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By the way, you should ask to have this thread moved into the military vehicle camper section...

We have a custom-made 600-pound gun safe made for ours. We're going to keep it, our battery bank, and our fresh and grey water tankage as far forward as we can. If you try to use a 20-foot box, you're gonna end up with a lot of your weight pretty far back, which will make the vehicle less stable...

We went through all these issues with ours- chopping the top to keep us under 13'6", shortening the container (we didn't want that much box swinging behind us when turning tightly), chopping the bottom to eliminate the empty space below the container's floor, cutting and bracing door and window...

It is surprisingly roomy. When we moved to Texas, we had three LARGE animal kennels, a queen bed for my wife and I, a single bed for our daughter, a toilet, a hot plate, laptops, a heater, a large cat tree, a Christmas tree, food/water/clothing for all three of us, pet food bins for all the...

Ours is 16 feet long and 8 feet wide. The departure angle is fantastic, even without an angled cut on the back. No cut means: 1. More square footage of floor space. 2. Our back porch is larger. 3. Our back porch is lower. (approximately the same level as our floor)

It sounds like a lot of the issues you're facing, are issues that we've dealt with...

I'm not saying that it would be legal (or safe), but you might be able to widen the passenger bench seat to seat 3 plus the driver. The stock passenger bench seat is designed to seat 2, with a gap between it and the driver's seat.

Where are you intending to relocate the air intake stack, exhaust stack, and vent tube bundle too? If you shorten that stuff to make room for a cab extension, you're going to seriously reduce the vehicle's ability to ford water. Diesel engines are not like gas engines- even a tiny amount of...

FWIW, the cab is ginormous- my wife is a little pixie (not quite five feet tall), and she can stand up completely and walk around inside the cab without hitting her head on the ceiling.

How many people are you trying to seat in the cab? The rear cab wall is a structural member- the center rear cab mount attaches to the bottom of it, and it is no little thing. I'm not sure how you would be able to cut that wall out to extend the cab rearwards, and still be able to have that cab...

Have you seen our thread? https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/just-purchased-an-mtvr.194777/ We built a rear "drawbridge" door to serve as our back porch, and it is powered by a pair of 3,500 pound winches with automatic load holding. Our winches are located at the rear, in the upper...

I also believe that extending the box over the cab roof is impractical. For starters, the truck is designed to twist when it articulates, and the bed has a torsion-free mounting system, so you'd have to have a fair amount of clearance between the top of the cab and the bottom of the overhang...

I believe that a walk-through type box would be impractical for the MTVR. Our box extends about 5" forward of the front of the bed, and we use the platform between the cab and bed as our front porch. We also mounted our generator to an extension of that platform, behind the stacks.

Technically, there is about 31.5" of space in between the back of the cab and the front of the bed, but there is a lot of stuff in between the two- the air intake stack, the exhaust stack/muffler, the transmission fill tube, a large bundle of vent hoses, the master battery switch, the "slave"...

As far as the height of the bed, keep in mind that the tire brand, tread depth, tire pressure, and the load in the bed will determine the height of the bed itself. Our vehicle has the original Michelin tires, they are at about 90% tread depth, the CTIS system currently has them inflated to the...

I am measuring about 75.5" from the leading edge of the cab to the leading edge of the bed...