Harbor Freight Offroad Trailer Build Episode 9. A Giant Waste of Time!
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Today we continue the Harbor Freight Offroad Trailer build!
This was a rough week lol. It was close to 100 degrees outside and that made a huge difference on output in the shop. The good news is even though a few things didn't go the way I wanted them to, we still made progress on the trailer. Next week... Electrical!!!!
And I guess I need to finish all this paint work as well. So, what would you do? Should I give the vinyl another shot? OR buy some orange paint and do this the old fashion way? Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the video! In two weeks, this trailer will embark on its first overland trip!
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Man, I'm sorry the wrap didn't turn out the way you envisioned it, I feel real bad about it. But it was a great learning experience and I think the paint will be a solid way to go. That trailer is very impressive brother!
Thanks for coming all the way up here to give me a hand buddy! I hope the next time you see this trailer it will be in person on the trail 👊
Yeah Orange looks real good .... maybe Orange bedliner
I would use Raptor Liner for durability.
Only things that should have a rendered finish are cement walls. Leave the raptor liner to the construction workers
@@DirtLifestyle You have to heat that vinyl the rough texture will still give you issues. If you have a good surface and put this down and heat it or let it sit in the sun it will become VERY hard to get off without a heat gun.
I would do orange bed liner. Take more trail abuse. Keep up the great content!👍💪
I second the bed liner. Raptor has a tint-able version you might try.
I was going to suggest this too, so I'll add my vote to this idea 👍
I third this idea!
Agreed 👍
Yeah orange liner is the way to go jmo 😁
IF you are going solid color then YES paint it. Vinyl is great for design. I like the orange. Do both gloss with a ghosted flat paint design.
paint paint paint. I like the orange gloss, but black gloss would work. Thanks for this run of videos, it gave me some bright ideas.,
One other upside to gloss is that dust and dirt won't stick to it as easily as it does to matte finishes...the orange looks good...my first thought is always "how hot is it gonna get inside once the sun hits it" and so I tend to sway towards lighter colors whenever possible...
I agree but orange with black looks so dam good together. Hugger orange my favorite
Also, the flatter it is, the more heat it will pick up. The gloss will reflect more of the light leaving less heat energy.
What are you talking about mate. It’s the dark colours that cause heat buildup in a vehicle. If you want to keep things as cool as possible, use a light colour (e.g. white).
@@nivid01 Did you not read my comment? I said I sway TOWARDS lighter colors for that reason...
To me the big advantage behind vinyl is graphics. If you want to do fancy cool ass images then vinyl is THE way. But if you are just gonna go with some single color or maybe 2 colors...paint it. No harm in trying something new though. Thanks for sharing it with us, Nate.
Nate, I have my own HVAC company that I started this year after working in the trade for 9 years. Most recent was Local 572 pipefitters and service technicians union.
I’d be happy to fly out and install some ductless mini splits in your shop.
Heating capacities to -10 ambient and 100% cooling capacity up to 110 on some units. The experience would be amazing. If interested, feel free to reach out.
The Land Rover in the back ground is what hooked me and trailers I build as well thanks for all the inspiration it keeps me working on my land rover discovery, I have a2002 that I’m working on keep it up I will keep building
Orange and black is definitely the scheme! It looks so good!
Live and learn, Nate! You’re doing so much work and so many things - every so often something isn’t gonna go quite right but you come out on the other side with more knowledge and a funny story to tell.
I think the matte orange actually looks great, and paint makes sense for something like this.
This week was brutal! We were close to 100 degrees outside and by the end of each day it was definitely more than that in the shop. Needless to say productivity took a hit lol. Next week we are going to knock out as much electrical as possible and hopefully finish the paint. This video just went live and I'm already heading back out to the shop to get started on Next Sunday's trailer video! See you next week!
You could do a video putting an AC in your shop!
Haha!
Box fans are cheap and maybe get one of those window mount AC units set up and between the two you could temper the heat closer to the work bench.
This weekend was the first time we have been below 100 for 2 days in a row in North Mississippi for quite some time. We are also stay about 65-90% humidity depending on the time of day. So I feel your pain. I put the biggest window unit I could find in my shop and it keeps it around 80-85 on those super hot days.
We don’t get quite that hot here in Alberta Canada, but have hit 100 a couple days this year in my area and had many days in the 90s. I have a big swamp cooler set up for a fan that blows air through a filter (kinda like a car filter, but 3 ft x 3 ft, and a water container which is then pumped evenly over the filter. It works really well. It’s never cold in there, of course, but more than bearable and it filters the air so hopefully helps when you are painting.
Absolutely stay orange! It pops and looks great.
As an Aussie and fabrication apprentice I really like the story telling that goes with your builds.
Most the 4x4 channels i watch are local Aussies but I love seeing the way you do things.
