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Cargo Doors

Yahoo Message Number: 86504
better give my coach 2005 Inspire #51389 79,352 miles.
Well I'm trying to repair what CC could have prevented with a single line of caulk.
Several of my cargo doors have come loose from the coach. This happen with one door not 5 months after I received my Coach. CC "fixed" it and told me that pot metal screws had been used instead of Stainless Steel.
Now after 8 years another door came loose so I removed the channels from both sides of the coach and found 1 out three rusted off.
So I have removed the doors and placed a line of silicone caulk behind the channel and screwed it on the coach. Now its a perfect seal.
In removing all of this, I find that under the slides CC used some sort of black mastic which was painted over. This the material you look at when you open a cargo door and peer up. Looks and dissolves like tar roof patch, but I know CC would never stoop to using something like that.

Does anyone know what this black mastic is?

Thanks in advance

Richard Woelk

CC 2005 Inspire #51389

Re: Cargo Doors

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 86512
I think it is the same thing they use on my slide about 2 or 3" wide black like duck tape and it made a mess out of my slide and rubber seal. Had to use a gasket scraper and goo gone to remove it took about 1hr to get it off, what a mess. It was only on one side of the slide have one more slide to do, like the right hand did not know what the left was doing.
Not 1 of my cargo doors would close and lock, had to shim out the hooks and yes the screws are pot metal 2 broke off removing them, may have to drill and tap.
Floyd 2006 51744