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Thanks. I'll check out their electrical stuff. I'll look at the frame, but admittedly with the underside insulation there may not be a lot I can do without tearing into it, so that may not happen. I am debating folding side skirts similar to what commercial tractor trailers use that could be...

Thanks guys. For now we ended up settling on a late model used Jayco travel trailer, a Baja edition with taller leaf spring suspension from the factory. It's not going to be ideal for especially rough roads but got a good enough deal on it that it'll do for touring national and state parks...

I'm aware that going cross-country isn't practical or necessarily legal. If a rating of 1 is a gravel road that a sports-car can do with care, and a 10 is 4wd track requiring a modified, high-clearance vehicle with full under-armor and a winch, I'm looking to do about a 7. I'm not looking to...

Interestingly those dual-independents swingarm suspensions that are used by Black Series, Crux, and possibly others are available on the aftermarket. I found a listing from a Chinese factory for them requiring a minimum order of ten units. While that particular suspension might not be quite...

I did. I looked at an HQ12, a new one that was inside of a showroom. The stairs were falling apart and the shower door wouldn't close because the jamb wasn't square. When the unit that the dealership has theoretically received, checked over, and put up as the example to represent the product...

Long story short, I like four wheeling and getting away from the city, but I don't really like camping. Tents simply don't appeal, and while popup tent-trailers are better than conventional tents there are still issues with moisture and packing away the trailer when setting off the next day...

Have you considered a model for mid-sized pickup trucks where the buyer may wish to have more space at the expense of a bit of offroad performance? I'm mulling some kind of slide-in or ute-tray option for my Nissan D40 Frontier crew cab long wheelbase, the model that has a bed with 73'3" from...

So here's some of my thoughts. Proper IS using long-arm trailing arms are best obviously, but pre-built assemblies for bolting in to a trailer are pricey. An order of magnitude kind of pricey. Common trailer dead-axles perform worst off road. A solid axle is great for a driven-axle but seems...

Long story short I don't entirely know what kind of trailer yet. The Frontier is 73" wide, the Titan is 80", I expect the Pathfinder and Armada to be similar, and the extra 3-4" on each side doesn't seem like it would be too consequential, especially with towing mirrors on my Frontier. Now, I...

While cooped up at home I've been thinking about, among other things, trailers with the thoughts on what it would take to build something. Specifically because I have a '15 Nissan Frontier and it's recommended to run the same wheel bolt pattern, if not the same actual wheels and tires on both...

Well, if you don't mind hacking up your dash and if you've got aftermarket 315 MHz sensors that are basically all-makes like the ACDelcos I went with, you could well drill a hole and mount this: It's small, which is annoying to read it, but is good when it comes to how much dash real estate it...

Nothing specifically positive. Long story short, I started looking into the frequencies of the transmitters/sensors used by most of those third-party displays. Many such displays are available with either the cap-replacement sensors or else with the valvestem sensors. Unfortunately for me...

My problem is threefold against permanent installation. First, living in the city I won't be in a position to use the winch often enough to justify the weight penalty to carrying it all of the time. It's not even a mall-crawler issue, in reality I probably won't use it more than a dozen times...

It looks like most modern conventional full-sized pickup trucks have frame rails that are 42" wide. I'll see what I can find for a hitch that has the correct method for mounting the drawbar receiver to the crosstube. Hopefully I can find something used for a low price but most of what's on...

Thanks. Managed to save the photobucket pictures down despite photobucket's current nature. What I'm thinking might be the easiest solution would be to take an existing tow hitch and change the end mounts to fit the front of the truck. This preserves the welds holding the drawbar-receiver to...