Thread: Rangie Custom Tray ideas

Will it come out wider than the body from the back of the cab ?

Yep i want the tray to cover the rear wheels so i dont have to have flares of some sort on the tray

hello Mickrangie, I built a drop side tray some years ago and used the heavier 75mm by 50mm section around the outside where most of the strain would be felt.My cross members were 2mm 50 by 25 C sections at about 400 mm spacing. I can't recall the sizes of the longitudinal members, but 100 by 50 by 5mm Channel section comes to mind.I made the floor out of form ply, probably 18mm thick.Still going strong as far as I know.I built in a roll / load bar at the front, braced back to the tray frame and a removable one at the rear connected to the front one by a bar down the middle.I took the above dimensions off a Tray on a Holden One tonner that a friend owned.Hope this helps.Cheers, 130man

The few trays Ive been involved with building when at lowline, we used 75x50x2mm RHS for the main frame and 40x40x2mm for the inner supports so the checker floor was sunken a bit.

If we were putting a wooden floor in, we used 40x35x2mm and 35x35mm angle welded to 1 side to bolt the floor down to.

As far as mounting goes, the C channel is the best and 100x50mm sounds about right and we mounted it with a timber under the C channel to stop rattles and squeeks.

If you think you are going to scape the sides along rocks a bit then I would either go up to 3mm RHS and/or laminate the sides with some flat.

Just dont go over kill as it's easy to make them heavy as hell, we did 1 for a F truck that 6 blokes couldnt lift as my mate wanted over kill so we had to use a forklift to fit it and the suspention dropped over 2"s when it was fitted.

Cheers

Off the top of my head, around the edge, I would be thinking along the lines of 75 x 25 x 2.5 or 65 x 35 x 2.5 (both sections are 3.6 kg/m) or 75 x 50 x 2.0 (3.72 kg/m).

For the rest, well that depends where you run the members and how they carry the load to the chassis mounts.

Originally Posted by Bush65

Off the top of my head, around the edge, I would be thinking along the lines of 75 x 25 x 2.5 or 65 x 35 x 2.5 (both sections are 3.6 kg/m) or 75 x 50 x 2.0 (3.72 kg/m).

For the rest, well that depends where you run the members and how they carry the load to the chassis mounts.

Thank you that info is GOLD!!!

Ok tray is almost ready for the engineer apart from some mounts.... What do you guys think about using engine mounts as a form of mounting system? If no then where can i get some complete rubber body mounts?