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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79 Bruiser, I installed a Kwikset deadbolt above the factory installed door handle. It is keyed on both sides, making it impossible to open without a key. Even if the glass in the door was broken out, the door cannot be opened. The intruder would have to crawl thru the broken window frame, probably a disincentive to somebody looking for a bit of snatch and go thievery...
Because my inner door frame is 1.5" aluminum square tubing, I was able to fabricate an internal framework that the deadbolt (as well as the Avion door handle mechanism) fit neatly into. Working with the stock Avion wood framed, cardboard reinforced, aluminum skinned door, I'd suggest you rivet an aluminum plate - perhaps 6"x6" and 1/8" thick - on the inner and outer face of the door and set the deadbolt into that. It's then an easy matter to drill and file a hole in the aluminum jamb to accept the deadbolt when it's extended.
If pics hadn't become such an issue here, I'd post a couple of my install, but it's pretty straightforward.
Incidentally, in a untypically paranoid moment, I've considered installing a stout aluminum bar across the window horizontally at the middle of that window to reduce by half the size of the space an intruder would have to crawl through to get inside. Maybe at some point...
Good luck.
Because my inner door frame is 1.5" aluminum square tubing, I was able to fabricate an internal framework that the deadbolt (as well as the Avion door handle mechanism) fit neatly into. Working with the stock Avion wood framed, cardboard reinforced, aluminum skinned door, I'd suggest you rivet an aluminum plate - perhaps 6"x6" and 1/8" thick - on the inner and outer face of the door and set the deadbolt into that. It's then an easy matter to drill and file a hole in the aluminum jamb to accept the deadbolt when it's extended.
If pics hadn't become such an issue here, I'd post a couple of my install, but it's pretty straightforward.
Incidentally, in a untypically paranoid moment, I've considered installing a stout aluminum bar across the window horizontally at the middle of that window to reduce by half the size of the space an intruder would have to crawl through to get inside. Maybe at some point...
Good luck.
