Bush Motel Restoration

Crawler I found one of the best places for "bits & pieces" when I fitted out our Oka was Caravan's Plus here
Good to deal with and very prompt shipping. No affiliation etc etc.

Good onya mate.
I love to see people having a go outside their comfort zone, the satisfaction you'll get will be worth it.

Hi Crawler

Good Stuff
you will get heaps of good and bad advice on here.
but eh good thing is 90% of it is really good.and sometimes the bad advice is OK as well


Regards

Geoff

think I just see it in a zoomed in pic

all OK

G'day Crawler88, I had a slide-on for thirteen years and covered some incredible country, I always say they haven't built the ideal touring vehicle but a slide-on sure ticks most of the boxes.
My only concern is your tie-downs, please do something major about them before you hit the dirt.

Rob VKE237 sel 6678

Hi All, I have to admit there are some pretty shonky features at the moment on this slide on, ie. the tie downs ( although they have done one hell of a lot of clicks as you see them). They are certainly something that I have been wanting to change. I know there are some far better and safer options available and that I need to move the tie down points on the slide on. So far just about all of my biggest frustrations with the set up you see has been the dodgy repairs my grandfather did when he had it. Could fix anything... Just very few thing would be fixed as they should have been. A perfect example of this, and I can't believe none of you have noticed this yet. Note the shiny metal just behind the front jack leg mount. Yes my hot water service cover is a scone tray!!!. Get what I mean?It feels to me like a bit of a cop out just saying that everything that is shonky about it is directly related to my Grandfather's handy work as thus far as up until this point I've just lived with it. Now is my opportunity to repair all of these frustrating and in most cases unsafe unique features. He reckon's the original vented cover blew fell off somewhere on the CSR. Oh and the mirror is there, it's just as black as the tinted windows and hard to see. And yes they grey water system is on the "to improve" list.

Cheers
Crawler

Hey,

I have some more photos of the mess Ive been making over the last couple of weeks.
Thus far Ive been mainly focussed on stripping out the interior and very much feeling my way as I go.

As I dig further and further into the spaces between the visible exterior and the visible interior, the job ahead of me is seeming to grow. Yesterday afternoon I spent 1.5 hrs trying to get one of the windows out of the van thanks to some very liberally caulked silicone sealant.

I think it would be for the best if I replaced the exterior cladding as well while im doing all of this.

Ive attached some photos. If there is anyone keeping tabs on my debacle, I hope these satisfy your lust for destruction for a couple of days at least, or until I make some more noteworthy progress.

Cheers
Crawler