History in the making…

We are investing in our future by fixing up our new hand me down trailer. We “bought” it from my parents with the hope it would be our first installment of many future fond memories as a family. I remember camping in it many times and hope we can fix it up so that my children will share some of the same kind adventures.

The tent trailer is an 1986 Skamper and this is just the first round up changes. It’s taken us a series of weeks to get this much done. But all things take time.

 This one is the latch that keeps the top from

coming up while we are driving. Usually important. So we went to see if we could find a new one. Trouble is it took a bit of effort because of how old this trailer is but we were blessed to find one! We also went to the trouble of re sealing the entire top. There was evidence of some water damage on the wood inside in some of the corners so we fixed it all up to make sure that wouldn't be a problem ever again. 

 This one we found that the track was disconnected from the back of the propane stove. We used the drill to make new holes because the other holes were stripped out. Then re attached it to the back. We had to be very careful not to split the wood the stove is built into. 

A few weeks ago we packed the wheel barrings on the trailer and made sure the tires were good enough. I still need to inflate them to the proper psi but for the most part that is finished. We took 2 days to get the wiring and installation completed on the hitch and the conversion from a flat four to a round seven.  

next on the list was the gas. We checked the line which seemed to be filling but I was swearing I could smell it. Tad got underneath and checked the lines only to find water had gotten into the line and frozen. There was this massive hole that looked like someone had sliced it from the inside out with a large blade. So the line was disconnected and cut to find that it needed to be flared and we didn't have the tools to do it. Yet another trip to get parts. wahoo! A few hours later and a few swipes of our wonder card we had all new propane line and had to go home and run the new line. Which as far as we can tell will work great! 

fuse box still needs a cover!

Handle that needed LOVE so that it would lock

Door to replace

Through all of the changes and updates we are finding more that need to be done. So it truly is a fixer upper. We are building memories and a trailer it seems. 

So far it has been a lot of work and a lot of fun! 

Oh the places we'll go! 

I am curious to see if I will still think that a tent is better. I'm the kind of girl who would take my bedroll and throw it under the stars and be happy. That is what I'm used to. So we will see how our winter camping in our skamper goes.