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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69, you always raise such good considerations and I appreciate it.
I am currently thinking to have a 3/4" neoprene pad between the cabover and the truck's roof, and then thrubolt in some fashion to compress the neoprene for a snug fit but not so much as to eliminate a wee bit of wiggle.
The joint between the front of Argo and the back of the truck cab will be rigid - a flange with bolts and caulking. I'm expecting that the camper and cab will behave as a single unit and that that unit will tolerate a bit of movement in the truck chassis, to be addressed by the 12 rubber body mounts I am installing.
I mentioned in a recent post that the Tiger motorhome folks bolt everything together quite solidly and have reported no failures in hundreds of thousands of miles on 4WD chassis.
We shall see whether my engineering and their's produce the same outcome.
I am currently thinking to have a 3/4" neoprene pad between the cabover and the truck's roof, and then thrubolt in some fashion to compress the neoprene for a snug fit but not so much as to eliminate a wee bit of wiggle.
The joint between the front of Argo and the back of the truck cab will be rigid - a flange with bolts and caulking. I'm expecting that the camper and cab will behave as a single unit and that that unit will tolerate a bit of movement in the truck chassis, to be addressed by the 12 rubber body mounts I am installing.
I mentioned in a recent post that the Tiger motorhome folks bolt everything together quite solidly and have reported no failures in hundreds of thousands of miles on 4WD chassis.
We shall see whether my engineering and their's produce the same outcome.
