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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Silver... I did it the lazy way...I drilled out the bottom rivets and a few of the vertical ones on the interior skin, then pried the skin up enough to reach in behind it. I cut strips of wood about 1& 1/2" thick then screwed down through that into the ply. I didn't get the bite into the bunk wood I would have liked as its only 1/2" so I also made some L brackets out of 2" aluminum for the sides and riveted them into the vertical channel and screwed down into the ceder planks.
For the front I ran a strip of 2" angle aluminum long enough to span the distance under the window. It was then attached again to the vertical channel on either side of the window and multiple screws into the ceder planks. Nice and strong now.
For the wings, with the wood inside the channel I was able to get a good bite through the 2 layers of 3/4' ply using 2&1/2" screws.
I rechecked the interior lights and running lights once more before riveting things back in place.
For the front I ran a strip of 2" angle aluminum long enough to span the distance under the window. It was then attached again to the vertical channel on either side of the window and multiple screws into the ceder planks. Nice and strong now.
For the wings, with the wood inside the channel I was able to get a good bite through the 2 layers of 3/4' ply using 2&1/2" screws.
I rechecked the interior lights and running lights once more before riveting things back in place.
