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rcpd34

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Posted: 07/28/10 07:29pm

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This is a new one on me. We're traveling back from Canada after a great trip to Niagra Falls when I pulled into a truck stop for some diesel. I jumped into the TH to grab a sandwich outta the fridge for the kids and I see the floor is "ballooning". Kinda looked like the parachute game thie kids play. Step on it and the air is pushed around. By the time we got home, it looked normal. I crawled around underneat at the truck stop looking for something obvious like a hole in the floor where air is being forced in, bit nada. We did take quite a hit a few hours earlier when a semi blew a tire right next to us and the tread hit both the truck and trailer and we ran over it. No obvious damage I can see yet, but tomorrow I'll get the creeper out and heck thoroughly. Any ideas?

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Posted: 07/28/10 10:04pm

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Mine did this last week on our trip home from SD. Turned out that we had left the bathroom vent open. Leaving the vent opens creates a venturi effect which sucks the linoleum up off of the floor.

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Posted: 07/29/10 10:04am

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mikerocchio wrote:

Mine did this last week on our trip home from SD. Turned out that we had left the bathroom vent open. Leaving the vent opens creates a venturi effect which sucks the linoleum up off of the floor.

That's a new one for me.

I've heard of "chrome off a trailer hitch", but never linoleum...

I'll hafta remember that.

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Posted: 07/29/10 08:25pm

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dedmiston wrote:

mikerocchio wrote:

Mine did this last week on our trip home from SD. Turned out that we had left the bathroom vent open. Leaving the vent opens creates a venturi effect which sucks the linoleum up off of the floor.

That's a new one for me.

I've heard of "chrome off a trailer hitch", but never linoleum...

I'll hafta remember that.

ROFLMAO!!!! Next thing you know it's going to be chromed linoleum!!!

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