fulltimin
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Here we have that old wall steel removed. You can see inside the red circle, where the cuts were made to remove the old pieces.
The green arrows are at each end of the new piece I welded in, and is part of the floor framing, which is 1.5" x 1.5" square.
The other parts of the floor framing on this side were in good shape, so I just left them in, and added to, instead of replacing.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengeroutside5.jpg)
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fulltimin
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This next shot is also more wall framing that needs removed, and is behind the rear duallys, highlighted in red.
At first glance, the steel looks horrible, with bubbling going on there. In reality, that bubbling was the glue that was used to hold the plywood to the steel.
Removing the junk with a flap sanding wheel, and the steel actually looked pretty decent. Go figure.
Either way, it needed to be removed to I can weld a longer, new piece in.
The yellow circles show, one of the screws that held the wall to the floor framing, and the hole where there was one of those screws, that I had already removed.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengeroutside6.jpg)
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Jim@HiTek
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New horror genre...The Bubbling! Screeeeeeech!
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fulltimin
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This is the right side of the previous picture.
The green circle is part of the floor framing.
The red circle shows how Fleetwood missed getting the floor and wall framing aligned at the same height. Maybe this one was made on a Monday morning, or Friday afternoon. Who knows?
The blue square is one of the few studs that went from the wall base plate all the way to the roof, and was load bearing.
So, what I did in the yellow circle was to cut the bottom of the stud off, so it matched the height of the floor framing, and gently gave it a whack with a hammer to move it onto the floor framing.
It probably was not an osha approved procedure, but working carefully, I was able to get it where I wanted it, so I could remove the outer piece of steel.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengeroutside7.jpg)
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fulltimin
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Jim@HiTek wrote:New horror genre...The Bubbling! Screeeeeeech!
You think I should patent that before someone else does? Lol...
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fulltimin
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After removing the outer steel of the wall, this is the floor framing steel.
On the left side is some plywood, and inside the yellow circle is the wallpaper of the paneling that was glued to the interior plywood wall.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengeroutside8.jpg)
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fulltimin
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So, with a little more scraping, I removed the rest of the plywood, the wallpaper, and most of the glue that was still stuck to the floor framing.
Here you can see during the scraping, that the black stuff is some of the glue, and the steel looks really good.
I did some more scraping after this, and was satisfied that the steel was in good enough shape to allow it to stay, and not replace it.
After all, the outside of this was going to get a long piece of 1" x 1.5" steel, and the floor framing would be welded to that piece in numerous places to add to the strength.
So, next will do some more welding to continue the rebuilding of this side wall of the coach.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengeroutside9.jpg)
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fulltimin
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Remember this photo, with the red line, indicating where I cut the fiberglass under the door???
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/fiberglassbottom3.jpg)
Yea, here it is close up. Do not despair, the fiberglass is not in it's final resting place. It is just kind of hanging there to keep things covered up for the time being, as I work through the wall repair.
As you can see, it is just a small cut under the door, so there is little to repair.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/cutfiberglass.jpg)
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fulltimin
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So, while we are at it, this photo is the one of what looks like horrible rust on the sidewall steel.
Well, I took that piece and hit it with the wheel for a few seconds to get the glue and junk off of it, and then took another picture.
Here is the same piece, after it has been cleaned up a bit. There is a little pitting, but it is not rusted through anywhere.
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fulltimin
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Moving to the inside a little, here is a pic of the bottom of the wall behind the entry door. The green arrow is pointing to the newly welded in, wall base plate, 1" x 1.5".
If you look close, you can see that it runs from the door, (red circle) all the way to the back, (also red circle).
The yellow arrow points to the floor framing. The floor framing also runs from the door to the back, but only part of it is new. I added 2 new pieces. 1 at the duallys, and one where the generator used to be. Neither of those areas had floor framing from the factory due to the design.
If you look at the magenta circles, you will see that the wall studs do not line up with the floor joists.
Why, you might ask? The wall studs are on 2' centers from the front of the coach wall. The floor is framed out at this point, to miss the duallys, and as such are not on 2' centers here. Most of the floor joists are on 2" centers.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/passengersidebehinddoor.jpg)
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