fulltimin
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And here we have a shot of the inside of where the generator used to be, and will not be going back in there.
So, I modified it a little.
As you can see, just inside the opening, out around the outside edges is a steel frame, indicated by the yellow.
The red circle draws attention to how the corners are build. Yes, they are about like the window corners. The steel corners are square, with a piece of plastic screwed in there, to make it round.
The green lines, indicate 2 pieces of steel that I added, because this will become a floor area, instead of generator area, with a big box inside, like it used to be.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/generatordoorinside.jpg)
If you want to do something, you will find a way.
If you don't, you will find an excuse.
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A lot of experience, comes from bad judgement.
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fulltimin
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As a side note, look what you can do with junk.... Lol.....
Take a close look......
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/junk1.jpg)
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/junk2.jpg)
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Anybody need a chicken???
More motor home pics later tonight.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/chicken.jpg)
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Moving from inside the generator door, to the outside.
Here is a pic that shows the door is hinged at the top, with 2 latches at the bottom, and as you know, the latches for the generator do not lock, just like the ones on the other side, for the propane tank. Those do not lock either.
The right side of the door is somewhat perforated to allow for air entry for the generator.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/generatordooroutside.jpg)
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Looking a little closer at the "frame" surrounding the door, I have highlighted a couple of things at the bottom.
The blue lines indicate a piece of vinyl (?) that lays in a tract to cover up the screws that are used to hold the door frame on.
The red arrows point to the ends of the vinyl, after it shrank over the years. The ends are about 3" or so apart.
This motor home was painted at some point in its life, and by looking at the area between the red and yellow lines, you can see an area that is not painted. That is how much the vinyl shrank after it was painted.
The green arrow points to the painted area of aluminum, so we know that vinyl had shrunk before it was painted, and after it was painted.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/generatordooroutside1.jpg)
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Here we can see at the top, what the strip looks like, as it's being removed from the "channel" that covers the screws.
Also visible is the air vent in the right side of the door.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/generatordooroutside2.jpg)
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In this pic, we can see that the aluminum was split at the very top in the center. It didn't match perfectly, but I guess it was close enough.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/generatordooroutside3.jpg)
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After removing the vinyl that was covering the screws, we can see that the bottom screw heads were more rusty, than the ones at the top.
Do not be fooled, though. Even though the heads at the bottom were rusty, due to the split in the vinyl, which allowed water to enter, the ones at the top were the ones most difficult to remove.
Reason being, was that the caulking around the door, failed somewhat, and allowed some water to enter behind those screws. Because those screws were screwed into the steel frame, (remember the inside pic above), those screws were rusted fast and either twisted off, or came out with difficulty.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/generatordooroutside4.jpg)
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This pic shows the latch that was installed to hold the generator door open, when servicing it. Little bit rusty on the outside.
2 screws through the fiberglass, and it's still holding well.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/generatordooroutside5.jpg)
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Now we get a look at those 2 screws from the inside. Yes, they are rusty from water intrusion, and yes, the plywood is discolored from being wet.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/generatordooroutside6.jpg)
So, after looking at this, it appears that, in addition to checking the roof caulking and resealing it every so often, we are supposed to pull every window, door, gasket, screw, or anything else that penetrates the sides, front and back of a motor home, and reseal them as well!
Can you imagine if you had to do this every few years to your house, just like we are expected to do with an rv?
Arggggg!
Yea, it's time to do something different when this thing goes back together to prevent this from having a repeat failure.
If we fix it the same way it was designed originally, and depend only on caulk, like the factory did, no doubt we will have the same failure that occurred the first time.
What's that you say? Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is just plain crazy? Ah, yea.
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