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I bought a 150" ambulance box. I'll have to extend my ramps about 40" to fit the Jeep.
Roof of he ambulance box will be flush with the top of the cab, so my aerodynamics are going to be way better. Some rough calcs on a napkin regarding frontal area and wind resistance say that 12 MPG should be completely possible @ 65 MPH, so that's a 25% improvement in mileage.
We'll also be shaving about a thousand pounds of weight off this pig. So total GCVW with my rig on the back and the wife's cherocar in tow should be about 22,000 lbs.
interior pics:
I'll be converting the bench into a flip out bed. Need to keep the bench for travel so we can take passengers. Splitting fuel and taking someone elses rig out to Moab next fall. really hlps defray my fuel costs wen you can split it 3 ways.
There's a passthrough with a door you can see in the first picture, the door is 46" tall.
There's some space in the back that used to be for oxygen tanks and such, that's going to get repurposed and used for a toilet. Since the ceiling height is so low I'm forgetting about a shower inside, so it will have an outside shower with the shower wand accessible from one of the exterior doors.
my wife said it had to have a toilet, or I'd say F that as well.
Sometimes you have to give in.
anyway, go to pick up the box end of this month, I'm going to drop it in my driveway so I can work on it at my leisure. Once it's nearly finished I'll destroy the existing box and drop it onto the chassis so it can be integrated with the electrical and place the tanks. I hope to do that in the spring when it first warms up. This pig is too big for me to work on it indoors
after the box is on and mounted to the chassis I'll have to build a new hauler bed on the back and extend the chassis. Part of the chassis extension will include a new 2" receiver so we can flat tow the Cherokee behind. This way I still avoid having a trailer.
I bought a 150" ambulance box. I'll have to extend my ramps about 40" to fit the Jeep.
Roof of he ambulance box will be flush with the top of the cab, so my aerodynamics are going to be way better. Some rough calcs on a napkin regarding frontal area and wind resistance say that 12 MPG should be completely possible @ 65 MPH, so that's a 25% improvement in mileage.
We'll also be shaving about a thousand pounds of weight off this pig. So total GCVW with my rig on the back and the wife's cherocar in tow should be about 22,000 lbs.
interior pics:
I'll be converting the bench into a flip out bed. Need to keep the bench for travel so we can take passengers. Splitting fuel and taking someone elses rig out to Moab next fall. really hlps defray my fuel costs wen you can split it 3 ways.
There's a passthrough with a door you can see in the first picture, the door is 46" tall.
There's some space in the back that used to be for oxygen tanks and such, that's going to get repurposed and used for a toilet. Since the ceiling height is so low I'm forgetting about a shower inside, so it will have an outside shower with the shower wand accessible from one of the exterior doors.
my wife said it had to have a toilet, or I'd say F that as well.
Sometimes you have to give in.
anyway, go to pick up the box end of this month, I'm going to drop it in my driveway so I can work on it at my leisure. Once it's nearly finished I'll destroy the existing box and drop it onto the chassis so it can be integrated with the electrical and place the tanks. I hope to do that in the spring when it first warms up. This pig is too big for me to work on it indoors
after the box is on and mounted to the chassis I'll have to build a new hauler bed on the back and extend the chassis. Part of the chassis extension will include a new 2" receiver so we can flat tow the Cherokee behind. This way I still avoid having a trailer.
