Quadriderdad's 7x14 toyhauler

[Quadriderdad]

Very nice.

I have thought about opening up my doors to insulate them and brace for a door lock. Were they hard to get apart? Did you open up the inside or the outside? Any does or don'ts that you ran into? Difficult to get rehung and aligned?

Thanks!

Hi again Cindy!
The hardest part was taking them off the hinges and re-hanging them. On mine you just unscrew the trim extrusion around the perimeter of the door (screws on inside and outside)...they slipped right off since there was very little sealant holding it together. The exterior sheetmetal was not glued to the plywood and the spliced plywood panels were not attached to each other so basically once I got the extrusions off it pretty much fell apart...lol. Yours may be different. While I had them apart I fastened the plywood together with a wide crown staple then spray adhesived the sheetmetal to the ply and wood glued my new interior panel to the ply. This and several more screws around the frame with alot of sealant on the edges when I put it back together made them quite a bit more rigid.

Jamie

[Quadriderdad]

Here is my side door rebuild. Added the RV latch and window...




Had to make a spacer shim to get the door to the correct thickness as the latch I have is designed for a 1-1/2" door...

[Rainier70]

Were all your doors pretty much a solid plywood core? I was thinking that the doors were mostly hollow?

[Quadriderdad]

Were all your doors pretty much a solid plywood core? I was thinking that the doors were mostly hollow?

Yep...solid plywood. I thought the same thing at first

[Rainier70]

Thanks for the response. If mine are that way, I won't have to insulate.

[cornfused]

The door on my trailer is/was hollow with a 1x1 steel tube frame. I pulled off some of the inner panel enough to slide some left over chunks of insulation from the walls in and spray foamed some of the smaller nooks and crannies. I also added a sheet of .1" thick aluminum tread plated to the inner part of the door near the latch and it stiffened it up quite a bit.

[Glenlivet]

Well done RV latch! Now if it were me I'd get a long shackle padlock and when the cam lock is open and the lever is hanging down and there's more room behind the vertical tube, lock the lever against that tube at night. That way no 'prankster' can close the latch and lock me in. You could just lock the clasp closed with the lever left out too, but the lever is then still available to bungee on or something like that.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but never give 'em a chance to get ideas. Lock the lever to the tube and it's totally disabled.

[Quadriderdad]

Well done RV latch! Now if it were me I'd get a long shackle padlock and when the cam lock is open and the lever is hanging down and there's more room behind the vertical tube, lock the lever against that tube at night. That way no 'prankster' can close the latch and lock me in. You could just lock the clasp closed with the lever left out too, but the lever is then still available to bungee on or something like that.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but never give 'em a chance to get ideas. Lock the lever to the tube and it's totally disabled.

Ha..no not to paranoid. I think about that also. But for now until I have an egress window on roadside just in case Been thinking about doing something different but not sure what yet...the padlocks get kind of annoying rattling in the hasps when you walk thru the trailer.