Sliding closet Doors in fifth wheel
When we are staying for a few days we reverse our sliding closet doors and the we dont have to deal with the plastic latch. Sure makes it nice.
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- On ours the latch has been removed. Two holes drilled in the bottom track to drop hinge pins to lock the doors closed. The hinge pins have tape wrapped around them to keep then from going to far down.
- Mine have 2 detents. The first one is more of a stop when we are parked. Just kinda sits there. The second is a strong latch that holds them closed. They seem to be holding up well for the entire 150 miles I have on my new trailer:)
Chris - Double post
- I drilled a hole in the track behind each door and drop a 16 penny nail in the track to hold the doors from sliding while traveling. I know, a nail, but it matches the color of the track and door frames and you hardly see them.
kohana wrote:
Funny my OEM looked like your replacements, when they failed I replaced them with latches that look like your OEM.DUH!!
hahahaha - one man's junk is another man's resolve, and visa versa and so on.- We always to what the OP does. Making sure they are in the correct place and latched before departure is on both of our pre-departure check list.
Old-Biscuit wrote:
These were the OEM latches.......junk!
These are what I replaced the OEM with. 7 yrs. of Full Time and they are great!
Got them at PPL Motorhome LINK
After going threw several replacement clear plastic plus the two original ones, I installed these black ones 5 or 6 years ago. Simple one hand release and work great.
I bought mine straight from SEA.
http://www.seamerica.com/
Chris- We were told to be careful or the plastic latches could break when we picked our 2001 alpenlite up at the dealer. 2579 nights later they are still doing the job. I guess we listened.
chevman
