SLO-Pod 180 mods, John&Sue

I used The original plywood and just lift off the single mattress and unscrew a few screws.

see the video i cant seem to link on page 2 of the twin bed mod link about half way down in a response to Datsmar.

cheers John

besides the link under the picture I have no other info as I make everything up as I go along. I had a video that showed much more but it disappeared off my Google Drive somehow. 

I am Actually thinking of doing it again for my new 180, If I do I'll do a good step by step and let you know.

Having under bed drawers and a nightstand drawer made up for the lack of storage in the 180.

and having the center section out during the day made the pod work so much better.

Cheers John

EDIT found the link!

If you go to page 2 about half way down, of the link above (twin bed mod) I replied to datsmar with a video link that shows much more.

I did have a few issues with the heater system. While taking a shower it would somehow draw cold water from the setup and my wife would scream at me while trying to shower.

The issue was solved by just turning off the valve i installed near the grill. 

Also this only happened while hooked up to city water so then we then used a small ceramic heater when hooked up. It never seemed to happen while boondocking in cold weather at night on our desert trips during the winter. So I think the city water pressure just was to much for the check valve.

Besides that it worked very well down to an outside temp of 37 degrees, which happened a few times.

But then I had the regular thermostat set to 58 and it would just kick in a few times at night and all was good. I much preferred the heat exchanger due to the quite heat as opposed to the furnace which woke me when it turned on.

We don't plan on doing much cold weather camping out east so i'm not going to put one in the new pod. The lady who bought the 180 Lived in it for a year while her house was being built, and only used the heat exchanger to heat it, But she lives in Santa Barbara and I don't think it ever gets really cold there.

rgds John