Friday, May 15, 2020 at 17:45
Mike,
It's hard to remember exactly what I did. I'll have to set up an old hard drive to see if I have photos, but here's what I remember;
I made dust proof covers for all the external vents and for the bottom of the lower door. They were a bit fancy, but at a pinch you could use cut-to-size-and-shape corflute and gaffer tape around the edges. Take lots of tape! because you'll be taking them off and replacing them every stop.
Mine were thin ply cut to shape with a 10mm square wooden bead around the edge to stop warping and then some foam to make a seal. Fastened with wingbolts into nutserts.
I forget what I did with the Truma gas exhaust. Probably similar.
YOU MUST NOT FORGET TO REMOVE THE COVERS FOR THE FRIDGE AND THE TRUMA BEFORE YOU LIGHT THE GAS!!!!!!!!!!
I taped up the full length of the long hinges with duct tape.
The roof panels have a foam perimeter seal when they are down. I can't remember if I had to augment them. I think not, but have a look on yours for gaps when the roof is down.
I made a wooden shaped filler with foam seals glued on to fill in the gap between the top of the lower door and the roof when lowered, so that the perimeter seal of the roof would work. That's a major dust ingress point. I can't remember the details of how I held it in place. If I have any photos I'll let you know.
Can't remember if I did anything with the factory hatches. I think the front boot was ok - yes it was, I remember now, I had a padded vinyl stone guard made up for it that enveloped the whole front of the boot up to the front roof hinge. It had a sail track just under the hinge and tonneau loops elsewhere to hold it in place.
Can't remember what I did with factory side hatches, though. Will try to find pics.
We liked that camper, but it couldn't do what we wanted it to do. We drag our
Kimberley Karavan, which replaced the Cruiseliner, into some pretty rough stuff requiring high clearance and short rear overhang. Cruiseliner's weak spot, IMO. I've heard they have a lifted off-road version now.
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