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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Been working all day on the Avion. Just came in to colapse. Very bummed. Moved stuff out of the dinette area to place some foam board in the plate covering the old HWH as it is a source of condensation. Went to pull up the reflectix insulation that is over the wing and was met with completely soaked plywood....argh..... Had just sealed the drivers window when I noticed the caulking had pulled away from the skin. Sure enough the same had happened awhile ago on the passengers side and had gone unnoticed partially due to the reflectix. It is approved at a moisture barrier. I can attest it works well for that as this had gone unnoticed for awhile. The rain would leak into the wall and then come out on top the wing under the reflectix.
I had enough dry weather today to clean out the caulking and just enough parabond to seal everything up. Now I am running the new furnace at 80F with two fans blowing heat on the plywood to dry everything out.
I did make other progress today of a good nature. Installed the 1" foam board on the upper bunk and then reinstalled the memory foam mattress. Then reassembled my propane light fixture I painted semigloss black with high heat paint. Then drilled many holes and snaked 10 ft of 1/4" copper tubing from the dinette area into the bathroom wall then under the camper through the floor joists then up into the closet floor where all the gas is for the Wave 3 and the new Atwood furnace. Still need to buy a mantel to test but all leak tests on the fittings are good. Still have to finish the cabinetry under the sink and around the closet too. But little by little it is gettiid my better. Pics later on.
Good night all, Garry
I had enough dry weather today to clean out the caulking and just enough parabond to seal everything up. Now I am running the new furnace at 80F with two fans blowing heat on the plywood to dry everything out.
I did make other progress today of a good nature. Installed the 1" foam board on the upper bunk and then reinstalled the memory foam mattress. Then reassembled my propane light fixture I painted semigloss black with high heat paint. Then drilled many holes and snaked 10 ft of 1/4" copper tubing from the dinette area into the bathroom wall then under the camper through the floor joists then up into the closet floor where all the gas is for the Wave 3 and the new Atwood furnace. Still need to buy a mantel to test but all leak tests on the fittings are good. Still have to finish the cabinetry under the sink and around the closet too. But little by little it is gettiid my better. Pics later on.
Good night all, Garry
