Subject: [a/s] Bowed door
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:04:24 -0700
From: "Bill & Judy"
Reply-To: airstream@airstream.net

Hi all, not getting anything on the Vintage list. Hope I am signed up right, I sent a "Help" message. So I'll send this to our Airstream group w/a question: Ok, I've read all I could find on a bowed door caused by flying open while barreling down the hwy. At this point, nothing is working or I am reading the "tips" wrong. Charlie wrote (in CD ROM) that one should use a 2x4 as a fulcrum. Is that (I guess) with
the door off? Is it laying on the ground, inside down, with the 2x4 in the center? The procedure isn't clear to me. Also, Kaybear wrote, sometime ago about her 65 mph incident and pushing from the outside, at the top and bottom of the door, in toward the center. Neither of these techniques are working. At this time, there is a heavy rope wrapped around the door vertically and a piece of narrow wood is used on the inside as a tourniquet to hold it in place. However, it does not seem to be bending the upper and lower areas of the door in enough to make a tight fit. Any advice?

Thanks,
Judy, VAC member, WBCCI #ASAP,
Cave Creek, AZ . 1973 21' Land Yacht &'86 'Burb diesel 4x4
adobehom@concentric.net