Roof not closing tight

[Paiged1]

We have finally cleaned and fixed all we can on the ntu pu but noticed that when its closed the roof does not close over the fold up bunk end things. Which leads me to believe that is where the water was coming from. It closes in the front all the way but not in the back. Any ideas on how to fix it?

[CAPEd CODger]

Hello.
I can't say I know a lot about Palaminos, but I've had some experience with Fleetwood/Coleman.

On the F/C's, there is a pulley where the lift cable goes from the lift system to the "post" that it raises and lowers. (On the underside of the trailer) On the ones that I've seen, there are three adjustment holes for the pulley.

Try adjusting the pulleys. Also, while you are under the trailer, check to make sure the cables didn't get out of adjustment where they "wind up" in the center.

Hope this helps.

Bob

[Paiged1]

Hello.
I can't say I know a lot about Palaminos, but I've had some experience with Fleetwood/Coleman.

On the F/C's, there is a pulley where the lift cable goes from the lift system to the "post" that it raises and lowers. (On the underside of the trailer) On the ones that I've seen, there are three adjustment holes for the pulley.

Try adjusting the pulleys. Also, while you are under the trailer, check to make sure the cables didn't get out of adjustment where they "wind up" in the center.

Hope this helps.

Bob

There aren't any cables just springs. Nothing seems to be in the way but when we clamp it down it doesn't close all the way even if the clamps are down.

[flyfisherman]

We have finally cleaned and fixed all we can on the ntu pu but noticed that when its closed the roof does not close over the fold up bunk end things. Which leads me to believe that is where the water was coming from. It closes in the front all the way but not in the back. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Not quite sure I understand just exactly what your referring too when you say "bunk end things". Also, I'm not at all familar with Palomino, so for fear of a misunderstanding, let me ramble on about my Starcraft and see if we might be on the same page!

First off, when closing down my Starcraft, I make sure the bunk end canvas is tucked in as far as it will go. I stop the crank down process about 2/3 of the way down and re-tuck in to make sure the canvas is not bunching up on me. When the roof is completely cranked down, the top will be right up against the bottom base; in fact, you can run your finger all away around and feel the rubber weather strip (which is attached to the roof part) in contact with the base. When I secure the four corners with the roof latches, that bugger is sealed tighter than Dick's hat band. The only thing that has ever presented a problem of the roof not completely coming down and closing is when the canvas was bunched up somewhere, usually on a corner, but I've since got the canvas folding technique down to a science! There was a time, too, when I had left the sleeping bags laid out on the bunk ends, along with two extra blankets (we were just moving down the road a few miles), and this proved to be a tad too high - taking the blankets off and storing elsewhere provided the little extra clearance needed for the roof to close properly. Now, if these two things are not a problem, then I would be led to ask about the lifters - again, I have no idea what kind of a lift sytem you have, but could this be causing a problem?

Bottom line is that roof should be able to close square and about level. Now, the roof latches have some adjustment to them to snug everything down, but they should not be having to compensate for something else that's really amiss.


Hope that may provide a little insight.


Fly

[Paiged1]

Check out my drawing on the attachment. It explains the bunk end issue.

[tlhdoc]

Would tighter the latch help?  You can turn the latch to tighten it.  I often have to loosen the latch to get it to go over the catch, and then after a few minutes I can unlatch the roof and then twist the latch so that it latches the roof down tighter.

[HersheyGirl]

The top to my Pal kinda does the same thing.  When I crank it down, the rear does not overlap the way it should.  So, what works for me is, I crank it down and latch the rear first.  Just that little movement works and the top will overlap.  I then go and latch the front end and it overlaps like it should. I don't know if this will work for you, but it solved my problem.  Don't forget that the latches can be adjusted to be tighter or looser.  Hope this helps.

[Kelly]

I'm not sure about the floorplan on your Pal, but on my old one, if there was something pushing against the body under the bunk it was usually enough to keep it from overlapping.   In my case it was the front bunkend that this happened on.  I just had to watch how I packed stuff on that end and make sure there wasn't anything against the wall.

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[Paiged1]

The camper is empty the matresses aren't even in it. How do you tighten the latches. I see the round thing on the latch but when I turn it nothing happens. Maybe I could replace these???

[Garrett]

I had a similar problem on my Jayco.  Turns out the roof was not coming down square with the body.  I loosened the nots that hold the support arms to the roof so that there was just a little play.  Pretty much so took care of the problem.  Turns out those nuts are not suppose to be completely tight.  You might want to put a little loctite or something on the threads so that after you loosen the nuts they do not vibrate off the bolts.

[tlhdoc]

The part of the latch can move, can be adjusted by turning it.  If you watch where the threaded section you will see that it gets longer or shorter depending on which way to turn it.

[Paiged1]

figured out the problem. They had moved the top latch down so that the latch would close. Apparently they didn't know that the screw turns to untighten it. We did some re-adjustments to it and caulked around everything. Gonna pull it out this weekend for the final fix-up (replacing a rotted seat, applying more weather stripping, and caulking everything!)  We used that Git-Rot on the floor that was rotted and it turned it hard like it was supposed to do. The only problem is that we need to fill in some spaces where there is missing would from the rotting. Other than that it worked like a charm.

Won't be going anywhere until next year anyway since deer season starts this weekend.

[tlhdoc]

I am glad you got the problem fixed.