Restoring 1978 Toyota Chinook Camper Roof // This was NOT easy

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Hey guys. It's been a while. It's been a while. We took a long break after painting because
it was so much work and so much money and now we're not broke but we were for a while.
So now we're gonna be working on some other things today. Just kind of give an update of
the little projects we've been working on since the paint. So the goal of today is to get the
windows resealed. There's four glass windows that we're gonna be putting back in. Two on the side
and then two up top. But since painting, what we have done is make a giant hole in the floor.
This part of the wood was totally rotten and it actually had a really thin piece of metal
underneath it. And you can see like this, all this fiberglass is gotta go too. We're gonna
redo that. And there was a really, a big board here that was like a step onto the floor. Took
that out, replacing that and now you can really see like the issue with the slant here. It's
mostly just rotten wood. So one thing at a time, gotta figure that out as well. But this giant
hole, now we kind of know what we're gonna put here and how we're gonna fix that and that's coming
soon. Oh yeah, we really need to fix the roof. It is very caved in and then collects a ton of water
and we normally have this tarp on it which we are drying. Have to think of a better solution here.
Oh my god. Great. Okay, so the tarp didn't work or when I pulled it off all the water just kind of
came off of it. I'll go get some towels.
Guess who's up from her nap? This girl. Are you gonna help us put the rest of the windows in?
Yeah? Okay. Should we go get you in the backpack? Yeah. Yeah, okay. This is how you get work done
with baby when she's awake. Welcome back. Got some windows in, got some paint on.
Got way too much more work to do. Next big task? I don't know. The roof. The roof, that's right.
So let's do it. All right, so here we are trying to get this canvas off. Gonna try to salvage it.
So we're gonna try to do what we can with that. Got Alex here to help us. So let's get to it.
Oh, that one came off. All right, got the stands built. Just kind of whipped them up.
Pulling this bad boy up. So we're trying to get these out here. These old braces. Got Alex here
helping out. So got this here. Reshaping the roof. It already kind of wants to sit like that.
Right? So yeah, we're trying to just take out the old brace and then we're going to
cut this out because this is nasty. Reshape it. Bad corner. Bad. Yeah, so this is where we're at.
Keeping it going. We're gonna leave this pretty sure. This is in pretty good shape.
The front isn't too bad. But yeah, this back corner is real bad.
Yeah, I mean the rest of it looks good. Look at this. This corner's all flat. Not too bad.
Needs a little more.
There's a hole!
This guy down the road just came over and dropped off some of these giant cookies.
From Wisconsin. No, from Oregon. From Oregon, Wisconsin. Which I'm confused about, but
they're really good. He said he liked my sweatshirt.
All right. Done. A little spot putty. We have a corner again. How amazing is that?
We got a hole. Looks so good. Patched up all the other holes too. My name is Jack and we are
painting it white, which is gonna be really fun. Is that the primer right there? This is a primer.
Rust-oleum 2 marine coatings. So let's get to the video. Adam, what do we do right now?
We gotta use this little spot putty over here. Okay. This stuff. So we're gonna start with this.
Okay. Okay, we're gonna like fill in all these holes, right? Not all of them. We'll try to
because I want to make this the best roof in the world. Okay, let's get it. Okay.
Pretty good.
