Northbynortheast
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- Dec 7, 2018
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Sorry for your trouble,
You’ve found what I consider to be the Achilles heel of this camper. The design of the roof it seems, cannot deal with much point loading. Unfortunately you don’t have to do much Googling to find others that have damaged their roofs. With what you are trying to carry you are well overloaded and that the roof is sagging indicates that it has been fatigued. A new/healthy fwc roof should have a slight upward bow to it. I engaged fwc in a discussion about this issue recently and suggested to them that a solution to this problem would be to mount the Yakima track on outboard most roof beams where any weight on the racks would then have the full support of the outer walls. The company/engineers argued an indefensible position that what they are doing now is as strong. It seems too that it would not take that much additional weight or height to bolster the design for a stronger roof. For now, I’d recommend moving the cross bars as far from the center of the camper as possible and get the load on the roof certainly under 100 lbs.
Good luck
You’ve found what I consider to be the Achilles heel of this camper. The design of the roof it seems, cannot deal with much point loading. Unfortunately you don’t have to do much Googling to find others that have damaged their roofs. With what you are trying to carry you are well overloaded and that the roof is sagging indicates that it has been fatigued. A new/healthy fwc roof should have a slight upward bow to it. I engaged fwc in a discussion about this issue recently and suggested to them that a solution to this problem would be to mount the Yakima track on outboard most roof beams where any weight on the racks would then have the full support of the outer walls. The company/engineers argued an indefensible position that what they are doing now is as strong. It seems too that it would not take that much additional weight or height to bolster the design for a stronger roof. For now, I’d recommend moving the cross bars as far from the center of the camper as possible and get the load on the roof certainly under 100 lbs.
Good luck