It's hard to tell in this photo, but hopefully you can see the new vent is in, sealed with the butyl tape and ready on the edges for a bit of roof seal tape, once I get the rest of the roof scraped and ready for the tape. I'd like to get the scraping and taping done on the exterior tomorrow (I know it's Sunday) so on Monday I can wrap my head around the interior, which is going to be more tricky. I'm also going to run some water over the camper to see if the leaking has stopped before I get too excited about the interior.
But back to the scraping. They used a *lot* of different substances, and I put a layer on myself.
I'm not quite sure how I'm going to do that. There are *many* layers of sealant on this camper, and I'm trying to scrape it down to the original metal. The sealant in this leaking corner came up really easily, which tells me that's why things were leaking so badly in that corner. I had a bit extra of the butyl tape, so every bit of trim I had to remove to work on the interior, I'm putting new butyl tape in.
On the interior, the vent cover doesn't fit as well as I'd like, but it was designed for a new camper, not this hulk from the '70s that we're dealing with. I'll have to do a few things to make it cosmetically appealing, but I think I can get that done and to the point Michelle is happy with it. Good thing I bought that sealing tape, because I'm going to use it all over the place on this thing.
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