I'm Building A (Pop-Up Hard Wall) Slide In Camper- DIY Camper Build - EP:4
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- In this episode I will finish the aluminum trim on the base of the camper, finish up the back wall's insulation foam, test the sleeping area (cantilever / Cabover) for strength and install the rear window into the door. Thanks for following along if you're a returning viewer and welcome to all the new subs out there. Much appreciated. TBT We're one step closer to putting the slide in camper on the Tacoma. #DIYCAMPER #FourWheelCampers #Tacomacamper
Looks great!!! Finally found someone making a quality smaller profile truck bed camper. Everything else ive found on youtube is a glorified shed on the back of their truck. I feel a lot of folks underestimate the weight of their builds and the aerodynamics of their giant air brake they make. Keep up the good work and cant wait to see it finished
Thanks. I’m trying to hard to keep the weight down and still have a solid camper that is usable and looks good . I’m only a weekend warrior and won’t live in it, so I think we’ll be fine. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT
Thanks for the best build I have seen
Thanks for watching. Much appreciated. TbT
I’d like to build a camper for my 23 Tacoma TRD Off Road, double cab , 6’ bed pickup.
It would need to be a cab over.
I’d install solar panels on the roof.
It would have to be insulated for early spring through late fall camping fun.
We live in north central Washington state up in the mountains and here at our house we get 5-7 feet of snow every winter, so in the areas that we enjoy camping are unavailable in the winter.
Sounds like a good project. I would suggest using an aluminum exterior skin since you’re in a much wetter climate than me. My wood is holding up well, but I’d be worried in the PNW wet. Good luck. Thanks for watching.
@@TravelingbyTacoma The Left side of Washington gets all of the rain.
In our area we get normal rainfall in the spring and fall.
No rain during the summer and a LOT of snow in the winter.
Three years ago we had 2 feet of snow on the ground and a bad storm came in. We got an additional 3 feet in 10 hours.
I felt so bad for my wife as I had shoulder surgery two weeks prior, so she had to get out and use our snow thrower to clear our driveway.
There’s 9 families who live on our private road so thankfully Everyone was snowed in so there are 3 families who have a snow plow blade on their tractor’s, so they cleared our road to the county toad.
Nice workmanship
Thanks, and thanks for watching and commenting.
Super good job, I'm llooking forward, to see the roof!!!!
Thanks. I should be on to the roof in a few episodes. Still a few bits and pieces on the outside of the bottom to wrap up. I want to be pretty done (except finish -paint ) before moving on to the upper part. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.
Another great video! I can’t wait to see the finished product. Thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks. 😘
Great videos sir I was looking at all your videos and I started building mine I have a 2020 Ford ranger with a 7 foot cab I don’t know how to edit videos or anything so I will just post a couple of videos of the beginning the middle and then the end and I am giving you credit for it because your videos are the ones that motivated me to get my truck camper done get her done
Thank you and good luck on your build. I hope it comes out great. Glad it motivated you. It’s a big project, take your time,I gave myself at least a year to complete this …it can get overwhelming at times so I just step away when that happens and start fresh another day. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT
@@TravelingbyTacoma ty for that nugget of knowledge. It will make a difference when I run into a issue . I’ll share the project 🙏🏻god bless
IT"S LOOKING AWESOME!. And such a strong beast for being so light weight!!!!!! Trim looks awesome too!
Thanks.
nice progress
Thanks. New episode should be out in a week or so. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.
It's coming along nicely.
Thanks, and thanks for watching and commenting. TbT
Fantastic job and thank you for doing all these episodes. I built a 16x8 camper from an old boat trailer with fold up walls like your build. But now that my kids are older and don't go camping with me as much, I'm looking to downsize to the back of my truck. Thanks again for your time and effort. I'm excited to get started.
Thanks! Good luck with your next build, sounds like fun. Thanks for watching and commenting, it’s appreciated. ✌🏻Tbt
Great job. Camper Build out is what I’ve been looking for.
Thanks. Hope you enjoy the vids. Trying to get new vids out first Mondays of every month. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT
I would recommend using your sealing products before doing the edge trim, plus when installing the trim using sealer there as well.
Yes, all of the edge and aluminum is coming off being cleaned, primed, painted and the wood sealed before putting back on the camper. This is just the rough buildout phase. I’ll pull it all apart before seal and paint. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.
Excellent job so far. Looking forward to seeing more .!! You definitely love your glue lol
Thanks for watching and commenting. Much appreciated. Glue is definitely your friend when working with wood. 😉
Absolutely !!! lol
Pretty sick. Love Larry
Haha thanks.
