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Originally Posted by mamabear
Has anyone had any trouble with your upper front corner coming apart? We have and don't know how to fix it. Was hoping someone has some ideas how we can put it together again. We so want to go camping but scared the camper will fall apart pulling it.
There is a piece of metal that the aluminum outside slides behind on our camper that has separated from that sometimes it is as far as 2 inches apart. We can push it back together but it will pop out again. We looked at a new TM and they changed the design in the corners.
Our Tm is a 1997 3326. We have had nothing but problems since we got it. 1st the frame broke (we bought it used from a non TM dealer). We got it fixed by our welder and now the front corner is shot. We went to our local dealer and he had NO idea what to do. We definitely wouldn't recommend a TM to anyone. We want to fix it and get a regular hardsided camper.
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Sorry to hear about your problem. One of the biggest things people need to look for in used RV's is moisture damage to structural wood, which could easily be your problem here. This is a very common problem in camper shells, travel trailers and motorhomes, but especially in older ones that have been stored uncovered outside in a humid climate. It's definitely the sort of thing that a proper presale inspection should find (and an ethical dealer should disclose, IMO).
A post in this forum recently suggested that an easy way to test for this is to see if the screws are tight, and if they just spin freely it probably means that the wood has gone soft underneath. Because it is a common problem, there are good RV dealers that can make a repair. I might start with a call to the factory to get their suggestions, too.
More recent TrailManors have aluminum tubing instead of wood in the structure of the sides and shells (at least for the last 5 years or so). And, of course, all of the RV's with aluminum structures are more expensive, which is why so many of the manufacturers are still building them with wood.