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JoeChiOhki
Jul 14, 2022Explorer II
gbfan10 wrote:
My father passed away a couple of years ago and left 2 truck campers behind. One is a Lance, Squirelite 186. I recall he would use this to drive down to his place in FL. It seems the overhead section that contains the bed is sagging a bit. More on the left side. the wrinkle in the siding shows evidence of this as well. I am pretty handy and do autobody, etc on the side. Just wondering if it can be fixed and if it would be worth it.
I will also include the pics of the other unit. I think it may need a floor, (which is solid, but fell)
The bad news is, it has massive frame dryrot. The buckling and nose down cabover is very tell-tale signs of structural failure in the walls.
At this point, if you wanted to preserve it, you'd need to completely dismantle it, rebuild the frame (likely as a whole new camper and transfer stuff from the interior over similar to KXracer's camper restoration thread on here), and then put the siding back on that.
The frame of the camper as-is is toast.
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