2009 Roo 21SS Plastic lower molding on slide about to come off

[68lemans462]

The piece I'm talking about is the brown plastic curved moulding piece at the bottom of the slide. The piece flops around/catches the wind, etc. Its worse in the front than the rear but both ends are concerning. Looks like a poor design in general. I have seen some newer models that appear to have a reinforcement at the front of the slide on this piece. Is there a way this can be fixed/reinforced?? I recently traveled in some HEAVY wind and ended up using vice grips to lock this to the solid piece on the trailer. Had I not done this I believe this piece would be long gone...

[68lemans462]

Bueller?

[Mr Havercamp]

You're not the first.

That's a common problem on Roo's with the full height slide like yours, the 233S, etc. It's a bad design. A friend left that skirt on his 233S somewhere between SD and OH.

It needs to have some type of brace from the bottom of the skirt up to the floor. I suspect there is no place to attach the top of the brace to as the slide floor is above the main floor.

[68lemans462]

What have ya'all done to address this problem?

[Mr Havercamp]

Can you post a few pictures of that area from the backside of the fascia with the slide closed?

[68lemans462]

Before and after clamping with vice grips... 😢

[Mr Havercamp]

The aluminum tube close to the fascia is the bottom of the slide wall itself?

If so you need a couple of braces from the bottom of the fascia up to that tube. Think like the brace on the fixed fascia in your pic but turned 180*. Something more substantial like some 1-1/2" x 1/8" aluminum bar stock.

Another fine example of insufficient engineering and shoddy assembly. All to save about $1.27 in material and labor.

[youroo]

Originally Posted by 68lemans462

Before and after clamping with vice grips... 😢
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Those are the Same braces used on the "Rockwood/Flagstaff" TT and 5 Wheel lines also! If towed far enough they will Vibrate and Fail! Like said above by Mr H ,build HD ones! Youroo!!

[Mr Havercamp]

Originally Posted by youroo

Those are the Same braces used on the "Rockwood/Flagstaff" TT and 5 Wheel lines also! If towed far enough they will Vibrate and Fail! Like said above by Mr H ,build HD ones! Youroo!!

Yep........a piece of scrap term bar swept up off the factory floor, and securely attached into 1/8" luan at the top with 1 screw that was most likely stripped by one of the Yoder brothers LOL.