Itasca Class C Overhang Movement

pnichols wrote:
I'm still :h as to how a Class C overhang can "droop" or otherwise move in relation to the cab???????

My Class C overhang is attached to, and part of, the roof of the cab - not sticking out above the cab with an air space in between the overhang and the cab roof like is the case with a truck camper. Furthermore, the cab is rigidly mounted to the van chassis and the coach is rigidly mounted to the van chassis and the van chassis is a strong horizontal piece of steel that can't move up and down along it's length.

Someone pleaseeeeee explain. :S

Your MH is built a little better than this older Coachmen, but you can see once everything rotted up there there was absolutely no structural strength in that metal frame work. Those front lower corner pieces were the new replacement radius pieces. That cabover would have been bouncing all over the place driving down the road. It was rebuilt with a lot more aluminum added to give it some strength.




You will notice there is a board holding up the front of the cabover. This was put there to hold it in the right position before the additional sidewall framing was added.



This particular MH also had both transition walls (the walls behind the cab that go out to the house sides) rotted out.