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Anyone have experience converting a camper into a toy hauler?
I have one of these:
I want one of these:
I paid $1500 for the one I've got a toy hauler is hard to find and are somewhere around $5000-$10000. The pop up variety are very hard to find and are more desireable to me for the space savings and lighter towing weight.
These guys(Toy Hauler Fab LLC Home Page) will do the conversion for about $2500, but they're in CO. Also if they can do it labor included for $2500 I'm sure I could do it for say $500-$1000.
I guess it would entail checking the weight distrubition, making sure the axle/wheels can handle the load and is in the right place and welding/bolting on an addition to the trailer. I've also seen some pictures where they just plopped the pop up on a bigger trailer.
That looks a bit odd to me though and I have no way to pick up the pop up and just plop it on a new trailer base. I could probably jack it up remove the base work on it and bolt it back into place though if that would end up being stronger/easier than a simple bolt/weld on addition.
The only problem I see with keeping it single axle is how to centralize the toy weight so that it works out balanced enough with both the bike on the trailer and with it off the trailer. When we're talking about a dry weight of 2000lbs now and maybe 2300lbs after the conversion a 400lb bike on one extreme end or the other will make a pretty significant difference in the weight distribution.