I actually thought about doing just that - having it hang off the back of the truck. But I'm not entirely sure I'd have enough height to even do that.

 

The unit is only 41long x26wide x7.5high. With the aero front, it might tuck right in behind your wing and barely hang off the back. Put some nice aluminum brackets and it would look like a qualcom almost.

 

Oh yea, I keep forgetting you have that wing on. You can hang the back end of the unit off the rear but not much. There are little pads in the back to support the weight and that's where most of the weight is.

You can see the picture with the top off how the roof is sagging in the rear but after you crank the bolts down and sandwich the wooden frame you have to build it comes back to normal and is sturdy.

It's 90 outside now and I'm just about done. I have to run the wiring to the outlet under my bunk and I'm done. I'm home for a coffee break and the unit is running off the garage power. Water is forming on the roof and I'm curious where it will go when it fills up the channels. The truck is on level ground at the moment so I'll head back in a few and see how it's doing.

The inside panel was a pain to get back on and getting the headliner to fit right again. I bought a new light and will mount that right on the AC panel after drilling a small hole for the wiring.

I'm disappointed after I put the plastic panel on. There are so many vents on the unit and the way it's designed it cut the wind tunnel effect right the Hell out. I may be tempted to cut a hole right where the 6"x6" outlet is underneath and put a grill there and bypass all those stupid vents. It should be pretty easy so I'll mount my light out of the way just in case I go that route.

After I head back down I'm going to run the wire then move the truck outside in the sun and see how it does and will report.

 

With the slope of that roof, I would think you'd get a lot of wind getting underneath the front unit, pulling it up. It seems like that would put a lot of upward pulling pressure on the fiberglass roof.

 

That would probably be a good thing. Take more pressure off the roof!!

I took the guts out of that little circle vent so it's coming full blast downward. It's called an air shower and you turn a knob and it lifts up a plate inside. Well, that's gone and it's a lot better. I can still cut a new hole and duct a downward vent if I need to and that would be like not having a cover at all but I'll give this a try.

I'm dead for the day so no outside experiments today.

I'm also thinking of getting some sort of 2" vinyl molding or something that I could stick some Velcro to then cover up all those seams in my headliner. Anyone have some ideas? I think since the headliner is cloth that certain types of Velcro would stick like crazy.

 

And likely tear the unit right off, taking a huge chunk of the roof with it. :lol:

Yeah, those seams are pretty nasty.

Why not have a new headliner made for it? I would think you could go to any upholstery shop and have one fabricated pretty cheap. Otherwise you are hiding one seam with another seam, which doesn't make much sense. Get a nice vinyl one made with some padding underneath it.



BTW, my window AC is working like a champ (even though I have it plugged into an AC outlet right now). I woke up this morning freezing my butt off.

 

Looks good Steve'O :wink:
I had a new record today, it was 102 degrees out and the inside of my truck was 62.4 degrees.

 

You suck........I'll give mine a try tomorrow and maybe you will suck less.

 

That 15,000BTU monster should cool you truck real nice.

 

Put a extra quilt in the truck, you'll need it. I never checked the temp in mine, but it gets cold enough I have to turn it down.

You will need to paint it to match, Dog's and mine match our truck color, so get with it.

Now for more toys, mine has one of these
http://www.fantasticvent.com/
Saves even more fuel, and gets the moisture out when you shower.