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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Hello all, I got the bunk floor done this Sunday and some of the nose and LH upper wall started. I have to say this was by far the hardest part of this project. A few post back I mentioned that the camper and van body had racked itself and even pulled back a whole 1" on the LH side. I fought this for hours using jacks and cables to pull this thing as close as I could to being somewhat square and well it turned out ok'ish I was unable to get the LH side pulled forward as much a I would have liked to, in short the LH side is a 3/4" back from the RH side and sits a 1/4" higher than the RH side. I figured it was not very square from the factory and I'm sure get got racked from running into the tree and I have noticed this MH has been wrecked a few times so all in all I think it's going to be alright, that is what trim work is for, right? lol
Here are some pic's
This was the start of the day, this is the first time since I got this I have pulled back the tarp.
Removed the forward window and removed the nose, I would really like to replace this section of metal and delete the forward window, anybody have any good ideas on where to get thin sheet aluminium?
Got the bunk floor all squared up and screwed down (or up).
Right side cab corner all squared and screwed.
Got the left side as square as I could. I worked on this for some time but as I said earlier the impact from the tree really racked/ bent the frame a bit, I almost felt like giving up and tossing this project because I couldn't get it perfect. we will see what kind of magic I can performe with the corner triming.
Got the first 4' section of the inside panel up, this panel was the easiest one so far to cut and fit! Notice the super sag in the roof, looked into roof and found yeah the wood is rotten but the metal bar has a hole cut in it for the forward light wiring and it has broke. I can see the roof is going to need more love than expected.
And last I started installing the interior paneling from the bottom up. This was a bit tricky puting the panel first the the framing, as you can see I have not finishe the top panel I was running out of day and had a HUGE mess to clean up in the yard. I will likely leave the last 8 inch panel and some framing out until I get up to the roof so I can graft it all into eachother.
Well that's were I'm at right now my goal is to get the wall done by the end of the month but I'm hung up on the genset, need to get that all done up and installed before I get all of the wall up.
Stay tuned!
Here are some pic's
This was the start of the day, this is the first time since I got this I have pulled back the tarp.
Removed the forward window and removed the nose, I would really like to replace this section of metal and delete the forward window, anybody have any good ideas on where to get thin sheet aluminium?
Got the bunk floor all squared up and screwed down (or up).
Right side cab corner all squared and screwed.
Got the left side as square as I could. I worked on this for some time but as I said earlier the impact from the tree really racked/ bent the frame a bit, I almost felt like giving up and tossing this project because I couldn't get it perfect. we will see what kind of magic I can performe with the corner triming.
Got the first 4' section of the inside panel up, this panel was the easiest one so far to cut and fit! Notice the super sag in the roof, looked into roof and found yeah the wood is rotten but the metal bar has a hole cut in it for the forward light wiring and it has broke. I can see the roof is going to need more love than expected.
And last I started installing the interior paneling from the bottom up. This was a bit tricky puting the panel first the the framing, as you can see I have not finishe the top panel I was running out of day and had a HUGE mess to clean up in the yard. I will likely leave the last 8 inch panel and some framing out until I get up to the roof so I can graft it all into eachother.
Well that's were I'm at right now my goal is to get the wall done by the end of the month but I'm hung up on the genset, need to get that all done up and installed before I get all of the wall up.
Stay tuned!
