OK, just finished another road trip that took me home to Alaska and back to the Lower 48 where it seems I am going to be stuck because of a dwelling we cannot sell, so we are going to reside in it until it does. That is not the dilemma though.
I took several pictures of the wet areas in our used 1994 9.6 . We love the camper, don't get me wrong every thing is working well, a fix here and there and we are happy as clams. But this leak is driving me nuts.
We don't have any problems except when driving down the road in a down pour, then the rear 1/3 gets REAL wet. We arrived in the Lower 48 Sunday and Tuesday I pulled the battery compartment out to look inside to see if I could spot a weakness where water could be coming in. One area of interest that we have sealed and removed all ability to use is the storage compartment for the sewer hose. I've butyl taped off seam, installed two plugs in the hole one from the inside and one from the outside next I'll probably tape off the door to limit any possibility of a leak not to mention preventing the sewer hose from dripping on the inside of the camper hull. We had standing water below the plywood floor in the back when I took the battery case out. It was not visible but I stuck my fingers into tight areas and found it. I have actually thought about installing scuppers to drain the water. I remember seeing something that looked like a 1/4 in to 1/2 rubber tube in a boat or amphibious vehicle that had something like this to drain off excess water. IF anyone has a link to these type of scuppers send me the link via a PM.I called Keith at NL and spoke with him about the problem and he said as it is used there could be a myriad of problems that we don't know about. But he did say if I have the time, and I do as I've been laid off, to remove every fastener and apply RV Proflex to each one and reinstall them, so we are ordering the material as well as some more butyl tape, 3M 5200 Sealant for areas that we don't need to access. We did apply this to the top of the clam shell seal that goes around the camper before our second long trip this summer, now we are going to apply it to the bottom of the seam as well to take care of any problem that we my have missed.
Also going to buy some Sikaflex 252 to apply where we notice some de-lamination taking place between the fiberglass and the foam.
If anyone has any other suggestions please suggest them to us so we can get some more elbow grease into the project. I know the camper was not taken care of like my wife and I take care of our things from the get go, but now that we own it maybe just maybe we can save this old boy from total decay.
I took several pictures of the wet areas in our used 1994 9.6 . We love the camper, don't get me wrong every thing is working well, a fix here and there and we are happy as clams. But this leak is driving me nuts.
We don't have any problems except when driving down the road in a down pour, then the rear 1/3 gets REAL wet. We arrived in the Lower 48 Sunday and Tuesday I pulled the battery compartment out to look inside to see if I could spot a weakness where water could be coming in. One area of interest that we have sealed and removed all ability to use is the storage compartment for the sewer hose. I've butyl taped off seam, installed two plugs in the hole one from the inside and one from the outside next I'll probably tape off the door to limit any possibility of a leak not to mention preventing the sewer hose from dripping on the inside of the camper hull. We had standing water below the plywood floor in the back when I took the battery case out. It was not visible but I stuck my fingers into tight areas and found it. I have actually thought about installing scuppers to drain the water. I remember seeing something that looked like a 1/4 in to 1/2 rubber tube in a boat or amphibious vehicle that had something like this to drain off excess water. IF anyone has a link to these type of scuppers send me the link via a PM.I called Keith at NL and spoke with him about the problem and he said as it is used there could be a myriad of problems that we don't know about. But he did say if I have the time, and I do as I've been laid off, to remove every fastener and apply RV Proflex to each one and reinstall them, so we are ordering the material as well as some more butyl tape, 3M 5200 Sealant for areas that we don't need to access. We did apply this to the top of the clam shell seal that goes around the camper before our second long trip this summer, now we are going to apply it to the bottom of the seam as well to take care of any problem that we my have missed.
Also going to buy some Sikaflex 252 to apply where we notice some de-lamination taking place between the fiberglass and the foam.
If anyone has any other suggestions please suggest them to us so we can get some more elbow grease into the project. I know the camper was not taken care of like my wife and I take care of our things from the get go, but now that we own it maybe just maybe we can save this old boy from total decay.
