84 Shasta Motorhome Rebuild/ Repair
Hello all I'm new to this forum and after reading for 2 soild days of oldtrucker63 Dodge rebuild has really inspired me to share my project. Here is go's.... In the begining there was a CL ad, a poo...
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Well I got to the overhead bunk floor this past weekend, not done yet but I did remove the old floor and made a new one. I have to find some help to get the new one installed.
See all the screws that have rusted and backed out, When I was taking this apart there was only 3 or 4 screws actualy holding everything together and by that I mean van body squared and secured with the camper. I pulled one screw out on the left side and the camper seperated about a inch and when I started to pull floor away on the right side the camper racked itself to to right, good lord I though this thing was going to fold over lol I rushed to prop it up with 2x4's and ran a few ratchet strap from the right to the left. Then I tried to figure out why it did that:S I found that the right side corner that attaches the van body to camper only had two screws holding it together and of coarse I should have known better and should have cross-braced the van and camper body oh and not to mention I have nothing installed on the left side corner. I think it will be ok I'll just have to get creative to rack the van and camper bodies back square when I get the bunk floor in.
The old and rotten.
Laying some new frame, didn't get any pictures of the completed frame with the insulation installed, I was tring to beat the glue curing.
This is the finsished side that faces out, ugly but with some paint you won't know it onced looked like this. Would have been super sweet to have had new metal.
Inside side of floor, left the extra material there to give more strength until I get it installed, figured it wouldn't hurt!
LOL I walked around on this floor tring to get it compressed enough and these were the heaviest things I could find around the garage, it worked the floor is very strong and has very little flex.
Well that's where I'm at so far, hoping to get the floor back in and van and camper bodies all squared and secured this weekend, I hope this damn thing don't fall over til then!
See all the screws that have rusted and backed out, When I was taking this apart there was only 3 or 4 screws actualy holding everything together and by that I mean van body squared and secured with the camper. I pulled one screw out on the left side and the camper seperated about a inch and when I started to pull floor away on the right side the camper racked itself to to right, good lord I though this thing was going to fold over lol I rushed to prop it up with 2x4's and ran a few ratchet strap from the right to the left. Then I tried to figure out why it did that:S I found that the right side corner that attaches the van body to camper only had two screws holding it together and of coarse I should have known better and should have cross-braced the van and camper body oh and not to mention I have nothing installed on the left side corner. I think it will be ok I'll just have to get creative to rack the van and camper bodies back square when I get the bunk floor in.
The old and rotten.
Laying some new frame, didn't get any pictures of the completed frame with the insulation installed, I was tring to beat the glue curing.
This is the finsished side that faces out, ugly but with some paint you won't know it onced looked like this. Would have been super sweet to have had new metal.
Inside side of floor, left the extra material there to give more strength until I get it installed, figured it wouldn't hurt!
LOL I walked around on this floor tring to get it compressed enough and these were the heaviest things I could find around the garage, it worked the floor is very strong and has very little flex.
Well that's where I'm at so far, hoping to get the floor back in and van and camper bodies all squared and secured this weekend, I hope this damn thing don't fall over til then!
