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Posted By: bka0721 on 05/28/15 08:12am

Looking really nice. Can't wait to see it filled with toys and adventure equipment!

b

Posted By: kereams on 05/28/15 10:30am

Jfet wrote:

kereams wrote:

Awesome.

Are you going to be at Overland NW? I'd love to have a walk around your awesome achievement.

Cheers,
Keith

YES! We reserved two 20x20 spots at the Overland NW rally back in early March. Ouch that is only a month away now....better get busy.

Awesome. We'll be there in our Overland equipped 4Runner. I'll look for your setup and stand in the long line of people that will be wanting a tour! [emoticon]

*2011 F350 SRW CC/LB/PSD - Mods: Custom overload springs with custom early engagement blocks~Firestone Airbags~Hellwig Big Wig Rear Sway~Rancho RS9000XL~Bilstein Steering Damper~19.5" Hankook DH01'a on steel wheels.
*2012 Chalet Ascent S95R Camper

Posted By: Jfet on 06/06/15 10:33pm

A little bit more work done this week...getting mighty close now to pulling the garage pod out of our garage and seeing it on the truck.

We installed the floor mat and toy tie downs, put in the second 3700 lumen LED light over the workbench (more light now than an operating room), and wired in the inverter, switches, breakers, bus bars.

As you can see in the picture, the garage pod only has one Lifeline 125AH AGM. It has a smaller Magnum true sine inverter/charger (1kW with 1600 watt surge, compared to the 4kW monster in the main pod). It still is decent for running small tools and the built in 50 amp 12V charger will keep the Lifeline happy enough. The plan is to have just one 120VAC cord from the garage pod to the main pod and the garage pod will suck some juice from the main pod inverter output when the 1100 watts of solar have fully charged the main camper batteries and are just idling. It will also be nice having the garage pod self contained power for the times when it might sit by itself (not sure exactly how often that would be, but could happen).

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Posted By: pjay9 on 06/06/15 11:57pm

This is getting sweeter and sweeter with each posting of the progress! You are doing a fantastic job! Now you need a small solar on the garage, maybe a flip up unit on the side so you leave the top wide open for goodies and toys...it could even be mounted on a flip-up garage door awning or some such arrangement.

Great work and post!

2005 Lance 1161, 2004 Dodge CTD 3500 Dually 19.5's Stabiloads Roadmaster Sway, 2009 20' Raider 185 Pro Fish 90hp & 9.9 Yamaha vintage Penn elec.downriggers EZLoad roller trailer

Posted By: bka0721 on 06/07/15 05:53pm

Reality Check wrote:

That is just so damn cool....

Wow.

X 1000

Posted By: Jfet on 06/08/15 08:07pm

DONE!

(well, not really, but it is close)

Today we pulled the finished garage pod out of our garage and mounted it on the truck. Everything fit the way we planned and it looks reasonable.

The ramp door, powered by twin 3500 pound capacity winches, works beautifully. In one of the pictures you can see where we have it level as a porch but have removed the winch cables and use the truck jack stands to hold up the end. The standoffs on the ramp have receivers for the jack stands just like both pods.

I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

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Posted By: pjay9 on 06/08/15 08:45pm

Jfet, WOW!!!!! When are you giving it a 'test camping'?

Only thing I notice and it is because I am a bigger boat driver than most, the tie downs, in my opinion should act like fore and aft spring lines on boats. Most pick-up tiedowns do that or at least should! IMHO

This site is a little overkill but makes a very simple point regarding the springs, which relates to TC's. Again IMHO! Springs

Posted By: silversand on 06/09/15 12:02pm

VERY nice. Real professional project !

Enjoy it out there!

Cheers,
S-

Silver
2004 Chevy Silverado 2500HD 4x4 6.0L Ext/LB Tow Package 4L80E Michelin AT2s| Outfitter Caribou

Posted By: cewillis on 06/09/15 02:03pm

Utterly amazing work.

Cal

Posted By: bill harr on 06/09/15 02:42pm

Have enjoyed your build, looking forward to your trip reports.

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