Colorado CJ
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Well, I got to work on the camper a little bit the past couple days.
First, since I was going to put a new floor in it, I took out the 3/16" ply that was glued down to the floor from the factory. I did this because the ply didn't cover the whole floor, so there was no ply where the built ins used to be. The ply was glued and stapled down, so it took some work to remove all the pieces. I had to sand the last little bit of glue/ply pieces off with a DA.
I then mixed up some epoxy and epoxied all the interior wood. Most all this will be covered when I am through, but I thought it would be a good idea to seal all the wood on this camper when I had the chance.
I went to Lowes today and bought some cheap laminate planks. I've used this same stuff in my shop's office and it has held up great with all the traffic and sand/gravel that gets tracked through there. It has a 40 year warrenty (if that means anything
). After the epoxy was dry, I started to lay down the laminate. It was a quick process and looks MUCH better than that old linolium that was on there before.
After the floor was down, I got out my soldering iron, wire and connector box and went to work rewiring the whole back end. I wired in the tail lights, porch light and backup lights. I wired the backup lights so that they could be either activated in the truck (when backing up) or activated by a switch inside the camper. I thought I might as well have access to bright floodlights in the camper if I need them for any reason.
Soldering them up
And finished
Before I put the 7 pin plug on the end of the wire loom, I tested it out to see if everything worked like it should. It did.
I spend the remainder of the day starting in on insulating the back of the camper with 1" XPS foam. Depending on the weather tomorrow (if it is raining, I can't sandblast outside), I might get the remainder of the camper all wired up and insulated, then start in on the beadboard paneling.
Its coming together!
First, since I was going to put a new floor in it, I took out the 3/16" ply that was glued down to the floor from the factory. I did this because the ply didn't cover the whole floor, so there was no ply where the built ins used to be. The ply was glued and stapled down, so it took some work to remove all the pieces. I had to sand the last little bit of glue/ply pieces off with a DA.
I then mixed up some epoxy and epoxied all the interior wood. Most all this will be covered when I am through, but I thought it would be a good idea to seal all the wood on this camper when I had the chance.
I went to Lowes today and bought some cheap laminate planks. I've used this same stuff in my shop's office and it has held up great with all the traffic and sand/gravel that gets tracked through there. It has a 40 year warrenty (if that means anything
). After the epoxy was dry, I started to lay down the laminate. It was a quick process and looks MUCH better than that old linolium that was on there before.
After the floor was down, I got out my soldering iron, wire and connector box and went to work rewiring the whole back end. I wired in the tail lights, porch light and backup lights. I wired the backup lights so that they could be either activated in the truck (when backing up) or activated by a switch inside the camper. I thought I might as well have access to bright floodlights in the camper if I need them for any reason.
Soldering them up
And finished
Before I put the 7 pin plug on the end of the wire loom, I tested it out to see if everything worked like it should. It did.
I spend the remainder of the day starting in on insulating the back of the camper with 1" XPS foam. Depending on the weather tomorrow (if it is raining, I can't sandblast outside), I might get the remainder of the camper all wired up and insulated, then start in on the beadboard paneling.
Its coming together!
