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Campsask
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Jul 09, 2015

Bathroom Problems

Hello, having some problems with my bathroom and wanted to get your opinions on what could be causing this.

We bought a 2009 Keystone Hideout 26B about 2 months ago. It was in immaculate shape and the interior was mint. Very well taken care of. We pulled it home and it has been in my driveway since getting ready for our summer trips( first one is this weekend). About 3 weeks ago I noticed that all of a sudden our bathroom door would not shut and latch. Its like the whole side with the hole moved up about a 1/4 inch. Now the latch will not seat in the hole. I tried forcing the door by pushing on the top and pulling on the bottom and its a bit better but not perfect. Now to top it off I Went into my trailer yesterday and noticed that the back wall of the shower has bubbled out between the rivets and pulled the calking away revealing about a 3 inch hole. I went down and bought a shower rod extender to hold it in place while I re calked it but not sure its going to hold. It wants to pull away as soon as I release tension on the rod.

Anybody experience something like this. What could be causing it? Heat? or maybe trailer is warping? Any solutions?

Thanks

16 Replies

  • Try hooking up, drive around the block and see if it is back to normal. As mentioned, it sounds like you have torqued the frame. Mine did something similar with the entry door. Once I moved it all went back to normal
  • DutchmenSport wrote:
    I looked up your camper on the internet to see what it looked like. You did not say if it had slides or not. By the information and photos I found, you do not have any slides. So that eliminates some potential reasons right there.

    My next question would be to ask if you are putting your stabilizer jacks down while parked at home. If you are, are you tightening them down TOO much causing the frame to bend, causing the door to not shut right and causing the gap.

    This is very easy to do by lowering the jacks to the ground, snugging them up, then raising the tongue by the tongue jack to force more pressure on the rear jacks. There is a point where this is counter-productive, as it causes flexing of the frame, causing the doors and the cabinets to be out of alignment.

    If you are doing this, release the pressure from the stablizer jacks. Snug them up just enough to keep the camper from bouncing up and down, but do not attempt to make them so tight they actually lift the camper. To me, it sounds like this is what you have done. ... you are attempting to lift the camper with the jacks to get stability. You cannot do this.


    If you are not using your jacks right now, then I'm out of ideas.

    Good luck.


    Thanks for the info.It seems like something is pushing up from bottom. I was using my stabilizer jacks but I'm sure I leveled it with tongue before putting them down. Maybe I tightened them to much? I did not think so. Its possible though. When I released them it seems like the back end dropped a bit. I raised all stabilizers up and am going to leave it like that for a bit to see if it corrects. Should it correct itself or have I done irreversible damage?
  • I looked up your camper on the internet to see what it looked like. You did not say if it had slides or not. By the information and photos I found, you do not have any slides. So that eliminates some potential reasons right there.

    My next question would be to ask if you are putting your stabilizer jacks down while parked at home. If you are, are you tightening them down TOO much causing the frame to bend, causing the door to not shut right and causing the gap.

    This is very easy to do by lowering the jacks to the ground, snugging them up, then raising the tongue by the tongue jack to force more pressure on the rear jacks. There is a point where this is counter-productive, as it causes flexing of the frame, causing the doors and the cabinets to be out of alignment.

    If you are doing this, release the pressure from the stablizer jacks. Snug them up just enough to keep the camper from bouncing up and down, but do not attempt to make them so tight they actually lift the camper. To me, it sounds like this is what you have done. ... you are attempting to lift the camper with the jacks to get stability. You cannot do this.


    If you are not using your jacks right now, then I'm out of ideas.

    Good luck.
  • Maybe it has a water leak or is it parked on an uneven area?
  • has you r TT settled as in not level. I had a problem many years ago with my entry door doing that and I found the Tt was not level creating a door misfit.