M1087 Conversion

[littlesfmtv]

I was building it in my driveway, but ran out of time with all of my other life obligations. I took my truck to CO to a guy who has been building trucks for 30 years. It's now on its way to realizing its potential!

Some tweaks, the box has been expanded to the cab. This creates a fixed floor area separate from the expanding box, which presents more than a few engineering challenges. My expanding floors are fixed instead of folding, so now all of my kitchen/restroom/sitting area go into the slide outs. The people who sold me the truck told be a bunch of BS, and some of their "repairs" were either barely done or not done at all and have had to be redone.

 

[cattlerepairman]

You are gaining a ton of extra room there up front. Is that a stock tandem axle chassis or lengthened?

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[littlesfmtv]

It is the standard 1087 chassis. There is a 72" gap between the front of the box and the back of the cab. It's where all of the stairs/handrails, etc. Were previously stored.

 

[aw113sgte]

Very cool! Whats the plan for the door in the front of the extension? Cab passthrough?

 

[littlesfmtv]

Very cool! Whats the plan for the door in the front of the extension? Cab passthrough?

Correct, it will have a cab passthrough. I wanted as large of one possible. The nice thing about the A1R trucks is no airbags for the cab suspension, so its a lot easier to do the passthrough. I know a couple with an A0 truck, and they basically have pieces of wood they use to chock the cab before they shut down so it doesn't tear the bellows between the cab and box.