Great. I am waiting for EP 5.
Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT
Maybe look into Filon for the roof covering
Thanks. I just checked it out. Looks promising. Good tip. Thanks for watching and commenting. Much appreciated. TbT.
Looking good 👍👍👍
Thanks.
Nice work! one of the best approaches you can find in youtube for a weekend camper. I hope I can use your idea in a close future for me. Keep it on! thanks for sharing!
Cool, thanks for the great comment. A new episode (5) will be out Monday. Good luck with your project. Stay safe out there. TbT
Hi brother, thanks for the answer, Love the Taco! What I meant was what brand watch because I love the large digital display, apologies for not articulating my message clearer, Merry Christmas 🎄
Thanks. It’s just an old Iwatch gen 3 I think with this band off Amazon. Band is pretty good and lasts a long time. amzn.to/3H2v1y5. Merry Christmas to you too. 🍻TbT
Just finished watching all four episodes and reading the comments. Looking forward to watching you complete the project and enjoying some time using it. Please consider providing the final cost and weight when you're finished wjth the build. Great content, keep up the goodwork!!!
Thanks for watching. I’m planning on doing both. I don’t think I’ll have an exact cost due to having some materials already, but I’m planning to weigh my truck empty and with the camper to see the difference. I may need to upgrade to heavier duty leafs (I have an Icon AAL now) or airbags at some point. Stay safe out there. TbT.
Great video with lots of details. Love the watch! What make?!
Thanks, much appreciated. Thanks for watching and commenting. What make of what…The truck? Toyota Tacoma. Not sure your question. ✌🏼
You should put a roof rack so you can haul your log that sees the water once every 3 years
Haha. Bruh, that’s cold. Still show you what’s up when I paddle out though. 🤙🏼
and now for another month of anticipation, aargh. Your build is just right on, but the wait is killing me. Patients is not my thing🫤
Haha sorry. Thanks for watching. TbT.
Looking great man, making fast progress!
Thanks, trying to chip away each month. I estimated it to take about a year to complete, do to real work and life stuff always slows it down. Still on track So far. Lots more to do. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.
Excellent build you are answering a lot of questions I have looking to duplicate a FWC pop up but out of wood and Filon. Seeing your build technique I think I should be able to do it
Good luck.
Very nice 👍
Thanks!
Background music was on point when u were testing the strength ahhaha 😅
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching and commenting . It’s appreciated. TbT
That cross arm cut is dangerous 😉..
Yeah. 😉 Thanks for watching and commenting.
Great campershell,assume.
Thanks
Part 2: At highway speeds, probably 85% to 90% but certainly around 85% or so of all the gas you burn goes to OVERCOMING AIR RESISTANCE. Rolling resistance, internal frictional losses and the engine and transmission and geartrain etc., typically make up no more than about 15% of the losses.
In brief, AERODYNAMICS ARE IMPORTANT. (The optimal aerodynamic shape for a trailer, for example, can be envisioned by imagining the shape of a raindrop or water drop forming on a water And finally breaking free - a big, bulbous front-end curving back to a pointy tail… (Like those increasingly popular Teardrop Trailers… They to the have the lowest coefficient of air resistance.
Anyway, along these lines, I thought I might suggest that - assuming that it might work for you without extending the overhang over your trucks very much, that you might consider adding a separate/potentially even detachable - semicircular/have tube like - front compartment to it and simply fasten it to the current overhang of the camper. I.e. - conceptually - cut a circular disk out of recorder inch plywood or something to a diameter equal to the height - top to bottom - of the edge of the current overhang, cut it in half, and then ‘imagine’ wrapping it with a curb sheet - if possible - of 5 mm plywood. - A couple of discs like this might work.
Pursuing this idea a bit further, if instead of using solid semicircular pieces, you could trim them down so that the outer portion of the half-disk - was only say perhaps one ensure thick. You could potentially say use for like this.
THEN, using the sections you removed, you could use some hinges and some small locks in order to create a tubular/I circular storage compartment over the For long items such as fishing rods, skis/ski poles, etc./whatever.
In other words, for storage space. You could even line the interior of this possibly with more 5 mm curved plywood.
ANYWAY,”Them’s my thoughts and suggestions” Looking forward to seeing where you’re going to go from here with electricity and heating… (Those little inexpensive 2 kW Chinese diesel heaters really ‘strike my fancy’… You could create a sauna in their and have thermostatic heat very, very little current draw and/or fuel consumption without having to worry about condensation and ashes/using wood or something like that.
