Awning and Rollertube replacement questions
Last year when we where camping I made the rookie mistake of not putting the awning away or with a significant enough lean, A heavy rain storm came through that night as we woke up with the awning ho...
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Well its done. I bought an 19' 8500 awning and roller tube for $530 delivered to my door. Took about a month to get the awning once it was ordered. I took the old one off myself and had a neighbor help with the install of the new one.
I was a little concerned that hardware from the old sunchaser wouldn't be forward compatible with the new 8500 but everything fit up nicely.
The new tube came with the roller springs already pre tension-ed. We ended up unrolling the awning to install it, if we had another ladder and a third set of hands we would have been able to install it without unrolling the awning. Got it hung, bolted, pull the cotter pins and boom, brand new awning smell. In total it took less than an hour and two beers to install.
I was a little concerned that hardware from the old sunchaser wouldn't be forward compatible with the new 8500 but everything fit up nicely.
The new tube came with the roller springs already pre tension-ed. We ended up unrolling the awning to install it, if we had another ladder and a third set of hands we would have been able to install it without unrolling the awning. Got it hung, bolted, pull the cotter pins and boom, brand new awning smell. In total it took less than an hour and two beers to install.
