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AnEv942
Aug 12, 2015Nomad
I would (and did) cut at jacks, seal the top end of cut at jacks, leave upper side of cut open. I also used a paper hole punch and punched couple of holes bottom most side under the bed. Our trim inserts wrapped from the top of jack, up wall, under nose around the front and up to roof, both sides. They are not water proof. Best case, any water that gets behind and it does, sweats and rusts the screws, worst - water travels down and eventually reaches and seeps behind jacks. Or like our rear corners, literally fill with water, seeps in screw holes. I could pull the inserts loose at the back corners and water would run out.
Yours looks like it was stretched a bit when installed. Ours was pulling but not that bad. I doubt there is enough excess to relieve. Even if there was probably deformed from being squished under jack that unusable. After cutting I just worked insert up to fill corner, left about a 1" gap above jack. Could cut somewhere under the flat and at top of jack, replace that section if you didn't want to see gap. Seal top end but leave bottoms open.

Right side 1" gap. They were cut prior to adding swing out brackets at top of hinge barrle.

Almost see the left side, gap is 1/2".
Yours looks like it was stretched a bit when installed. Ours was pulling but not that bad. I doubt there is enough excess to relieve. Even if there was probably deformed from being squished under jack that unusable. After cutting I just worked insert up to fill corner, left about a 1" gap above jack. Could cut somewhere under the flat and at top of jack, replace that section if you didn't want to see gap. Seal top end but leave bottoms open.

Right side 1" gap. They were cut prior to adding swing out brackets at top of hinge barrle.

Almost see the left side, gap is 1/2".
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