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Jim4929
Explorer
Oct 05, 2018

The Odd's weren't with me : Keystone FRAME CRACK

I've been on the forum since 2006. Before buying a fifth wheel, the thing that really scared me to death was what I was reading about Lippert weld and frame failures. My thought was with all the frame...
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Ralph_Cramden
Explorer II
Oct 06, 2018
newman fulltimer wrote:
Well the good news .that's not a frame failure that's a wall stud weld failure theweld broke at the slide side wall and when slide pushed out it pushed the wall out causing the crack. Note the crack starts in the corner going outward


Do you have Xray vision? LOL.

I have seen more than one different brand of 5er with a crack in that same location due to frame flex and cracked welds or steel near the pinbox. What they all had in common was LCI.

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