Installing A Modular Rail System

The sky is the limit with a modular rail system. To get there, though, this DIY truck camper renovation project involves tight spaces and hand riveting.
The sky is the limit with a modular rail system. To get there, though, this DIY truck camper renovation project involves tight spaces and hand riveting.
After concluding our most recent round of travels, our first order of business is to reinforce the roof.
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.
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!