I can’t be the first one to encounter this. When I was closing the hood,(the one under the windshield), the passenger side bracket fell off. Totally detached. It seems the brackets are ‘glued on’. No bolts, no rivets, just epoxy of some sort.
Now I have to come up with a way to reattach. Anyone ever see this before?
Historically this has been a regularly occurring failure, and you'll find many threads about it here and other forums.
Mine fell off frequently, and eventually I took the rig back to Forest City where they ground off the old epoxy holding the hinge brackets in place, then reapplied new epoxy. Its held for several years now but it is a very frustrating weakness in their design and installation.
It can be repaired. I recall some folks use bolts but I can't bring myself to do that so I'm relying on a better epoxy job. Fingers crossed and luck with a repair!
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Joe a/k/a "Americanrascal"
2016 Winnebago Adventurer 38Q +tow dolly
8th RV to sit in our driveway in 50 years
I had both of my hood brackets fall off. When the first one came off, I held the hood in place with duct tape. It took me longer to fix the original problem so I had to deal with getting the duct tape residue off too, don't do that (3M Adhesive Remover did the trick though). After the second one came off, I had no choice but to get to work. To fix the problem, I scraped off all the old glue from the backside of the front cowl, down to the fiberglass. That was the hard part. Then scraped and sanded the brackets down to bare metal. I used JB Weld epoxy that was for fiberglass and metal and put it all back together. Clamping it was a bit tricky, so figure out what might work for you. It was several hours of awkward work, but it's been six months and a couple thousand mile of bumpy travel and it's still holding solid (fingers crossed).
Thank you for your responce’s. I’m getting the coach out of storage in the morning so I’ll let everyone know how it goes. I’m thinking I’ll use bolts and epoxy.
My biggest fear is that is I won’t get it aligned correctly and the hood won’t latch.
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