I’ve been futzing away at the roof fairing and taking a day off from the build here and there to figure out the details on the Jeep axle swap. There are a surprising number of them, but have been finding answers to my questions on the interwebs, so, since there seems to be zero interest in that here, I won’t drone on about it.
Pictures of incomplete bodywork are boring, too, and don’t really show anything well, but to prove that I have done something…
I did the spline drag thing on the curb side with another round of filler, but the middle portion of the roof next to the fan opening wasn’t too bad, so I just did the areas in front and behind.
Here’s something interesting for the record. We all know that foam expands and contracts with temperature changes, but I kind of half thought that the fiberglass would contain this somehow. When I did the spline skim coat on the street side of the roof it seemed like the foam was high and the spars took more filler. That was in 90 deg weather. Now that I washed the amine and blocked it down again in 70 deg weather, the opposite is true; the spars are high and the foam is low, as evident by the darker and lighter strips visible in this pic.
Link to another vintage camping equipment purchase, and somewhat of a miss.