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Our Tioga Class C motorhome was bought on Ebay and immediately evident, when we took a flight a month later to pick it up, (the check already cashed) was that leaks had been covered up! Thus began online research, material ordering and rental of work space. Hopefully, our photos and words might help another in our predicament. Afterwards, we bought a 40' Foretravel Class A. It's project's, upgrades and Travel Postings are also available in the Index on the right side of this page! Enjoy.
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- Bottom Moldings and then Wheel Well Moldings (1)
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- Foretravel Gelcoat Renewal (1)
- Foretravel Headlight Modification (2)
- Foretravel LED Tail Light Upgrade (2)
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- Habitat for Humanity (3)
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- NYC Empire State Building (1)
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- Phoenix Good Sam Rally (1)
- Project: 1. Projects...An Introduction to (1)
- Project: 10. Roof rebuild set-up (1)
- Project: 11. Roof Rebuild -rear (1)
- Project: 12. roof rebuild -rear (1)
- Project: 13. Roof Rebuild- added insulation (1)
- Project: 14. Roof Rebuild - New outer layer (1)
- Project: 15. Roof Rebuild- adding Dicor Rubber (1)
- Project: 16-A- Roof Rebuild the Final Details (1)
- Project: 16-B Rubber Roof Renewal (1)
- Project: 17. Making New Moldings -a (1)
- Project: 17. Making New Moldings -b (1)
- Project: 17. Making New Moldings -c (1)
- Project: 17. Making New Moldings -d (1)
- Project: 17. Making New Moldings -e- Installation (1)
- Project: 18. House Batteries/Inverter and Flat Screen TV added (1)
- Project: 19a. Window Tint (1)
- Project: 19b. Generator Upgrade (1)
- Project: 2. Cab Over Water Damage -A (1)
- Project: 2. Cab Over Water Damage -B (1)
- Project: 20. BasePlate installation for Towing (1)
- Project: 21. Faucet and 'spritzer' (1)
- Project: 21b. Water Use reduction (1)
- Project: 22 Corner Moldings (1)
- Project: 3. Cab Over Scaffolding (1)
- Project: 4. Clearance Lights continued (1)
- Project: 4. Clearance Lights/Original (1)
- Project: 5. Cab Over Rebuild (1)
- Project: 6. Cab Over Rebuild (3)
- Project: 7. New Wood (3)
- Project: 8. Closing up Front Cab Over (3)
- Project: 9. Cab-Over Finished (2)
- Rio Grand (1)
- Sailing Vessel Memory Rose (1)
- Satellite TV RF Mogul installation (1)
- Smile (3)
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- Tennessee (2)
- Texas (14)
- Toad (1)
- Towing a Vehicle (1)
- Ulu Sail Project (14)
- Unusual RV's (1)
- Washington (2)
- West Texas (1)
- West Virginia (1)
- Wheel Well Moldings (1)
- Wisconsin (1)
- Wyoming (4)
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- Ron Sheridan
- Love life, learn fast and shift left or right when necessary. Have had the pleasure and pain of alternatives in life. Change with the flow, learning when necessary to build a new direction or career. Flexibility has been the norm and still feel the freedom it inspired.
4 comments:
As a 21 yr vet let me say thanks for remembering.
Incidentally, I just stumbled on your site while I was researching some repairs on my class-C RV. It is suffering from side wall delamination and cab-over rot. I'd love to fix it all myself and believe I have the skills. I just need the time and space.
Tim, Cab over rot is one thing but delamination of sidewalls is another.
I have seen this delamination of sidewalls on very new coaches costing mega bucks but they seem to be able to inject an adhesive and then compress to satisfy the problem. In OLDER rigs, the delam could be another issue but believe me, it will not take your coach off the road for another 40-60 yrs. so enjoy it after you have done your best to alleviate ALL leakes possilbe. you will problably be good then for another 50-60 yrs... well, if you keep the mechanicals working! :)
Ron- I guess I should say the delamination is only the tip of the iceberg I think. All the way in the back of the rig in the "bedroom", I can verify there are wood/structure issues. You can see and feel the dry and wet rot in the plywood wall where a little tray for the TV would mount. When I duck-walk around the roof inspecting things I can feel/see soft spots. Suspect some rot there too.
The unit is a 95 Coachman. I got it with 17k miles in 1999; used it for a few years on both coast of the USA and eventually ended up down in south fl with it. I ended up giving it to my daughter in Seattle and she and the family flew down several years ago and picked it up. Now I'm back out in Seattle, and they have outgrown it with 4 kids so it looks like I'm getting it back now. (They got a 41' diesel pusher) "My" unit still only has less than 40k miles and runs very well. The misses and I were thinking about buying a different RV but of course then we would be going strictly into an unknown situation. At least with this one I know the history, and if I go through these patch jobs It'll serve us well in the future. :-)
Hey, go for it Tim !!
With Ron's help, I was able to rebuild MY cabover with confidence. Thanks again Ron !! :-)
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