Category: Avion Ultra

Insulating a Truck Camper with Closed Cell Spray Foam

DIY

Keep the cold out and cut back on condensation with a DIY insulation: applying closed cell spray foam in an

Repainting your camper decals, logos, and emblems is central in any RV restoration. Renew old decals with a little DIY sanding, spray paint, and clear coat.

Painting Vintage Camper Decals

DIY

Any owner of a vintage camper likely knows the feeling: you have a beautiful, clean piece of automotive history that

Step-by-step DIY replacing of a leaky vintage truck camper cabover window by installing a new, double paned, aerodynamic, and modern RV window.

Installing A New Truck Camper Cabover Window

DIY

The cabover windows have been a source of much angst among the Roam Lab crew. It’s one of the most

Like most classic campers, our Avion truck camper came with many stickers to mark its identity and affiliation. One of the classic stickers is for the Avion Travelcade Club. While the club is long gone, the sticker is a piece of history - faded, peeling history. So, we decide it is time to replace the old sticker with a new, vinyl reproduction.

Applying A Vinyl Sticker

DIY

Like most classic campers, our Avion truck camper came with many stickers to mark its identity and affiliation. One

Installing a roof hatch into an Avion truck camper may be more complicated than expected but it's totally worth it!

Installing an Arctic Tern Roof Hatch

DIY

We bought at roof hatch for our camper. That is how it started. The reasons were many: we wanted ventilation

Extending the Truck Camper Cabover

Avion Ultra

This has been a long time in the making. When we bought our Avion C11 truck camper, we knew that the full bed aligned east-west would not work for our full time intent. Initially, we struggled to conceive of a method to form a queen sized bed simply by altering the interior arrangement of the camper. While we could introduce sliding or folding out bed extensions, we could not agree on a solution that wouldn't require us to regularly make and break down a bed or block the interior windows. And so, we reluctantly agreed, we would be extending the cabover.

Best Practices For Rivet Removal

Avion Ultra

Today, we will be removing a panel from the exterior of the camper. To do this, we will have to remove a lot of rivets: buck rivets. After a year of experience, we have a favorite method of tackling rows of rivets which we will share with you today!

Texas

Jack Sisemore Traveland RV Museum

Museums

A lot of our route is flexible, given the winter weather. But the Jack Sisemore Traveland RV Museum has been

On the Road Again

Avion Ultra

After a mad rush to make our rig road worthy. It is a relief to finally make it back onto the highway. It has been 6 months since we last drove with the Avion on Dodgy II. That time, we had no confidence in the tie downs (rightly so!) and took the drive from Florida to Tennessee at 45 miles per hour. Now, we have new wings floor, jacks, and tie-downs. We have the camper firmly planted on the truck. Aside from one last trip to Tractor Supply for some additional turn-buckles, we are on the road.

Trimming the edges of the camper floor to fit the fiberglass pan.

Refurbishing The Avion Truck Camper Fiberglass Pan

Avion Ultra

Timelines are an exercise in wishful thinking. I remember this lesson from my former life as a code monkey. But it's never been more obvious than when renovating a camper.

We have a departure date set and it is coming up fast. But little things keep pushing back our progress.⠀Six months ago, I thought we would have a working kitchen and bathroom by now. Two months ago, I thought we would have rebuilt the bed by now. At this point, I'd be happy to just have the pan of the camper resting firmly and securely on the truck bed.

Most of the Avion's exterior is aluminum. But, the very base of the camper, hanging off the truck bed, is made of fiberglass. It wedges in between the interior flooring and the exterior aluminum pan and holds the back water tank. In replacing the floor, we also had to remove this pan to remount it to the new floor.