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bmoon1952
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Nov 10, 2014

2005 Winnebago Minnie, the dreaded cabover leak

Does any one have any pictures of a Winnebago Class C cabover repair? The factory manuals and diagrams are a help, but a good picture is worth at least a thousand words. The leak, or the symptom of the leak is on the drivers side underneath the side panel/curved nose joint. As nears as i can figure, the "sleeperboard" is fastened to the bottom side of the cab over wall structure here. Several screws were pulled, and they all were wet. So the fun begins to fix this thing so it will last me several more years. The motorhome is perfect otherwise. Low mileage to boot. Who ever wrote about chassis life on the E450 was right on. The house box will be long gone before the chassis is the least bit tired.
Thanks!

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  • Mich F, what was the source of your leak? I have not determined where my leak originates. That pic scares the heck out of me. I have read on here( I think) that Winnebago charges about $6K to fix the cabover. After seeing your pic, that price seems more sane than I originally thought.
    I wish I had access to a covered garage or carport to work under. Now that I have found a leak, it will rain here in SE Texas till next May:(
  • Here's a pic ">pic
    of my 2001 31' Itasca after about a day's worth of "dismantling".
    There was foam inside the steel frame on the wings,paneling on the inside of the wings, and door skin on the outside, under the fiberglass.
    My front wall came off in one piece from the seam on the roof, which was under a molded fiberglass piece, down over the radius and mated with the "sleeperboard". My sleeperboard was all rotted out. It was secured to the walls at the back of the cab, to steel pieces of angle iron along the bottom of the wings, a steel piece at the joint between the sleeperboard and front wall, and was also screwed to the roof of the cab around the cutout.
    You have to take care in removing the trim pieces that cover the seam of the wings and front wall, so they can be reused.
  • I recall someone on this forum did a full rebuild thread on a model like yours. I also recall that your model has a wood structure with foam sandwiched by the filon outer skin and paneling inner.

    Hopefully you can find that thread. I recall the pictures were very detailed.

    Jose