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02-25-2005, 01:08 AM
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Pickup bed trailer Q's
I'm making a trailer out of a spare pickup bed.
Sounds simple enough right, but like most projects the devil is in the details. I know that the rearend is replaced, in most cases, with a straight axle of some sort but are the shocks retained? Any ideas what to make the hitch end out of? (I know, take a piece of scrap plastic and cut everything off that doesn't look like a hitch end...lol) I'm still stuck with deciding on the color, the wheels, to make it stake side or not... Pretty complicated for something thats only got about a dozen parts... 
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02-25-2005, 09:48 AM
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Yes, it should have shocks, but I've seen real ones without them too. Just find some pictures of a trailer tongue and copy them. Your hobbyshop should have plastic in the shape of I beams and C channels, that would be a good place to start. The Hemi Hydro I just did, (Posted in Finished, Street & Custom section), comes with a trailer and the front part of it is about the same as what you need to make... - Mark
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02-25-2005, 01:52 PM
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Hey Bill.
We had one when I was a kid with a leafspring and shocks, I think my Dad might still have it actually
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02-25-2005, 06:27 PM
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Re: Pickup bed trailer Q's
Most of time the axle remains with just the drive shaft removed. An a-frame is usually welded onto the front end of the frame. They are pretty staright forward.
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