Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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Here's the Argo update for August 6th. Gary, the master fabricator and I dry fit the aluminum frame on the truck and then set Argo down on that frame to determine that the measurements were accurate. They were - wonders never cease!
The first pic shows the universal body mount bumpers I got from Energy Suspension. They are about the same size and flexibility as the bumpers that support the truck cab.
Here's the frame itself:
Here's Argo actually resting on the frame. My particular concern was the clearance between the bottom of the cabover and the top of the truck cab. It's as I projected. Now I'm sourcing a rubber mat to seal the union of the two surfaces, which get bolted together. The wooden board clamped horizontally along the base of the camper is just a stop so we could get Argo centered on the frame. You can see that Argo ios quite snug up against the back of the cab.
The pink(sagging)strings represent the various levels which the body side panels may come down to. Still to be decided.
And finally, here's what gets taken out over the weekend. Still scratching my head about how to seal the cab/camper connecting surfaces.
But the camper sits quite tight against the cab so I'm optimistic that with lots of caulking and bolts, it can be made tight and waterproof.
The triangular ends of the window will be filled with welded-in metal sheet, Bondo-ed, and painted white.
Pushin' the rock up the hill...
Onward!
Dick
The first pic shows the universal body mount bumpers I got from Energy Suspension. They are about the same size and flexibility as the bumpers that support the truck cab.
Here's the frame itself:
Here's Argo actually resting on the frame. My particular concern was the clearance between the bottom of the cabover and the top of the truck cab. It's as I projected. Now I'm sourcing a rubber mat to seal the union of the two surfaces, which get bolted together. The wooden board clamped horizontally along the base of the camper is just a stop so we could get Argo centered on the frame. You can see that Argo ios quite snug up against the back of the cab.
The pink(sagging)strings represent the various levels which the body side panels may come down to. Still to be decided.
And finally, here's what gets taken out over the weekend. Still scratching my head about how to seal the cab/camper connecting surfaces.
But the camper sits quite tight against the cab so I'm optimistic that with lots of caulking and bolts, it can be made tight and waterproof.
The triangular ends of the window will be filled with welded-in metal sheet, Bondo-ed, and painted white.
Pushin' the rock up the hill...
Onward!
Dick
