Afraid it's not gonna look any better after this post. I forgot my phone today
I did venture into the city to not one, but two, orange boxes. First the closest filthy dirty cluttered one, which yielded nothing but an empty space where the 2" foam was to be, then on to the other one across town. I think I'll go the extra few miles from now on. It's only dirty, not filthy.
They had plenty of 2" so I grabbed the 4 sheets I needed to get. Since Brownie is always loaded with odds and ends cluttering up the bed, I grabbed a half dozen 2x4-8's that I'll need for something
to bridge the space from toolbox to tailgate without bowing the foam when I strapped it down for the trip back. To keep from cutting the foam with the straps, I picked up a couple sheets of the 5mm plywood. It's 3 plies and just a bit less than 1/4" thick, should do well for some sort of interior paneling between the ribs or something. Looks halfway decent too, which is a plus!
Didn't really have time to do much once I fought the Saturday mall mobs when I was getting away from the store with the foam, but I couldn't leave it alone so I cut out the angled sides and played with the left front corner. It turned out as goofy-looking as the right front corner
so it's gonna get a line of Great Stuff and a sander treatment when I get to using GS and can empty out a can.
I'll have pics of today's results Monday, all things working out like I want
I was looking at the springs and the head space the tops of the tires are gonna have, and got to thinking
(Yeah, I know, that's not necessarily a good thing
) Seems that with a strip of 1x2 and then the plywood floor on top of that, I'll have over 2" of clearance over the tires. Now, with most of its weight in it, it's sitting 1/4" or less lower than it was with just the floor. Two inches of compression on the springs is gonna squish 'em almost straight. I don't think I'm gonna have enough weight on it to do THAT!
Now, the good part is, the chair can jump a 1.5" step no problem. My mom has one going into her house that is not any hindrance at all. So, I think that after I get all the foam and canvas on the thing, basically get it to the weight it's gonna be, I'm going to screw the spacer and plywood down without glue, and then throw like 5 bags of concrete mix in there where the chair would be tied down at. Then I'll find a bumpy road (which won't be hard at all in this county!) and go for a ride and see if there's any scuffing on the underside of the plywood. Chair only weighs just under 300, but that will be a good test because you KNOW we'll come up with 100# of crap to add even after it's "finished"
Heck, might go for six sacks. Better do an extreme test than wish I had.
One thing I do know is that I've got about the right tongue weight. I was worried I had too much though, I tried to pick up the tongue and couldn't budge it
But then I remembered to take the jack out from under the back bumper
After that I could pick it up, not easily but it was doable. I figure about 150-175 lbs on the tongue, with the 2x4's for the back wall laying in the back of the trailer. A/C still to go in front of axle, and batteries behind, so we'll see.
I do not think I'm going to have THIS problem.....
I'd of been better off doing this: 
But I pushed through it and since I was already a sticky sloppy mess with one hand, I smoothed it out best I could:
Now for the OTHER 90% of the build 
