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Originally Posted by Choxnpinz
I was going to post about this, but it seems you've already got it figured out. I like the fixes you've figured out, but I was merely going to drill a tiny hole at the bottom of the lens to allow water and moist air to vent itself and add the o-rings as mentioned above. Thoughts?
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I had considered doing the same thing....
would be more likely if I could see a way to do it under the fixture...a vertical hole... perhaps drilling a very small diameter hole at an upward angle...
then
I considered what I think may be a better way to go...venting to the inside of the coach. Just drill right on through the back side of the light recess, into the bedroom. Plug on the inside with something like a 2 inch diameter soffit plug vent, or even like a small ac duct louver to match what's in the coach....something like that.
I figured a larger hole like that would also double as an inspection port in a way...
or go even bigger
a full hatch large enough to change the bulbs from inside the MH.
My entire back wall was replaced under warranty, and the body repair guys at camping world seem to have done a great job of caulking and sealing the fixtures so I never did the vent modification. Just might though, if I ever need to break in there to replace a bulb or chase a leak.
While I'm sharing thoughts on the topic....another idea I had when reading some of the repairs that require enlarging the routed recess...(sorry if I've posted this before, can't remember)
I have kicked myself many times for not thinking of this at the time they replaced the wall. I wish that I would have had them not do the recess cut out, but instead surface mount some nice low profile LED tail light like I've seen on some other brands of class C's
so my idea, extending from that afterthought
if I ever need or want to replace the fixture I might think about filling that void completely, and covering it with a nice looking decorative cover made from a thin-ish sheet of plastic or something, just slightly larger to overlap &
epoxied or otherwise bonded and sealed to the surface...then surface mounting a fixture on top of it.