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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The 2x6's go the full length of the camper. The previous repair was just the door hallway portion. I do have the bottom sill plate for the door, removed (or more like fell off once i took the steps out).
It appears that Cayo made a wooden 2x8 frame under the camper that the camper sits on. I assume that was done to raise the camper sufficiently to clear the cab of the van. It created void spaces that I can see in the batter compartment location just aft of the wall which joins the front of camper and rear of van cab. Everything looks good there, wood looks new and floor is original ply/foam/ply. Finding the 'basement' structure is solid and good was a really nice find.
I think I am now committed to bathroom gut...sigh...but since I wanted to get rid of toilet/bw tank and replace with...composting/recirculting...then it will have to be done sometime.
Question of the day, I have been removing the rotted wood at the perimeter of the bed over. About 3 inches of perimeter is wood over wood, then it goes to ply/foam/ply. Would this be an earlier patch repair or were the bed over's constucted like this?
I hope I will be able to repair the floor under the bathroom from the top once I remove toilet etc. There is an aluminum panel screwed into the bottom of the bustle on the bathroom side, 18x24" large. I'm going to take that off to see what is accessible.
The 2x6's go the full length of the camper. The previous repair was just the door hallway portion. I do have the bottom sill plate for the door, removed (or more like fell off once i took the steps out).
It appears that Cayo made a wooden 2x8 frame under the camper that the camper sits on. I assume that was done to raise the camper sufficiently to clear the cab of the van. It created void spaces that I can see in the batter compartment location just aft of the wall which joins the front of camper and rear of van cab. Everything looks good there, wood looks new and floor is original ply/foam/ply. Finding the 'basement' structure is solid and good was a really nice find.
I think I am now committed to bathroom gut...sigh...but since I wanted to get rid of toilet/bw tank and replace with...composting/recirculting...then it will have to be done sometime.
Question of the day, I have been removing the rotted wood at the perimeter of the bed over. About 3 inches of perimeter is wood over wood, then it goes to ply/foam/ply. Would this be an earlier patch repair or were the bed over's constucted like this?
I hope I will be able to repair the floor under the bathroom from the top once I remove toilet etc. There is an aluminum panel screwed into the bottom of the bustle on the bathroom side, 18x24" large. I'm going to take that off to see what is accessible.