We are all jelous how wild you can go on a vehicle. Soon as we take a grinder to the chassis or suspension it needs to be certified (engineered) by an official tester linked to the department of transportation. Can be done but near impossible on anything that has t/c stability control 🥲.
Its about time 😁😁😁⌚Hi from South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦
I love your thinking. You want to experiment and try new stuff . I think the same way. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s all a learning experience. You don’t know until you try.
Paint it....you're almost there! Paint is done in no time whereas more vinyl = more $, more prep, wait for it to be shipped, gotta grab your buddies again to help apply the new/improved vinyl.....just paint it!
BTW, trailer looks GREAT!
Orange Raptor bed liner would look great IMO.
The orange looks awesome. If you paint, I’d almost consider using some kind of paint protection film over it to keep it looking good, but I know that goes against the budget build. Orange truck bed coating is an option too, but the smooth walls look really good.
You might want to change out that air filled castor wheel with a solid rubber one. I’ve tried that castor on a gate and it failed. Solid rubber will last longer and not puncture the tube. Just remember to get the same size and not worry about trying to get the exact center hub offset. Since the rim is a two piece and the solid rubber tire rim is a two piece also, you can transfer the tire. Plus those drill/tap bits should be used in the impact driver. Don’t know why, but it does work.
I really appreciate how you teach with examples of your mistakes and the suggestions for us viewers on how to avoid them. Not just this video but all of your 'build' type videos, the white board sessions are excellent too. While it's an awesome trailer, build, and video series is there any chance of a bomb proof TDI re-build coming next? 🙂
Thank man, I appreciate the positive feed back! The Trailer series should get wrapped up in the next couple weeks, Then I finish building my Tacoma and prep it for Ultimate Adventure 2022. after I get back I will be working on either manual swapping the Discovery (2 episodes) Or I finish building a Top secret project (4 Episodes) I bought. If you have ever seen a show called extreme 4x4 I had a chance to buy my favorite project that they built on the show. I wasn't in the market but I couldn't say no to such an important piece of offroad history. I think I can get it running in a month or so. So I'm thinking I will start building the TDI TJ in November. But this will be worth the wait I promise. And if you like the tdi TJ you will LOVE the crawler I bought from Extreme 4x4 😎. If you know my taste it's easy to guess what I rig I'm talking about...
@@DirtLifestyle man i hope it's the 6x6 burban :D
Def paint it. That orange is dope. I'm thinking that vinyl wouldn't have held up very well after a few encounters with some heavy brush. So kind of a blessing in disguise
Try Monstaliner! Great colors and super durable. It has texture to it, but not as much as other bedliners.
The drill taps are great for thinner steel…you use it on thick metal and they break
Gloss orange laquer, clear coat, done! Vinyl is great for some applications, but there are obviously limitations and quality varies as well. Paint takes a beating!
Not lacquer, it's not durable. Use a modern base coat/ clear coat that uses hardener and cures.
Orange tint some raptor liner and raptor line the whole thing! Boom, Bob’s your uncle!
Regardless of the vinyl issues, that trailer is sick!!!
Orange semi gloss with extry lights 👍
I love the OSU orange, Go Pokes! Sorry the wrap sucked, but you did learn from it, and so did we! Thank you for all the great content.
I've been waiting for your trailer videos to drop. It turned out nice. Spray it, quick and easy.
Stay with orange, it looks really good. I would suggest getting a solid tire for the tongue. You don't want to have to deal with a flat trying to roll it around. I have solid tires on my wheelbarrow and hand truck also and they just roll. Bummer about the stuff that didn't work, but that is how we learn. Trying new things.
Love the orange....for sure
The trailer is looking great, too bad the wrap didn't work out. I agree with Edward, the paint will be excellent with the orange pop!!
Stay with orange 🍻great to see Kelly hanging out
Just a tip for useing seal sealer.
Get yourself a cordless silicone gun makes jobs like this super easy.
Also spray your fingers with Isopropyl alcohol, the silicone wont stick to them and it comes out smooth.
Like others: do the Raptor Liner tintable. Raptor Liner is super easy to do with the gun they sell. I'm a paint idiot and have pro-level results with Raptor. My entire Tacoma was coated!
And you should be proud as hell with the way this trailer is turning out!
Orange spray on bedliner coating the sides and white or grey top for heat reflection. Also will help seal it from outside.
your terrain tattoo with the dirtlifestyle over it in black and orange would be awesome
Keep it Orange, paint it! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Go with the orange paint!!! Great build!! Glossy and gaudy will make you stand out with this build. Peace!
The orange looks awesome! Just paint it up! Or tint the bed liner orange and go that route!
I installed a mini split air conditioner/ heat pump in my shop. It makes a world of difference.
Yes on the gloss orange. Love the series.
Dude, so rad! Gloss orange paint for the win! One of my favorite color combo’s is gloss orange and black chrome.
