By Slider on Sunday, May 06, 2001 - 10:28 pm: Edit

I'm thinking of taking a pop-up camper and mounting a rear axle, links and springs to it.

This will get it up to the level of my 2" lift on my disco.

I also want to mount matching LR rims or at least the 16" steels that I run with off road with 235/85's.

Is anyone with me on this?

Sound cool?

So, who has an old rear axle around that I can start with?...Could be RR or even a Series truck.
This won't be a PTO driven trailer, so the diff does not have to operate.

I'm in CT.

Or is there some sindles, with rotors I could use.

Anyone have imput on this,

Thanks
Slider

By Mike on Sunday, May 06, 2001 - 10:43 pm: Edit

Great idea. Check out Back Country Trailers. They make a Defender 90 trailer that is probably pretty close to what you are looking to build. Here is a link to their website:

http://www.backcountrytrailers.com/Trailers/BackCountryTrailers/

Hopefully this will give you some ideas. Keep us posted on your progress and this is something that I have a medium amount of interest in.

Thanks,
Mike

By Ron on Monday, May 07, 2001 - 09:35 am: Edit

Slider,

Let me get back to you. I "think" I will have a spare RR axle if my salisbury ever shows up.

Cheers
Ron

By gil on Monday, May 07, 2001 - 10:25 am: Edit

Slider, i saw a sick trailer not long ago. Some guy took a way high mileage, blown engine 94 Disco and sawzalled it at the B-pillar in front of the rear doors. He then welded a front panel to seal up the now half size Disco. Thats his trailer. Half of a Disco. It looks pretty wild a Lifted Disco followed by a lifted Half-Disco. He has a roof top tent on the first Disco and stashes all of his gear in the Half-Disco. This might be a more expensive way to go, but youve already got the axle, wheels, suspension etc. Plus it looks pretty wild. Where in CT are you, Im in CT as well?

By slider on Tuesday, May 08, 2001 - 01:29 pm: Edit

I'm in Waterbury area....Anyone else have similar trailer experience.

Ultimate Off road trailers in Austraila are pretty cool too..

By Ron on Tuesday, May 08, 2001 - 05:02 pm: Edit

Slider,

I have been thinking about building one and I think the best set up would be a leaf sprung axle with the center cut out (or just mount the hubs to a tube) Use a set of stock upper LR shock mounts and the factory 109 spring plates with new 109 springs (or used cheapies). I would mount it to the disco with a military pintle hook and ring set up (like big rigs use and also some real military trailers). I would use the same wheels and tires as on the disco. I would try to minimize weight. Seems to me a coil sprung trailer would be harder to make and in the grand scheme of things I am not of the opinion that the trailer should flex much if at all (more flex = more rollover potential, at least in a single axle vehicle).

Ron

Its not that I could not make it is just that I don't have anywhere to keep it. You could do it really cheap using an 88 series rover bed and roof for a body which look really cool behind the disco.