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| Author: | tjkoen01 [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | been busy with this little project |
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| Author: | Inc [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:56 pm ] |
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You have no idea how jealous I am. I want one of those trailers soooooo bad! Looks awesome. |
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| Author: | 03CDKJ [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:58 pm ] |
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Very Cool! Good work... 
How much does it weigh? |
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| Author: | JMSMN [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:05 pm ] |
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That is awesome! Where are they for sale at? |
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| Author: | stumpjumper_09 [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:19 pm ] |
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that is amazing  
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| Author: | Murphyman [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:24 pm ] |
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I like how it matches, very cool  .
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| Author: | jsc7002 [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:10 pm ] |
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looks good! did you buy or build it? |
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| Author: | scout [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:26 pm ] |
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I love it!!! |
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| Author: | callaway [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:31 pm ] |
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sick trailer
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| Author: | Maximum Carnage [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:36 pm ] |
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I was about to purchase one about 8 months ago for dirt cheat but no room for it. I should have taken the deal  I'm thinking it's time to start the search again.
Yours looks awesome, now tell us how much "rebuild" did you have to do? |
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| Author: | tjkoen01 [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:15 pm ] |
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thanks for the complements I don't have any pics of the trailer handy from when we picked it up, but it didn't look too bad except that the front of the tub was caved in in the middle and one of the corner handles was slightly deformed and the lunette had one heck of a bend in it. The lunette was easy enough to straighten out with a 200 ton hydraulic press at work. The tub was straightened with a bottle jack and some 4x4's. The handle was completely cut apart, re-formed and welded back together. Then we had it sand blasted and found at least 100 tiny pin holes from where the rust ate thru on the floor. I spent a lot of time welding those holes and even had to weld a couple patches in. We also found out that the trailer had ran into something, thus bending the handle and tub at that spot as well as tweaking the fender.
There was a lot of beating and banging to get all the dents out too (apparently everyone that gets one of these trailers likes to toss rocks in the back of them or just want to load it up to check the capacity). The brakes were in good shape and we repacked the bearings. I painted it to match my Jeep, but the color is a little off, I used Duplicolor paint that was suppose to match. I also used my hvlp sprayer to apply the clearcoat over the red. We are going camping this weekend and will be making full use of the trailer (and to help convince the wife to let me keep it). Because of this I was rushed this last week to button this thing up. There are still a couple things to be done that are waiting on parts (drain plugs, reflectors) and I still need to stamp the data plate. To answer some of the q's, it was bought off ebay, Kris and I did all the work except the sandblasting, I think it weighs about 500lbs. Now just have to figure out when the next off road trip will be! |
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| Author: | Maximum Carnage [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:33 pm ] |
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tjkoen01 wrote: We are going camping this weekend and will be making full use of the trailer (and to help convince the wife to let me keep it).
Hopefully the wife will appreciate it, if not pencil me in to go take it off your hands 
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| Author: | tomsjeep [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:38 pm ] |
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Well, you just ruined my day. I am totally green with envy now. And I will not rest until I latch onto one of those. I last saw a Canadian supplier offering some at an outrageous price. The U.S. military has a zillion of the next larger size (WMMWV trailer) sitting in a lot because they failed to meet spec. But the Jeep trailer hasn't been built new in the U.S. for a long time. There are a couple of close replica makers out there, but mostly people make and sell the safari-type camping trailers, which I have no use for. Sigh. Trailer builders, are you listening? Make more of these! |
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| Author: | 03kjsport [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:58 pm ] |
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jealous me! |
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| Author: | icarl [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:05 pm ] |
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That's a very nice trailer. Because it's all about looking good on the way to the dump. 
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| Author: | daspes [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:08 pm ] |
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 I want one so bad, but never have been able to find a hella good deal.
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| Author: | Inc [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:34 pm ] |
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daspes wrote: :cry: I want one so bad, but never have been able to find a hella good deal.
All the deals I've found are super massive rust buckets. Too much work for me. All the decent looking ones that I have the skill to fix up are out of my $$ range. Poor me. I need to finish my jeep first anyway. |
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| Author: | RedKJ04 [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:58 pm ] |
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Well now I have yet another thing to add to my wish list. That is pretty awesome looking... |
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| Author: | LIV42DY [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:14 pm ] |
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Nice Trailer, but you could build your own n not hard , I started this project 3 weeks ago, thru my old tires on it just to move it around in the yard. 
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| Author: | Inc [ Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:29 pm ] |
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LIV42DY wrote: Nice Trailer, but you could build your own n not hard , I started this project 3 weeks ago, thru my old tires on it just to move it around in the yard.
How hard is it to get a trailer like yours registered through the DMV? Never registered anything custom like that. |
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