Definitely keep the orange. Looks good!!
Sucks that the wrap didn't work out but live and learn. Yeah a gloss orange paint would look awesome especially with the black. Then add a black decal with your UA-cam channel.
Great build for sure 👍🇨🇦👍
Paint it, brother. It'll be a lot easier to touch up when it takes a knock on the trail than trying to repair vinyl. Either that or use orange bedliner material. Best of both worlds for color and durability. Raptor makes a glossy-ish orange.
The orange looks good, stay with it!
The orange looks great. Nice job on the trailer.
Paint! Easy to touch up. Especially with a good primer under the paint.
I would definitely paint it orange. It looked awesome
Mistakes were made and lessons were learned, We have all been there. Keep it orange, gloss will pop!
Vinyl can be tricky for sure. I'd go with paint. The side benefit is you can easily touch up any scratches
You live an learn! The orange looks great!! Paint might be the way to go!
I think you're a great fabricator and designer. At the end of the day, function is what matters. Besides if you're using that trailer, it will be covered in muck in no time so I say who cares how shiny it is, you saved yourself $$$ by doing it all yourself. That's a win in my book all day.
Just found this build, it's epic. Such a shame about the vinyl. Had an idea for your table. If you run a cable from the table into a grommet hole in the body. Have an internal guide wheel and a form of cable stop then attach the other end to a weak spring or elastic. Can't wait to see it finished.
I love that y share the wins and the losses! That’s how we all learn.
I like the idea of glossy orange paint.
Vinyl was a good mid-step to see the colors
Love the Orange and a glossy Orange paint would be pretty dope! Love the videos, Nate!
Looks good man. I have seen the bigger off road versions and man I want one. I don't need one but I want one. Just a real cool man toy. It's something the kid inside of me would want to take out in the woods and camp in with my dirt bike, kayak, guitar, ya know just the toys for the boys.
If you stay one color orange is good. If you want to hit the vinyl again do high quality and get dirt lifestyle printed all over it. Thanks for showing that the best laid plans don't always work out.
Great content, educational and very well composed footage/editing/stitching. Motivating to get out there and try projects. Plus, our temps are way cooler than what you have been experiencing 😎
Thank you! Dude, it's been pretty hot for us up here in the PNW. I my body is more acclimated for snow lol
Orange with some blue! Then slap a number 3 on it! Go Broncos!!!
I think a orange topo map would look sweet. Do a topo map of the area you love the most.
Dang sucks that the vinyl didn't work but I like the orange! Really makes the black accents pop out and looks a lot less "homebrew" than all one color.
I appreciate you showing a mess up and what caused it so others can try and avoid making the same mistake! People underestimate how easy it is to make a simple mistake when it's hot and humid out
Use a hex impact for the drill taps. They don’t like side loading which happens when it catches from drilling to tapping. Also if you have a MECHANICAL clutching drill you can set it. I personally suggest separate drill from tap. Get impact tap adapters from Lisle.
Paint it!! Glad to see Edward 🤙
Thanks for the videos
From 20 yards she looks amazing, so a gloss Orange is absolutely the right way to go, plus paint her rather than going the vinyl wrap route. Keep up the great work, looking forward to seeing the electrics being installed 😎👍
Spray it all with patriot liner. Killer product and super strong!!!
Agreed ..use paint, and use gloss Orange for sure. Killer Trailer! Looking forward to the next video!
Paint is definitely the way forward 👍gloss and the same colour 😎
Tintable Raptor Liner those same areas the wrap is in. Love what you have done to the trailer so far.
Gloss orange will look awesome 😎 👍
On the bright side the colour combo of that orange and black is simply awesome!
I painted the flares on my 90 series Toyota Prado a few years back with black raptor paint with some orange highlights and the orange makes it totally pop!!
It's really refreshing seeing you being totally honest about the fails and it's very reassuring to see someone with so many skills still has to face trial and error and then sucks it up and keeps on going!
Great work mate 👍👌😎
I would be going with orange raptor paint rather than gloss tho. I'd have thought it would be a lot tougher to scratch than the gloss. Keen to see the finished product!
Haha fyi I wrote this before I watched the end of the vid and hadn't even heard you rave about the colour and the Poppin 😂🤣😜😎😎😎
“It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”. really sorry it didn’t work out for you. Enjoy watching your channel.
Leave it black, or bedliner black the lot. On a side note, for the amount of painting you do I'm surprised you haven't already got some kind of fold away curtain spray booth type thingy. Like those curtains that go around hospital beds, to stop overspray and what not.
I've considered it but we kept thinking we were about to move lol. With the housing market crashing maybe it's time make a couple updates in here...
@@DirtLifestyle They make inflatable paint booths. When you're done, turn the blowers off, roll it up, and store it out of the way.
