentally I thought it would look good, visually it’s a damn dump truck haha. So the tray is getting

As you can see it’s just way too wide. I don’t want it the same width as the cab but I don’t want it 6” wider on each side kind of wide.

I agree. Too wide

 

[Dr3wDrop]

Oh yeah the tail lights are changing again haha. Trying to get rid of the dump truck look.

What is setting that height off the frame? It looks really tall.

 

[Dr3wDrop]

Thinking ahead here a little. You may be able to shop for Jeep Wrangler rear metal fenders to incorporate into your project design. There are quite a few out there and they all have different shapes and profiles to find what you like.

 

[TopoRanger]

What is setting that height off the frame? It looks really tall.

its 10” from the frame. To clear the trundle drawer and also have room for suspension travel it should be around that height. If it’s too tall after it’s all said and done I’ll redraw the mounts andswap them out. I just don’t want to flex the truck and eat all the fenders up. It’s approximately 8” from the bottom of the tray to the top of the 35s. These are 35s in the picture. 37s aren’t on yet.

 

[TopoRanger]

Thinking ahead here a little. You may be able to shop for Jeep Wrangler rear metal fenders to incorporate into your project design. There are quite a few out there and they all have different shapes and profiles to find what you like.

I’m going to make my fenders and it will flow with matching angles to the rear storage.

 

[TopoRanger]

that is about how I want the corner storage to mate up to the fenders. Yes I will rock the mudflaps too!!

 

[Dr3wDrop]

its 10” from the frame. To clear the trundle drawer and also have room for suspension travel it should be around that height. If it’s too tall after it’s all said and done I’ll redraw the mounts andswap them out. I just don’t want to flex the truck and eat all the fenders up. It’s approximately 8” from the bottom of the tray to the top of the 35s. These are 35s in the picture. 37s aren’t on yet.

Got it! I was imagining the reverse.

Ignore my crude design but I was picturing the fender height would be set so the plate of the deck could be on the frame. Then the drawer system could go on the deck. Fender boxes between the cab and the fenders.

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