Great pictures... I like the set up.. AND the view from where the pics were taken... Bad ***.. I saw your truck in a build thread a year or 2 ago, and was very envious... Great job.
I special ordered my truck when I bought it. I HATE duallies, I knew I wanted a cummins drivetrain, and I could not pass up the Aisin transmission upgrade. SO I ordered a 3500HD non-dually and a C&C chassis, but I wanted all the bells and whistles (Power windows, Heated seats, cruise control, etc.etc.) and then to ad to that,,, I wanted the rubber floor like in the base model work trucks. When the truck arrived, I took it to Knapheide in Orlando, fl and asked them to install the 9.5' Service body that was made for the single rear wheel C&C. I was stoked when it was done, I asked them to ad 4 more flanges to the bed to weld to the frame for an EPIC strong bed to chassis.
I soon did the full delete, Ordered up the 3.5" lift kit, and had to have custom made rear U-bolts for the rear axle to make the lift work with lifting a C&C truck. It all worked out great. It is low enough,,,,,but tall enough.
as far as the installation into the bed of the service body, I made some custom brackets that bolted to the front/lower of the camper, and welded 2 catch brackets in the bed of the service body, at the rear of the bed... So when the camper slides into the bed, the last 6" the bracket on the camper slides just below the bracket that is welded to the service body, then you just reach over, and drop a 3/4" 4" long bolt into both the brackets when they are joined.. It stops the camper from sliding back,,,and also catches the camper from lifting. All plates were plasma cut from 1/4" steel. 6" long x 4" wide.
The rear of the camper I have not "lashed down" yet. The reason I have not, is that I have not found a great way to do it,,, and being that it is such a tight squeeze into the bed with the camper, there is NO WAY it will slide side to side, if the truck leans really hard it will not move at all because of how tight it is in the bed. The only thing it might do is lift a little from the bed if I go over a WOOP really fast. This truck was built to tow my crawler and get into some slight off roading to get to a good camp site, and do the trails in the salt flats of Baja, Mx to get to scorpion bay etc.etc. I will get some pics of the brackets when I have time.
This is a work of progress, so if any of you all have any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
It looks really top heavy from the pictures, but it really isn't It stands 11' total from the ground, and is a really light camper (1780 pounds) which is REALLY light considering what it is. When I picked up the camper from tennessee, I had it up to 84mph and it was still stable at those speeds. I will probably upgrade the rear sway bar to a HUGE Hellwig unit to make it more stable while towing the crawler on a trailer.
Thanks Wild1 for the pics, If I think back, I think you were the one that motivated me into building this truck with a camper/service body set up, I found your build thread somewhere.. thanks again for thinking out of the box..
I special ordered my truck when I bought it. I HATE duallies, I knew I wanted a cummins drivetrain, and I could not pass up the Aisin transmission upgrade. SO I ordered a 3500HD non-dually and a C&C chassis, but I wanted all the bells and whistles (Power windows, Heated seats, cruise control, etc.etc.) and then to ad to that,,, I wanted the rubber floor like in the base model work trucks. When the truck arrived, I took it to Knapheide in Orlando, fl and asked them to install the 9.5' Service body that was made for the single rear wheel C&C. I was stoked when it was done, I asked them to ad 4 more flanges to the bed to weld to the frame for an EPIC strong bed to chassis.
I soon did the full delete, Ordered up the 3.5" lift kit, and had to have custom made rear U-bolts for the rear axle to make the lift work with lifting a C&C truck. It all worked out great. It is low enough,,,,,but tall enough.
as far as the installation into the bed of the service body, I made some custom brackets that bolted to the front/lower of the camper, and welded 2 catch brackets in the bed of the service body, at the rear of the bed... So when the camper slides into the bed, the last 6" the bracket on the camper slides just below the bracket that is welded to the service body, then you just reach over, and drop a 3/4" 4" long bolt into both the brackets when they are joined.. It stops the camper from sliding back,,,and also catches the camper from lifting. All plates were plasma cut from 1/4" steel. 6" long x 4" wide.
The rear of the camper I have not "lashed down" yet. The reason I have not, is that I have not found a great way to do it,,, and being that it is such a tight squeeze into the bed with the camper, there is NO WAY it will slide side to side, if the truck leans really hard it will not move at all because of how tight it is in the bed. The only thing it might do is lift a little from the bed if I go over a WOOP really fast. This truck was built to tow my crawler and get into some slight off roading to get to a good camp site, and do the trails in the salt flats of Baja, Mx to get to scorpion bay etc.etc. I will get some pics of the brackets when I have time.
This is a work of progress, so if any of you all have any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
It looks really top heavy from the pictures, but it really isn't It stands 11' total from the ground, and is a really light camper (1780 pounds) which is REALLY light considering what it is. When I picked up the camper from tennessee, I had it up to 84mph and it was still stable at those speeds. I will probably upgrade the rear sway bar to a HUGE Hellwig unit to make it more stable while towing the crawler on a trailer.
Thanks Wild1 for the pics, If I think back, I think you were the one that motivated me into building this truck with a camper/service body set up, I found your build thread somewhere.. thanks again for thinking out of the box..
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