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by ASWilson
Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:34 pm
Forum: General and Technical Information, Questions, and Responses
Topic: Need ideas to repair awning foot support bracket
Replies: 8
Views: 4315

Re: Need ideas to repair awning foot support bracket

If you move the awning arm up three inches, you would be going through the 2x6 right next to the roll bar. As you can see, in my case there was no 2x6 left, so that approach would just pinch the interior wall towards the fiberglass. If there is still wood back there, your approach might work, but yo...
by ASWilson
Tue Apr 11, 2023 4:39 pm
Forum: General and Technical Information, Questions, and Responses
Topic: Need ideas to repair awning foot support bracket
Replies: 8
Views: 4315

Re: Need ideas to repair awning foot support bracket

Most of. the 20 year old coaches seem to have the floor rot issue to some extent or another. Depends on how diligent past owners were about keeping the seams sealed. Here's a few pics of the damage I found behind the wall and the grid of holes in the floor before spreading the epoxy. Good luck with ...
by ASWilson
Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:34 pm
Forum: General and Technical Information, Questions, and Responses
Topic: Need ideas to repair awning foot support bracket
Replies: 8
Views: 4315

Re: Need ideas to repair awning foot support bracket

Hi Eric, There are no support blocks as I eventually learned. Those bolts actually go into the edge of the floor. The floor is like an ice cream sandwich: it's a sheet of 1" plywood between two sheets of plastic. In my case the water got in through the vertical sealing strip in the outer body b...
by ASWilson
Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:56 pm
Forum: General and Technical Information, Questions, and Responses
Topic: Need ideas to repair awning foot support bracket
Replies: 8
Views: 4315

Need ideas to repair awning foot support bracket

The front awning support bracket fell off the wall. Both lag bolts just stripped out of the body. I shored up the material with slivers of wood and glue to give them sometihing to bite into. It lasted a year but have no stripped out again. I suspect the support block behind the fiberglass is dry rot...

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