covered wagon wrote:
My NL camper is 12 years old and now and on one side where the cab over connects to the main camper body I have this Bulge just above the water fill and the cab over has a bit of sag or is lower than the other side. You can tell by 'gunsighting' from a ladder the height of the cabover to the bottom of the camper wings, it is lower on that side.
My thought is to thru bolt and laminate a stainless plate over the bulge after jacking up the cabover to an even stance. Glueing the stainless plate with threaded studs welded to the back of the plate and going thru another backing plate inside. This would sandwich the bead board and fiberglass together. Outside plate would be large enough to run forward onto the cabover and stretching far enough on either side of the bulge (rearward) to add strength like a large gusset. I could have a 3/8ths radius bend going under the cab over for added effect to the gusset.
I plan on not only bolting the stainless plate but Sikka Flexing the entire mating surface because when you only perimeter caulk it encourages water to pocket or channel into the bolts.
Any thoughts on this are chiefly appreciated. Thank you
Why not contact Keith at Northern Lite info@northern-lite.com ? Surely they have more knowledge than anyone about dealing with problems with their products. Keith has always responded to my questions. And you can still do whatever you want.
