Pop Up PU Camper tent material

DaSu wrote:
We bought a used Starcraft pop up pickup camper . I have noticed several times after I have raised the roof and the material spreads out , where it attaches to the roof part, the material comes loose from the groove that is suppose to hold it in .The material works it way out of the groove in some areas. All I have to do is work it back into the grove and it is back in place until next time . My question is this , is this material held in place by a clamping procedure or what? Have you ever had experience with this and if so how did you repair the problem Thanks in advance . Life is Good

I had this problem on my Palomino,but it was made worse by the poor
QC and strip of wood that held the grove was crooked and one of the screws came out and left a 1/4 inch gap in the right corner.
repaired it once and now have to tear into it again.These things happen usually after warranty up.

Look online for "hybrid RV's" forum and chances are, you will get a ton more help. :)

tmartin000 wrote:
Look online for "hybrid RV's" forum and chances are, you will get a ton more help. :)

:h Do HTTs have the same sort of canvas attachment as the OP's popup truck camper?

I found nothing on the suggested site.

Can post photos of the fabric in the groove? Specifically, where it's come loose? Perhaps a photo attached and a photo loose?

I asked this same question a few months ago when I discovered that a section of canvas on my camper had also popped out of the track.

I was told that it is held in by gravity only.

mkirsch wrote:
I asked this same question a few months ago when I discovered that a section of canvas on my camper had also popped out of the track.

I was told that it is held in by gravity only.

Thanks for the reply, I was beginning to think I was the only one or not explaining myself clearly. I have tried to be a bit more consciousness of when popping up to make some corrections along the way , but some times I forget. Did you do anything to improve your set up procedure to avoid this? Life is Good

I noticed it on my first trip this past summer, and it never happened again.

My suspicion is that it has more to do with how you let the roof down than how you crank it up. If you let the canvas flop outside the camper and tuck it in you are more likely to push it up out of the track.

In my case, the canvas got flopped outside the camper because I forgot to latch the roof down after an event late in the 2015 season. My mistake was being in a hurry and breaking from my routine. When I stopped at a convenience store a few miles down the road for a drink, I got a surprise. The roof had lifted and the canvas was hanging out 3/4 of the way around like the guts of a stepped-on toad.

I'm sure that's when it happened because I thought something was weird the next couple of times I used it, but couldn't quite put my finger on the problem.

So , mkirsch, may I ask what is your procedure for dropping the top without having the canvas flop outside like " the guts of a stepped-ontoad."? My procedure is to drop it down so far and go outside with a yard stick with one end wrapped with duck tape and push in the "guts" . I follow your idea but how do you prevent the canvas from spilling out when you get the top close to down? Thanks

If you've got an exhaust fan you can turn on while putting it down, that will usually help.