Our Double Door 30' 1954 Liner

[wkerfoot]

Originally Posted by Aerowood

To repair that skin I would cut out the damage very cleanly with 1" radius on the lower corners. Make a filler to match the cutout and then make a doubler to go in between the stringer and skin. shoot it all together with flush rivets below the skin lap and button head rivets where the existing are. this is called a flush skin repair and if done properly it will hardly be noticeable. Use NAS1097AD4-X rivets for the flush rivets. Space the rivets 5/16" from the cutout (ED, edge distance) and space around 3/4" from each other. Good luck
Kip

PS, 2024-T3 is not a weldable aluminum alloy.

Aero,

That is a good idea, I will consider it.

Bill

[Aerowood]

One more thing, park the hole saw in your toolbox and start using a unibit or blair cutter. You will be much happier with the results.

Kip

[wkerfoot]

I have purchased two of these switches: Water Pump Switch 500459 [500459] - $4.26 : ODMRV , Out-of-Doors Mart from Out of Doors Mart for the water pump. They have three terminals on the back so I assume that they are three way switches. Does anyone know how to wire them and which terminal does what? I want one switch in the kitchen and the other one in the bathroom.

Bill

[azflycaster]

Bill, They may be three way switches. You need to meter them out to find out. A 3 way switch should have 1 input and two outputs. The output changes with the position of the switch. They are wired like such:


They could also be normal single pole switches and the third lug would be for ground to light the internal light if it has one.

[Action]

Looks like a location for an outside outlet.

>>>>>>>>>>>Action

[SJ1]

What a beautiful trailer!

[wkerfoot]

Here are a few pictures of the insulation, wiring and interior skin.

Bill

[wkerfoot]

As you know, we have been working on our 1954 Double Door Liner for the past three years. This year we decided to take the Liner to the WBCCI International Rally in Bozeman, MT. The main reason being that our daughter, Anne, her friend, Tricia, and our new 10 week old granddaughter, Kinsey, would be going with us. Too many people for a 23’ Safari.

The last few months, we have been reinsulating, rewiring (12V and 110V), stripping the two shades of pink latex paint, reinstalling the interior skin and rebuilding the windows. As the departure week grew nearer, more and more items came off of the completion list. I realized that we were going to have an aluminum tent. What we completed was: installation of water tank, water pump, toilet, waste tank, refrigerator, batteries, one of two solar panels, electric panel (12V and 110V), carpet remnant for the plywood floor, covered in aluminum shavings, and wood for the twin beds in the back.

We planned on leaving about 8:00 AM on Saturday, June 21. We worked late every night that week and still were not ready to leave until about 1:00 PM on Saturday. We hooked up the trailer and the brakes locked up solid and the light on the brake controller did not come on. About two hours later I figured out that some dummy (me) had reversed the black (hot) and blue (brake) wires on the trailer plug. We finally hit the road at 4:00 PM, and headed for our first nights stop in St. George, UT about 380 miles away. We pulled into the campground about 2:00 AM local time, the rest of our group was sound asleep. We did catch up with the group the next night in Logan, UT. I completed the construction of one twin bed frame in Logan, UT and the other one in Grand Tetons NP. My daughter and her friend spent the two weeks on an air mattress on the floor.

We had a great trip through Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks and pulled into the KOA in Bozeman on Thursday night about 5:00 PM just as the VAC happy hour was concluding. Our entrance could not have been planned better as we drove right by the happy hour festivities and parked across the drive from them. Everyone got a good look at the Lincoln and the double door Liner.

We had a great time at the Rally, renewed old friendships and met some new friends. Had several good conversations with Region and IBT officers. Unfortunately we left in the afternoon of July 2 and were unable to attend the VAC happy hour where the region presidents brought appetizers.

We left on July 2 and headed to Glacier National Park, the Going to the Sun Road opened on July 2. On July 4 we took the free shuttle at Glacier NP all the way over the Going to the Sun Road to St Mary lake and back. Unfortunately, due to heavy forest cover and no charge line from the car to the trailer batteries, the NovaCool Dan Foss compressor driven refrigerator killed the two new batteries and stopped working. On July 5, upon leaving Glacier and then hooking up the charge line, the batteries gained enough charge to restart the refrigerator.

However, just after leaving Glacier, I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the front door flapping in the breeze. I thought that the dead bolt had not been locked as a result the door opened. On stopping, I found that it was much worse: the bottom hinge pulled out of the body. The hinges are made of steel, not stainless, and after 54 years the dissimiliar metal reaction had reduced the body under the hinge to powder. We managed to tie the door up with spit, chewing gum, duct tape and bailing wire and limped to a hardware store in Columbia Falls, MT for more permanent repairs. All the way, I was thinking about how to make the repairs. We purchased a 12” by 18” piece of sheet metal and several 1/4” bolts, washers and nuts. We cut the steel into three 18” pieces and placed them behind the outside skin, drilled 1/4” holes through the hinge and into the reinforcing steel and used eight bolts to replace the nine pop rivets. This repair got us home and now I need to completely remove the front door and have four stainless steel hinges made. Both front and rear doors will have new hinges with the corroded aluminum behind them repaired.

In six years of towing, this is our first towing misshap.

You will notice that the front of the front door no longer has the graceful curve which the rear of the front door has.

Bill

[3Ms75Argosy]

oooohhhhh - a Lincoln as a tv!! More pics of this set up please? What engine... dare I ask mpg????
Nice! Love the double liner as well.
Marc

[Jim Foster]

Bill........Sorry to hear about your door mishap. Now you get to re-build the door. Like you need something more to do. Oh Well.......... at least it didn't wait until you were completely finished with the interior.

[Jim Foster]

It looks like you have used aluminum covered bubble pack for your insulation. I used that in my '47 Chevy everywhere, even behind the cloth headliner. I used "liquid nails" to hold it in place. That was in 1993 and none of it has ever come loose.

It insulates heat, cold and sound. Love that stuff.

[wkerfoot]

Originally Posted by 3Ms75Argosy

oooohhhhh - a Lincoln as a tv!! More pics of this set up please? What engine... dare I ask mpg????
Nice! Love the double liner as well.
Marc

Marc,

A 49 state 460 4V engine. Mileage towing is between 7 and 8, much better than Kevin Allen and his 1975 Cadillac.

Bill

[wkerfoot]

Originally Posted by Jim Foster

Bill........Sorry to hear about your door mishap. Now you get to re-build the door. Like you need something more to do. Oh Well.......... at least it didn't wait until you were completely finished with the interior.

Jim,

Much better that it happened before the interior was finished. I was able to un rivet the panel to get behind for the temporary reinforcement. I now know that I need to replace all four hinges. I would have been very upset if the problem occurred after the interior was finished.

Regarding the insulation, I used foil bubble wrap against the exterior skin and fiberglass next to the interior skin. The bubble wrap fit between the ribs and we used liquid nails for the ceiling pieces.

We will be in San Diego in October with the Liner and the granddaughter.

Bill