84 Shasta Motorhome Rebuild/ Repair

mobjack68 wrote:
Hey Mud...thanks for sharing your progress. I appreciate the pics more than you would realize. I will be venturing down this road myself in a while.

Just a thought...is there any way to include pvc electrical conduit into any of the walls so wiring can be added internally if needed???
I am just running sims in my head and wondered if there were enough wall thickness...my thinking is to be able to run wires from the front to the back or the middle w/o too much trouble...am I over analyzing??? trying to include too many contingencies???
I know running them down under the floor and then back up is a solution....just trying to keep it a smidge cleaner..
thanks

Well my walls and most I'v seen are only 1" thick and you could run 1/2" conduit I don't know if that would be enough to run all the wires you needed, however I don't see any reson you couldn't run them in the wall you'd just have to remember there there when you blowing staples and screws through them lol I know that all to well I rebuilt the lower 2 foot of my slide in and junked the running light circuit somewhere and that brings us to it's much harder to make repairs if the wiring is in the wall. Now I'd be a fan of running wiring under motorhome and just bring it up where needed either put in loom or conduit. For me my wiring nest is only where the inverter/ closet is otherwise everything is run through the interior walls and cabnet bottoms you don't see any of it and I personaly don't have a problem with wiring running along the walls inside cabinets. with that said I don't like how the plumbing is run especially in the storage compartments I plan to run as much as I can along the outer wall and secure it with some sort of a clamp I will do this with any wiring as well because lets face it you would ruin your trip by braking the water nipple of you water heater and flooding the storage are that you worked so hard cramming all you gear in lol.
In my motorhome my favorite stupid thing the factory did was run the 3 wires from the supply side of the gen set through a sharp edge metal hole and just thrown under the dinnette seat and partialy run a screw through them when the put a cover over them between one seat and the other.... really?? 110v wiring through a vibrating sharp metal hole, how do these things pass any kind of saftey inspections or regulations?
But I'm going to make it as safe and fire free as I can.
Anyways I wish you luck with yours and feel free to follow mine and I'm always up for questions and thoughts I will be covering just about every area of repair. I have much much more photos of spacific thing I've done and would be more than happy to share if you interested in one spacific repair I've done, I'm not an expert but have done this a few times and love it, it's like working on a mini house :)