/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1516233
>If so, what skills would you need
Not many, I work at a place that mounts truck bodies, and basically you want to weld some mounts to your body with a sub-frame if it's extra flexy like a basic camper removed from its frame, or mount a short mobile home trailer already on it's subframe and you will probably be fine. Either way, you want 2/3 connecting mounts per side for a total or 4 or 6 mounting points. Weld some angle iron to your subframe or trailer frame or whatever, at the width that it nests onto the actual truck frame, usually like 34 1/2" or so apart from inside to inside of the body angles.
Set the body on a 1" piece of hardwood or HDPE on the frame, then take a couple pieces of corresponding size angle iron and bolt it to your truck frame by drilling holes as close as you can to the centerline of the truck framerail. Set the rear angles on the frame and the body with about 1/2" gap between them vertically. Set the front two truck frame angles on each side a couple inches below the body angles so you can fit a spring in there, 2" or so apart, vertically. Generally you cannot weld on truck frames because they are made from high carbon steel, and when you drill them, the closer to the neutral axis of bending / centerline the better. Drill the holes through the truck frame angles and the truck frame at the same time, bolt them in place and match drill the truck frame angles and the body angles at the same time. When you are done it should look like pic related, assuming 3 mounts per side, with the rear rigid and the front two spring. In the front 2 mounts on each side (4 mounts total) you want to fit a spring with 500-2000 lb / in compression rate between the angles on the truck frame and the angles on the body so the frame can flex without pushing forces into, and deforming the body. Use grade 8 bolts and you cant really fuck it up, i.e. the body wont go flying off into an oncoming car.