Dinette rattling loose from floor
I'm now on my third attempt to secure the dinette seat in my 2005 Rockwood 2104. This is an aluminum frame trailer, and the dinette is framed from the same material. Vibrations and rattling have cause...
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Next step was to cut out some 1/2" OSB disks using the same hole saw I used to cut away the bottom layers. Then I inserted T-nuts into the disks, and ran bolts through the dinette frame bottom and into the T-nuts.
At the side where the dinette attaches to the wall, I had to ream out the aluminum where the two uprights met, in order to get the toggles in. I discovered that if I moved that location in order to drill only one wall upright, the table wouldn't fit on the seat edge without a moving the OTHER seat also. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I didn't weaken the wall.
Toggles ready to go in:
All bolted down:
And sealed up underneath except for one:
The dinette seems really solid now! Hope I don't get any leaks underneath. It doesn't seem as if much water will hit the underside directly but I don't really know. Never crawled under there after towing in a rainstorm!
At the side where the dinette attaches to the wall, I had to ream out the aluminum where the two uprights met, in order to get the toggles in. I discovered that if I moved that location in order to drill only one wall upright, the table wouldn't fit on the seat edge without a moving the OTHER seat also. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I didn't weaken the wall.
Toggles ready to go in:
All bolted down:
And sealed up underneath except for one:
The dinette seems really solid now! Hope I don't get any leaks underneath. It doesn't seem as if much water will hit the underside directly but I don't really know. Never crawled under there after towing in a rainstorm!
