The piano hinge that attaches the push bar to the front lift panels has slowly broken more and more on our 2005 Grandby - it's now being held together by only one of the original hinge fingers and an ad hoc fix with random hardware store parts (managed to fit a cotter pins around the hinge axle and compress it with a couple of washers and a bolt). The last finger is about to snap, so it's time to get in a more permanent solution.
It looks like replacing it would require drilling out all of the rivets on the lift panels, but there's an old thread from 2007 that indicates it may be easier (with a couple of pictures of the problem):
http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/topic/820-push-board/
Has anyone else replaced this hinge? And is there an easy way to do it without tearing apart the whole front lift panels?
Thanks !
It looks like replacing it would require drilling out all of the rivets on the lift panels, but there's an old thread from 2007 that indicates it may be easier (with a couple of pictures of the problem):
http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/topic/820-push-board/
Has anyone else replaced this hinge? And is there an easy way to do it without tearing apart the whole front lift panels?
Thanks !