I was thinking Sunfrost refrigerator and wall furnace without a fan...

but I need a higher ceiling than an Airstream has so happy trails.

Hi Troy.

I think you'll find that this tribe is pretty much dead. Yours is maybe the second or third posting here in the last year.

Here is a fairly good forum btw: www.airforums.com/

So in the event that you actually come back here and read this:

Water lines: If the copper lines haven't been frozen, and most of it is still there, you can probably just learn a bit about soldering copper and put it back together. If it been through a good freeze then it's still possible to put it back together but it's a major pain in the ass (The pipes expand and you have to use a swaging punch to make connections to new correctly sized pipe). Having done all this myself, I would ditch the copper and go with Pex next time.

Gas lines: If the copper pipes haven't been beat to death by corrosion and road damage then you can probably reuse a good deal of it. If not then at least almost all of it is easily accessible and easy to rerun. For gas lines you absolutely never make any of your connections with solder though. All the connections should either be flared (fairly easy to do) or brazed. A flaring tool is very inexpensive and just takes a little bit of patience and practice to use well.

Rivets are easy. Just drill the head out with the same size drill as the rivet and gently punch them in or pull them out from the other side. Most of the rivets in the interior are 1/8" some are 3/16". A decent rivet tool will become your new best buddy btw.

Don't start gutting the interior and throwing away the parts btw. All those pieces are priceless. I run into these poor gutted projects all the time and it's almost impossible to really improve what A.S. built in the first place. If you've seen one too many episodes of DYI then do the rest of us a favor; Either save every little part and give it to the next guy who may try to put it back together, or make the parts available.

There are copies of the original service manuals all over the web and ebay btw. I think the going rate is about $40.00. Its very handy to have one.

Have fun.