Rebuiling A Tent Trailer Roof

1978 starcraft galaxy swinger roof re build and canvas replacementmay june 2015owner troy crivelloneas with many old tent trailers the roof on my 78 starcraft was not working at all.

Rebuiling a tent trailer roof.

There will be times your pop up camper roof needs repair due to cracks from small accidents or extreme weather conditions. We ll do a little roof rebuild series but fair warning. Many times the crank handle stops working and we show you how. I thought so too.

How to do a pop up camper roof rebuild. How to repair an rv metal roof. While rebuilding the roof of the pop up camper wasn t necessarily difficult it was tedious. This won t make it last any longer though.

We really want to go into detail on just how we tackled our pop up camper roof rebuild so we are breaking this post up into several smaller posts. Do you have a pop up camper with a water damaged roof. Before epdm and tpo metal was the material of choice for rv roofs. It is almost inevitable especially if you use it a lot or have had it for quite some time.

In this video we discuss how to repair the lifting mechanism on a coleman niagara popup camper. Clean the roof thoroughly then use a rubber roof sealer to repair any cracks. Household roof coatings will seal a metal roof just fine but the best product by far for metal roofs is kool seal. Tent trailer roof re build.

If you recently purchased or own an older pop up tent trailer pop up camper repair knowledge is a must. After a lot of research though i realized that you could still repair that abs roof and in many cases the owners of the repaired coleman abs roofs were happier with the results than had they gone with a traditional pop up camper roof. Pop up campers pop up campers also known as tent trailers are small lightweight travel trailers that fold down while traveling and through a system of cranks and pulleys pop up when you are camping. We figured out how to fix it by removing all of the water damaged wood and then rebuilding the roof structure and reattaching the aluminum skin.