Saturday, January 15, 2011

Insulation Completed And New Bumper Arrived!

The rear bumper arrived yesterday. It's just sitting on the frame rails in this photo - still need to bolt it on.

Jennifer and I both worked on installing the Prodex insulation and finally got it completed yesterday as well. The temps have been in the 20's and 30's so we were VERY motivated to get that completed. Running two electric heaters and now it's nice and toasty inside!

I've begun roughing in the wiring including electrical, coaxial, ethernet, speaker and fiber optic wiring. The fiber optic wiring is a really cool feature added in the 70's to the Airstreams that run from the tail lights up to two small lights toward the front on the street side. The two little lights shine into the driver's rear view mirror to let them know the rear lights are functioning. See the illustration below - taken from the service manual. A cool little 'modern' touch back in 1979. Kinda makes it like a big toy. Love it!



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