1992 Starcraft Camper Rebuild "Walk Through"
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2020
- This is a remake of my original 1992 Starcraft rebuild video. This time I will walk you through everything I did while doing a full restoration on this popup camper.
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Literally the same camper I wanna restore, got one that's been sitting at my dad's property for years. Went through a flood once and just been sitting.
Just bought myself a 1988 Starcraft Comet, last Thursday... this video has helped me a ton with ideas. I just want to say thank you for showing what you did and great work on all of it! I can't wait to use some of your ideas on mine haha
I wish everyone could be as happy as your daughter.
Awesome sweet girl, please , let her know that no matter that she’s a little different from some people she can do anything they do, she’s just as talented and special as anyone else and she can do anything she wants in life. My cousin has Down syndrome she has her own apartment in New York City and is a fashion designer. She rides the bus,subway or takes a taxi to work and shopping,balances her checkbook, lol better than me. Your daughter is a beautiful girl.
Thank you so much. Here is a video that might make you melt. This is her first concert and boy crush :) ua-cam.com/video/80ahhXoGfok/v-deo.htmlsi=f6Dskh8USaSoP2C1
Hey Rick. I stumbled across this video late last night and saved it. Just finished watching. Many thanks for the post. I too was new to pop ups last year when I got my 93 Starcraft. All I knew was it was in great shape and no visible water damage. Been slowly learning what it has to offer and all the ins and outs. This video is a GREAT reference as to just how basic they really are and will provide me the confidence when I decide to do more in depth upgrades. Thank you sir and you have a beautiful family! Hope you found a better pop up to keep the camping trips coming.
Amazing skills and craftsmanship.
I know this is an older video but I am so glad I found it. I just recently bought an older pop up camper that has a small roof leak. This is my first camper and I’m no carpenter but after watching this video I am feeling really confident on rebuilding and changing some things. Thank you so much for this amazing video.
That's awesome to hear. I wish you the best of luck with it. Thanks for watching the video
beautifully i just start my project and hope i can do something similar
I just bought a '92 also. My roof boards need replaced also. Thank you for making this viideo
We had a 1970 Starcraft Constellation 8. This was real Starcraft before Jayco and Thor took them over. Ours was the last year with the hard roof over the bunk beds. Ours didn't have canvas around the lifters and we never had an issue of leaking. Jayco must have changed something.
I think they had a rubber seal on the lift arms, mine were gone when I rebuilt it. I must have missed something when I rebuilt it. But thanks for watching.
oh wow... you rebuilt it better than any camper manufacturer could.
what a great resto!!!!
This was the most impressive and informative rebuild video I've see thanks for your time putting it together!
Wow, thanks!
everything is so clean!
Very impressive! We just bought a 1994 Jayco 1207 for $300.00 and are starting our renovation.
That’s awesome, enjoy the project and make it yours
You Dear Sir are a Master Builder! This was fantastic!!
Wow, thanks!
You did a awesome job looks great.
Thank you so much 😀
You sure do Great Work!
Thanks for a good video. I'm looking at doing a pop up rebuild. Good information.
Glad to help
You did such a great job!! I just bought this same camper but a 1995. It's in better condition but man you did so great. I like the pitch you added to the roof. Everything was great, very nice thanks for posting!!
Thanks Lenny
Great job! I am starting one of these rebuilds myself.
It's a great feeling when it's done. Thanks for watching the video.
Thanks for this video! 👍
My pleasure!
Nice rebuild great video turned out great after you finished.
Thanks 👍
Very detailed and informative video.. I am picking up a 2005 Jayco tomorrow and from the looks of the patches on the roof, I am sure its gonna need similar rebuilding of the roof. Thanks
Thanks for watching and hope it helps..
Top job mate. I'm really impressed with your approach to the rebuild and hope you have found another camper to enjoy with your family. G'day from Darren in Australia 🇦🇺 .
Thanks 👍
Great job, your daughters are beautiful . Now get out there camping with them again. 👍👍👍
Thank you and we went alot this year with our new flagstaff popup :) with AC :)
Great video I just bought an 87 Starcraft exactly like yours and plan on doing the same thing and was wondering whether to reskin the roof or coat it I think I will build my own similar to yours you did an excellent job and I love what you did with the cook stove with the additional table beside it that's awesome and you did a really good job
Well thank you very much. I did love the new stove and the extra table turned out to be very useful.
Thanks for sharing you rebuild. Sorry it didn't work out. I hope you get another chance someday.
We had fun with it until we tried to camp in it during a rain storm. Other then the leak because it didn't have the flaps on the canvas it was a great camper. We are back out camping this year in our 2021 Flagstaff 176 mac. Already got a few mods done including a AC unit :) Its nice to be back out camping . Thanks for watching
Watching this in 2023. This is great! I have an old 82 starcraft.
