**UPDATE JUNE 07, 2020**I thought I was ready to start rebuilding, but then I considered that it didn't make sense to do only one side of the cabover...The side panels being glued to the frame create most of the structural integrity, so I thought it made more sense to work front to back instead of side to side.
I also wanted to brace the cabover. It was clear from the street side damage that the cabover is drooping, so I didn't want to pull off the other side panel without supporting the structure. This allowed me to jack it back into place and square/level; it with the main body.
Just like the street side, the curb side cabover window was leaking. The roof was dry.
You can see here that the 1x3 that runs the length of the edge is missing about 2', it literally crumbled like a cookie when I pulled the skin off. All this for the sake of $0.50 worth of caulk....
The damage goes across, you can see again the 5-1/2" wide piece of flakeboard that is a major structural piece is gone:
I was hoping to leave the underside of the cabover alone, but as you can see the water went in about 18", I never would have dried that out.
What's interesting is that everything up top is dry as a bone...but the bottom 1x3 was so wet it was literally dripping water. My theory is that when the wood below got saturated, it started to migrate to the rear. These windows must have been leaking for years.
So work continues....stay tuned!
