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I have a thru-roof nmo mount ground plane/quarter wave antenna on my truck that works GREAT with no camper on the back. The performance is horrible with the camper installed - it comes to within about 8" of the antenna and I'm sure completely changes its tuning. Just FWIW for anyone else...

Hi Boonie, The repair to the cracks over the door seems to have held up well. The fix is a combination of the heavy aluminum strap glued & screwed above the door, and the 1/4" plywood screwed from the top down the sides of the door to keep the entire end square. If anyone else does this and...

Nah, I ended up just jamming some butyl tape into the gaps in the glazing strip. I haven't observed any leaking @ the windows.

$150 fixer-upper near Tahoe. https://reno.craigslist.org/for/d/truckee-hawk-popup-cab-over-for-project/6998792288.html I wish I was in a good spot for another project. This looks like it'll make a great build. EDIT - looks like it sold.

I'd probably finish by coating with epoxy and then paint with a white enamel, although just an epoxy coat would probably look good with a quality plywood and veneer. I think in a kit, it'd be nice if any fiberglass work were totally optional, but I think laying a layer of fiberglass over the...

Just ran across these in an old bookmark. Haven't looked to closely, but they might make a fairly cheap alternative to the wood panels or other more custom solutions like the conduit setup. Looks like only 18"of lift. Kind of neat, another...

Good idea. I can imagine how the x supports would work. Don't worry too much about the drawings. We're flying to vegas for the next few days, but looking forward to spending the following week in the camper again heading north probably. The short to-do list is: * Figure out why the lights...

My wife and I, and our two dogs, have been living out of the camper for the last two weeks. A few notes and observations: * We typically get ~17mpg with the camper, unless we're pushing hard on the highway at 65/70mph, when it drops to 15mpg. My Tacoma is a 2009 4wd, 4 cylinder, manual trans...

still for sale? Have any more photos?

I want to design a kit made with CNC cut plywood; any ribbing in the roof would be CNC cut plywood ribs glued under the external plywood, and insulation would probably be 1" pink foam, affixed with 3m spray adhesive. I'm not sure about flat or not, but I can see how at least a gentle curve...

Sealing around the fan with some dicor self leveling sealant seams to have fixed our leak problem! We've had rain a few times in the last few days and no issues. That was really something I meant to do before we left, but ran out of time. We're in sun valley today, making our way toward...

What kinds of materials does everyone have experience with for home built camper roofs (and walls) that can hold up long term? Seems like everything on the market is either skinned with sheet metal or fiberglass. Someone on here did rubber, too, for a roof, and I've seen FRP (home Depot fiber...

We've been out on the road for about five days now. We spent the first two nights in campgrounds at Steens Mountain in south-eastern Oregon. Beautiful views there! Next place we wanted to see was Sawtooth Mountain in Idaho. We stopped at a random spot in NV to spend the night. I'll have to...

Woohoo! We got everything done today... Just packing up now and ready to actually go somewhere in the am. Work completed to weekend: Put in super nice lenoleum flooring. It's about an 1/8" thick and had a little squish and feels nice to walk on. I stapled in some quarter round trim along...

Thanks for the kind words! OMG, what happened here?

Today was our first official day off vacation. Hoping to be in the road tomorrow afternoon. We finished the slide out bed, put in lenoleum flooring, built a dinning table to use the old table pillar setup, sewed up new curtains, bought some nice cussions to sit on... Worked all day! Photos...

Btw, the roof is damn heavy at the bed end where I put the solar panels. No wonder everyone likes those gas shocks for getting the roof up. I'm gonna put my back out lifting it up. Lol.

More progress! I moved the eye bolt things for the turnbuckles and got it attached to the truck more properly with some larger turnbuckles. Also pulled off the lower part of the lift by the door and shortened it by four inches and it works much better, although the vinyl on the door end isn't...

That's a good deal with the new roof and lifters, and the extra gear. Sold make someone pretty happy.

Fwiw regarding ATC, I got a quick look at a couple of in-progress campers there when I stopped by to pick up the metal for my roof. They looked really stout compared to my old granby. Despite the dated construction, it looked like they were doing a quality build. All I can think of would be...

Hey Ouray, the new shell will be awesome. Have you priced having them do it just a little bit custom to fit the platform on your truck? Maybe the modifications to you truck won't be too bad to fit the standard shell. You'll have better resale if you go that route. I'd imagine that if you...

I couldn't find short enough turnbuckles this AM... I found some small, jenky, turnbuckles that are working for today, but I need to move the mounting eye-bolts on the camper in by a couple of inches to increase distance from the mounting bars in the bed. This is easy though. The camper is...

Trying again with photos...

Well, it's finally in the truck. Lowe's is a couple blocks from here, so I'm going to roll over slowly in the am to get the turnbuckles. The camper is light enough that I can pick up the sides or back and shift it around in the truck. We'll see how that goes when I load it up with gear. : D...

Hey Russ, What did I miss? I'm really looking forward to Idaho. I think I went to an archery shoot in Idaho many years ago with my parents. I recall it being beautiful. My wife and I are pretty loose in our travel planning. We're basically going to pick a national park whenever we want to...