Rv Friction Door Hinge Adjustment

You could drill out the rivets on one of the hinges add a thin spacer behind the hinge then re rivet it.

Rv friction door hinge adjustment.

Replacement of window with integrated shade. Rv entry door seal replacement. The friction hinge has to go. I contacted lippert and they gave me the p n for the standard non binding replacement hinge.

I see no adjustments on the hinge and oiling the hinge does nothing to ease it up. When it is opened back to the outside wall of the trailer it pops back out about 10 inches. Middle hinge is normal and can remain. For top and bottom.

Rv entry door hinge replacement. Adjusting rv entry door camber. If the latch isn t greased you ll think the door is binding but in reality the friction between the latch and striker is high enough to make you need to pull to get. Outback rv owners forum.

It is difficult to open and with a strong breeze it will not stay open. Keystone calls it a feature but i m no so sure. First i will need to replace the hinges with the standard hinges. Might take a couple of tries to get the spacing right.

Our new 2018 cougar has one of the new friction hinge doors and its difficult to open and close. You need two of them. Is there a way to adjust the tension on the main door friction hinges. The upgraded friction hinges have nearly ruined both doors on my rig.

I will eventually switch the hinge to a non friction hinge and attach a lock to the trailer wall to latch the door open when i want it to stay open. A spacer behind the lower hinge will move the bottom of the door up. The camper is only two years old and the doors have given me trouble since the first outing. It also will not open all the way.

For those that hate the friction hinges more like binding hinges as much as i do there is a fix. The only thing going for it is that you dont need to clip the door when it s in the full open position. Rv exterior door touch up paint. This helped a little more but did not solve the problem completely.

Rv entry door window frame glass replacement. It simply makes the door a constant nuisance an unpleasant thing to deal with. Our new 2018 cougar rds has so much tension on the friction hinges it takes two hands to pull the door closed.