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fulltimin

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Posted: 10/27/17 08:18pm

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Here that entire section of steel has been removed.

The green arrows show what was behind the 1" x 1.5" steel tubing. It is a piece of angle steel, instead of square tubing.

This section was just next to, and below the co pilot's seat.

That steel is in much better shape than it looks.

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Posted: 10/27/17 08:20pm

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Here it is laying on the driveway. This is the same view we had as when it was on the motor home.

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Posted: 10/27/17 08:23pm

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You will notice on the right side of this, indicated by the green arrows, that there is a piece of angle steel, screwed to the steel tubing.

I think, this was put there, because some of the pop rivets were right on the joint of the tubing and the angle.

In other words, the factory was fixing an "oops".

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Posted: 10/27/17 08:28pm

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Here is the same section, from the back side.

This was covered with aluminum.

Inside the green circle, you can see the aluminum is nailed to the steel tubing.

Inside the yellow circle, is the area that was screwed to the angle steel, which is still on the motor home. They used some type of black caulk or adhesive.

Also inside the blue circle, is an area that actually extends into the area under the hood. You can see it is darkened, by road debris splashing up there.

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Posted: 10/27/17 08:29pm

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And a little closer view of the backside of part of the same area. This shows the staples, and screw holes.

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Posted: 10/27/17 08:31pm

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And here, we have the angle steel all cleaned up and just waiting for some Por 15. It's looking better.

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Posted: 10/27/17 08:34pm

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Here is the same shot, and you can see where the screw holes are. Funny thing. When Fleetwood put in the screws from the back, when they got close to the end of the steel, they eliminated the last couple of screws.

That's why there are no green circles there. They did, however, fill them with the same black goo they had put on the angle.

I guess a couple of screws less, were a cost savings... Lol.

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Posted: 10/28/17 07:34pm

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Here is the opposite side of the prior picture.

The green circles, show holes where the steel sidewall is screwed to, from this side, instead of like the rest of the coach, where the screws are bolted from the outside in.

This also shows the bottom of the flooring, under the seating area.

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Posted: 10/28/17 07:40pm

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If you remember, I said that there was a piece of angle, (green arrows), screwed to the wall siding, (red arrows), where the front cap is pop riveted to it.

As you can see, the rivet holes are right on the seam between the wall siding and the angle steel.

Like I said, I think this may have been a fix to a factory "oops".

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Posted: 10/28/17 07:46pm

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You might think that making this piece would be a real pain.

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However, it was actually relatively easy. Here is a shot that shows what I did.

I took the above section, laid it flat, and measured each piece, and then cut them.

I laid them on top of the old pieces, and clamped them, and then tack welded the whole assembly. Here is a pic after I welded them together, with the old section underneath.

It actually was a fairly easy section to fabricate.

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