Well, we did indeed get to go the woods a few weekends back as planned. Sorry it’s taken so long to post an update. My buddy Eric, his son and a friend, plus my oldest daughter all went along for the trip. My purpose was to get the dang camper on the road and see how things worked (keeping in mind that interior still isn’t back in there yet). Everybody else went along for the fishin’ part of the trip.
The day before we left, I wound up purchasing the Maxxis tires talked about so much over in the tire forum. ST225/75 R15 LRD’s. Got those mounted with the metal stems. Repacked the bearings.
The trip down was good. It’s only about 30 miles form our house to the campground so there was no high speed travel involved. We only got up to 55mph for a few minutes each direction. Still, it towed pretty well, even though it’s still underweight and the speeds were low. Remember, there is nothing in the interior except the aluminum walls and camping gear (cots, cooler, beer, food, camp stove, etc).
For those of you that have been following this thread, I described cleaning the air conditioner coils and drip pan a few months back. Seems I didn’t quit get it all out of there. The drip pan developed a blockage of some sort and leaked along the outside of the camper while we were there. I’m betting something shook loose rolling down the road and blocked one side of the drip pan drain. The regular drain pipe worked as well. Lotta humidity that weekend, BTW.
The only real concern I have to date is that the paint I used on the interior vinyl walls remains somewhat sticky. Sticky walls are a problem in the era Airstream for some reason. Some say it is the adhesive the factory used to glue the vinyl to the aluminum. Some say it simply dirty walls. We cleaned everything very well before painting and nothing was sticky after the multiple cleanings. Same after we put the primer down. Once we painted, now we have issues. The only real problem here is that dirty fingerprints show up very easily. It also cleans very easily. All things being equal, I wish the walls weren’t doing this.
The stabilizer jacks (aka Baljacks?) work very well to keep the TT from rockin’ and rollin’.
All in all, I’m satisfied (fingers firmly crossed) with things, considering nothing actually fell off anywhere!
I’ll throw up a couple of obligatory pics just for grins in a few minutes.
Jim
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