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I've replaced a bottom spar too. It is doable but can take a bit of time. Looking at Wizard's post, I used option 1 cos there was nothing left to save. Mine was a 'C' shaped section, but I copied the shape by screwing some strips of exterior ply to a pine baton and gluing together with sikaflex. I cut the old spar back to sound wood, spliced in the new section then glued and screwed everything together in reverse order. It took a while to do but now It's sorted I am confident everything is sound and dry. The one major problem I encountered was that as the floor dried, it bowed up a little which caused me alignment problems when putting back together as the floor was not going to go back to shape nomatter how much weight I put on it. In the end I had to accept a slight 'belly out' of the van side to make things fit. However, when the furniture was screwed in most of this went.

Good luck with yours

Simon

PS if you have any locker doors where the rotten bit is you might have to cut the spar with a jigsaw to the shape of the aperture.