So what did you do to your Truck Camper today?

Made sure the furnace is on....we have had hard freezes for the past 2 weeks :O

portscanner wrote:

CaveRun wrote:
I put new 6" oval LED tail lights on my TC yesterday. :)

I made my own brackets out of aluminum.

I'll take pictures later today if anyone is interested in seeing them!

I'm interested!

I'm sorry, I've been busy with work building Backhoe Thumbs and getting orders out!

I'll take a picture for you today! :)

Just got back from 3 weeks on the road ... just washed off all the bugs!

Installed a piezoelectric igniter and got rid of the old turn to light noise maker. Bought the unit from Walmart for $13, add one $2.99 switch from radio shack and about 3hrs labor. Now I have quiet push button ignition for my stovetop burners and my oven. Before we had to get on our hands and knees, holding the oven knob in while applying flame to the pilot light.
Got the idea from here: Stove Igniter MOD

Did some things since last time:

* installed Blue Sky 2512ix with ipn proremote and 500amp shunt (no solar yet)
* rewired main battery lines with somewhere between 1 and 0 AWG (actually European 50mm²) together with the shunt of the 2512ix
* replaced bad battery (now have 2 Trojan 27TMX batteries instead of one with an other brand marine battery, which came with the RV when I bought it)
* camco cyclone vent on grey water tank (result unknown at this time)

The maxxair vent covers with opened vents, ofcourse, pull air out of the interior and if the under-pressure gets too big, it sucks air through the P-traps, through the grey water tank and through the tank vent where fresh air is sucked inside. By doing that the interior fills itself with grey water smell. By installing a cyclone vent, I assume that the tank and interior will get about the same under-pressure, so it won't try to suck air through the tank vent and P-traps anymore. Before installing that I tried just about anything, like opening a window a little, half, all the way, window in the front, window in the back, one roof vent open, another vent open, both vents open,... I also searched here and that's how I found the cyclone vent solution. Hope it works.

Putting on the paint today!

The door window trim/frame finally gave up and was cracking everywhere after 23 years. So I purchased a new window frame.....in the process of replacing it. Pulled it apart, cleaned and repainted the door, next is clean the window up and reinstall with the new frame assembly.

very nice job!!

billyray50 wrote:
very nice job. What did you use for trim and siding?

Thank you. The bottom is 2x2 angle iron and the top came from what was originally along the bottom. 3/4x one inch.

This is a mod I added. I do not now have to "kneel & bow" to the sacred dump connection on my Lance 1050S. It is very rigid. I used ABS glue to connect the extension to the clear plastic elbows, but not to the fitting on the Lance.