Refurbishing and upgrading a 32ft gooseneck enclosed car trailer.
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- We dive into some major upgrades for my 32ft ATC Aluminum Goosneck enclosed race car trailer. From extended ramps to help with low cars, to a backup camera system that integrates with my 2020 Ford F-350 Superduty.
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Surprised you didn't add a solar panel the roof to power everything while sitting in the pit.
I have one I bought for my old trailer, I just don't like the idea of self taping/drilling for wires through the roof. it may be silly, but the idea has bothered me too much to put it on.
@@Taylordrifts Try some brackets off the side of the roof to mount solar panels (where sides and roof meet). It avoids the holes in roof leaking scenario, plus might be a little more stable.
@@Taylordrifts You could always have them detachable so that you can just have them sit on the tongue of the trailer or other sunny place when in use.
@@Taylordrifts That's a valid concern. You could always add some plug in leads coming out of the trailer somewhere down low and just use the panel with some legs on the ground for a day if the battery is starting to get low (but then you have to worry about carrying it around somewhere in the trailer and it getting in the way).
@@Taylordrifts would also be a "free" way to keep your tool batteries topped up. Get one of the Milwaukee vehicle chargers and cut the end off and wire it to the batteries
I enjoy Taylor's "upgrading" videos more than the slidey-slide videos. Almost makes me want to do something productive. (almost)
Yeah, 100%the same, just love seing these kinds of projects
almost 😄
I’m actually only here to watch him work on stuff. I don’t watch the drifting videos. I wondered if I was the only one
For your trailer jacks, you would probably do better if you used the Milwaukee Hole Hawg right angle drill. It's made more specifically for high torque loads and easier to handle.
Meanwhile, TJ Hunt has an entire nascar magnaflow hauler for drift events lol one of the many reasons you're one of my favorite channels, very simple, with a ton of talent.
Agreed. Taylor keeps it relatable, straightforward, does everything himself!
to be fair its not TJ's trailer. magnaflow is just letting him use it.
Is tj a drifter for real?
@@dinho890i yup, hes not half bad either
just put a sprocket on the tube connecting the jacks, then make a mount for the motor. put a chain on it and let it rip. the closer u put the sprocket to the jack the less flex/binding youll end up with.
On the voltage meter, you may want to consider putting it on the other side of the breakers so that it is only on when they are on. I know that it only uses a tiny trickle, but over months it could drain you down some. The whole setup looks great, the "electric jack" you have to be careful with, I have jacked up my wrists before with drills that jump around like that, but it is a great "good enough" solution.
Love a good trailer mod, upgrading logistics makes drift events even better.
agreed i put rv video cameras on mine
@@JJ-fc8ew that’s a really good idea.
@@jdshanahan4215 I'm thinking of removing the passenger air bag to make a custom screen mount
@@JJ-fc8ew wouldn’t be a bad idea. Just so long as you don’t think you’ll need the airbag. Haha
first thing i did to my little 5x10 open utility. start modding it. lol its equipped to have every thing you need, no matter what vehicle tows it. necessary adapters in place so if my father wants to tow with his 4pin plug it has a 4 to 7 adapter to hook up to my trailer that is converted to 7pin witing
One thing I really think you should do to your trailer is have the guys who wrapped the Corvette do a matching wrap for the trailer 👍. But on the other hand it does match the truck as it is. One upgrade I would do is a really good awning, unless it already has one.
I meant to say this on the last video of the trailer remodeling, but I had a thought about the tire situation. Could you buy/build some slide out tracks that sit in the loft and find a way to place the tires in upright, you can slide it out and grab the tires when you need them and have them out of your way. Just a thought I had.
On my prior RV, I had a back up cam that was blue tooth to a separate screen. I took power from the clearance
lights. amazing how nice it is to see behind you going down the road
As a truck driver I always wondered if a drill could raise / lower landing gear. Interesting to know!
I'm a tractor mechanic. One day we had a new guy disconnect a trailer from a downed to truck to do a swap. kid left the landing legs up and dropped a 53ft loaded trailer . Luckily it was only a few inches below the fifth wheel but we were still cracking for like 20 minutes not going to lie I thought about trying my impact gun to see what it would do 😂
I love trailer history stories. When I was in a band in high school we bought a home made steel strap and wooden enclosed trailer for our gear. Thing was tall as hell and was built all the way on the other end of the country and used to haul suits of chain and plate mail to renaissance festivals. When we were done with it and sold it, we ended up selling it to a dude who was just buying it temporarily to move back out to the west coast so in the end it got to go back home! lol just weird lil trailer stories~
I welded a nut to my jack on my bumper trailer and use an impact. But I'm always afraid the impacting will shear the rod. For yours, I'd find a way to have the drill index to the trailer so you don't have to "break your wrist"
Hey Taylor…Milwaukee tool lab technician here. Slap a high output battery in that drill and you’ll have substantially more sustained torque for raising your trailer. Those batteries are designed for long duration high load applications.
