11-17-2022, 05:25 PM
Are you doing it, or is Newell doing it. It can easily be done in a day, give yourself an extra day for learning.
For the jacking point, look at the very rear of the salon slide. Open the basement door and you will see a vertical steel divider between the bays. Now go directly under that, and you will see the steel frame and a cross piece. That is the jacking point.
There are two schools of thought. Newell proposes to re rivet in place with the logic being the settling has occurred so just fixate and not transfer any stress to the aluminum skin. The second school of thought is to jack up the mid point until the rivet holes under the trim piece come back into alignment. Rivet those holes and add 200% more rivets. This does transfer the stress back to the aluminum skin. After all it IS a semi monocoque construction, and the skin is SUPPOSED to carry the stress. Just my .02
For the jacking point, look at the very rear of the salon slide. Open the basement door and you will see a vertical steel divider between the bays. Now go directly under that, and you will see the steel frame and a cross piece. That is the jacking point.
There are two schools of thought. Newell proposes to re rivet in place with the logic being the settling has occurred so just fixate and not transfer any stress to the aluminum skin. The second school of thought is to jack up the mid point until the rivet holes under the trim piece come back into alignment. Rivet those holes and add 200% more rivets. This does transfer the stress back to the aluminum skin. After all it IS a semi monocoque construction, and the skin is SUPPOSED to carry the stress. Just my .02
Richard and Rhonda Entrekin
95 Newell, 390 Ex caretaker
99 Newell, 512 Ex caretaker
07 Prevost Marathon, 1025
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Inverness, FL (when we're home
