WW Repairs

Wizbangdoodle wrote:

Well, not exactly. I wouldn't call it wall separation.

Maybe, maybe not. This might help you, try this bounce test...


Here is a description of the bounce test. It exposes damaging frame flex/wall sag. It was posted by a forum member from GD.com. This procedure originally comes from RV doctor.

The original article is from jsalazar903. A member of GD.com. He sent this to me couple years ago and gets all credit for it.... Hope it helps. The pics are from a fsw2800, but most larger WW of that era are similar.
You might not see the pics unless you join/log on to GD.com.

Hope this doesn't break RV.net rules, just thought this test is relevant and should be part of this WW repair/damage/problem thread...

To do the bounce test, stand right where the beaver end starts to dip down. right above the last tie-down (see pic). ramp closed.


now have someone else kneel next to the heater vent. on my floorplan, the heater vent from the pic is on the sink end, next to the couch....




have that person place their hand as in the picture...

now strt jumping up n down repeatedly. jump hard as if your mimicking the bumpy freeways! if your buddy that has his hand placed by the heater vent feels the wood flexxing, then you have symptoms of the sagging walls!!!!


other symptoms include....
the wheel box separating from the floor. also note the caulking separating as well....



and the trim not lining up no more is also symtoms....



The board right above my WW FSW3200 heater vent was broken in. I though someone had hit it with quad or sandrail wheel when pulling in... WRONG. That board routinely breaks from frame flex, do the test, you'll see/feel it flex in and out right there above the vent, on every jump, an unbelievable amount of frame flex. After RV doctors fix, there is NONE, solid as a rock.

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