It’s secured in 6 places. There’s a video in a the series showing the front mounts that bolt through the camper frame. The front ratchet straps go down to the truck frame and the rear attache to the D rings in the bed. Seems to be fine, no issues and well over a year on the truck.

No. They’re just used to hold everything in place in the building processes. The glue and screws to do the job of holding it together. It’s been on my truck over a year now with thousands of miles on road on hundreds off and still in excellent shape. I should have a 1 year of use video out in about a month. Thanks for watching and commenting. ✌🏼

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Thanks ! Good luck with your build and thanks for watching and commenting. TbT

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Thanks. That’s cool, I think that would be a fun build too. Thanks for watching and commenting. ✌🏼

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Only reason was room for the struts to mount. I didn’t have enough room over the door in the back so I just moved them out to the side and flipped the layout. Seems to work fine. At some point, I’m gonna do a follow up video for all the tweaks and improvements I’ve done since I finished it. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT

It’s just a heavy duty exterior house paint Doesn’t really see the light of day and is still looking good after more than a year in the truck. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Thanks. Sorry don’t have any diagrams. There may be some dimensions in the comments from a while back if you want to check those. Can remember though. Good luck with your build. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT. ✌🏼

Haha. Why would I build something at my neighbors house. 😂. That deck is almost 20 years old and I built it along with my house, myself. It is due (this winter) to be rebuilt, once it cools off here with some upgraded materials. No drilling into it after that. 😉Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.

Cool. Thanks for watching and commenting. I don’t have plans, but the videos cover pretty much everything-ish. It’s been a year or so since I finished it and it still great …made several small improvements here and there along the way. We’re heading back out for a trip to the Sierra Nevada mountains in early oct. Good luck with your build. Let me know if you have any questions. ✌🏼

No, sorry. Just measure whatever bed you have and make it to your specs/design. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.

@@TravelingbyTacoma I have a gen 2 Tacoma just like yours actually - short bed - came with a camper shell.

Paint is holding up perfectly. It’s marine grade bilge paint so it’s pretty tough stuff and high quality. We don’t get muck rain in socal but lots of sun. No issue with sun either. Trucks always outside. I just maintain it weekly with washes and a spray wax to keep it looking new. If I lived in a super rainy place i probably would have skinned the camper with a thin aluminum sheet just to be safe instead of my wood. I did marine seal everything before paint which I’m sure you saw in the videos as well. Good luck. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT. ✌🏼

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Total cost was about 5K, the interior custom upholstery was about $1100 so parts and materials were right around 4000. Thanks for watching. TbT 🤙🏼

Haha. I wish I had time. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT ✌🏼

Thanks. My build was about 5k total. Compare that to the cost of a built out 4wheel camper and it was well worth the time to build… fun too. If you’re not living in it and a weekend warrior /week long trip users like us it’s fine. It’s been on my truck for a year and a half now and still loving it. Made lots of improvements since “finishing” the build too. Thanks for watching and commenting. ✌🏼 TbT

No plans sorry. The videos do a pretty good job good of laying out the process -at least how I did it- you would just need to do all your own measurements. Good luck. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.

Thanks. It all worked out in the end and I’m stoked on the results ad well as how the camper is holding up. It’s been on there for well over a year and many trips and no issues. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT. 🤙🏼

@@TravelingbyTacoma Glad to hear that. I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a home built myself. Just a camper shell, though - not a slid-in. The lightweight method you used for the walls, plus the fibergless is what I was looking for. Carry on! 👍

Loaded for a weekend’r camping trip and both of us in there, it’s right about 5600lbs... last we weighed a few months back. Lighter obviously day to day dry empty weight. Don’t have an exact weight at this point. Truck gets 17.5 mpg on average freeway mpg(2wd 32” E-rated tires at 55/60 psi -63mph is the sweet spot for mpg on my truck. ) thanks for watching and commenting. TbT

Sounds like a good project. I would suggest using an aluminum exterior skin since you’re in a much wetter climate than me. My wood is holding up well, but I’d be worried in the PNW wet. Good luck. Thanks for watching.

@@TravelingbyTacoma The Left side of Washington gets all of the rain. In our area we get normal rainfall in the spring and fall. No rain during the summer and a LOT of snow in the winter. Three years ago we had 2 feet of snow on the ground and a bad storm came in. We got an additional 3 feet in 10 hours. I felt so bad for my wife as I had shoulder surgery two weeks prior, so she had to get out and use our snow thrower to clear our driveway. There’s 9 families who live on our private road so thankfully Everyone was snowed in so there are 3 families who have a snow plow blade on their tractor’s, so they cleared our road to the county toad.

