Access to overhead bunk
I have a class c with no slide outs. I have a ladder to climb into the over head bunk which works fine except I can’t use it when the couch is folded out to make a bed. How do you then get in and out ...
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To address the OP's question, this is how we fixed the same issue.
I removed the LH ladder anchor metal loop and relocated it on the right side of the RH ladder anchor metal loop. only had to drill 2 new holes, for the two bolts that holds each ladder anchor metal loop. This means the ladder is relocated exactly one ladder width to the right.
I could have relocated the ladder about 6" to clear the opened jack-knife couch, but that would have resulted in 4 open holes in the overhead bunk faceplate. By removing only one ladder anchor metal loop, I only had 2 open holes. I put a small aluminum plate with 2 matching bolts in the LH open holes.
Easy fix....about a 10 minute project.
If you need to return the anchor to the factory position, simply do so and move the plate and two bolts over the newly drilled holes. The plate and bolts keep a 'finished' look to the modification.
I'm nearing 60 years old, wife is 2 years younger, and we both crawl up in the bunk to sleep all the time...and I'm 6'7" tall, 195 lbs so I go in first, the wife second, 5'6" 130 lbs. She gets up every night to go to the restroom, and I don't have that issue....yet....but we are very active and just refuse to grow old...LOL
2005 Fleetwood Tioga 23E
Ford E-450 V-10 Chassis
I removed the LH ladder anchor metal loop and relocated it on the right side of the RH ladder anchor metal loop. only had to drill 2 new holes, for the two bolts that holds each ladder anchor metal loop. This means the ladder is relocated exactly one ladder width to the right.
I could have relocated the ladder about 6" to clear the opened jack-knife couch, but that would have resulted in 4 open holes in the overhead bunk faceplate. By removing only one ladder anchor metal loop, I only had 2 open holes. I put a small aluminum plate with 2 matching bolts in the LH open holes.
Easy fix....about a 10 minute project.
If you need to return the anchor to the factory position, simply do so and move the plate and two bolts over the newly drilled holes. The plate and bolts keep a 'finished' look to the modification.
I'm nearing 60 years old, wife is 2 years younger, and we both crawl up in the bunk to sleep all the time...and I'm 6'7" tall, 195 lbs so I go in first, the wife second, 5'6" 130 lbs. She gets up every night to go to the restroom, and I don't have that issue....yet....but we are very active and just refuse to grow old...LOL
2005 Fleetwood Tioga 23E
Ford E-450 V-10 Chassis
