TopoRanger's Overland Ranger Build

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Well the truck build has slowed a little bit while I've been working night shift. But I managed to drop the truck off to get Line-X sprayed in and as I picked it up the Mountain Hatch Tailgate panel showed up!
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Love the vinyl overlay! Selling them at all? How did you mount the gmrs? I've been looking at the same one but would like to keep it as clean as possible inside. Also, I love my bed cross bars, but I'm also not sleeping on top of them.
 
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Love the vinyl overlay! Selling them at all? How did you mount the gmrs? I've been looking at the same one but would like to keep it as clean as possible inside. Also, I love my bed cross bars, but I'm also not sleeping on top of them.
I don’t sell them yet since I haven’t done a sponsor on the forums. I’m super excited about thenew bed rack design so I’ll be much happier to get away from the cheap Amazon stuff. The bars worked in a pinch but definitely not recommending them haha.
 
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I’ve been a little quite lately on the build but it’s because I’ve been burning the midnight oil on designing and building my bed rack. It’s raw steel right now so it’s got rust but it will be going to full aluminum soon on the updated design.
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There will be some new sections of the bed rack that I’ll be building when I update the structure to aluminum. I’m so pleased with how it’s going so far.
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Took a fun trail through north Georgia mid week and ended up camping through a monsoon. But check out these shots. Also got my new fridge in and it did amazing. Was able to run it 30° for a few hours unplugged from the truck while taking photos and receiving some business calls on the mountain.

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Awesome build. Following.
Thank you!! I appreciate that! Lift kit, tires, beadlocks, fuel tank, and another prototype bed rack will be going on soon. Pretty excited about how it’s all coming together.
 
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No photos just yet but I’ve got the lift kit installed and now I’m waiting for the new RelationsRace Wheels to arrive. I’m working on getting the LongRange America tank brackets formed up for testing.
 
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Camped out on the beach last weekend. The new suspension from Camburg is amazing. Definitely ready for the BFG KM3s to go on whenever the RRW wheels show up. I will be working more on the bed rack over the next few days hoping to get it dialed in before the big west coast trip.

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I stayed up late last night working on these decals for the side vents. This was pretty tedious and ended up having to section the Topography to get it to contour to the vents correctly. I think they turned out alright!
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would you mind sharing how you mounted the MXT275?
yeah! Absolutely. I’ll take some photos of how I mounted it and where I ran the bulkhead connector.
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