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[Bigskyxj]

Poky,
Thanks for the welcome. Tomorrow is day one of the floor pack teardown. I'm gonna head in to the shop a couple hours before work starts and tear down as much as I can. I figure if I can do a couple of hours per day I should have the floor pack narrowed by the end of the week.

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Progress was made today, got the passengers side tore out. Tomorrow I will cut 3" off the side and start cutting new wood to go back on. Most of the wood I took off got pretty jacked up trying to pull the long staples out.

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Made some more progress this morning. Cut 3" out of the passengers side.

 

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My buddy let me borrow his oscillating saw which made the end cuts in the corners a hell of a lot easier.

 

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Trimmed away the wall board to expose the frame at the front of the camper. this has to move in 3" as well.

 

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Next i ground the welds off of the vertical frame beam and moved it in 3". On the horizontal frame rail on the bottom i cut away 3 sides so that i can fold it up to use as an attachment point for the vertical beam.

 

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After putting the vertical beam back in I folded the lower piece up and riveted it together. It's not the greatest way to go about this but i do not have a way to weld aluminum so it will have to do. It should provide some vertical support by atleast holding that piece in there.

 

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Finished up the wood work on the passengers side today. It took longer than I anticipated. Its a bit of a slow process trying to line up all the pieces by yourself but it is possible. It doesn't help that I'm not much of a carpenter. I used liquid nails and screws to secure all the wood pieces to each other.

 

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All I have left to do on the passengers side is to trim the aluminum siding accordingly and re install the trim. I may paint the wood before installing the trim just to protect it.

 

Hopefully I can get back to it Monday morning early and get the drivers side knocked out fairly quick. I am itching to get this thing in my truck and install the eyelets in the bed of my pickup. 

 

After that it will be on to getting the battery and wiring squared away.

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Progress on the drivers side has begun. I got the old wood removed and basically have everything prepped for installation of the new narrowed bedside tomorrow morning. Pictures are worth a thousand words so here you go.

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Got the drivers side buttoned up this morning. Getting a little excited. Tomorrow I plan in painting the new wood to keep it protected and then replacing the trim.

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Starting to get anxious to get this thing to the point where it can go in my truck so that I can get the wiring squared away.

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Well I got a lot done, things were going smooth and I managed to get all the wood stuff done. I painted all the new wood to protect it. I got my fuse panel wiring knocked out and battery isolater/charger all hooked up. More pics to come.

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