Yeah, I know this has been covered but I thought I would share anyway! I've seen this design built before so I gave it a shot saturday morning and went camping over the weekend. It works awesome! It took me about an hour to build and the total cost was about $60 bucks from Lowes. I had the fouton mattress already. I built it out of 2x10's, a combo of nails and wood scews and 2 peices of 4x8x3/4" plywood. Let me know if anybody has any specific questions about it. Enjoy!

I purchased a small fan/light from Walmart that wedged perfectly in the camper window for proper circulation with the door closed. It was very worth $8 bucks and worked like a charm! Ready to snooze!


The cheap fouton mattress that I had folded in half so I didn't have to set all my gear and coolers on top of it while in transit.


Roadtrip, here we come!

 

Awesome!
I gave up a lot of room with the FJ, not as much room back aft as my 2nd gen 4Runner had.

I might have to look into something like this in the future though...

 

very nice! i never get tired of seeing camping set ups!

 

That's a cool setup.

I'd like to see something like that in a 3rd Gen.

 

Sweet! I have a set up just like that. I have slightly different support underneath the plywood though. I made a big wooden "H" and it sometimes falls apart while driving up super bumpy roads. I keep fixing it, but should probably make something a little more sturdy.

Could you care to show what's going on under the plywood? Do you just have the 3 2x10's nailed straight to the plywood or is there some kind of cross support?

 

Here is the design under the plywood. Nothing special at all. Held together with nails and wood screws.

 

check out skyrat's design. it's in the tech section.

 

Did someone say Sleeping platform?


Aaron

 

Now that is cool!

 

Yeah, that is awesome but I bet it didn't cost $60 bucks!! Still cool!

 

Wes, thats pretty slick. I like it!! I still wanna come out and check out your trucks, and goof off. You got any more runs planned this year?

 

no not $60 Iwish! more like $300 plus labor and wood for rebuild, waterproofer,misc hardwear,,, sooo total rebuild price like $500 still beats the original $1500.


Aaron

 

regarding your under platform design, are all of those compartments pretty much wasted space or do you have an easy way to access them (w/o pulling out the futon)?

 

I used to have a 95 pickup that i made a deck in with hinges and lids not quite as cool as BajaTaco but stil super functional. Though ˟˟˟˟ was sometimes hard to get too but it was worth while with the topper in place it was ideal.


Aaron

 

Hella Jelious!

 

Why thank you

 

wmflyfisher, were you happy with the headroom? I had a platform similar to that but it was too close to the roof. No where to hang out in bad weather.

My solution was to have a half length shelf in the front of the bed. During transit we would pile the sleepin bags, etc up on the shelf. At night we'd stretch the mattresses/bags out and throw the extra gear in the cab. Then we could sit in the back of the bed and have a "table" to cook on, play cards, etc and store things on. Slept with our legs under the shelf.

I've been through a bunch of different designs over the years in different rigs, wish I had pictures. Best was a full size chevy with high rise topper. You could build a small condo in that thing.

 

Anomad, yeah the headroom did lack a bit but I could deal with it considering the comfort in the bed!! Sounds like your bed was pretty cool. Post pics if you can find any!

 

Looks nice man. I like it...simple yet effective. I might be doing something similar to my 4runner soon.

As for the flip packs, here is my dads. Its great down in Baja, very lightweight and opens up easy. Not to mention offroading with it is like theres nothing back there...

 

know how much one of those fouton mattresses are? I plan to do this but dont know what to do with my subs, I need music, i plan on doing a side mounted one but dont have money for it right now