Chinook RV

Hi guys, I am new to the group and to Chinooks. Last week I started up my old dilapidated 1974 travco after 12 years of sitting, and traded it for a dilapidated 1989 Chinook!

Welcome, looks like nice base to start with let us know how it goes.

Well you obviously have good taste in molded fiberglass Welcome aboard!

I'm envious of your Chinook roof with no upper "cake" tier. Pretty soon after yours they added it. Makes for around 3" more headroom in the center aisle, but suddenly it's a challenge to put on solar panels, roof boxes, etc. (I suppose they added it when roof A/C became common and that way the shroud doesn't hang down.)

Anyway, happy to have you join us. Bring on the trips, fixes, and mods!

BG

PS: Dilapidated translates to "more photos of gory/interesting stuff found" + more ingenious fixes....right?

PPS: Kevin: That's the type of two tone, dark-color-plus-grey-stripe paint job I mentioned a long time ago that I thought was a stock option back in the day (okay, if "back in the day" is 1989 I'm a fossil!)

Blue~Go wrote: August 28th, 2018, 9:39 amI'm envious of your Chinook roof with no upper "cake" tier. Pretty soon after yours they added it. Makes for around 3" more headroom in the center aisle, but suddenly it's a challenge to put on solar panels, roof boxes, etc. (I suppose they added it when roof A/C became common and that way the shroud doesn't hang down.)

I was wondering about That later model top. I'm starting to think they Did that To make the roof a little more rigid, to keep it from sagging. Mine is sagging a little bit. I wonder if that can be corrected somehow?