August ‘23, Drip Rail Install
We had been waiting to do this mod for a while. Adding the Drip Rails to our camper will vastly improve it on rainy days and solve an annoying issue of water dripping off the leading corners of our camper and into the rear doors of the truck when they are open.
October ‘23, MAXTRAX MKII installed
After carrying around some Amazon knockoff traction boards for a while it was finally time to replace them with something proper, and easier to use when needed. We picked these MAXTRAX MKII along with the 17mm mounting pins that will allow us to lock the boards in place.
We bolted the pins directly through our driver’s side panel, and to assist in lifting the additional weight we picked up a set of slightly stronger gas struts from GFC.
To find the mounting position we started by taping off the inside of our panel so that we could make any needed marks with a pen and not have to work about removing the pen marks when the job was done. We then marked on the tape where the diagonal supports are so that the mounting pens wouldn’t interfere with them. Once we had that, we then marked the center of the panel relative to the front and back. From there we then measured out the mounting hole pattern on the traction boards and transferred it to the panel. We mounted the traction boards as high as we could so that gas struts would struggle less to open the panel, but not so high that the boards interfered with the top thing.
October ‘23, Weight Reduction & Venting
In an effort to shave some more weight from the bed of our truck and to also help our Goal Zero battery to breath we removed even more material from one of the vertical portions of our build in the back. We did this by drilling 1” holes on a 2” square grid pattern.
