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thoughts about a leaking coach [message #226274] Sun, 20 October 2013 10:59 Go to previous message
appie is currently offline  appie   Denmark
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As autumn has arrived and with it the rain it get clear how much Olga is leaking
Ofcours thats a bummer with all the inside done
Therefore my advice to anybody how is redoing a GMC: make sure she is waterproof before doing interior:

I have 3 kinds of leaks:
windowseals
gutter
frontside window

Windowseals I have chaulked and they are tight now, but it would have been so much easier and better to have take them out completly and resealed them, had I known how easy that is when I had the interior out

Gutter: rechaulked dont want to take it of

Frontsidewindow: Now this is interesting

I took them out and resealed them anf gave them new filt, that did not help much
Then I found out that from the felt gutter there are holes into the inside- anybody know why? They are not there in a earlier set I have When I closed them that helped a lot
But still leaking
So I took a spare window apart abd I can see that the way it is put together it wil always leak The seperate parts should be gathered with a Butyl chaulking
The rubber seals on the glass itselv is also very dry and should be renewed

I will now order a resealkit and redo my spareset of sidewindow and hopefully they will be tight then

I know people say these coaches always leak, but I will not accept that , the war is on!


Appie eleganza 76 "Olga" now sadly sold 6 wheel discbrake Quadrabags Springfield stage 2 462 olds Manny tranny ( pictures at http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/g6489-olga.html Fulltiming in Europe july 2014 til july 2016 Denmark
 
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