As always, love your videos and thanks for the constant entertainment!
I was wondering if a high output battery would help or not! Is there an updated stronger M18 drill? Mine is model number 2806-20
If your trailer doesn't have it...there is a pin in the rv 7 flat from the truck to trailer plug (big center pin i belive) that you can add reverse lights that will come on when you put your truck in reverse...game changer I put them on my trailers never fails to not have a good spotter in the dark..
You could have put the motor in between the 2 jacks on the shaft. If you make a new pipe that is 1" ID with a 3/4" ID bushing you can also keep the old pipe to reverse the mod if you have/ want to
Hey Taylor, Renogy is a trusted brand BUT I would highly recommend just going with a solar generator setup! You’ll have plenty of 12v on most setups, and you’ll have an inverter for who knows what! Then when you install those solar panels (I recommend mounting to the sides with a bracket and then running the cabling to the front with a drip loop that then goes into the trailer) you’ll have tons of power available! Would make it more feasible to use for camping at track when necessary too. Either way, love it!
If I were to keep that trailer for a long time I would build raised ramps like a dirt car set up. No more tight fit and emergency oil change area
What Brand of Ramps did you use?
Maybe some slide out trays for your storage area that way you don’t have to climb up there to get tires and boxes.
For the jacks, I'm sure you could rig something up with a higher torque drill and a handle with more leverage, for the same cost as that system. Think how they used to start Indy/F1 cars with an external motor. Or something with a winch and a chain drive, but that would be way more involved.
That drill setup worked pretty well...look into a Milwaukee Hole Hawg. It's a larger right angle drill, much easier to hold and it will hold up to that much better than the cordless drill. Since you already have the m18 batteries, it's a great tool to have
No he just needed to put the drill into mod 1
Or use his wheel gun.
When I saw the bike pulled apart I thought you were making a reduction gear with sprockets and chain, to take the load off the drill
Love the upgrades. Thanks for getting some paint on those rear panels. I would definitely look at an option for solar. Like some others have said, you could use a portable solution and just hook them up at the track. This would keep your batteries topped up, and remove the leak risk.
Some sailers use flexible panels that are bonded to the surface rather than screwed in. Then you could go through the side, or if the wires are thin enough, run a small conduct down the side, and run the wire under the goose neck area. It's not as sexy, but it makes it easier to keep the water out.
The trailer mods are awesome! I really enjoy seeing your drifting content and builds but I also love general upgrading/workshop etc videos that you do, I have learnt so much from you and so many little small things I wouldn't have thought about! Keep up the awesome work!
Next step ideas.
Solar panels to roof for offgrid power.
Relocate batteries and electronics to the Jack enclosure and add air compressor there too.
Add bigger inverter for power tools and maybe a fridge.
AC to the roof for those hot days.
Awning over the side door side and led lights.
The drill method for the jacks is exactly how we used to move the jacks on an old Jayco camper we used to have. Works well!
Trailer tire monitor is a must and only 2nd to good quality trailer tires. In regards to trailer tires, the 1 weakness of pressure/temp sensors are cheap tires that de-tread and usually don't loose air fast enough or heat up fast enough to trip the monitoring system before the damage is already done. Trailer King tires, aka china bombs, are notorious for this. Tire age is also something to really keep an eye on. Many trailer tires age out well before you wear the tread down like a passenger vehicle typical does.
We got our first travel trailer about 4 years ago and made the investment in the TST 507 system. Such a great piece of mind. No more guessing or wondering if everything is good. Now, were towing double the weight with our 5th wheel and the sensors are still working great.
For the power assist look at go cart engine starters.
Just a thought for an add-on. Put a couple of the lifting beds in that tuck up against the ceiling.
Make sure when doing dual batteries to have the negative and positive leads going from the batteries, have once come off each battery so they deplete at the same rate. Meaning have the negative come off battery A and positive come off battery B. This will distribute the load across both batteries at the same time.