Love seeing we all have to get IRL data and rewind sometimes during the creative process. Since you asked at the end of the video - Paint that beast! A good coat of primer and paint will last through years of hard use washes etc. You built a robust piece of equipment, and you can also squirrel away a can of the same paint for touch up or total respray if damage or mods require it. Just one guys opinion :)
While I would push through it and keep wrapping until I learn how to do it properly, and also knowing that the shrubs and trees will rip it all off anyhow....the learnings will come in handy for the next project that needs it; just spray that sucker and seal it good so you dont need to do it again. 👍 That color is perfect. 👌
You really should wrap it in the same pattern that you wrapped the Tacoma! The trailer would look so sick matching the truck
Orange definitely matches with your whole Dirt a lifestyle logo/color scheme. Maybe find a couple spots after paint for vinyl logos to make it look official as well.
My ideal color scheme for my trailer. Keep it just do it with paint. Looks awesome!!!👍🏻👌🏻👏🏼
Oh man, the min you said you ordered 5ft instead of 6ft I remembered the sheet of steel cut at 5ft. Turns out not to be a big deal because the vinyl won't stick anyway. I would go with paint. That way you can always add vinyl decals if needed. (that would be a better surface for it).
*That trailer is awesome* 👌
Looks fantastic!! I have a Harbor freight build i did in 2015 using stainless steel and diamond plating. I’ll post some pictures later.
FYI. That Harbor Freight tire pops super easy!!! I recommend changing over to a solid tire/wheel. Adding green tire goo doesn’t work well, either. The caster is tough but it has a tendency to separate around the bearings and get stuck in one direction after a while.
Great meeting you at PNW Overland after your live Instagram at the Bowen both.
Cheers!!!
Gloss orange paint, with DLN logo vinyl in grey + maybe some map elevation lines?
Gloss orange with a clear coat. You did good with the trailer
I use the drill/tap a lot. I have found it works best with the impact driver. Be careful and stay straight or it will snap the tap.
Just watched this whole trailer build over the last couple days I might have a solution to the kitchen table conundrum. It's a little crazy, and complex, but you seem to be into that sort of thing. 😁Basically a counterweight and pulley system like the old vertical slider windows, but flipped and rotated. Couple cables, couple pulleys, couple slots in the side of the trailer, couple nitrogen struts in place of counterweights. Nitro struts so there's no counterweight bouncing, making noise. Basically a cable on each corner, runs up through the slot to a pulley for support, then runs to the end of the nitro strut mounted on the inside of the roof of the trailer, would hold the table up on the side of the trailer, so no heavy duty latch needed, also adjustable, end of the strut travel servers as stops, or simple cable clamps. Some creativity to make a hold down when it's deployed, hook latch, strap around the inside of the tire and a bungee, etc. Over engineered, but unique and self closing and retaining.
Neat build. I suggest adding tire slime or like product in that little pneumatic castor tire as they always seem to loose pressure overtime.
Def stay orange!! Gonna look awesome
Lessons learned on vinyl. Thanks for sharing the good and not so good.
Waiting for the weigh-in.
If you like the ability to peel off later but the for stability of paint. There is liquid wrap. Sprays on once it cures, you can peel back off like vinyl. There are many brands but Fonzi has a channel "Dip Your Car" or DYC showing the ins and outs of it.
The orange & black looks awesome! Paint away brother!
Colour Looks awesome, vinyl is great until you hook the first bush or tree and tear it. and then pressure wash it off.. Orange truck bed coating? Would make it trail and pressure washer friendly.
Use tintable Raptor liner. Get yourself some orange base coat from a paint shop, mix it into the liner and spray. 👍 By the way, I love these collab videos. I follow all 3 of you individually and it was a cool surprise to see all of you in the same video.
Sorry that didn’t workout but mad props for keeping it real and honest. Sometimes things don’t workout. Some reasons we can control and some we can’t but we jus gotta keep moving on.
Yes, Paint it!!!! mostly because touch ups are much much easier as you know. Now if it were to match the Taco, then I would say wrap it.
All roads lead to a built 2010 to 2013 4x4 Chevrolet Suburban with a Overland interior, especially while camping in Grizzly bear areas. Aluminum LS V8,ifs coilover front suspension , 5 link rear suspension, low first gear 6L80 transmission. All this other stuff is unnecessarily. WFO and Off-road Design are working on kits for them now. :)
Dude,I loved the video. It’s a great diy video. I love learning what not to do.( no disrespect) I’m a huge fan of your channel, and do hope to meet you one day on the trail. Thankyou👍🏻👍🏻
An orange raptor liner would be sick! Knowing what you know now would you have used rivets or riv-nuts instead of the drill and tap process??
Very cool. I like the orange and black.
It looks good. The orange looks great. I would leave it matte. If its glossy it will show dirt and scratches