I bought a matching trailer the other day for $300. I'm going to have to cut out a little bit of it to finish repairing the bronco... Eventually I will fix it, do bodywork, and paint it to match the bronco. I also want to get a matching truck topper and put it on the back. I will probably just use it for camping and for shows. I have better trailer for hauling stuff. Now I just have to finish putting the quarters on so they actually match.

 

Hey that's an OBS taillight! I bought a trailer made from a '95 F150 that sorta matches our two '95 PSD. Mongrel. White with these hideous '90s "Sport" graphics that make it look like a big square sneaker. Gray tailgate from a bricknose. Has one OBS and one bricknose taillight (both with cracks). Have an old aluminum topper taken off our '85 that I'm gonna put on it. I gotta find a way to get one loooong pic of all four in-line in the driveway.

Do you know much about towing with a converted pickup bed trailer? I'm concerned it's not front-heavy enough. I can pick up the tongue and walk it around on pavement, which tells me the tongue weight is probably only about 50-70 lb. But the whole thing has gotta be, what, 1500 lb? I always thought the tongue weight should ideally be 10% of the overall trailer weight. When it's just sitting on the tongue jack like in your pick, and I open the tailgate and try to climb in, my weight (only 150 lb) pops the tongue up. Right now I have a sandbag on the tongue, but should I add any permanent weight to it, or should I just be mindful about how I load it?

Oh, which reminds me, how do you have the tongue jack attached?

 

Nice!

There is a fella I bumped into last year while fishing, has an 85 pickup with the same ideology. He got an 85 parts truck and made a trailer, the extra cool part was that both truck and trailer had the factory campers!

He also went a step further and put new gas tanks in. He said if he is having balance problems he can fill one or the other and just use the gas later, and when he goes for a week of elk hunting he fills both tanks and then he can drive around for a week looking for elk and still have gas to get home.

 

How does he get the fuel from the trailer tanks to the truck tanks?

 

Just a simple siphon pump. A bit labor intensive as he puts it in a can and then from there to his vehicle. I told him he should look into a small centrifugal pump then he could go directly to his vehicle quite a bit faster.

 

Be mindful about how you load it. Empty weight doesn't matter.

I have a matching trailer to my 71 F100. They run great together no matter what.

 

Yeah it does have OBS taillights, I actually just talked to the builder of the trailer on a different forum, and he said he rolled his truck last winter and broke the old ones, and added those when he built the trailer.

I haven't towed a pick up trailer before. My dad actually hauled this home for me. I was thinking about adding a toolbox to the front of the frame, so I could place water jugs in the front to add some tongue weight if needed.

The tongue jack is bolted to the outside of the frame.