5th wheel rebuild from major water damage
The Before part 2. The duct tape was used to get it home from Oklahoma in January. It is a 2006 5th wheel 32' bunkhouse. Bad repair job from previous owner They used close to an inch thic...
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Next step was to get the plywood sheeting on. Cutting and installing it was actually one of the easiest parts of the process. It fit the first time and looked great.
Figuring out exactly how big to make it was a different story. Used the old trusses with the sheeting intact as a guide but we set it back about 1/4" than it was from the factory. We wanted the fiberglass front cap to align flush to the plywood. We think it was supposed to be this way from the factory but it wasn't. This may have been a reason it leaked in the first place. The sheeting is set back mostly on the back half of the double front truss. The front part of the truss supports the fiberglass front cap. We had to get the sheeting set just right so the cap and the sheeting would align perfectly. In order to get this measurement just right we had to dry fit the cap first to see where we could line it up. This was extremely difficult to do. We really needed 4 people. Two to hold up the huge front cap and two to align and mark it. But we only had 2 of us, one to try and hold up the cap and the other to try and get it straight and then mark where the roof sheeting should go. We couldn't do it both at the same time so it wasn't perfect. Oh well
Figuring out exactly how big to make it was a different story. Used the old trusses with the sheeting intact as a guide but we set it back about 1/4" than it was from the factory. We wanted the fiberglass front cap to align flush to the plywood. We think it was supposed to be this way from the factory but it wasn't. This may have been a reason it leaked in the first place. The sheeting is set back mostly on the back half of the double front truss. The front part of the truss supports the fiberglass front cap. We had to get the sheeting set just right so the cap and the sheeting would align perfectly. In order to get this measurement just right we had to dry fit the cap first to see where we could line it up. This was extremely difficult to do. We really needed 4 people. Two to hold up the huge front cap and two to align and mark it. But we only had 2 of us, one to try and hold up the cap and the other to try and get it straight and then mark where the roof sheeting should go. We couldn't do it both at the same time so it wasn't perfect. Oh well
