Pickup, single cab bed question

[ed_the_robot]

No, not for sleeping in

How integral is the bed floor to the chassis on a t25 single cab? Ie, if you removed it, so you could get all the way to the floor in the lockers from above, would there be any issues?

At muchly

[Peter-T]

I'm not sure I can answer the question, but here's a photo from when the bed was removed from my Doka. The picture is taken from the right hand side, looking down at the back of the cab onto the bed, and down through to the lockers below.

I would say that the bed floor provides little or no strength, it's the joists below it that do that. Obviously yours will be different but this should give you some idea...

[ed_the_robot]

Thanks!

I wonder if those beams are just supporting the bed, or if they are making up for the lack of a roof.

Basically we want to remove those, so you can stand up in the back with your feet where the locker floor is

[Plasticman]

X beams are to support /offer fixing to the load bed. i would not remove the entire bed asd this gives a fair bit or tortional rigidity to the rear structure if you follow, but nothing wrong with removing part of it and re affixing a perimeter to the new hole
mm
why you want to stand in there or what for do you

[ed_the_robot]

Cheers metalmick8y

We are considering a single cab as an alternative to a high top panel van for a project to trade out the back of a vw

[Aidan]

KharmanGypsy is built on a single cab chassis cab and floor only I believe
SyncroDoug is building a unique camper on a sika shell
anything is possible

[Plasticman]

is he posting a build thread on it aiden
mm

[jes*b]

KharmanGypsy is built on a single cab chassis cab and floor only I believe
SyncroDoug is building a unique camper on a sika shell
anything is possible

I think, strangely enough, that gipsys are built on a hacked about panel van ....
Maybe we can tell from the pics .... Apart from a wreck for sale on mobile de. These are the only chassis pics I have ever seen of a gipsy

http://www.karmann-coachbuilts.com/chas ... uction.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Aidan]

yep the b pillars are van,my mistake, but less stiff than a pickup cab and floor I think
Doug is man of mystery

[hugomonkey]

heres a bit of sika porn hope it helps
just give me a shout if you want some detailed pics