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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Now the framing is sanded down just perfectly to match the original shape of the siding. Everything looked perfect so we were excited to get the fiberglass cap put on and get finished.
However...it didn't fit.
You can see from the photos that on the left side framing is showing on the right side it overlaps. No matter what we did it just would not sit properly. The angles just would not match up on both sides at the same time.
The RV repair guy had told us that if after we sanded the framing down if it still didn't fit it was because the RV was sitting unlevel.
We had the 5th wheel sitting as level as possible at our house. However we only have a gravel driveway. No cement no asphalt. Nothing it truly level here. We also do not have enough heavy duty large jacks that we could use to jack up the trailer to make it perfectly level. Lastly we have run out of patience on this project and with this final setback that is pretty much impossible for us to fix on our own we finally threw in the towel and decided to haul it to a professional RV repair shop.
However...it didn't fit.
You can see from the photos that on the left side framing is showing on the right side it overlaps. No matter what we did it just would not sit properly. The angles just would not match up on both sides at the same time.
The RV repair guy had told us that if after we sanded the framing down if it still didn't fit it was because the RV was sitting unlevel.
We had the 5th wheel sitting as level as possible at our house. However we only have a gravel driveway. No cement no asphalt. Nothing it truly level here. We also do not have enough heavy duty large jacks that we could use to jack up the trailer to make it perfectly level. Lastly we have run out of patience on this project and with this final setback that is pretty much impossible for us to fix on our own we finally threw in the towel and decided to haul it to a professional RV repair shop.