Again, looking forward to seeing what’s coming next.
Haha, dude you’re hired. I totally understand what your saying and have thought about similar designs for the front of the camper. I may at some point add a half cabrack to the front of the truck roof and I could add some sort of air deflector to that. At this point I’m going to try to complete the camper and do some test trips and see where I can make improvements all around. I’m still pretty far from that though. Thanks for the details and thought much appreciated. Thanks for watching and commenting. Should be a new episode out first Monday of each month. TbT
Looking good! I’m about to start one this fall for a ram 2500. I’m interested in your overall weight towards the end. There are few teardrop camper companies that sell some nice aluminum trim as well.
Thanks. Yeah I’m hoping to have a finish weight of about 500 lbs so I have room to add stuff and load my food,water, gear without being too heavy. I’m trying to decide what to cover the top with now. I’m leaning towards a painted aluminum sheet. Should be on to the top of the camper in an episode or 2 down the road. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT
@@TravelingbyTacoma have you checked out aluminum composite panels? A lot of sign shops carry them.
Thanks for the tip. I actually have a vendor I work with that makes signs for buildings, stadiums, restaurants etc. I’ll reach out to them and ask for some info. 👍🏻
I’m building a slide in using basically modeled after yours. I’m interested to see how you secure it to the bed. Mine is going in a Ford ranger with a 6ft bed.
Looking forward to the next video!
Cool, any way I can check your build out? Next video will be out Monday and it shows the front mounts being built. Back mounts and front safety tie downs will likely be ratchet straps. That should be in the following video. Thanks for watching and commenting. Good luck on your build. TbT.
@@TravelingbyTacoma yeah you can check it out. Not sure how to securely give you my contact information though.
@@TravelingbyTacoma just followed you on Instagram actually. I don’t have photos or videos of it on Instagram but I can send you photos/ videos of it there.
When your cutting tha polystyrene you need to be able collect all the dust to dispose of it ,the camper is great I’m going to build one as well for my L200
Good luck. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT
Did you use any acoustic ceiling behind all your trim?🎉🎉
I used a regular sealant. I didn’t want to use anything with a crazy strong bond on the aluminum trim in case I have to pull it off for a repair or something. That would have torn the plywood too most likely. It’s just a water sealant. Hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.
awesoome. what was the total cost ? i am going to build for my ford f150 lightinng.
Total cost was about 5K, the interior custom upholstery was about $1100 so parts and materials were right around 4000. Thanks for watching. TbT 🤙🏼
when will part 5 be coming out, looking forward to seeing the finished product
Next episode will be out Monday morning. Thanks for watch and commenting. TbT
This is what I’ve been dreaming of for my Taco. Are you keeping track of cost and time spent that you can share?
Thanks for watching and commenting. I’m keeping pretty close track of the cost, time spent is kind of hard. Real work is busy again so it’s been hard to find time also as much as I engineer on paper and in my head as you build ideas and new solutions always pop up. I’m not really worried about the time. I told myself it would likely take a year to get it 100% done. If I was retired I could build it in 3 months I think.
I noticed in prior episodes no bottom skids/reinforcements were added....but you did, very good idea!!
Thanks. I’m hoping it keeps it more stable locked in the grooves and the plastic runners won’t absorb any water. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT
Looks great! What’s your plan for the top? Are you thinking you’ll do canvas siding or something more solid and insulated?
Thanks. I’m leaning towards some sort of bifold front an back walls and tilt up side walls all insulated like the base and add some windows as well. If that doesn’t pan out (I think it will) I’ll fall back on the traditional tent type pop up. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.
Is that insulation good for reducing some sound outside? Just curious cause i hear people sometimes have too much noise, mostly in van builds.
It’s great. Works well stays cool and warm when needed and most importantly it’s way quieter when there is wind than our old RTT.
@@TravelingbyTacoma Very useful information. Thanks so much for writing back!
Part 1: Just finished watching ALL FOUR of your videos on building a slight in camper and thought I’d comment to say that I really enjoyed them. If only I was younger… (I’m 76), I might consider doing something like that myself. In any event, for your consideration - some thoughts that I had while watching your videos:
• One Thing that I would’ve personally considered using as an alternative to 1” x 2” or 2” x 2” wood for framing materials/structural support would’ve been perhaps 1 ½ inch SQUARE Aluminum tubing OR perhaps 1.5 inch ‘three sided’ Aluminum Tubing in some cases. Reason I would’ve at least CONSIDERED it? Well, because of rigidity and strength and - not sure on the weight angle - how much heavier or later than wood it might’ve turned out to be BUT one of the advantages of using it at least in some cases MIGHT have been additional straight/rigidity and when really stretched and stressed, it wouldn’t break but rather it would bend. ONE OTHER EXAMPLE OF A POSSIBLE BENEFIT of using it at least along the walls might’ve been the fact that one could use such tubing as/to hold electrical wiring and make it easier to route the wiring around while concealing it. ANYWAY, I have absolutely no idea which way I would’ve gone and ‘where’ I might’ve use wood or aluminum BUT it’s something I would’ve considered.
