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I've got so many questions I'll probably need to organize a bulleted list.

Post away you'll get all the help you need on this great site. I always have. Nice Barth you got there.

If you're going to spend money on a used motorhome you can't go wrong with a Barth. I also thought about a buying a older Airstream before we bought the Barth, those used Airstreams are quite expensive they go for more than I paid for my Barth. I like having the Motorhome better anyway.

Looks like the GacoRoof Roof Coating is a excellent product, I will be needing to redo mine in the near future.


Have Fun!

I only have seatbelts on the front sears. I've called everywhere and nobody will even talk a out seatbelts.

Are you looking to replace the Belts I found a place called seatbelt planet on the internet. They Manufacturer seat belts, If you are looking to replace the current ones.

I bought lap belts for all my passenger seats from NAPA.

I guess you just put a bolt through the floor and a nut underneath on the outside?

The seatbelts up front are fine I was just wondering about carrying more than two passengers legally. Two seats swivel and don't seem like valid seats while traveling and the bench actually said not for use while driving so I guess its just only for 2 people legally.

Regarding the roof ...
I'm using a heat gun to remove all the tar. Then I'll use some sort of solvent to get rid of the residue. I'm going to replace the vents with fantastic vents and new vents for the plumbing. I'll put them back down with Dicor lap sealant, use the sealant tape decor makes for the front back and side seams and then use the metal roof sealant across the whole roof rolled/painted on.

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Originally posted by MattR:
I guess you just put a bolt through the floor and a nut underneath on the outside?

Back in the days when seat belts were not mandated kits came with a fender washer and lock washer. I usually put the fender washer first then a regular washer and an aircraft nut.

Seat belts need good metal to metal force transfer. On a MH with plywood floor, there should be a steel bar underneath, transferring the force to metal structure. I guess a very large washer might be OK, if it were REALLY LARGE. But, you would then be depending on how well the plywood is attached to the rail.

Exactly Bill, however until the plywood comes loose and the cabinets start flying it is good to be anchored. Might still be good to be anchored to the plywood.

Does anyone know what the area above the windshield is? Is that painted steel? (where the yellow upper lights are mounted)

It doesn't appear to be aluminum. I'm guessing since its more a structural section than a skinned aluminum frame in that area it must be something other than aluminum. I figure I may strip that and paint it. I want to buff the whole thinking like a vintage plane and design and paint on some sort of insignia ...

It's likely fiberglass, as it doesn't have the usual Barth stamped corners.

My monochrome monitor doesn't tell me much, but my bet is aluminum, as the fiberglass brow didn't appear until later, when the overhang appeared.

But, all Barths are different, so scrape it with a pocket knife, to be sure. Or twirl a small drill between your fingers to expose bare metal. An experienced ear can rap it with something and tell, also.

Unless yours is something odd you will find that it is a .040 die stamped aluminum. I wondered how the corners on Barths were formed till I saw the die stamped pre cut units auctioned off at Millford.

My 1976 is fiberglass.

I'm not sure how bad this is but it doesn't look promising I pulled the upper area behind the pulldown bunk out. It's the vinyl wrapped sort of cubbyhole behind of the fiberglass area around the window. It looks like fiberglass with a steel platform and that platform as a lip that is part of the window seal. It talks in behind the inside rubber seal on the window along with the vinyl that wraps it and it's been leaking and rusting for a long time. I'm not sure that that steel section or the fiberglass section holds most of the weight of the window ...