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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AirForceAngler wrote:
I'm also curious about some things I saw and read on the first page. You mentioned that the floor did not have any rot, but from the last few pictures of your first post it appears that the floor did have some rot. At least I think I was looking at the floor. Could this also be part of the alignment problem?
The plywood floor did NOT have ANY rot, not even a speck! I was totally shocked.
I'm not sure if the front end of all 5th wheels are built the same but this one did not have the walls sitting on top of the floor. They are actually completely sitting on supports on the outside of the steel frame. There were/are 2 2x2's stacked on top of each other bolted to the steel frame. The walls, including interior wall board, sit on those "floor plates" bolted to the frame next to the edge of the plywood flooring.
These supports were totally rotted out but because of this design it saved the floor. The water ran down the walls and soaked the wall plates and rotted them out.
I'm not sure if this design is unique to this brand of if all 5th wheels are built this way. One thing this design does besides saving the floor from rot is it does give about 4" more living space in the RV because the walls are not sitting on the floor but outside of it. Structure wise I would think it wouldn't be as strong as the other way around.