• The second thought that occurred to me - a question, actually - is that I was wondering as I watched your videos why - aft of the wheel wells in the truck bed, you did not laterally extend the floor and thus the attendant walls - further out towards the side of the truck bed. Not sure how much space it would’ve added and/or whether or not/how useful it would be BUT, in general, when building something like this, I tend to come at it from the perspective: “Every CUBIC INCH counts!”
• And finally, here’s the third thing I would like to say - offer a suggestion for consideration: the front side of the ‘overhang’ of the slide in camper over the roof of the truck is ‘square’/’ 90°’ perpendicular to the wind when driving down the road AND - flat surfaces like this CAN AND DO GENERATE A HELL OF A LOT OF AIR RESISTANCE WHICH IN TURN CAN AFFECT GAS MILEAGE/FUEL ECONOMY IN A REALLY BIG WAY. And what with the prices of gasoline today… Case in point: way back in the nineteen sixties, up here in Canada my parents wound up purchasing in 1965 a three 89 in.³ two barrel carbureted Pontiac Catalina with a 256-1 Rear Differential at a three speed Turbo hi dramatic transmission. My parents were concerned about fuel economy but I persuaded them that a big slow turning engine was not that bad. Anyway, it turned out I was right in my parents were quite pleased. That thing used to get/average around 21.5 to 22.0 miles per gallon ‘at highway speeds’. (Which was not bad at all in those days pre-fuel injected vehicles…). However, one day we had occasion I do install a square box/homemade roof carrier on the vehicle in order to transport some things from Winnipeg Manitoba to Seattle. Well… The effect on fuel economy was absolutely STUNNING. Fuel economy dropped all away down to about 12 miles per gallon at highway speeds. DUH!!!
Thanks for the detailed comments. All good suggestions. I used the smaller dimension lumber to save weight. Hoping the combined glue, pin nails, screws ,paneling, foam and edge metal it will be plenty strong. It’s small and compact and is very rigid. I’m thinking I’ll be ok. Also wanted to save weight. Not widening the back was just to keep it simple, lighter and stronger. We live in SoCal so we won’t be spending a ton of time inside unless we’re sleeping or it’s raining which almost never happens down here. I read your part 2 as well. I may look into the aerodynamics once I’m done and see how much change in mpg there is. Thanks for tuning in and watching all the episodes. Much appreciated. TbT.
Hey it’s a little late but what is your total cost going into it ?
Thanks. All in, I think I spent about $5000 ish. I used as much reclaimed material as possible (almost all of the interior was fee lumber I repurposed) and always used aluminum from the remnant pile at my local metal supply to save money ($1.99/2.99 a pound) . Most expensive part was the interior bed and seat cushion which I had professionally made, but worth the expense . Thanks for watching and commenting.
I knew the cantilever was strong enough, but I'm wondering how anyone will be able to sleep up there. Once a mattress is in place it's going to be really tight for even the skinniest person.
I wasn’t worried lol. It’s actually wider and longer than our Tepui rooftop tent. There will be a bed platform that slide out front to back making it basically the same size as a queen size bed. The head room above the bed will be about 27 inches when the upper walls and roof are poped up. I’ll show that in episode 7, working on that now. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.
@@TravelingbyTacoma Ok. I didn't realize it was going to have a popup top. Makes sense now.
How much did it cost to build?????????????????
About $5000. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.
@TravelingbyTacoma Thanks, I was looking at a AT OVERLAND and, its about 19k with all the bells and whistles.
Yeah they are expensive for sure. Building one is a huge commitment, but I’m happy with mine and loved to build process. Good luck.
Hi Jason. Did you have to thin out the insulation in your door?
I did. The door is slightly thinner than the wall so it flushes out.
I'm at that point! I need to remove half inch. Is there a trick to doing that? 🤔
As far as thinning out the foam? You can use a old style hand saw 🪚 shave off what you need and then a belt sander to even out. Belt sander takes it off fast so be cautious. Good luck
@@TravelingbyTacoma Ok thanks. Happy new year to you and family!
You too. ✌🏻