How To Repair A Broken Cable On A Eagle Pop-up Camper

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Is my popup camper salvageable? Broken cable, broken corner back up bar.

• Thread starter lbeau616
• Get-go engagement Jun fifteen, 2022

• #1

I bought a 1994 Jayco 1208 popup camper at the beginning of last spring for ~$2,000. The guy nosotros bought information technology from kind of screwed us over. When nosotros went to look at information technology, information technology was popped up. When I went to buy it, it was in the down position. Me being a naive get-go time popup buyer, didn't think to take him crank information technology up or down to make sure it was in working guild.

You guessed information technology. We got it abode, and one of the cables is broken. The left rear corner doesn't become upwards. And so, the solution was that I would creepo it while my boyfriend pushed up the bad corner and propped it up with a 2x2. This seemed to work fine. What I didn't realize is that was putting extra strain on the other iii corners.

Which brings me to my sad story from this past weekend. We went camping for the weekend, and when we tried to crank it down, the RIGHT rear corner would NOT budge. It was stuck in the up position. We tried everything. We tried to get this thing to budge or close to two hours in the rain. Nosotros were at a rustic campground in the eye of nowhere. Finally, out of desperation, my young man took a giant log and just whacked the bar until information technology snapped in half, and we could get it cranked down and towed dorsum home.

Then, commonly I would but trash the camper and cut my losses. But, here's the thing that is making me hesitate. I spent the majority of the spring completely renovating the camper.
Here is an album I fabricated detailing the renovation. http://imgur.com/a/FPW7S. In retrospect, I realize that the fourth dimension spent renovating would have been better spent fixing the caster arrangement.

Should I carp trying to salvage information technology? We are both very handy. But if it's not worth it, information technology's not worth it.

I would need to supercede the right rear support bar, and redo the entire pulley system. The top could probably utilize some TLC too. I recollect there is some rot in in that location. Give it to me straight folks.

Thanks

• #2

The reno looks smashing! I've never re-washed a pulley system, merely as far as investment vs value goes, I think it'southward definitley worth it. You've clearly already invested ALOT of time into the reno, and from what i understand from browsing lift system threads, i dont recall the parts needed to fix the system should be all that expensive. I would definitley do information technology. Its a beautiful camper based on the pics and well worth the minimal monetary investment. Only hope you can source that support bar..

• #3

• #four

jmkay1

2004 Fleetwood/Coleman Utah

The biggest headache is jayco's lift system is all enclosed within the cabinets etc. You lot tin can showtime by taking out those picayune footstep like thing in forepart of the bunks. This will at to the lowest degree requite you a place to kickoff. You may need to take out a back wall of a chiffonier especially by the corner of the cleaved lift mail. I did find out that some rv repair places do not similar repairing jayco'south lift and so may charge an exorbitant labor fee. At that place are a number of YouTube vidos on repairing elevator cables that could aid. Parts should be fairly easy to obtain. Just the thing of trying to figure out how. Good luck.

• #five

Do the repairs, you have already put and then much into information technology that information technology would exist a shame to quit now. Put that and the fact that you are going to know every foursquare inch of the and if anything goes wrong down the road y'all are going to know how to fix it right abroad.

• #half-dozen

Cool thanks anybody. I feel better knowing that information technology's worth fixing. I think my biggest consequence is going to exist sourcing that bar. I don't know how much they've changed over the years, only this is a xx year old camper. Maybe those are a pretty standard part. I'll do some research.

• #7

Wow your camper looks amazing! There is no way that I would not gear up that lift organisation. It can't exist whatever more work then what yous have put into it. With all the moving part's of a pup I remember that you are going to be always working on one matter or something else. This is just something else.

• #viii

Dubbya

Wherever yous get, there you are...

Parts for that onetime system are piece of cake enough to come by and though sometimes frustrating, it'due south easy plenty to figure out. As long as you're willing to do the work yourselves, you lot probably wouldn't spend over $500.

You spent $2K to buy it. Allow'southward say you've put another $500 into it just getting information technology to where it is now. IF you spend Some other $500 to repair cables, supercede all of the pulleys and a few of the lift system components, you'd be in for $3K and you lot'd have a camper you're reasonably happy with.

If yous sell information technology right now without fixing information technology, best case scenario, you MIGHT recover $2K (I seriously dubiety it merely let'due south assume you lot do). You're withal out the time and money spent on repairs/upgrades but you've recovered your initial investment.

Considering that y'all frequently go what you pay for, what would you reasonably wait to be able to buy with $2K? I'd say you'd be looking at a similar camper in a like state of repair to the one you merely sold. Now you've got to spend some other $500 and a ton of time and effort getting it to where you already were with the previous camper.

Whether you lot fix information technology and sell information technology or fix it and keep information technology, the decision if yours. If you lot want to sell it, I'd think that you'd stand to lose more money if you don't fix it. Any Jayco dealer will be able to get parts for it or you can shop online at http://world wide web.popupparts.com or on eBay.

FWIW, nosotros bought our '97 Viking for $2K and limped through our entire first season only propping upwardly the roof on the two forepart corners. Information technology was a pain simply hey, nosotros were campin'!

If you want to do the piece of work yourselves, the L&Due west elevator arrangement repair manual is here: [smg id=2083 blazon=av]

Notation: You tin't rely on the part numbers in the service transmission every bit they're desperately outdated.

• #ix

This is GREAT thanks It looks similar that lift post isn't hard to find afterwards all and it'due south but $76.90!

• #ten

Dubbya

Wherever you go, in that location you are...

Excellent! Be sure to let united states of america know how things progress. If you have any more questions about the lift system, simply post 'em here.

• #eleven

tfischer

A bad 24-hour interval camping beats a cheerio at the part

Did you ever contact the seller? I would take demanded a refund if they withheld something that substantial earlier the buy. Information technology's non like they could claim they didn't know about the issue... it's a pop-upwardly camper fergoodnesssakes... the equivalent would be a car that you lot looked and and saw running, but when you got home you lot then found out it had to be button-started.

• #12

Nah. I figured that anyone who was shady plenty to pull this over on someone wouldn't be too receptive to a refund asking. We bought it off Craigslist with cash and he signed the title over. Past the time we figured it out the post had been removed. Live and learn I estimate. Amend off that it happened to us than some family unit that couldn't beget to get it fixed.

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