sorry to be so slow responding! 4 yr old's bday party this weekend
Art: your map/bookcase sounds great. Would love to see a Picture if you have the time/inclination. How does it work when you swivel the driver seat chair, or do you do that ever?
If you have successfully moved your water pump, I think removing the sliding drawer is gonna be child's play for you. It does depend on how finished you want the work to look, and I have not made the time to finish it in the manner in which I envisioned. So here are two pictures of my rather Rube Goldberg/incomplete work.
The first is obviously from the back. It shows really the only thing that needed to be capped off, the old sink drainpipe. I just parked in from the hardware store and kept bringing out plumbing fittings until I found something that worked. Certainly if you wanted to go inside the wall panel it could be cut off/capped more elegantly so that less of it intrudes into the sleeping foot space.
The second shot shows the clear superhard Plexiglas that I chose to block off the sink cavity with. I cut it rectangularly to overlap the opening, and put it in place with waterproof Dow Corning epoxy. Nary a leak in the year and a half since I did this. (You can also see the table leg with the folded tripod base attached stowed in the corner of the bathroom.)
For my finished vision, I had planned on maybe putting a whimsical picture of fishes in an aquarium or something facing into the bathroom behind the plexiglass (to entertain my grandkids while they are showering) and then cut a piece of wood to attach from the exterior to make the wall one unbroken surface. Maybe someday.... In the meantime, it is workable for us and I often have a pillow or alcohol thing, so visual cosmetics are not really the most pressing issue.
Amboman: true that! However, I use the Roadtrek for many things besides camping. It is a frequent daily driver for me; we often go for daytrips; my family uses it as an urban extra bedroom; and I do my paperwork, phone calls, & writing in it when I want an office with an oceanview: I even have the occasional business meeting in it. For all of those occasions a full-length attractive carpet is wonderful.
For those snow gravel dust wet camping moments, the beauty of the carpet is that now that i have unglued the original, I can roll up the new ones and put them in back if I want, briskly sweep while on the road, and/or haul them out when we get home and vacuum/shampoo/hose them down to my hearts content, and then plop them back in. And a $40 a pop for the carpet scrap I purchased, I could replace it every year if I wanted without really breaking the bank.
The only time I really envy adventurous owners is when we are camping and I am bringing two dogs in wet with rain. I love that space where the rs has the two passengers cabin seats as a kind of vestibule to dry the dogs down in. There is no vestibule in the agile! (Although, and this is my last comment in this rambling post, I did make a sort of again Rube Goldberg removable shelf that I put in the sliding door well when we are on the road. One of our dogs loves to lie in that space, and it gives just that much extra room.)
Would love to hear how your project goes, Art!
- Ria