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Well, it has been a productive year, and Claire has come back to life . pictures are worth 1000 words each, so here's the story...\n\n[img]\n\n\n[/img]
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Just to clarify, I almost made it to my new spot feeding from the cleaned out fuel tank, broke down, then hooked up an electric fuel pump feeding from a gas can, and drove it home. Otherwise, it drove nice. \n\nWell, I left a lot of the process out, and other things.\n\nI'll say that I changed the door latch, put locks on the outside storage compartments, changed and mounted (2001 dodge) seats, put an ignition switch in, and now I have keys to it, lol.\n\nStill much to do, but there always is.
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2001 Dodge seats? Where did the seat come from and do you have a picture. The 76 Flex steel seats in Nessie are showing their age.
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\n\nI put them on an adapter plate, so anything could have worked. Just happens that in my mechanic business, I ended up with an awd dodge van with a blown transmission, so it wasn't worth fixing, and I took various parts from it before I scrapped it. I do intend to keep the chassis end Dodge, though. These seats were lighter, and they don't sound and feel like you sat on a bag of chips when you sit in them. There was a remodel in the mid '80s by the look of things, and the ones I replaced weren't original.KB2CRK wrote:2001 Dodge seats? Where did the seat come from and do you have a picture. The 76 Flex steel seats in Nessie are showing their age.
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Are those Mini van or sprinter seats?
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\n\nIt was a grand caravan (minivan).KB2CRK wrote:Are those Mini van or sprinter seats?
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I thought about pulling the seats out of a 2000 Caravan I have in the yard but the flex steel in the Travco are in better shape.... I wish I had the leather seats out of the 98 Town and Country I sold for parts.
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\n\nThere are heated, or air cooled seat covers available from amazon and ebay. Upgrade band aid, lol.KB2CRK wrote:I thought about pulling the seats out of a 2000 Caravan I have in the yard but the flex steel in the Travco are in better shape.... I wish I had the leather seats out of the 98 Town and Country I sold for parts.
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well, as you can see, I had the Travco fully operational, but not finished. That was when I learned to sail and went on a 4 day trip in the Puget sound.
I was hooked, and picked up a free sailboat project. about 2k, and a year later, it is fully operational. It's winter now, and the only heated area I have to work in is my Travco. There is still insulation showing, so I am about to get a couple more mahogany panels.
My question is, what do I call the metal strips covering the roof panel joints?
Not much has been done to the Travco, it has held up nice in it's current configuration. I broke and repaired the step, and pulled the Kohler l654 genset out. the magneto isn't timed correctly, and the coolant and oil are brand new, so I have to fix what was done wrong, if I want to bother with it. I don't want to feed a 4 cylinder generator, so I got a little 950 running watt generator. I also pulled the galvanized pressure tank that was full of something not water, and reinforced the bed.
I intend to go to 2 roof hatches with 12v fans and no big thirsty a/c unit. it works fine, also has the heat function, but I want to travel light. I will go to a stainless steel closet rack, and chest underneath. When the rack is exposed, there will be a view of the ceiling from front to back, and it will feel bigger inside.
My cheap lights I bought for the shower overheat and blow out in under 10 minutes, so I have another 5m of 12v led waterproof soft white rope light on the way. I have been using a bright flashlight stragically placed, but now I'm back to fixing up the Travco. I highly recommend the rope light, it lights up the Travco thoroughly, is efficient, cheap, and holds up well to constant daily use. $11.50 will light a Travco up like never before, and very efficiently.
Please help me to name the metal strips where the inside roof panels meet.
I was hooked, and picked up a free sailboat project. about 2k, and a year later, it is fully operational. It's winter now, and the only heated area I have to work in is my Travco. There is still insulation showing, so I am about to get a couple more mahogany panels.
My question is, what do I call the metal strips covering the roof panel joints?
Not much has been done to the Travco, it has held up nice in it's current configuration. I broke and repaired the step, and pulled the Kohler l654 genset out. the magneto isn't timed correctly, and the coolant and oil are brand new, so I have to fix what was done wrong, if I want to bother with it. I don't want to feed a 4 cylinder generator, so I got a little 950 running watt generator. I also pulled the galvanized pressure tank that was full of something not water, and reinforced the bed.
I intend to go to 2 roof hatches with 12v fans and no big thirsty a/c unit. it works fine, also has the heat function, but I want to travel light. I will go to a stainless steel closet rack, and chest underneath. When the rack is exposed, there will be a view of the ceiling from front to back, and it will feel bigger inside.
My cheap lights I bought for the shower overheat and blow out in under 10 minutes, so I have another 5m of 12v led waterproof soft white rope light on the way. I have been using a bright flashlight stragically placed, but now I'm back to fixing up the Travco. I highly recommend the rope light, it lights up the Travco thoroughly, is efficient, cheap, and holds up well to constant daily use. $11.50 will light a Travco up like never before, and very efficiently.
Please help me to name the metal strips where the inside roof panels meet.
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I have seen it called a seam binder. If you search for RV or floor seam binder it will come up with some options.
https://www.trekwood.com/products/49544 ... eam-Binder
https://www.trekwood.com/products/49544 ... eam-Binder
datsunlover wrote: ↑Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:50 pmwell, as you can see, I had the Travco fully operational, but not finished. That was when I learned to sail and went on a 4 day trip in the Puget sound.
I was hooked, and picked up a free sailboat project. about 2k, and a year later, it is fully operational. It's winter now, and the only heated area I have to work in is my Travco. There is still insulation showing, so I am about to get a couple more mahogany panels.
My question is, what do I call the metal strips covering the roof panel joints?
Not much has been done to the Travco, it has held up nice in it's current configuration. I broke and repaired the step, and pulled the Kohler l654 genset out. the magneto isn't timed correctly, and the coolant and oil are brand new, so I have to fix what was done wrong, if I want to bother with it. I don't want to feed a 4 cylinder generator, so I got a little 950 running watt generator. I also pulled the galvanized pressure tank that was full of something not water, and reinforced the bed.
I intend to go to 2 roof hatches with 12v fans and no big thirsty a/c unit. it works fine, also has the heat function, but I want to travel light. I will go to a stainless steel closet rack, and chest underneath. When the rack is exposed, there will be a view of the ceiling from front to back, and it will feel bigger inside.
My cheap lights I bought for the shower overheat and blow out in under 10 minutes, so I have another 5m of 12v led waterproof soft white rope light on the way. I have been using a bright flashlight stragically placed, but now I'm back to fixing up the Travco. I highly recommend the rope light, it lights up the Travco thoroughly, is efficient, cheap, and holds up well to constant daily use. $11.50 will light a Travco up like never before, and very efficiently.
Please help me to name the metal strips where the inside roof panels meet.