Hey yall,
I recently bought a used outfitter caribou 6.5 popup camper for the wife and I which will be replacing our bumper pull tent trailer and figured I would share my improvements and will be asking questions along the way. We decided on a popup TC so we can go more remote areas and travel at faster speeds on the highway while we cruise the country on our hunting/fishing trips. I bought the camper for 2k and it needs work!
The Camper:
Outfitter caribou 6.5
Everything works! (fridge,furnace,stove,lights,ect)
Canvas is perfect
The Bad:
Previous owner left the water pump on and flooded the camper leaving the floor with significant floor rot. The lower floor area seems to be separating from the top on one side leaving a 1/8 gap one pass side below the front pass thru window (ill post pics cause that explanation makes no sense)
Roof is missing two corner cap pieces
The wood veneer on the interior walls is cracking/dryrot from the flooding 3-4 inches up from the floor.
The jacks and anchors have severe rusting. Bottom of jacks are almost completely rusted thru
The Plan:
Im deciding whether I want to take the time and remove the interior cabinets to replace the floor or just place some plywood on the interior walkway and slap some home depot stick on hardwood flooring and call it good for a few years.
I will be adding new plywood to the outside lower floor area and reinforcing the sag with some L brackets.
Recaulking all joints and figuring out someway to seal the corners (Called bob at outfitter and inquired about buying new roof corners and he wasn't very helpful and mentioned that "someone in Montrose CO makes them" but thats all he knew.
Cut square tubing and reweld onto lower end of jack legs
Questions:
Does anybody have a good idea on how to source or make (fiberglass?) new roof corners?
When i add new plywood to the exterior will SS fasteners be ok to use to screw into the aluminum frame? If not what kind of fasteners should I use
I will post pics of the project and my wife and I have our first trip planned at the end of march so I have a deadline!
Thanks,
Chris
I recently bought a used outfitter caribou 6.5 popup camper for the wife and I which will be replacing our bumper pull tent trailer and figured I would share my improvements and will be asking questions along the way. We decided on a popup TC so we can go more remote areas and travel at faster speeds on the highway while we cruise the country on our hunting/fishing trips. I bought the camper for 2k and it needs work!
The Camper:
Outfitter caribou 6.5
Everything works! (fridge,furnace,stove,lights,ect)
Canvas is perfect
The Bad:
Previous owner left the water pump on and flooded the camper leaving the floor with significant floor rot. The lower floor area seems to be separating from the top on one side leaving a 1/8 gap one pass side below the front pass thru window (ill post pics cause that explanation makes no sense)
Roof is missing two corner cap pieces
The wood veneer on the interior walls is cracking/dryrot from the flooding 3-4 inches up from the floor.
The jacks and anchors have severe rusting. Bottom of jacks are almost completely rusted thru
The Plan:
Im deciding whether I want to take the time and remove the interior cabinets to replace the floor or just place some plywood on the interior walkway and slap some home depot stick on hardwood flooring and call it good for a few years.
I will be adding new plywood to the outside lower floor area and reinforcing the sag with some L brackets.
Recaulking all joints and figuring out someway to seal the corners (Called bob at outfitter and inquired about buying new roof corners and he wasn't very helpful and mentioned that "someone in Montrose CO makes them" but thats all he knew.
Cut square tubing and reweld onto lower end of jack legs
Questions:
Does anybody have a good idea on how to source or make (fiberglass?) new roof corners?
When i add new plywood to the exterior will SS fasteners be ok to use to screw into the aluminum frame? If not what kind of fasteners should I use
I will post pics of the project and my wife and I have our first trip planned at the end of march so I have a deadline!
Thanks,
Chris
Jordan Pawley