Thanks. Yeah it’s still under there and working well. My model has a small LED light that’s on all the time when there’s power to the unit. Had to keep the clips rather than hard wire. Thanks for watching and commenting. ✌🏼

It’s a great area for sure. It would take a lifetime to see it all on the 395. Thanks for watching and commenting. ✌🏼. TbT.

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@chrisspear1129 sorry, I don’t have the time and it would be too much labor cost to be a deal for you. It’s not a very hard build, but to make it worthy of selling… that amount of labor time charge for you would be too much money. You’d be better off buying a GGRSD or making it yourself. Materials are cheap, making it well (labor cost) is high. ✌🏼

Thanks. The camper cost was right around 4k but that didn’t include the custom upholstery (bed and seat cushions) I had made. Those were 1k for all. So all in about 5k total. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT ✌🏼

It’s still there and still works perfectly fine. No issues. 👍🏼

I haven’t been filming much, just using the camper and having fun with it. I’m not very good at the whole KZbinr blog style videos lol. I may make one, but if you have any questions I’ll answer them. Things I’d do differently- make it a bit wider so it’s easier I take on and off and a little more room inside ( bed is plenty big for us -bigger than our rooftop tent was) but would be good to sit more comfortably inside when trapped by weather or mosquitoes. I figured out a way to raise it safely without the wedges if you’ve seen that process. I eliminated those and there’s a permanent x of webbing that stabilizes the roof on each side…way better and way faster. You can see them if you zoom in on my last insta post. Other than that it’s been rad. Paint is holding up great (boat bilge paint is pretty tough stuff) no leaks, no cracks and still get an avg of 17.5 mpg. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy 4th. ✌🏼

@@TravelingbyTacoma thanks for the quick response! Glad to hear you are enjoying it. Thanks also for answering my question of what you would do differently. Happy 4th!

That would be cool. I just switch out the 12v plug from the truck to the house battery for now. Not much hassle and works well. With the solar panel on the roof we’ve never ran lower than 80% over several days. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT ✌🏼

Yeah could be a little water if it pouring sideways, but we just wipe the walls down before we put it away if it’s light rain. Been fine so far. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.

Paint it great. Boat paints are built to last. No issues at all with the gray bilge paint. Thanks for watching and commenting. ✌🏼. TbT

Thanks. It has several inches of overlap and sealed with this weather stripping link below. Works well, been in many storms over the last year. amzn.to/45yttrq.

Thanks. It’s still working well. Check out my insta if you want to see it in the wild from a few weeks back. Thanks for watching, commenting and the sub. ✌🏼

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Thanks. Yeah, the marine sealer and the marine bilge paint is pretty good stuff. I used the premium top coat paint on my boat in the past (several years backs) and it’s still in excellent condition. It’s not cheap though. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.

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Thanks. Haha no , but that’s pretty funny. I can hear that voice in my head lol. 😂 ✌🏼

Gas tank is under the truck and filler on the side. Not sure I follow your question.

Haha, I’ll need to go back and check that out. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.

@@TravelingbyTacoma For sure. It's right at the 10 minute mark ;)

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Nice. My camper only weighs about 750lbs dry and fully loaded for a trip it’s still under GVRW for my model. I added new leafs springs, and sumo bumps ( airless airbags) along with E load tires. The truck holds the eight well and I still avg about 18 mpg. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT.

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Thanks! The total weight when we’re fully loaded, both of us, water, food, gear, propane and fire pit and lots of beer for 3-4 day trip is right at the 5600 lbs GVRW for my SR5 model. Camper dry is about 750lbs- ish. I added heavy duty leafs, sumo spring bump stops and e load tires to hold the weight. It drives pretty good, you definitely can feel it, but, I still avg about 17.5 mpg for the last year it’s been on there. 63 mph is the sweet spot. Thanks for watching and commenting. TbT. 🤙🏼

Thanks for watching. The camper is about 750lbs dry weight. I don’t have a heating system, we live in Southern California and don’t really need heating with the insulation. We use a heater buddy if it’s cold enough, but that’s almost way too hot. 🥵 Good luck. TbT.

@@TravelingbyTacoma Ok..thx Sorry I think you are little bit North ..ok.. Best regards to you and your family.! 👏🚚🌿🍁🍷🍺🤙

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@@TravelingbyTacoma Ok.. Thx buddy ..no prob. enjoy your Camper. 🤙🍁🚚 🌿👏

My build was about $5k but that was with 1k worth of custom upholstery. Good luck and thanks for watching and commenting. 🤙🏼