GDay from Australia

[Hopdup]

Hi All

Just found this site and looks great. I live in the state of Victoria which is at the bottom of Australia.

I have built one teardrop already and just recently sold it off to fund my newest one. I've attached to pics of where I'm up to at the moment. It's a little larger than the last one that I built. 10' long and around 6' high. It will get dragged around by my '32 roadster hotrod.

I want this one to be really low, so I designed an independent suspension system and have just about finished the frame and suspension setup. It'll run coil over jag shocks.

I've included a CAD drawing of the whole thing as I hope it'll look like when finished. See what you think.............

[CAJUN LADY]

G'day to you too and welcome to the forum! Your new plan for your super Teardrop looks good. Lots of storage space and a dinette/sleeper.

Post lots of pictures when you progress with your build. Everyone loves to watch a build to finish...good luck!

[Cliffmeister2000]

Good morning, hopdup!

Very nice looking start to your trailer!

I am looking forward to watching your progress, and to seeing how the suspension works out.

[planovet]

Welcome aboard!

[Downunder Dave]

Howdy Neighbor, just came across you post, I will be interested to follow your build. Starting to see a few more tears behind rods, it is a great combination. What part of the state are you in?

Cheers Dave
Geelong

[mezmo]

Welcome Hopdup,

Your new build looks very interesting - especially the independent
suspension.

Just curious - would such be available commercially there? [I've
seen it on a lot of the Off-Road caravan's sites.] - Or is it a
proprietary thing for each manufacturer? And are you using coil
springs for any reason other than preference? - Thinking airbags
seem to be [probably an expensive] the rage with that. - [Perhaps
those are one of those "If money were no object" things.]

Good luck and good progress!

Cheers,
Norm/mezmo

[Hopdup]

Howdy Neighbor, just came across you post, I will be interested to follow your build. Starting to see a few more tears behind rods, it is a great combination. What part of the state are you in?

Cheers Dave
Geelong

GDay Dave
Just up the road in Horsham. Job going a bit slow at the moment as were in the middle of harvest here and everything gets dropped while that's on.

[Hopdup]

Welcome Hopdup,

Your new build looks very interesting - especially the independent
suspension.

Just curious - would such be available commercially there? [I've
seen it on a lot of the Off-Road caravan's sites.] - Or is it a
proprietary thing for each manufacturer? And are you using coil
springs for any reason other than preference? - Thinking airbags
seem to be [probably an expensive] the rage with that. - [Perhaps
those are one of those "If money were no object" things.]

Good luck and good progress!

Cheers,
Norm/mezmo

Hey Norm
Suspension was used to get the whole thing closer to the road. If I ran a beam axle, I couldn't get it very low due to the axle on the chassis. Had thought of dropped axle, but it still wasn't low enough. There are some independant suspensions availailable, but I designed my own. The shocks are a Jag independent type - only because I already had them.

Cheers Andrew

[Muggnz]

Welcome aboard!

yes indeedy, welcome to the top of the world as we know it
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david

[Shadow Catcher]

Hmmm I thought that it was mister Newton who proved quite conclusively there is no up or down, just toward the center

I am part of a Australian teardrop e-mail group (wistful thinking this time of year with single digit temps) and there are products and ideas of interest.