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BurbMan
Sep 30, 2020Explorer II
Well the day is finally here....with the exception of a few punch list items (like my stick on levels LOL) we are ready to roll! So about 4 months start to finish, working about 2 hrs most evenings and half days on weekends I figure I'm about $4500 and 200 +/- hours into this project. The last major item today was the gas valve on the HW heater. Worked fine for the first 2 days and then started to smell gas, and get the mini-boom when it lit off, so 15 mins to change and $150 to Atwood on Amazon.
Very happy with the way this turned out, both inside and outside. Everything works 100% and is now sealed 3 ways to Sunday. Every seam got 4" Eternabond tape over the factory trim. All told I went through 150' of Eternabond, 300' of butyl tape, and many tubes of caulk, sealant, and Dicor self leveler.
I had a nice graphic for the front that we picked up at Johnson's Surplus in Elkhart, but it had been sitting around in their hot attic so long it ripped trying to get it off the release paper. Oh well, a $10 experiment.
The ghetto garage will be coming down this weekend, I have my Torklift D2124 and D3109 frame mounted tie downs in the garage along with my Curt front hitch waiting to go on the truck this weekend. Thinking I can knock that off in an afternoon.
I'll post a final accounting of the build costs along with a few pics of the camper on the truck as soon as I can.
Very happy with the way this turned out, both inside and outside. Everything works 100% and is now sealed 3 ways to Sunday. Every seam got 4" Eternabond tape over the factory trim. All told I went through 150' of Eternabond, 300' of butyl tape, and many tubes of caulk, sealant, and Dicor self leveler.
I had a nice graphic for the front that we picked up at Johnson's Surplus in Elkhart, but it had been sitting around in their hot attic so long it ripped trying to get it off the release paper. Oh well, a $10 experiment.
The ghetto garage will be coming down this weekend, I have my Torklift D2124 and D3109 frame mounted tie downs in the garage along with my Curt front hitch waiting to go on the truck this weekend. Thinking I can knock that off in an afternoon.
I'll post a final accounting of the build costs along with a few pics of the camper on the truck as soon as I can.
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