ciaboudreau
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Anyone out there familiar with the Canadian company that makes/sells gas struts? Need to replace the struts on my hawk and am looking for some that will make it easier to pop the top.
Go up one subforum level to Truck Campers and read the stickied post near the top entitled “roof lifting shock helper shock thingys” or something like that.ciaboudreau said:Anyone out there familiar with the Canadian company that makes/sells gas struts? Need to replace the struts on my hawk and am looking for some that will make it easier to pop the top.
Industry Leading Gas Spring Hardware | Gemini Gas Springs Inc.ciaboudreau said:Anyone out there familiar with the Canadian company that makes/sells gas struts? Need to replace the struts on my hawk and am looking for some that will make it easier to pop the top.
Are you happy with the 40lb struts? Any thoughts that you should have gone with 50lb?Jon R said:Suspa is the brand used on my 2021 Grandby. It came with 30 lb struts. I changed to 40 lb struts after installing 50 lbs of solar panels.
What extra stuff have you got on the roof?superduty said:Are you happy with the 40lb struts? Any thoughts that you should have gone with 50lb?
Good to know. My load out is similar to yours... 45# solar panel, 2 maxtrax, starlink, 7 way cell antenna and sometimes a 39# canoe.superduty said:About 50lb solar panel, starlink, four maxtrax and associated aluminum to mount everything. Is not done yet, but that's the plan.
The 40 lb struts seem to be just about right for me. I almost decided to stick with 30 lb struts on the rear, but went to 40s all around. I did not consider higher force struts because of the owners manual caution and past threads I’ve seen about strut bracket mounting screws getting worked and coming loose. The front of mine is a little heavier to lift because of the lifting location being about 2/3 along the roof. The front comes down on its own. The rear I need to pull down the first foot before it goes on its own, but that’s easy standing on the rear bumper.superduty said:Are you happy with the 40lb struts? Any thoughts that you should have gone with 50lb?
The upper attach points to the roof shown at the left of this picture are the weak point. The brackets are held by two relatively small screws into the aluminum roof valance and frame.superduty said:Vic,
When you say mount points are you referring to where the gas struts attach?
Did you do anything to beef them up?
Assuming you never put the canoe up top, would you still go with the 80/60?
One advantage of using a speaker lift is I can stop the decent anytime I want. My camper is old and no longer has the 'fold in' helpers. The speaker lift allows me to stop the decent and correct the stowing of the sidewalls.Vic Harder said:. . . When it gets more than half way down, it wants to fall the rest of the way, and I have to work hard to slow the rate of descent so that the sidewalls have time to fold properly . . .
Nope. 2x80 and 2x60 No fooling around...superduty said:Vic,
When you say 80 and 60 do you mean 40x2 and 30x2?
Buckland, isn't that area already stronger than the others? What did you do for the area that JonR posted a pic for?buckland said:If you look back a long time ago search on install I made a pdf of 15 page instructions for my eagle. Here is a 1/4" aluminum plate installed on the outside front and back (different dimensions ) which gives both side opposing force balance so relieving all stress from bolts and wall structure. Rock solid