Blow Out Repair materials Pic's

heres the pic's of the blow out repair I had to repair. If I could wrap a christmas present better it would have came out perfect. But wrinkles are my strong point. " the ducttape you see over my heater vent is to keep dirt dobbers out at home " I remove it when I hook up and go.

I used think shower / hotwater heater liner from lowes , comes by the linear foot. 2' piece is enough to do two repairs so you can keep an extra piece on hand.

Also used the blue insulation board against the plywood floor bottom for insulation and a added bit of waterproofing under the rubber liner.

I wanted to use a metal fender under there or something similar but the more I thought about it, if all that came loose in a blowout all that metal would cause more damage than I'd want to imagine, plus possible damage to whoever is behind you.

On my 32QBBS the water lines come down from the hot water tank/ sink right in front of the front forward tire. The tire cap flapping around caused pin holes in the lines that I also had to replace. After splicing in new pex hose, I used a piece of pool pump water hose to cover up the water lines for added protection and the rubber liner also covers the water lines as well.

I glued and screwed the blue board to the plywood, stapled the existing material to the 2x4's. Then placed the rubber liner up with screws and staples. That seemed to be pretty water proof, but I topped off those edges with white Duct tape,,, couldn't find my black ducttape,,,, just for added water proofing.

I wonder if the fitting of conveyor type belting would stop this type of damage happening. If any body has tried this I would be interested in the results.

I have access to miles of old conveyor belts. I thought about using it but decided that as hard as it is to cut and work with , it would be more of a pain in the rear than it was worth. But yea, it would work great screwed into the wood. Thinking ahead to a potential blow out, if you have it screwed in and it gets ripped out, its gonna take chunks of 2x4 with the screws. Thats why i'd rather have something that would give up easy if it did get tangled up with a tire cap.

The shower / waterheater liner from lowes is pretty thick and tough. I believe it would take a pretty good beating from a tire blow out and hold up well. If it does rip out ,,,, I have a spare piece ready to go. Its easy to work with stapled in and lightly screwed in. So it would not take chunks of wood with it.

After the blowout that caused extensive damage to our underside, Scruffy bought a reinforced vinyl tarp and cut it to size. Then he borrowed my brother's staple gun and stapled it in - then he used duct tape to seal it good around the edges. After that we continued our vacation. When we got home, we called the insurance company. The insurance adjuster was very impressed with Scruffy's repair job, which was holding on as good as when he put it all on.



Tater

ductape holds men's minds together. Why we hold up so well under pressure.