Sleepy 2.0: Toyota Gen 1 Tundra Walk Around

Video Transcript

Hi everyone, Paul from Equipt here. We're out on Poison Spider trail down in the Moab area, and I wanted to take a minute or two and introduce you to Sleepy 2.0. This is our Gen 1 Tundra that we've had for a while. We've nicknamed her Sleepy, and we decided to upgrade a few things and change it around a bit for you and show off some of the things that we can do. So I thought, what better time? Let's take a look at what we've done.

So here she sits on the way up Poison Spider, Sleepy 2.0. The biggest thing you'll notice here is that we took the racks, the K9 racks and equipment off of it, and we worked with AT Overland to put an Atlas on this Gen 1 Tundra. It's actually a sized or mid-sized Atlas six-foot bed, and we had it paint matched to the vehicle so that it sets up real pretty. I think it looks awesome and it works fantastic on this platform.

We updated the suspension. We did a bunch of that with new leafs on the back, new OME coils, and OME shocks all the way around to give it a little bit of smoother ride and a little bit more flexibility than it had before. On the Atlas, on the side here, you can see that we've installed a few of the Eezi-Awn products and Maxtrax here. We've got an ax mount and a shovel mount that we've arranged with the DMOS shovel and a set of Maxtrax on our Maxtrax mounts with the Maxtrax pins, of course, and that's set up there.

What we've got on the side here is a cube shower system from Eezi-Awn, a very nice shower system available from them. Up on the roof of the Atlas, we have solar, a MaxxAir vent, as well as a skylight. As we come around to the other side, we'll get to the inside in a sec, but on the other side, you see here we've got one of the Swift awnings mounted on this side, as well as the Arctic Tern window that has both screen and shade available in there for privacy to keep prying eyes out as well as ventilation for inside living in there.

I also wanted to show you what we've done inside the Tundra here. We did our own seat delete in the back here, which really gained us a lot of storage space. The seat is pretty much useless in the back of an access cab Tundra like this, and so we installed it, carpeted it as best we could to color match the vehicle. We've got our channels for tie-down points and mounting points around so we keep all of our gear in place, and that worked out pretty nice. We installed a set of 2006 Tundra seats in it from a double cab, so they sit up a little bit higher and they provide electric seats as well as heat, working on the heat part.

Under the hood, of course, is the 4.7 with a TRD supercharger on it, and that generates about the same horse and torque as the 5.7, pretty close within a little bit of that. And of course, the ARB bumper on the front with some intensity lights and a Warn winch thrown in there for good measure. So it runs down the road really well. A 100 series snorkel on there works out really well.

The next thing I want to show you is what we did on the inside of the Atlas, a little bit different take on an interior build. What we did here is we decided to work, we did our own seat delete plans, we built our base plates in there, and then we decided we were gonna build this out of value boxes instead of the traditional drawer systems or cabinetry that you see in the back of a vehicle like this. We decided to make it a modular value box build in the back end.

We took each one of the boxes, you can see here we named each one of them. There's the kitchen and the pantry. We've got one for bedding and gear, and we've got another one over here that says tools and gear. The tool went down in here. We put all of our recovery gear as well as a shower system and a heater and a few other things in there. Back in the corner there, you see it back in there, we're going to go into this in more depth, but that is the National Luna Power Pack 2, which we're very excited about. That power pack is a complete update to the standard power pack. All of the controls are on the face, which is the obvious visible, but it also has Bluetooth connectivity. It also has adjustable timing for connection and isolation of the batteries. It can tell you draw as well as charge, all sorts of fun stuff on there. We've got that hooked up through the solar controller to the solar panel on the roof, so it's charging whenever it's moving or when it's not, which is really nice.

The other thing that we did is on top of these cases, we put the Goose Gear top plates, and what that allows us to do is to be able to get up on the bed, we've got up in the top of this thing without harming any of the equipment on the inside of it. Value box came out with something that I think is really cool, we're going to show you right here. This last season, they came up with the divider system, it's called RuumX, and we have those available for some of the more popular sizes of cases, and what it gives you is the ability to divide up, secure, and store just about anything you darn well please. It comes with a top lid, a base plate in there, as well as a perimeter, and then some material you cut up to whatever shape and size and capacity that suits your needs. So that's our kitchen right there.

Okay, so that's really cool though. We put Elsa in the back here, one of our Eezi-Awn fridge slides, the K9 fridge slide, and one of our legacy 50-liter National Luna fridges with the dual zone system set up in it. Down on the side here, we did a side mount, came up with our own little device here for water storage, vertical water storage, about four gallons of water in there. It's an Expedition One bottle and our own custom mount that goes in there. Also, if you notice on the walls, we have our Oregon AT storage bags that have industrial Velcro on the back end of them, and those hook right to the carpet walls that AT has put in here.

In each one of the corners, you'll see that there's a myriad of holes, and those holes all line up with different applications, whether it be switches or lights or power usage. So we've got our fridge running off of here, and what we did is we rewired the fridge to come off of the auxiliary power instead of up to the front, and we got a cigarette lighter here, put that away. Lightings, more USBs, so you charge all your stuff fantastically that way.

What we also did is we put steps on the top of the 73 liter and the 42 liter, and what they do is they become your steps into the back of the truck itself, which makes it very nice. Inside, once you're in here, if the weather is not to your liking, you can take these cases and stack them up on the top of each other and use that as a cooking surface, a prep surface, and you still have access to your fridge on the inside of the unit when it's too miserable outside to be cooking outside.

So we have seating in here, you can put that bed panel away, and the whole place becomes open so you have seating in here. You can stack them to work as a worktop or a cooking area or a lot of different options that direction, which makes that nice as well. The cases aren't cheap by any stretch, but if you look at them in relative terms to what some of the other build-outs are, it can be quite a cost-effective manner of building out the back of a truck.

We're going to be showing this off to everybody for a while, and I hope that gives you a little insight as to what Equipt has been up to the last little bit. We'd love to show it to everybody, so if you have a chance to come by and check it out, please do. This is Paul with Equipt, thanks for your time.