Leaking Compartments

April 03, 2002, 11:06:40 am

Group,

I am not real familiar with the door on the 2000 Magna. However, I am familiar with the piano hinge that CC uses to fasten the compartment doors. If that fiberglass door is hollow core, as I suspect, those rivets going into the door should be sealed. I would open the door and seal the rivets with GE silicone. I would use enough to properly seal the rivets, but not so much as to interfere with the underside rubber seal. You will of course have to leave the door open long enough for the silicone to dry. You could use clear or some other color to match.

Fred Sage 1998 Intrigue Montage, 1999 Honda CR-V

Re: Leaking Compartments

Reply #1 – April 03, 2002, 05:56:27 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 1460

To all:

Yes the basement door had so much water in them that the hold open cylinders would not keep the doors open. The water enters at the top as it runs down the face of the coach.
It enters the doors where

they are drilled for the pop rivets along the top edge of the door.
If CC had used some sort of sealant at that point perhaps there would be no water problem.

Yes I drilled 1/4" holes at each end of each door along the bottom edges as close to the face of the
door as possible .

This hopefully will get the most of it.
The worst door made quite a puddle on the driveway.
To cure the problem one must drill out all the pop rivets and that may not be worth it.

Another point which may be worth mentioning concerns the use of aluminum rivets . The are attaching
stainless steel

(no problem) through fiberglass, (again no problem) to plain steel.
Eventually corrosion will do them
in.

I have had several let go near the joint in the fiberglass bulging fiberglass trim above the basement doors. On a 36 foot Intrigue there are of these joints.
All 4 places the painted joint has cracked open because of the strain on the hinges as opposed by the

cylinders and failed pop rivet conditions (some caused by extra weight of water in the doors).

The cure was to place extra large Stainless steel pop rivets adjacent to the ends of the hinges. The

movement in the fiberglass has been stopped

c100495 wrote:

Re: Leaking Compartments

Reply #2 – April 03, 2002, 08:16:18 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 1464

James,

Thanks for the insight. Has CC been involved at all in your problem?

Dick May

2002 Intrigue, #11438
Member: CCI, FMCA

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