Use ear foam ear plugs to flips flop between the ramp tumb screws and the "vacation home" to keep dirt and debris out to save the threads
When repairing the inner arch. Change the shape of them to give more clearance
On my personal trailer I added a small solar panel on the roof that works as a trickle charger when the trailer is setting, I used one I found at harbor freight and have never had a dead battery since
A buddy of mine bought a cheap 1000lbs harbor freight winch took some bike sprockets a bike chain made a mount and used that for his trailer jacks. I think he spent less then 50 bucks. He had all the scrap laying around to build it. then just ran the controller out right under the overhang. in/out became up/down. Or you could pick up one of those heavy duty Milwaukee drills with the extra handle.
Taylor always comes up with solutions to problems that many people don't even know existed. I love it.
Nonskid on those ramps for wet tires
Imagine a Indy car like starter tool for the jack lol
Hey are you ever gonna put semi rims on that new truck??
It's on the agenda! Just need to sell my old truck first. lol
So, now that you don't have the pickup any more, what are you going to use the camera and TPMS stuff?
Put an o-ring on those thumb screws and it will help keep it from backing out while it bounces down the Highway.
Its prob6a lot of upgrading work but what about air bags on the back of the truck. That's what we have, then you just put landing gear down til barely touching, drop the airbags, and pull her out! Just a thought. Plus the air ride suspension cruising down the highway.
Taylor, convert the tool you made to be driven by your 1/2” Rattle Gun instead of a drill. Works a treat on the legs on our caravan and you won’t break your wrist either
5:30 figure I would comment and say 'Good work Josue'. When I saw the first one going on top I thought 'well they will make it overlap the big overhang...' then it wasn't looking like that was going to happen. Right about then you chimed in and relived my anxiety 😂.
I’ve made quite a few drill jack adaptors, I’ve always called them the lazy truck driver tool. It works much better with legs that have a high/ low gear selection
If you add some marine solar panels to the roof, the inverters needed to use with the batteries come with an internal off/on isolation switch. So you could isolate the trailer from the batteries when not in use. Also, no matter when you go after the trailer it'd be ready for use. The only other thing that would make this better is getting some LiFePo batteries instead of using AGMs that have a fraction of the life.
Hey Taylor, i noticed you didn’t Torque that LF wheel FYI. Idk if you took the hubcap back off when the camera wasn’t running but i saw you torqued the LR but not the LF. Just an FYI brotha!
I think a better solution to the drill is the Milwaukee mud mixer, it’s basically just a high torque drill.
The drill system works on the jacks but it will trash your drill pretty quickly. Been there done it. Just ended up putting electric jacks on the trailers and if we had done it that way the first time we would have saved money after buying 2 drills not including the original drill and then the electric jacks. However the system works fine with 2 stage geared jacks on lighter trailers.
With your drill jack situation I would almost put one of the side handles on the drill so it doesn't break your wrist every time
Something else is if you get reverse lights on the trailer at the top shining down, for at night and backing up.
Get a wide roll of white vinyl for the back two panels insode the trailer
I would probably re weld the wheel wells to be way tighter clearance to the tires for more room to pull the corvette in, maybe even spacers to push out the tires for a little more room.
definitely no spacers on a trailer, that’s a recipe for disaster
@@odysseyjzx hub centric spacers are as safe as mounting directly to the hub, if you bought one size fits all spacers and had a bad experience thats on you.
Ramp overs. Will eliminate the clearance problem, and can store tents or wheels under the car.
If you can figure out a way to remote mount the bulldog motor you can make a shaft with a sprocket to go on the motor and weld one to the Jack shaft and use a chain off a street bike to connect.
Look into putting an awning on the side.
I added one from carefree of colorado to my enclosed and it’s an awesome addition. You’ll love it
what about a bar tying the two ramps together so they can be folded in and out in one go.
you could use a solar panel bolted to a frame that you can take in and out of the trailer and have a hook up some where in the trailer that you can plug in the panel to keep the battery charged while at the track/house.
No need to grind back before you put the rivets in. You just risk rippling stuff when you pull the rivets up. If you’re worried about them being flush then get some countersunk ones - with the warning that they pull through way more easily.
I know self tapping the roof would suck but solar panels with inverter and micro wave and 12v fridge.
Should do solar on the trailer, makes a big difference for extending battery life plus keeps them charged while it’s sitting
Now you gotta add a few solar panels to keep the batteries charged, have a fridge in there keep some drinks cool and whatever else you need
The white spray paint looks basically factory compared to the ridiculous house paint that was there. I can't believe people thought that was a good idea
The only thing missing is a awning on the side and it’s 👌
The only other thing I would add is a 120/240v inverter. So you could have a coffee mchince or microwave in the trailer.
