In a quandry
I'm about to go out and get started on repairing rot in my 2007 Lance 815. I'll not get into details, but I'm fixing it up good enough to make our trip - delayed by 3 days because of the rot I discov...
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Desertboy wrote:
I just feel like if aluminum were so bad about cracking and breaking then we should be seeing this problem by now in all aluminum Horse Trailers and semi trailers. That's just my opinion, and could be wrong. It just stands to reason that 40 feet of 5th wheel filled with horses would do a lot more twisting and tweaking than a short stubby box riding on back of a truck. Again that's just my opinion, and Im certainly no expert on aluminum. And I don't have a Livin Lite.
I own an all aluminum river boat, and it takes a beating and hasn't cracked. But some friends if ours bought an AlumLite travel trailer and took it down through Baja California from WA state, then on the ferry to interior Mexico, and by the time they got to family near Jalisco, the entire rear portion if the trailer was coming apart due to the welds holding the thin aluminum tubing started failing and cracking.
I believe that the cracking issue is when you combine extreme rough roads with thin aluminum tubing, you can have some failures.
Just my $.02
Garry
