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photobug
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Oct 30, 2017

Fiberglass Repair Help

Getting ready to replace the front clearance lights with new LED ones when I noticed some fiberglass issues on the front of the cabover cap. Several long cracks and some weird surface markings under the black paint.











I'm a bit alarmed at this, and not sure how the best way of fixing it would be. If I was at work, I'd call NDI and have them run an ultrasound on it to verify how big the cracks are, then send it to fiberglass repair to fix. This isn't an option though. I was thinking take a dremel and route out the cracks, then fill the chanels with resin. Probably wouldn't look too good, but at least I wouldn't have any leaks. Any one seen this and had it repaired? How did they do it?

In case you didn't know, lazy daze decided that front windows were too much of leak path and deleted the option. Problem was the front looked like a bread truck, so they painted fake windows on the front with fake curtains on the inside. The side windows still are real.





I'm hoping this is just some type of paint delamination and not an issue with the fiberglass.

I leave on my cross country road trip in a little over 2 weeks so I don't have a whole lot of time.
  • Temp until you get home. Then go to fiberlay in seattle or they moved to kent. Supplies and knowledge
  • A few years ago I had similar cracks in an ABS roof. I got some help from West Systems to figure out what product to use. They steered me to G-Flex E-poxy. Here is a photo essay of my repair using this product. It worked perfectly, and held up perfectly right up until the day I sold the trailer. This was ABS, rather than fiberglass, but I think the G-Flex would work just as well on fiberglass.


    -Speak
  • You can't just make a channel and fix a fiberglass crack. You can google fiberglass crack repair.
  • As a temporary fix eternabond until you get home and can pull the nose off. Ugly? Yea, but ay least there wont be any leaks.