So what did you do to your Truck Camper today?

I traveled 4650 miles and spent $2900 for a Stablelift system. Why? Here's why!

Seemed like common sense to me.

Completed repairing 2' long vertical gash in the rt side of the camper.( I didn't do it) Patched with glazing compound and sprayed with rustoleum white. No primer. First time was a patch job but held up OK.

got up on the roof, pulled the fly gear out of the cargo box and spent 3 hours out on the OX Bows of the Animas in Durango. Followed that up by taking the camper off of the truck so I could get around town and run some errands

Just looked at it, but did get the boat out and did some fishing :B

Bought a Dish Drying Mat so after washing the dishes they can be placed on the mat that will absorb the excess water and keep it from running off the counter

Installed a more secure barrel key/lock on the cargo/storage door instead of the CH 751 that 99% of the RV's have.

someone said they injected urethane glue into the screw hole,not sure how that would work,?

I believe I read on this forum a long time back that one could buy a solvent/sealer that could be injected into rotted wood to restore it. If that is true, could you use that to redo the wood in the wing without having to remove the covering?
Then put new oversized screws in the same holes you took the other SS screws out of?
Just a thought.
Frank

Finally a sunny day here on the wet coast so i went out and removed the s.s. screws around the wings of my 2005 lance lite with the intention of pro-flexing them back in to seal them better.Passenger side went well,drivers side(sure alot of u know where this post is going,lol),all the bottom screws spun,just pulled them out by hand.Oh well,thank god for the tc university as I think I can repair the rotted particle board myself.I just hope I can peel the filon off without breaking it.I dont have covered storage so I am looking forward to a sunny forecast so I can make it better than new!!!!!:)

Mello Mike wrote:

Boatycall wrote:
Today's project, take out the junkie Kenwood Mp3/cd stereo and put in a much nicer double-din Kenwood touch screen am/fm/dvd.

I want to do this mod, too, Boatycall. If you don't mind me asking, what model Kenwood did you buy?

I had a slightly older DNX5140 kicking around on the shelf. Double din, touchscreen, dvd, and gps/nav. I have 3 of them actually, one in my Jeep, and one more in my truck.
Catch is, the GPS/nav on this one didn't work and Kenwood wanted $350 to fix it. Then it dawned on me yesterday to toss it in the camper. Since I have the same one with a working gps in the truck, I figure if I'm so drunk I need GPS to get me from the bunk to the toilet, I'm in serious trouble.

I'll go get a picture of it in the camper. This is the same one in truck...with it's gps working.



The reason I have 3 of these---
I am an avid audio nut. I've done car/home/industrial audio for 20+ years. Alpine was my flavor of choice for years(for decks only), then I got a deal on one of these and I was hooked. It has everything---
*GPS built in, made by Garmin
*DVD/CD, that works when you're going down the road(for the passengers)
*Built in crossover for it's own internal 50w x 4 amp - just add an amp for a sub, and you don't need a mid/highs amp. Or at least I haven't.
*USB port for ipod or thumb drive
*MP3 player via a home burned CD or thumb drive(I have a 16Gb thumb drive plugged into them)
*Rear View Camera input
*Three band PARAMETRIC eq - for those of you who know what that is, that's awesome to have built in.
*Add on HDRadio, Sirius or XM. I plan on getting the HDRadio add on box, I've had it before on other radios, works great, and it's less than $80 on Ebay.