Camperlifemt
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Looks like I got it working! Thanks for your help!
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Lwiddis
Southern California :(
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Great news!
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Kayteg1
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Don't know what kind of jack you have, but I don't see holes for bolts?
The few screw that left marks were put BETWEEN the skin and the frame. They had no holding power.
Seems you had only 1 screw with solid hold and that one pulled some wood.
Most of the jacks have at least 2 bolts on each side that go on other side of the wall and end on the piece of steel there.
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bighatnohorse
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Looks like a "break away jack" - probably an inadvertent design feature.
The break away should have damaged the frame.
It looks like you made a clean break of it.
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Kayteg1 wrote:Don't know what kind of jack you have, but I don't see holes for bolts?
The few screw that left marks were put BETWEEN the skin and the frame. They had no holding power.
Seems you had only 1 screw with solid hold and that one pulled some wood.
Most of the jacks have at least 2 bolts on each side that go on other side of the wall and end on the piece of steel there.
Look again. You can see half of the exposed bolt holes running left to right. The entire front half of the stud is gone, split right across the bolt line. There are also bolt holes going in (looking straight into the photo).
My guess is a 2001 model is going to be prohibitively expensive to repair, unless you do it yourself.
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mike/kellie
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That looks like a pretty convienant area for diamond plate. I would fix anything structural, remove the other forward jack, re-skin the void and install the aluminum plate. Mount jacks and seal.
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Bert the Welder
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Could be worse. At least you aren't looking at blackened pudding where wood should be! Bright side. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile") Sorry this happened. I've got an old Okan. too.
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midnightsadie
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diamond plate then do the other side so it looks factory done. your lucky it could have been alot worse.
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Camperlifemt
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Thanks, I am going to a quote on it this morning to get it fixed. If its crazy expensive I'll do it myself. I own a small landscape and construction company and am slammed with work and need to get the camper off my truck asap.
The problem is how the hell do I get it off my truck with 3 workable jacks?
I think the diamond plates might be the way to go. Some wood got torn off with the lag bolts, but it is not structural as far as I can see. Looks like you need to get a little more hardwood in there somehow so the new lag bolts will have some meat to bite into.
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JIMNLIN
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My neighbor had this happen and he came up with a old TC cable lift jack like we used before hyd's.
My 50 hp blue tractor and one of my nylon lift straps anchored to that bottom broken corner would work also.
Or a buddies/rental fork lift on that side.
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