Great build! I'm really digging your ideas. The arb awning is already on my Tramper (or at least in my imagination)...do you like that awning? Complaints? Better product out there you'd suggest? I'm about 1000 miles north of you up in OR so it would be more for rain versus shade...I'd love your opinion before dropping the cash and your install seemed straight-forward enough.
Potterjon had a question about tie downs too? I snagged some Happijack stuff out of a junkyard dirt cheap (20% of what camping world wanted...) See attached cut sheet...I've been holding off drilling holes on my truck until I saw others opinions. Sitting back and will continue to watch your build!View attachment 251204
Paul.
Typically, I am not an ARB guy due to the cost...obviously. BUT, in the world of awnings, anything under $500 seems to be basically free, enter the ARB awning. I have run it on three rigs and loved it on every one. It takes some technique to put up or down with one person but I have build a little system. If you have two people, it is cake. I have not used it is rain yet, but I think if you pitched it so that one outside corner was the low point, you would be styling. I don't know of many smaller awnings that have a middle 'roof' support, so they will all pond if you don't give it a bit of pitch. With that said, I love mine, and if when it dies, I will buy another one. The overland world seems to attest to this as well. Lots of folks that do many hard miles a year run ARBs.
Good luck!