Latest addons to my trailer

[easysuper]

After using the trailer I built last winter and using it this summer to see what improvements I wanted for our ride to Fairbanks and the Artic Circle next summer, I decided to add a water tank and faucet. Since I have a battery bank for My wife's Cpap it was easy to add a 12volt RV pump. The tank eliminates the 5 gallon water jug we have been using and I installed the 7 gallon tank in the rear underneath the bottom. All that's left is to replace the AGM batteries with Lithium to reduce the weight. For those that are going to ask about the weight, its 350 pounds fully loaded. I have about 5,000 miles on it now and we have had zero issues. For faster charging we have a second solar panel we carry in the Leesure Lite that she pulls.

 

[oldguyinTX]

Man, that is one sweet setup. Very well thought out. Have fun at the Arctic Circle, and enjoy the ride!

 

[Brentc]

You should be proud of that build! Sounds like you are enjoying some amazing travel adventures.

 

[Jesster72]

Very nice!! I like the set up and a home built at that!

Question, though. We pull a little tag-a-long for our trips, trailer has been with us through multiple bikes. The Spyder beats the heck out of everything we carry in it - because of the un-sprung hitch. How does your cargo hold up with that beating it takes? (We thought we packed everything soundly, but still wound up losing a bottle of wine on the return trip from PA last year.)

 

[DGoebel]

Kudos to your build ingenuity, love the use of existing RV door/hatches and hardware. Are you travelling with the water tank empty and filling up before stopping for camping or carrying the water tank full while traveling?

 

[Gwolf]

I am building a new trailer now, but certainly not anything like your mobile motel and diner. That is a heavy duty project. I am just building a small trailer to haul the wheelchair, and maybe a few bags of livestock feed or groceries. You got some great ideas and put them to good use.

 

[safecracker]

What a great build!!!

 

[easysuper]

Very nice!! I like the set up and a home built at that!

Question, though. We pull a little tag-a-long for our trips, trailer has been with us through multiple bikes. The Spyder beats the heck out of everything we carry in it - because of the un-sprung hitch. How does your cargo hold up with that beating it takes? (We thought we packed everything soundly, but still wound up losing a bottle of wine on the return trip from PA last year.)

I will be changing my tongue out on the trailer to the one that I seen on a modified 622.

 

[easysuper]

Kudos to your build ingenuity, love the use of existing RV door/hatches and hardware. Are you travelling with the water tank empty and filling up before stopping for camping or carrying the water tank full while traveling?

We run it full all the time if we have a water source nearby .

 

[EdMat]

I will be changing my tongue out on the trailer to the one that I seen on a modified 622.
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Is that a commercial unit or a homebuilt?

 

[easysuper]

Is that a commercial unit or a homebuilt?

I believe it was built by a fab shop . It is on a 622 trailer owned by Robert Ferguson ( Two Years on Two Spyders) he also has one on his Leesure Lite pop up trailer.

 

[EdMat]

I believe it was built by a fab shop . It is on a 622 trailer owned by Robert Ferguson ( Two Years on Two Spyders) he also has one on his Leesure Lite pop up trailer.

Looks like they knew what they were doing. Would love to add something similar to my Time Out Camper. I think there were some past discussion of a similar project here on Spyerlovers a few years back, will have to research. Thanks

 

[Valkrocket]

I applaud your ingenuity and building skills. :clap: If you haven't as yet, patent it! :firstplace:

 

[PMK]

Is that a commercial unit or a homebuilt?

This has been a planned upgrade to our RT622 trailer for a while now. I did spend some time mocking up things, but have yet to build it.
Decided that for ours to prevent loosening or wear issues of the drilled holes for mounting plates and especially the pivot things would be done slightly different. Mounting plates will be welded and pivot will be done with either a bushing and sleeve, or more likely pivot on ball bearings.

In my years of rebuilding high performance suspension units, I have a decent stash of mtb shocks. Was considering using the shock in a similar way and location, just had a difficult time accepting how it looked and interferes with stepping over the trailer tongue and accessing the rear trunk on the RTS.

The other concern could be, if the shock were moved aft, and located into the drop portion of the tongue, there becomes a clearance issue for the RT622 front lid.

All that said, I am fairly confident when modified, our RT622 trailers tongue will use a low profile design to mount the shock, and more than likely will be an entire new tongue drawbar. Good chance also I may not use a shock, but keep it simpler with easy to replace low cost, elastomers. As reliable as a quality mtb shock is, a failed seal and loosing all damping would make for a very springy trailer setup.

Just thoughts, there kind of is no true wrong or right answer for this.