Manfred65
Senior Member
A Happy New Year to all of you !!
Slow motion in the workshop...... Outside temperature the last weeks down to 2°F stopped the last interest in working with our Friend Jayco.
This week the temp "raised" up to 39° F so i had a chance to check if Jayco is well.
One of our crossbars (see above) is not well bonded to the roof. So i have to wait for higher temps for a new try...
The fridge is fixed in a unconventional method: His "feet" are fixed between some wood slats and from the doorlock we installed a small ratchet strap to the camper frame to hold the box in place. So it has the possibility to move millimeters if the camper is bending in some situations. Also the service access door of the fridge is newly mounted.
All the outside roof lights have been replaced by LED-Lights. The wiring is changed a little: The front lamps ( white to match european rules) , side lamps and the outside rear lamps of the roof are wired to work with the trucks driving lights. The three red lights in the rear middle of the roof are now wired as additional brake lights.
The rear corners get LED-Marker-lights ( forward white/rear red) like we used to have on the busses we work with.
Wiring is completed, only the lamps are missing. I am afraid to crack them while working on the camper.
We considered some options for a properly sealed roof + new white paint to the roof. A friend gave me the idea to use a spray-on-bedliner! On Ebay i found the 2-k-pu-bedliner "U-Pol-Raptor". This bedliner is available transparent with the possibility to mix it with 10% of acrylic-car-paint . There is no additional hardener for the paint necessary. This Job is done by the hardener of the bedliner). This allows us to have a sleek white look at our roof, roff protection and it covers and seals all the screws along the aluminium profile in middle of the roof.
This bedliner could be a great option for everyone who likes to have his truckbed in the trucks colour and also having it protected.
Slow motion in the workshop...... Outside temperature the last weeks down to 2°F stopped the last interest in working with our Friend Jayco.
This week the temp "raised" up to 39° F so i had a chance to check if Jayco is well.
One of our crossbars (see above) is not well bonded to the roof. So i have to wait for higher temps for a new try...
The fridge is fixed in a unconventional method: His "feet" are fixed between some wood slats and from the doorlock we installed a small ratchet strap to the camper frame to hold the box in place. So it has the possibility to move millimeters if the camper is bending in some situations. Also the service access door of the fridge is newly mounted.
All the outside roof lights have been replaced by LED-Lights. The wiring is changed a little: The front lamps ( white to match european rules) , side lamps and the outside rear lamps of the roof are wired to work with the trucks driving lights. The three red lights in the rear middle of the roof are now wired as additional brake lights.
The rear corners get LED-Marker-lights ( forward white/rear red) like we used to have on the busses we work with.
Wiring is completed, only the lamps are missing. I am afraid to crack them while working on the camper.
We considered some options for a properly sealed roof + new white paint to the roof. A friend gave me the idea to use a spray-on-bedliner! On Ebay i found the 2-k-pu-bedliner "U-Pol-Raptor". This bedliner is available transparent with the possibility to mix it with 10% of acrylic-car-paint . There is no additional hardener for the paint necessary. This Job is done by the hardener of the bedliner). This allows us to have a sleek white look at our roof, roff protection and it covers and seals all the screws along the aluminium profile in middle of the roof.
This bedliner could be a great option for everyone who likes to have his truckbed in the trucks colour and also having it protected.
