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Secrets From The Underbelly

Posted 08-29-2009 at 07:18 PM by Clyde-2

Working my way from front to back dropping the underbelly and today got to the water holding tank. Needless to say there was 25 year old water still in the tank and it was actually pretty clean. Appears that the hose that attaches to the pickup tube had cracked and had let all that gravity would allow then when I moved it to my house it let some more out. Still had about a 1/3 of a tank. Not as bad as it looks. New plywood, POR-15 the steel and button it back up.

Univolt appears to...

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Clyde-2

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Posted in Restoration Blogs, 1972 27' Overlander Restoration

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It Lives !!

Posted 08-28-2009 at 08:30 PM by Clyde-2

Plugged in a battery tonite and one of the front reading lights came on, and the battery indicator was working too !! It's Alive !!!!

First time power has been flowing through those old veins in about 25 years.

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Clyde-2

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Posted in Restoration Blogs, 1972 27' Overlander Restoration

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Restoration Corporate Sponsorship

Posted 08-24-2009 at 05:53 PM by Clyde-2

I would just like to thank the good folks at DeWalt, Glen Livet, and Shiner Bock for there undying dedication and positive influence during the kick-off phase of this project.

On another note.....found a couple things I'm not sure what they are. I assume the large disk is a pad for either the tounge jack or a stabilizer jack. Not sure what the other is. And what is the 2 headed snake ? Some sort of circuit tester for the frige ??

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Clyde-2

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Posted in Restoration Blogs, 1972 27' Overlander Restoration

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1972 27' Overlander Restoration

Posted 08-23-2009 at 06:11 PM by Clyde-2

Bye Bye Gaucho

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Clyde-2

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1972 27' Overlander Restoration

Posted 08-23-2009 at 05:28 PM by Clyde-2

........and so it begins. Got the trailer towed from the neighbors house. One of the tires was completely rotted but the other three still had air in them. After some air in the tire next to the rotted one, we were able to get her home. Next step was to evaluate what I have to work with and start cleaning things up.

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