MikeyLikesIt wrote:It was great meeting you both.
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Dirtclod wrote:Glad the AC "sort of" worked out for you. Yall picked the hottest week so far for CRA so if it did OK there U should be fine everywhere else.
Cant wait to get mine finished so I can hit CRA next year.
absolutsnwbrdr wrote:Got a lot done this weekend, including parting ways with the X-II. The new owners already have trips planned and I'm sure they're going to enjoy it!
Installed the shelf in the sleeping cabin, and worked on the upper galley....
Galley counter is starting to look like something...
And finally beginning the framing for the trolley top...
I have a long list of parts that need ordered, so tomorrow and Tuesday will be a bit of a shopping spree.
sodatrain wrote:Just a quick THANK YOU for all the documentation and the detail on your window AC install with floor venting! I'm exploring a similar idea for my CTC! Any changes/updates to it since this last venting change?
Stancaban wrote:
So did you use mainly 2x3s or 1x3s for framing?
absolutsnwbrdr wrote:I've been on vacation for the past week so no build progress has been made. However, before I left I gave the drawing for the tongue extension to a local fabrication shop. They called while I was gone and said that it was ready so I stopped over on my lunch break today and picked it up.
Why a tongue extension?
Extending the tongue creates a larger distance between the rear bumper of your tow vehicle and the front of you trailer. This means you can maneuver into a tight camping site easier because you can turn a much tighter radius without worrying about your trailer hitting your bumper. With my last build, I could get my car and teardrop 90 degrees to each other and still have wiggle room. Backing the trailer is also MUCH easier with a longer longer distance between your tow vehicle hitch and the trailer wheels. And finally, it drastically reinforces the tongue and gives you a much better place to mount a wheeled tongue jack. Mounting a tongue jack on one half of the a-frame tongue works, but it puts a lot of torque on the one side of your frame. Is extending/reinforcing the tongue necessary? Nope. But it makes a huge difference!
Cost for steel, including drilling the seven 1/2" holes was $67.58. I don't have a drill press, so this saved me at least an hour worth of work and a $20 drill bit. Totally worth it.
The grouping of 4 holes at the right end is for the coupler. The coupler that came with the NT trailer kit (made for 2-1/2" tongue) gets replaced by a coupler for a 2" tongue. New coupler was $24.99.
The two vertical holes towards the left end are for bolting the extension to the first two frame rails. The hole that is 56-13/16" from the left end is for a bolt to go through the flipped coupler mounting plate (which already has holes through it).
Total cost for tongue extension (including taxes) was $94.33. (This does not include paint or nuts/bolts)
I'll take a couple pictures once I get it painted and installed.
Sparksalot wrote:Was the data plate with VIN mounted on your original tongue? How did you negotiate the legalities of moving this?
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