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BurbMan
Jun 01, 2020Explorer III
**UPDATE JUNE 01, 2020**
The weather here has not been the greatest, not so much the rain but the wind has made it hard to work under that tarp.
Nonetheless, we have reached the tipping point, where disassembly stops and re-assembly begins!
I got the whole street side off of the camper. Hatches back-to-front are sewer hose storage, outside shower, battery, shore cord and HW heater. Good news, the roof was tight as a drum. Not sure what was leaking but the whole bottom corner is gone.




In this pic, the molded wet bath is on the top, the gray tank is below it and the black tank is toward the right (rear of the camper). Hard to see in the pic but there is a heat duct that dumps hot air in there right by the trap.
As you can see from the Ace Hardware coupling, there was a problem here once before. My guess is that the coupling is leaking.

I got the front off so I can address both front corners where the jacks attach. Don't mind the fridge cover, that's there as a squirrel deterrent...

You can see in this pic that the 1x3 that run along the bottom the cabover is bowed, so I plan on jacking it up to straighten it out and then replacing that piece. Nearer in the pic you can a 1x6 sized flakeboard piece that was glued heavily to the interior and exterior panels, and a leaky kitchen window did that in. That piece used to extend all the way doen to the horizontal cabover edge and from the looks of it was the base support for that angle piece to keep the cabover from sagging.

So far it looks like the cabover floor is dry and the front fiberglas nose is OK, so the damage is limited to the sides.
I was able to get the battery in and confirm that everything works, now I need to pull that weight out and square up the side. I also ordered solar and want to run those wires down the wall before I button it up. Once all the carpentry is done it'll be time to road trip the new truck to Elkhart for a roll of Filon.
The weather here has not been the greatest, not so much the rain but the wind has made it hard to work under that tarp.
Nonetheless, we have reached the tipping point, where disassembly stops and re-assembly begins!
I got the whole street side off of the camper. Hatches back-to-front are sewer hose storage, outside shower, battery, shore cord and HW heater. Good news, the roof was tight as a drum. Not sure what was leaking but the whole bottom corner is gone.




In this pic, the molded wet bath is on the top, the gray tank is below it and the black tank is toward the right (rear of the camper). Hard to see in the pic but there is a heat duct that dumps hot air in there right by the trap.
As you can see from the Ace Hardware coupling, there was a problem here once before. My guess is that the coupling is leaking.

I got the front off so I can address both front corners where the jacks attach. Don't mind the fridge cover, that's there as a squirrel deterrent...

You can see in this pic that the 1x3 that run along the bottom the cabover is bowed, so I plan on jacking it up to straighten it out and then replacing that piece. Nearer in the pic you can a 1x6 sized flakeboard piece that was glued heavily to the interior and exterior panels, and a leaky kitchen window did that in. That piece used to extend all the way doen to the horizontal cabover edge and from the looks of it was the base support for that angle piece to keep the cabover from sagging.

So far it looks like the cabover floor is dry and the front fiberglas nose is OK, so the damage is limited to the sides.
I was able to get the battery in and confirm that everything works, now I need to pull that weight out and square up the side. I also ordered solar and want to run those wires down the wall before I button it up. Once all the carpentry is done it'll be time to road trip the new truck to Elkhart for a roll of Filon.
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