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Thought i'd put up a few pics of it in its natural habitat Also i installed HID headlights last week. Much brighter over stock.

Thanks, lots of time put into it, but at least it didn't cost alot of money to do so! If you could send me your old one i could fab one up. Yea i think we are going to just paint it the way we would like. As long as its done nice i don't think it'll take away from the value. As for the wheels they are still the original, just painted and chrome rings put on. Thanks for your input Linda, always appreciated. Curtains were made up over the weekend and she did some priming and will do some painting this week. I'll be sure to post pics. Also a few more little tweaks are in the works. I'll keep you posted

Next up the gf is making new curtains for the interior and we want to recover the padding for the seats. Also whats everyones opinion on updating the interior/flooring and painting the walls/cabinets white? Would it be best to leave it original as possible or do you not think it would detract from the value of it?

Took the mirrors off yesterday, sanded them and repainted.

Just found this post today and you did an awesome job, great job on sticking with all the trials and tribulations of doing something no one has done yet. Sounds like its a reliable set up once you got all the kinks worked out.

wiper arms repainted and on and also i used the windshield urethane on the upper corners where i notched the molding to fill in the gap.

Yes I got it on ebay. I ordered 75 feet of it so if you need some let me know and i'll sell you enough to do a windshield if you want.

Cleaned up a few of the surface rust areas and used touch up paint before installing the windshield. I bought a 31mm universal windshield molding to take the place of the original metal trim. I've used universal molding on quite a few vehicles and usually have good luck with it. The top corners of the windshield are a tight radius so i did have to notch the molding so it wouldn't pull off the glass but i'm going to go back later after the windshield is installed and just use a little black touch up paint so you really won't be able to tell that the molding is cut. Over all i was pleased with the molding. new windshield touched up molding on notched corners to make the radius installed

Looks amazing, like a brand new camper. I keep debating on whether to do the same to the inside of the sunrader......

Nice, looking forward to the pics, as i've never taken one of these off yet.

Did you ever finish this project or get any farther? Just found this thread today and read thru it.

Thanks i'll be sure to take some more detailed pics. I ordered some touch up paint also. There are a couple small spots of surface rust i need to clean up before the windshield goes back in. Unfortunately the new windshield is 2-3 weeks out, my supplier was out of stock, so it is coming from Ohio.

Started back at it, cleaning it up a bit more. Pulling the windshield to clean up around the windshield frame and replace the trim with a black rubber molding instead i'm thinking. I broke the windshield pulling it out (not a surprise) but have a new one coming. Gonna paint the wiper arms black again also.

very cool rig. I'd have put some factory tinted windows in though. Like snail powered said, it'd be tough staying in there too long with no windows.

Had some new decals made for the front and rear of the camper. Put the rear one on today, haven't gotten to the front one yet. before after

sweet looking rig. Looks to be in great shape.

Can't wait to see pics. Sounds like a great setup

yes the furnace is under the closet. I wonder how many variations of layouts they had for these?

Got rid of the silver front bumper today and went with black

wash it again with bar keepers friend to be sure it is as clean as you can get it, let it dry a day. I bought a sponge mop at the local hardware store and applied it with that. Keep a rag handy because sometimes it'll run and you need to wipe those up. And do as Derek said, multiple thin coats. I think i did 4 total.

I hated the hubcaps on the camper and aftermarket wheels don't exist for these so i decided to have the rims sandblasted and then i painted the gloss brown to match the side stripe, put on chrome trim rings and chrome lug nuts. I like this look much better.

Yea i was very happy with the color match. It is Rustoleum Canvas White

Today i got rid of the stock carb and put on the popular weber 32/36. Removed the carb and all associated vacuum lines, egr, smog stuff etc. Really opens up the engine bay and doesn't look likes such a bowl of spaghetti. Won't be able to take it on a test drive for a few months yet, but it starts right up and idles nicely so i'm looking forward to it. egr block off plate i made out of aluminum carb on and only 2 vacuum lines to hook up

It was on the camper when i bought it so i'm not sure where the previous owners bought it. sorry Yes like Derek said, you need to get a multimeter so you can test which wires have power when you turn the switch to parking lights, push the brake pedal, turn the turn signal on etc. An extra person in the cab doing that for you while you are measuring which wires get power would be helpful. If you aren't getting power to a wire when you should be, then its more than likely a blown fuse or a broken wire somewhere down the line. agreed

Haha, i should check into that. Its still far from perfect but as good as it is going to get without doing a full resto on it.