Full monty floor repair is looming A "docupost"
Well I set up some vacation day's for end of Sept first of October to do the major repairs on our 59 Caravanner. Started pulling some stuff out today. Old girl was still packed and ready to go.
I began poking around and started pulling up some trim and carpet in a few places. What I found is starting to look "worst case scenario". The PO (my Fother-in-law) has installed a second layer of ply over the original. That leads me to believe there is some floor rot right down the middle that he covered over. This is in edition to the rot I am aware of under the bath.
At this point my thought is the only way to do it right is pull the full interrior and 90% chance I will be pulling the body.
For future refference I think I will be documenting this here in the forum. Hopefully help the next person out. I have been researching this since we inherited the old girl. I have received some great replies to my questions. Now it's my turn to put out this information for future refference.
Tomorrow I will get the rest of the loose stuff out. Hopefully the carpet out and start shooting some pictures.
The goal is the floor will be replaced by first weekend of October. Yeah ambitious I know. This is ntn a ready to go camping but just back to a sound plaform with the body on. The restoration of the cabinets will take place after that.
Pointers are welcome!
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1959 22' Caravanner
1988 R20 454 Suburban.
Atlanta, GA
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