Rear drawers for Troopy any ideas?

Joe,

I have made a set of draws for the Troopie. They go from the front of the back windows as I have a cargo barrier and back seat.

When I go away on the big trips I will take the back seat out and put a boxed storage area in with a lift off top. Things that I don't need every day but still want to carry will be stored in the box. On the lid of the box I will carry light bulky stuff that I will need to get too.

I will take some photos tomorrow of the runners and set up.

Wayne

Bluey221,
We had a friend who could cad draw us a design for our draw system.
We then made them I have some photo's for you to look at. I hopefully can post some of the finished product later. Our draws only go to the back seat and have a cargo barrier that only goes to draw system height.
Once again have travelled long periods with this system and had we not put them in we would have not survived.

!MPG:6!!MPG:5!

Troopytrek

Bluey,

We made something like like what you describe - a floor (bed base) at about the height of the bottom of the Troopy windows (leaves enough height underneath for the fridge), with 2 wooden (mdf) drawers underneath. Couldn't afford the width to fit in runners on the sides of the drawers, so put wheels underneath them and attached some strips of 2mm flat steel to Troopy's floor as tracks for the wheels to run on. For wheels we used big ball bearings scavenged from somewhere - about 5cm diameter and indestructable - only used 2, 1 on each side about half way along and protruding down about 5mm. Indented the tracks downwards where the wheels rest when the drawer is pushed fully in - wheel drops into indent, so drawer sits down on the tracks.

Here's a minimal picture

!MPG:4!

More pictures at
autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/troopyoz/ (see Taltech2002 in the
photos section).

There's also a big compilation of pictures on that Yahoo Troopy site in the Files area - check out the Rear Setups file.

You'll need to sign up for this site, but it's easy and is a good site for Troopy people.

Hope that helps

John

Joe,

Here are the photos of the draw system that I have made. (I hope so anyway:-) )

The fridge is on the left with a box in front of the fridge to store tea and coffee. Under the front box is a draw with the knives and forks.

On the right bottom is the BBQ that I use when doing the tag a long trips. Above that is a draw with recovery gear and tools. Above that is another draw for food.

On the left hand side over the wheel arch is a water 60lt water tank. The axe and log splitter also sit on top of the water tank. At the back of the draws is another 60lt water tank that goes the full length of the cargo barrier. On the right is a long shelf going from cargo barrier to back door. The top of the cargo barrier there is a shelf that has the first aid kit. Under the shelf at the back of the draws is a shelf, sitting on top of the water tank, that holds the 5lt of fuel and chain saw.





Wayne