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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Fellow Avionistas, just before I went off to sail my little boat around the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound, Gary and I finished the "hole" in the back of the big bad truck. I clamped Argo onto the frame and to the back of the "hole" and brought the whole rig home. Here are a couple of pics of the current status of Argo, the all-aluminum Avion...
And here's looking from the cab back into the camper...
Here's a detail of the edge of the cab and the edge of the camper. Gary welded a panel in each side of the back window opening to square it up, with a tab to bolt thru onto the square tubing of Argo's front frame. He also bent back 1.5" of the sides of the cab at a 90 degree angle to allow me to bolt thru into the aluminum frame. The gray primered panel is at the top, the white bent back tabs on the lower part...
Here's an outside view of the panel he welded in to square up the window opening and give me something to bolt to, as well as sealing the sides of the opening...
Incidentally, you can see the reflection of the truck cab roof in the shiny aluminum bottom of the cabover compartment...
And finally, here's a view of the roof thru the opening. It's a fairly straightforward task to bend a piece of aluminum sheet to fit the curves and corners and then caulk and rivet it into place. I'll have to lift Argo off the truck to prepare for the attachment all the way around, so I still have the jacks and jackstands attached. The whole camper weighs less then 800 pounds at the moment.
I'm working to get things securely attached and the rig completely waterproofed before the heralded "Godzilla El Nino" arrives...
Onward! Muley Point beckons...
Dick
And here's looking from the cab back into the camper...
Here's a detail of the edge of the cab and the edge of the camper. Gary welded a panel in each side of the back window opening to square it up, with a tab to bolt thru onto the square tubing of Argo's front frame. He also bent back 1.5" of the sides of the cab at a 90 degree angle to allow me to bolt thru into the aluminum frame. The gray primered panel is at the top, the white bent back tabs on the lower part...
Here's an outside view of the panel he welded in to square up the window opening and give me something to bolt to, as well as sealing the sides of the opening...
Incidentally, you can see the reflection of the truck cab roof in the shiny aluminum bottom of the cabover compartment...
And finally, here's a view of the roof thru the opening. It's a fairly straightforward task to bend a piece of aluminum sheet to fit the curves and corners and then caulk and rivet it into place. I'll have to lift Argo off the truck to prepare for the attachment all the way around, so I still have the jacks and jackstands attached. The whole camper weighs less then 800 pounds at the moment.
I'm working to get things securely attached and the rig completely waterproofed before the heralded "Godzilla El Nino" arrives...
Onward! Muley Point beckons...
Dick
