Itasca Class C Overhang Movement
I'm new to class c's and noticed my 2000 Itasca has some movement in the overhang while driving down the road. On the highway it's not noticeable but on side roads I can see the front flexing. Is that...
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pnichols wrote:Farmboy666 wrote:
Thanks Ron for illuminating my disillusion on my overhang movement.
Ron ... I think he may have meant to be a little sarcastic, because in an earlier post he stated that he hadn't seen any movement in his cabover.
Looking again at the diagram of how Winnebago has designed their Super Structure metal bracing in the cabover sidewalls, I don't see how the cabover sidwalls can move up/down relative to the coach unless the cabover metal struts are flexing/bending or their welds break. I just don't see how the cabover sidewalls - with their metal struts - can move up/down relative to the coach walls, with their internal metal framing.
I don't agree that the vertical steel struts in the cab walls aren't going to be able to help restrain the bottom of the cabover from moving up/down ... unless the bottom of the cabover (which has no metal in it) is heavily rotted out. It may have been the rotted cabover bottom that the OP saw flexing up and down due to road vibration, airflow, etc. ... not the whole cabover itself.
By the way, I'm beginning to believe more and more that leaking forward facing clearance lights may be causing a lot of the cabover wall/floor rotting that folks are seeing, which can affect all cabover designs - one piece fiberglass included.
Not sure which one of us doesn’t get sarcasm.
