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02-04-2011, 06:32 AM
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Winnebago Owner
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Marathon, Florida
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Update on our latch. There is indeed a plastic cap on the outside edge of the door for adjustment. Square one on our case. Wasn't the problem though. The screen door latch was catching. It appears that the catch on the main door that hold the screen door to it and pulls open the latch had moved slightly making just enough of the (screen door) latch hang up on the door frame. We are lucky we did not break the plastic latch before discovering the problem.
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2004 Winnebago Vectra 40KD
Shep dog, R.I.P. Kenzie dog Toad 2015 Jeep Wrangler Willys Wheeler
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02-04-2011, 08:41 AM
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Winnebago Camper
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HD4Mark
Update on our latch. There is indeed a plastic cap on the outside edge of the door for adjustment. Square one on our case. Wasn't the problem though. The screen door latch was catching. It appears that the catch on the main door that hold the screen door to it and pulls open the latch had moved slightly making just enough of the (screen door) latch hang up on the door frame. We are lucky we did not break the plastic latch before discovering the problem.
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I've had this happen to me, too. It's one of those things you learn to check every now and then once it happens to you.
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03-03-2011, 09:11 PM
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Winnebago Owner
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Orlando, FL
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Very helpful thread. Our stuck door turned out to be the the screen latch as mentioned in this thread. Thanks for the help.
I must say that I was not able to get a socket in the hole to adjust the main door latch. Before reading about the screen latch I was attempting to make the adjustment mentioned early in the thread. Any socket large enough for the recessed nut is too wide for the access hole. Any suggestions? Are there thin wall sockets?
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03-04-2011, 07:26 AM
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Winnebago Master
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nashua, NH
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SVTotem
Very helpful thread. Our stuck door turned out to be the the screen latch as mentioned in this thread. Thanks for the help.
I must say that I was not able to get a socket in the hole to adjust the main door latch. Before reading about the screen latch I was attempting to make the adjustment mentioned early in the thread. Any socket large enough for the recessed nut is too wide for the access hole. Any suggestions? Are there thin wall sockets?
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I believe that there are thin-wall sockets. I found that I had a nutdriver which just fit through the hole. Another option would be to enlarge the hole a bit.
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2005 Winnebago Vectra 36RD
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03-04-2011, 09:02 AM
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Winnebago Owner
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Marathon, Florida
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Even though it turned out not to be what was wrong I used a long socket. The regular ones with a nut driver handle fit from my Craftsman set but could be pulled off the driver when trying to remove it.
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2004 Winnebago Vectra 40KD
Shep dog, R.I.P. Kenzie dog Toad 2015 Jeep Wrangler Willys Wheeler
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03-04-2011, 11:39 AM
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Winnebago Camper
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SVTotem
Very helpful thread. Our stuck door turned out to be the the screen latch as mentioned in this thread. Thanks for the help.
I must say that I was not able to get a socket in the hole to adjust the main door latch. Before reading about the screen latch I was attempting to make the adjustment mentioned early in the thread. Any socket large enough for the recessed nut is too wide for the access hole. Any suggestions? Are there thin wall sockets?
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I used a quarter-inch drive deep socket. It went in just fine.
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03-04-2011, 12:03 PM
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Winnebago Owner
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 249
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Yes there are. When I had to make the adjustment I looked all over for the proper socket and found it at NAPA. It was a 7/16", long socket.
Nick
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03-04-2011, 12:52 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by Jerry_Keller
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We've gone full circle (and then some). The discussion on that thread originally referred to my pictures on THIS thread as the source of his fix. He then posted his pictures of the fix he did following this thread, to which I added some follow up to that thread. 
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03-05-2011, 07:53 PM
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Winnebago Camper
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by offthewall
We've gone full circle (and then some). The discussion on that thread originally referred to my pictures on THIS thread as the source of his fix. He then posted his pictures of the fix he did following this thread, to which I added some follow up to that thread. |
AND, hopefully, that information will always be available to be found.
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