MY outdoor kitchen door leaks water somehow and somewhere it gets into the latches on the slam latch and leaks down into the catches and keeps rusting them out. Any had this problem Im going to try and take the door latches off and silicone and reinstall and see if that helps any.
My slam latches on my baggage doors get water in them (the latch assembly) and drip on me from the inside of the latch when i open the doors...doesn't leak inside of the storage area when shut though.
My outside kitchen doesn't have slam latches, but the twist latches for some reason. I don't know why it doesn't have slam latches when everything else does.
They don't leak inside of storage they get water in the catches and rust them out though. Somehow it is getting in through the latches them selves gonna take them off and silicone around them and see if that helps.
I noticed a touch of rust on my catches (im assuming you mean the bucket portion that is fixed to trailer) and I just wiped it out with some wd40?...are you saying yours are rusted through?.
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I had the exact same issue on my 318BHS. I determined it was the gaskets that seal the black outside portion of the slam latches to the outer skin of the door.
I disassembled the latches, (remove the inner screws that comes through the metal plate inside the door), and used some thin putty tape to seal the outside portion of the latch assembly to the door skin. Solved the issue of water intrusion going into the latch and then leaking into the striker plates in the door sill causing them to rust.
A word of caution, do not over tighten the screws when you reassemble the latches or the strikers will stick up in the latches and not operate freely.
lamoon78,
No, I did not replace the plates, I just removed them, wire brushed them and painted them with some Silver/Gray Rustoleum paint. Looked like new afterwards.
The good news was from what I could tell the water never passed into the Kitchen compartment. Just into the sill area.
lamoon78,
No, I did not replace the plates, I just removed them, wire brushed them and painted them with some Silver/Gray Rustoleum paint. Looked like new afterwards.
The good news was from what I could tell the water never passed into the Kitchen compartment. Just into the sill area.
Mine are to rusted I think I will have to pull them off and see.
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