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Originally Posted by TexasTough
Sanded and repainted frame with Rust Bullet. Finally got shell back on frame. Replaced sub floor with 1/2” plywood sealed with West System 105 epoxy. Is next step wiring? Buy this? PD4045 power center?
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From the progression of you pics, it looks like you got the body reinstalled after the frame inspection and repaint. Am I right? The two questions I gathered from you last post are:
1) how much pressure can you apply to the jacks lifting the body roof?
2) is it time to start wiring?
Here are my observations
1a) The
fiberglass is pretty flexible which is why it slumped in the first place. But it did so over a long time. You can jack it quite a bit if the jacking is done from a hard point (see my comment below in (b)) I found that my body didn't spring back in all dimensions immediately even with the jacks. Sure the roof went up but things like the fender boxes didn't fully pull back into shape until at least a couple of weeks had past. We are entering the cold time of year in much of the country. I think a little heat might help to soften up the resin a bit. A space heater placed in the interior might do the trick but you would have to experiment with that. You are in Texas so maybe it isn't as cold as it is here at my place in NW California.
1b) The floor is just as flexible as the roof so placing jacks directly on the floor you will lose jacking efficiency. I don't know if it is my eyes but it looks like your jacks are pushing the floor down. I fount that I needed to put a 4X4 timber on the floor logitudionly (front to back of trailer) so that it spread the jacking load over several crossmembers or better yet over the main frame rails themselves. I also found jacking posts attop bottle jacks to be unstable. I wound up simply cutting 2x4's a little bit over length as jack posts drove them between the floor and ceiling with a sledge hammer. the further you drove the post in, the higher the roof went. I could tap it back if I wanted to adjust the roof lower. In the end I have found that I overjacked the ceiling too much in the area just aft of the door while I was trying to make the door jam fit right. I think part of it was due to the trailer stretching back into shape slowly over a couple of years. I am going to replace that bulkhead this winter and will
2)
Casita put all of the wiring inside the cabin. I know nothing about the load center you ask about.
I hope this helps