Did you have to work on the tire axels? How complicated is the crank(pop-up) system?
You inspire me.not just your work but with your daughter as well!❤
Axles
I only had to clean the frame and repaint it, I got lucky. The lift system was in great shape, so just let them rest on the frame until the walls went back up. I didn't have to replace any cables on it. Hope that helps, and good luck.
Fabulous work sir . Wanna do mine.lol
lol ty. It was fun but nothing I would want to do every day. Thanks for watching, hope you liked and subscribed
Very cool..
We bought a camper that I thought was in good condition. It didn't smell musty at all! Smelled like wood. Turns out, it has just about the same amount of rot! I replaced the driver's side of the roof wall last fall. Will do the passenger side this spring.
It also had a lifting issue which was directly related to rot in the driver's side floor. It would take a huge amount of effort to raise the roof.
Thanks for the video!
Thank you, hope you get out camping this year with all this crazy stuff going on.
Nice job!
Thank you! Cheers!
The magnet to find the decking screws is brilliant
wow you really did watch it :) thank you so much
I know this video is old, but your final comments about why you sold your camper (the lift arms not being covered) is something I’ve noticed for quite some time as I’ve driven around campgrounds. I have a ‘99 StarCraft with original fabric and learned early on that if the flaps that cover the lift arms aren’t securely velcro’d down (and tucked under the roof), it’s a direct channel for water to get inside the box of the camper. I recently watched a pop up rebuild video where the lift arms had been exposed and the whole lift arm mechanism and cable were full of rust.. Thankfully mine are clean and rust free, and the cables look great.. but that’s the way StarCraft designed it. Coleman pop up’s from the same era never had a covering from the factory…. Just blows my mind. I’m curious how many aging pop up’s have met their demise due to the water infiltration from exposed lift arms (by poor manufacturer design or a bad replacement canvas).
Thanks for watching. I'm sure I could have made a cover for them, but I didn't think we camped in it enough to worry about it. It did have a foam ring around the arm at the base. Maybe when it was new, the seal kept water from getting in.
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Looks great,,,, lots of work for only 2k
I didn't know what to ask for it so I said 2k, the first guy that looked at it bought it on site :(
@@Ricks_Tech_Talk Always tough to price stuff like this. Just out of curiosity, how much did you spend in materials? I am in the midst of tearing into an 89 Rockwood Hard-sided PUP and the lift system is a doozy... Working on a youtube series on it because there is little to no info on the spring/tube/chain system. Great rebuild!
I want to say around $500-800 But could have been a lot less if I knew what I was doing and needed. Some things didn't work so I bought a lot of stuff I never used in the build. Share your video links in the comments after you have them upload so I can check it out.
i just wont a flooded pop up on copart. and i got so lucky that i have rebuild a hole dam trailer. i find this video incorrigin and helpful
i will build my trailer from pressure treated wood
I just got a Starcraft Starflyer (guessing early 90's...no title) for....wait for it...$40! Yes, $40.00 and I can't wait to rip into it and remodel!
You basically built a camper, crazy!
Thank you so much for the walk through. Most helpful. Your daughter is beautiful . My daughter is 32 and has Angelman syndrome and she also loves camping. We are doing a roof rebuild on a 1977 popup and we are struggling on how to do it. We were going to use stucco aluminum sheets for the outer skin, but couldn't get a sheet to do it in one piece. Didn't want to risk leakage with a join. Wondering what thickness did you use for the Ply on top and underneath please?
It was done with 1/4 luan for the outside and 1/8 ply for inside. Shops that fix semi trailers sometimes have large wide rolls of aluminum but they will be a bit thicker then what is used on campers.
Rick's Tech Talk thank you . Weight would be issue with the thicker with larger rolls.
Thanks for putting this together. My family bought a popup from about the same year with a bit of sponginess in the floor in certain areas and I was debating whether to just replace the spongy sections or do a full reflooring myself. While it might be a project for next fall (or this summer if we can’t get out camping) I now feel like it is something that I can take on myself. Did you replace a lot of the edging around the corners of the top and walls or just reuse what was on there before?
The only metal trim I replaced was on the sides of the roof. Everything on the walls was reused. I just didn't feel like cleaning it up and the local store had some in stock. I dont think the camp grounds will open anytime soon so this might be a great summer to do it.
Great video, Rick! We have a 1999 Starcraft Galexy and I am most of the way thru demolition removing the cabinets and planning to rebuild the side walls at the corners, and replace both end walls. I didnt remove the roof (yet) thinking it is fine as is, but I cant figure out how: a) the pillars are attached to the frame, and b) how the walls are attached to the floor. Can you give a bit more detail on those specific areas? Thanks a ton!
