Two weeks ago, I was happily crawling around our Provincial 335SS lubing seals and tracks when I noticed a water drip coming through a pinhole in the underbelly covering on the trailer behind the running gear. Upon further investigation, I found that the whole underbelly covering felt "mushy" when I pushed up on it. Out with the box cutter and two little tiny slits later I have water streaming out of the slit inboard in the area of the waste tanks. Off to the dealer for the fourth time this year. They dropped the underbelly covering and everything underneath was wet. Fortunately the upper floor was dry and OK. After checking everything out thoroughly, the final answer was "road water". It appears that the underbelly covering was not sealed properly and the tires were throwing water up under the wings and it was leaking into the underbelly. The only wet weather this unit has seen on the road was one day going south in late January, and one day coming home in early March. If it had not been for the pin hole in the underbelly covering I don't know how long it would have been before getting noticed. All fixed now, under warranty but we will have to wait and see until the next run in wet weather.
FYI....check your underbellies! I am constantly working on our unit and I didn't see it until it dripped.
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