With a departure deadline for the run to Darwin looming the boys at Go Anywhere Trailers toiled through some long days.

The inside lining of shelves and compartments was done with composite alloy/nylon panels which offered incredible strength when routed, bent, riveted and sealed in place. The stuff looks good to as well as being easy to clean.

Quality rubber seals were fixed to all of the hinged doors and the Howling Moon Stargazer camper top was fixed into place.

Now was the time to wire the trailer and there was a lot of that to be done. Waeco’s Perfect Charge IU252A was hooked up to the 3 x 64ah batteries slung low under the trailer in a water proof compartment. This unit would be topping up batteries when the generator was deployed or I was holed up in a park with 240v mains.

Although I had installed a microwave I had no intention of running that off an inverter. The reason for the microwave was to catch up on pre-cooked supplies for the freezer while in civilisation and on 240v. The reasoning behind the inverter was to charge laptop computers while remote as I am loath to connect them to generators (although the one I subsequently purchased is apparently laptop friendly). I installed Waeco’s Perfect Power PP602 inverter which is mounted in the galley area. Having a modified sine wave and a surge and short circuit protection system it suited its intended purpose.

Next some noise; Fusions MS-IP600 is a radio with an iPOD dock system and as I was getting an i-Phone with a better ‘outback’ range that worked out well. These units are designed for installation in boats and I have seen plenty of them in my boat testing days and still do. Their speakers are also designed for the same environment so will serve me well in that which I am installing them.

I had been running Waeco refrigeration for the past five years without so much as a gliche so was keen to maintain the same units. One of them is a 110l unit and the other 60l. They may both be used either as a fridge or freezer or partitioned and used as a combination unit. I opted to use the 110l as a stand-alone fridge and the 60l as a stand-alone freezer. These both found a ride on Waeco fridge sliding systems in the front box.

With a need to stow camp tables, chairs, ramps for the quad bike and the like, a roof rack was installed on the top of the trailer forward of the camper top.

With the schedule blown by the strung out wait for the Alko axles, time was at a premium. Without the shakedown trip I should have had there was no time to nut out a position for gas bottles so they ended up being carried in the back of the Pajero.
A pad was built on top of the drawbar and the Kymco quad bike and a set of ramps purchased from an auto store.

The trailer went over the weighbridge and it was registered with a 2.5tonne rating.

The quad bike was loaded onto its new home and I left for Darwin the next morning! Wheeewwwww!!!

Well; here it is guys; let the shake down begin!!