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[billharr]

Check out the BUILD THREAD, Lots of great ideas. My used Hawk shell had the same corner set up for the stove and battery, and a stove one top. Mine had a front dinette and made a side dinette out of it. You will be happy building just want you want.  A Hodaka handing off the back would look good. I am a long time motorcyclist Flattrack and enduro when young, now ride a BMW K1600GT old mans fast motorcycle.

 

 

Bill 

[Hodakaguy]

Check out the BUILD THREAD, Lots of great ideas. My used Hawk shell had the same corner set up for the stove and battery, and a stove one top. Mine had a front dinette and made a side dinette out of it. You will be happy building just want you want.  A Hodaka handing off the back would look good. I am a long time motorcyclist Flattrack and enduro when young, now ride a BMW K1600GT old mans fast motorcycle.
 
 
Bill

 

Thanks guys, Looking forward to making it our own

I wish ours had came with the front dinette option, I would have used it for a side dinette conversion as well.

Anyone out there have a dinette seating option they want to sell?  

 

More than likely the truck will have a KTM in tow, or maybe a hard tail Z50 for camp ground use :-) 

Hodakaguy

 

[GroovyDad]

Looks great!  I even kind of like the "porch" on your rig.

[billharr]

I like the roll over brackets and they make the small bed automatic. You could buy a set from FWC or go the KISS system like in the picture below. From this build thread.

 

[Hodakaguy]

Built a quick storage deck to set the camper on so I can get the camper off the truck and some work done as weather allows.  The Syncro is keeping it's place in the garage which makes it a little hard to get much work done when the temps outside are hovering in the 20 deg range.  I'll eventually add some casters to the bottom of the deck so I can easily move the camper around as needed.  












More to come as time and weather allow.  

Hodakaguy

[billharr]

Just saw your picture of your camper next to your house. Had to do a double take, same siding, same color and just about the same about of room on side of the house. 

 

 

Your camper.

 

My camper

[RC Pilot Jim]

Adding my congrats too. Across front  is an interesting place to put the couch . Makes sense in a 70" inch long  camper. 

You can do a lot more with the shell model and save lots of dollars.

[Hodakaguy]

Just saw your picture of your camper next to your house. Had to do a double take, same siding, same color and just about the same about of room on side of the house. 

 

 

Your camper.

 

 

My camper

 

 

 

That does look pretty darn close to the same.  I'm going to add some casters to the wood support so I can push the camper out into the open to make installation easier. 

 

Hodakaguy

[Hodakaguy]

Next minor upgrade to the truck...Towing Mirrors.  

The stock mirrors are to small in my opinion and marginal with the camper installed.  I ordered a set of factory Toyota tow mirrors, they have both power and heat along with a built in blind spot mirror.  These should do the trick :-)

Installation was quick...about 10 min per side.  

New mirrors fresh out of the package and waiting to be installed.




A couple pics of the stock mirrors on the truck.






Installing the new mirrors




And the tow mirrors installed :-)






Mirrors retracted and extended.






Hodakaguy

[GroovyDad]

Those mirrors looks great on your rig.  Also, I would come up with some way to lock your Raven when it's off the truck.  I can see someone just backing up to it, jacking it up and taking off with it.  I wouldn't have thought like that a few months ago, but then a guy recently had his truck and FWC stolen at the Sacramento REI.  His truck was soon recovered w/o the camper.  The camper was recovered weeks later and badly damaged.  Just a thought...