Just watched Chris Pendarvis's new video where Ruddy gifted him an old E36 to start drifting again and he told us about the old Boujee Crew he wanted to know if alot of yall remembered the old drift crew and he said you were in it do you remember that Taylor ?
It should power through on the lower speed setting? Much more torque!
I would add a rubber spacer/ washer to the thumb screws, less to turn and easier to grab when it's up off the ground. Prevents over torquing into the plastic as well. The trailer lift using a drill, idk how possible it is, but Adam had a Snap-on truck guy show up with a center-lock wheel impact gun. It has to rotate a 500-600ft.lbs center lock wheel nut without ripping your wrist off, maybe look into 1 of those and see if you can add that into the design, might be a sacrificial drill for lifting your trailer.
Just curious if you had thought about maybe putting the old ramp back in the middle cut down to fit?
I’m surprised you didn’t go for the Hail Mary and throw wedges in it to get it above the wheel wells. Either way, awesome video!
I just went to grab my drill to mix some thinset up and thought to myself “I really need to get a mud mixer this isn’t the right tool” and then I remembered you jacking up your trailer with the drill and thought, it’ll be fine!
look up using a harbor freight winch and sprocket gears to run your Jacks! I've done a couple of those conversions and even did the remote winch on the last one works like a charm.
Buy a harbor freight winch. Weld a sprocket to it, mount it above jack cross bar. Removed cross bar. Weld sprocket to the cross bar. Put a chain between the two. I did this on my gooseneck.
Weld a 1/2 drive socket to the trailer jack thing so you can use your 1/2 impact instead of the drill
Need a awning on the side to help with your pit setup
I’m surprised the new truck isn’t on semi wheels yet. For jacking up those jacks make the same setup but with a socket welded on and use a 1/2” impact. It’ll Jack that trailer up in 5 seconds.
Do you use your alternator to charge the batteries in the back? On long hauls, that alternator would have time enough to top them of.
Would an impact driver be better for your wrists compared to the drill when lifting the trailer?
Cmon maaaaan! Always read the instructions!
I almost always learn about some feature i didn’t know the time had when I do. Let alone proper install.
Chalkboard paint would be cool on those rear sections. Record lap times or just fun stuff with friends, list of things you remember on track day and need to jot down real quick etc. or if not wanting black, white board paint or tea board.
Good idea!! I like that!
Could do a prep list. Tires. Etc.
Hello.... I agree about the solar panels for the roof you also should consider a halon system, I've heard about several racers losing their rigs due to fire That's probably some cheap insurance.
This vid has old more old school Taylor vibes, the intro was spot on. I dig it
I would maybe load in your regular track day gear and equipment to see if that drill can lift a fully loaded trailer before relying on it.
The new jack handle is great because it ads extra security lol
You could have also put a magnet on the wall at the back of the trailer for those thumb screws
Nice upgrades, always wondered why the panels were so dirty looking
Taylor definitely keeps it real. Feels like he's the super talented homie that we chill with on the weekend and makes all the projects easier.
Taylor - maybe weld that tool to an impact - and use the ugga dugga to lift up the trailer?
Bet the Milwaukee mud mixer high torque lower RPM would work slick af for those jacks
Any thoughts of a small solar panel on the roof to keep the batteries topped off?? Otherwise some great upgrades
put a switch next to the usb plug so you can turn off the light when not using the trailer.
Put 2-4’x8’ aluminum diamond plate sheets up by the entrance instead of spray paint, then you’d be really styli’n
Looks like some type of rubber bumper is needed under the ramp to keep from bending it at the hinge end. Nice upgrades!
Build some ramp overs inside for the vette so you can have more room
Do you still have the fummins?
I have a solar charging package on my camper that works awesome for keeping the batteries maintained and charged. It would be ideal for a race trailer and living in Florida.
Build some ramps on the inside of the trailer over the wheel wells and you can use the under side for more storage..
Why not quick detach latches of some sort for the ramps? Almost like hood pins
You would have to drive over them
I suggest a Hole-Hog for the jack bit. Pllllleeeeeennntttyyy of torque with longer/better grip than a drill, and hey, new tool that can be used for other things too. Also definitely should look into a small solar setup for the roof. I really dig these kinds of project vids.
Nice upgrades 👌been tryin to replace my sold trailer and since then it seems trailer prices have went sky high 🤑
I get that the drill works but for peace of mind in the future I would get the bulldog Jack's. Worst case you have a back up set for if the bulldog ones break
Get one of those over lander awnings!! And a garage built vinyl decal for the side. Not a full on wrap but your logo on the side would be sick. Maybe. The RUclips channel name on the side something easy but not to flashy