Fleetwood gearbox broken ramp door

Y-Guy wrote:

BoonHauler wrote:
Why don't you call Fleetwood and ask them?

Fleetwood went out of business and dropped/ignored/forgot their trailer owners, if you owned a Motorhome they might talk with you, otherwise you're a ghost to them.

Sounds like someone needs to find a good fabricator to cure their ramp problems.......

Time to open the wallet.....

No prob give me a bit I'll put up pictures only bad thing is ya have to grind off some paint so for now mine has some white primer just to protect them a bit. I will need to at a threshold bridge to cover gap but after all this that will be no problem. The hardest part was moving the door out of the opening in order to cut and grind some of the spud that was left after the pin sheared. I did not undo spring actually used them to support the hinge side of the door. Just laid out to flat like deck and used pry bar to pry door out from under the hook at the bottom the stops over travel of door when down as ramp. This was easy as both pins where broken. *Side note if you have screen door on back roll it up before prying door out the second time we pried it out to do actual repair I only did it with 2 guys and door sprung up with springs and ripped the screen room door. I will repair with ethernabond tape for now should not cause problem just not pretty.

I'm in the same situation. Any help on the subject would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

After several trips to several service centers and fleetwood service centers I have found that the trailer owners have been abandoned by fleetwood and there is no source for parts and the part that shows shows no longer manufactured and supplier has no stock to manufacture part. All that is a long way to say we had to go to plan B. So we trimmed pin stubs back so they didn't interfere and welded 4 greasable bullet style hinges to the ramp and rear cross member. They cause the pivot of the door to occur about an inch further backwards but see to have no difficulty and assist springs from factory have no added tension because of this fact. I spoke to a couple of close trailer builders in the area and they all said these are the hinges and the number they are using for car hauler so I figured my toys and possible the jeep occasionally should not be a problem.. Thanks to all for the help offered.

Seems obvious to me. Cut it out, beef it up and weld it back together. If you can't find a similar pin upgrade it. I'm thinking sealed bearings hardened shaft, fix it once and be done.

BoonHauler wrote:
Why don't you call Fleetwood and ask them?

Fleetwood went out of business and dropped/ignored/forgot their trailer owners, if you owned a Motorhome they might talk with you, otherwise you're a ghost to them.

Why don't you call Fleetwood and ask them?

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Hoping for any other help haven't got much back from previous thread posters

Thanks I'll reach out to O.P. to see if they have anything to offer