The lift poles are just held in place by the wall. After the top trim comes off and the wall trim covering the arms @2:09 and is removed then the arms will just fall in 3:12. So they are sandwiched in the wall and that's all that holds them up. The walls are held together on all the corners and the outside skirt is folded over the edge. You will find screws and staples going through the floor from underneath to hold the wall in place @3:30
Hope that helps
@@Ricks_Tech_Talk Thanks for your help, Rick... Most Appreciative!
Love the video, I'm wondering after all that work why you didn't create your own canvas covering or rain shield for the arms.
At the time, I didn't think we used it enough, and I was upset about the water leak. I really didn't want to invest any more time into it. After a year, my daughter started asking to go camping again. So I bought a Flagstaff mac 176. It was so nice having an AC unit and 3way fridge. Some day, I would like to make a travel camper out of a 14x7x7 toy trailer.
@@Ricks_Tech_Talk I'm glad to hear you updated. The outdoors is something special. I've always wanted to build something also. I have a 26dbh and my friends and I do guys weekends twice a year and pulling a 31 ft camper by yourself is pointless. We just got a pop up. I find it to be the middle ground between building my own and buying.
Just came across this adn I am looking at doing this exact same thing, just curious how big the camper was for the main structure (the trailer part). I have a smaller one but like the layout you used
8x7 I think. I know it was 8' long and the width I had to cut down the one sheet.
Hi Rick,
So you got rid of the aluminum roof top and just used the rubberized paint in it's place? What was the trim item that you put on the edges of the roof? The old trim or some new trim?
I couldn't reuse anything from the roof :( so the sides are from rolls of flashing www.homedepot.com/p/Spectra-Metals-14-in-x-50-ft-White-Aluminum-Trim-Coil-RTC14W187-W187/205009268?mtc=Shopping-BA-F_Test-G-D22-22_3_SIDING-Generic-NA-Feed-LIA-NA-NA-_GMT&cm_mmc=Shopping-BA-F_Test-G-D22-22_3_SIDING-Generic-NA-Feed-LIA-NA-NA-_GMT-71700000069205703-58700006141904791-92700055508882602&gclid=CjwKCAjwxqX4BRBhEiwAYtJX7aYcsMiEeFxNqg9VaD1EYUDSmCXh8uhO5BhxEi5KTjrA4yemCCKjyxoC7pwQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
On the roof did you just paint directly over the plywood ? Or did you put something else on it then paint?
I did the seams of the roof with a fiberglass mesh. then I painted on a oil based primer. And to finish it I used the rubberized paint.
Do you remember what you used to make countertops not the top finish but the actual counter..birch or pine or what?
1/2 birch plywood I think
www.homedepot.com/p/Handprint-1-2-in-x-2-ft-x-4-ft-Birch-Plywood-Project-Panel-154153/203504316?source=shoppingads&locale=en-US&pla&mtc=SHOPPING-RM-RMP-GGL-D28O-028_001_CHEMICALS-SB-TOMCAT-NA-PMAX-NA-NA-MK785992200-NA-NBR-3372-CON-NA-FY23_3372&cm_mmc=SHOPPING-RM-RMP-GGL-D28O-028_001_CHEMICALS-SB-TOMCAT-NA-PMAX-NA-NA-MK785992200-NA-NBR-3372-CON-NA-FY23_3372-71700000113924801--&gclid=Cj0KCQjwusunBhCYARIsAFBsUP9J36wE08v2i6WmXevmZJ6KX8qc7ubaepIO3mLkP6S1i9B9aAIkTXIaAjEsEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
What did you use to undercoat the new plywood floor?
It was a water resistance stain if I remember right. The plywood was marine grade
you speak of the lift column, but you didn't show a picture of what it is that leaked....
Oh yes I should have pointed that out. So the water would run down the lift arm and when it gets in the walls it should have ran out the bottom where the cables come from. But in my case it came across the floor.
I need help on mine 😆
That was interesting to see how someone else made a roof. Overall, pretty similar to what I did.
It was very close. When I did mine I only seen one video on UA-cam for a roof rebuild using wood. Your roof was so much larger. But great work on it.. Thanks for checking mine out. The other video I did was real old and only had music playing.
We have a 1999 Jayco that has quite a bit of rot in the walls, and we are trying to decide between rebuilding it (similar to what you've done here) , or replace it, depending on which is the least cost.
Approximately how much did it cost to rebuild? I assume somewhere around $1500 since you bought it for $500 and sold it for $2000 and most people sell these types of things only for what they put into it.
I would say right around that 1500 mark. I could have sold it for more because campers go based on condition not age, I didn't know that when I sold it.