Suburban home-made trailer

[77crewcab]

Well i have been thinking of what to do with the two burbs I have and here is what I have come up with tell me what you think. The 89 2WD has the better interior and and the TBI stuff. I plan to swap all of it to the 86 4WD. possibly swap the 89 grill/radiator support or sell it still undecided. Then I will be using the front suspension, steering column, gas tank, from the 89 on my 60 SWB.

So it will leave me with a body and frome with no front suspension. I have decided to make a trailer out of what is left. Cut the body behine the front doors and enclose the front of the burb body, cut the frame to make the trailer toungue and have an enclosed trailer to haul stuff in. Basically from the rear side doors back will be the trailer. I have wanted a pickup be trailer for a while but wanted a camper shell on it to keep things out of the weather. I figure this way I will still have an enclosed trailer where I can lock things up but also have access to the front area with out having to climb all up in the trailer. I will try to make some under floor storage where the middle seats go so that I can have a flat floor all the way through the trailer but can lift up the front portion to store things in the area where the seats would normally fold up. Also it would allow me to still have all the extra doors, side glass etc that I could use as spares on the 4WD burb.

So now tell me am I totally nuts for this idea.

 

[roadnotca]

Don't cut any further back than the back of the front seats, so you'll have the full enclosed 4'X8' storage.

 

[77crewcab]

I plan on cutting on the front side of the door jamb for the rear side doors so that I can still have the two rear side doors functional.

 

[PsRumors]

I don't think your axle will be in a good location for any heavy hauling but it would be a very neat project.

 

[77crewcab]

I don't really plan anything heavy just mainly the dirty things that I don't want to get in the "nice" burb. Things like lawnmower, sometime some plywood, 2x4s etc. I guess I could put a used fuel tank in to fill with water and act as a balast to adjust the tounge weight though. That might help even the load some.