| Frame rot [message #124130] |
Sun, 01 May 2011 19:56  |
Andrew
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Registered: April 2011
Location: Connecticut
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I made the trip to inspect a 1976 coach over the weekend. I found some frame rot that concerns me, but I'm not sure how worried to be...
The coach has been inspected by a local general RV service guy, and he gave me a list of 10-15 items of concern (mostly normal stuff for 100k miles). He didn't report any problems with the frame, and I did ask him specifically because I've read the horror stories.
There are two spots of particular concern for me:
- The box girder(?) forward of the front passenger wheel has a couple of significant perforations. They don't seem to go all the way through the other side (I'm assuming two vertical walls on this beam?). I'm not sure what it supports up there, but the damage appears significant to my untrained eye.
- The C-beam(?) that spans the aft, with large holes for the exhaust pipe(s)... on one side of the coach, the ellipsoid hole for a ~3" pipe has rotted on one side of the ellipse, making the hole a couple inches wider than original. This seems like a lesser problem than the first.
I'm puzzled that the guy at the general RV service place spent 4 hours inspecting the coach and didn't even mention these spots. I uploaded some photos so you can see what I'm talking about...
What do you think? Minor, major, or tragic?
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showgallery.php?ppuser=6707&username=andrew
Thanks!
1973 Sequoia 260 (since 2011)
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