6x4 box for the wifes car
Posted: 21 Apr 2016, 21:28
I've had my outback for over a year now and have my ute set up to transport the yak but we've been taking two cars away on most of our trips as my wife refuses to go in my ute, lol. Unfortunately for me this often means that the yak stays home and I miss out on fishing in some great spots. I've been thinking for a long time about a trailer and a few weeks ago my brother inlaw gave us his 6x4 trailer and his MIG wielder to pay us debt he owed so I got stuck into it.
I have had to do quite a bit of work to get it to the stage it's at now, I've replaced the axle and springs, new bearings, new tires (hub caps) and added a 120ah AGM battery and charger, lighting and marine carpet. The trailer had a dodgy frame on it that I cut off and modified to suit and reinforced it to be strong enough to support a couple of yaks up top, I also lowered the height so it'll be easier to load the yak. The frame is covered with 2mm sheet metal and the seams have been wielded followed by a few tubes of silicon to ensure the box is water proof. The rear door has a good locking system on it to protect our gear from would be thieves as with the battery box up front. I painted the inside and out with killrust so it should be good around the salt water and had a fella I know make up the sticker to finish it off. The inside of the trailer has 2x 12v heavy duty sockets to run our fridge/freezer and whatever other things might come along. An interior LED light has it's own switch so we can find what we're looking for in the dark and the battery box also has a switched LED light made from a 1m sticky back LED strip. I got a little carried away with the led strips but I'm happy with the results, it's hard to get a good pic but you'll get the idea.
To make loading and unloading easier, I added a drop down support leg so I can take the trailer off the car, wind the jockey wheel all the way up and lower the rear leg to stop the trailer from tipping backwards, this allows me to slide the yak fully loaded onto the pvc tubes with ease. Of coarse, there's a 150mm rod tube with locks on each end on the roof to keep the rods safe. Happy fishing fellas, I hope my ideas may come in handy at some point, my wife is now talking about buying a tent, camp stove and kitchen so we can go camping and fishing
I have had to do quite a bit of work to get it to the stage it's at now, I've replaced the axle and springs, new bearings, new tires (hub caps) and added a 120ah AGM battery and charger, lighting and marine carpet. The trailer had a dodgy frame on it that I cut off and modified to suit and reinforced it to be strong enough to support a couple of yaks up top, I also lowered the height so it'll be easier to load the yak. The frame is covered with 2mm sheet metal and the seams have been wielded followed by a few tubes of silicon to ensure the box is water proof. The rear door has a good locking system on it to protect our gear from would be thieves as with the battery box up front. I painted the inside and out with killrust so it should be good around the salt water and had a fella I know make up the sticker to finish it off. The inside of the trailer has 2x 12v heavy duty sockets to run our fridge/freezer and whatever other things might come along. An interior LED light has it's own switch so we can find what we're looking for in the dark and the battery box also has a switched LED light made from a 1m sticky back LED strip. I got a little carried away with the led strips but I'm happy with the results, it's hard to get a good pic but you'll get the idea.
To make loading and unloading easier, I added a drop down support leg so I can take the trailer off the car, wind the jockey wheel all the way up and lower the rear leg to stop the trailer from tipping backwards, this allows me to slide the yak fully loaded onto the pvc tubes with ease. Of coarse, there's a 150mm rod tube with locks on each end on the roof to keep the rods safe. Happy fishing fellas, I hope my ideas may come in handy at some point, my wife is now talking about buying a tent, camp stove and kitchen so we can go camping and fishing