Whats holding the walls down?

[Frozeneagle]

Hello everyone,
at the beginning of the season, I went out and cleaned my RV and found that about 20 square ft of the floor was rotted through from the door side front corner back to the wheelwell.
I've cleaned all that mess and have a gap between the bottom of the wall and the top of the floor frame where I cleaned out all the rotted wood. Now I need to get the new floor back underneath that wall, and I need to make a little more room, so I loosened some of the nuts on the bolts that go through the frame outrigger to the floor frame, thinking they were carriage bolts holding the wall down through the floor frame. What I got however is some of these bolts have loosened and wont tighten back up. They act like theres a nut on the top of the bottom plate of the wall. Can anyone tell me about the bolt type and if I need to pull the paneling off to get to a nut or something on the top?

Its a Jayco Jayflight 195RB

Thanks for the help.

[Bugzilla46310]

Try contacting Jayco. They are pretty responsive on getting prints to those who request them.

[Onyrlef]

[QUOTE=Frozeneagle;1064422]Hello everyone,
at the beginning of the season, I went out and cleaned my RV and found that about 20 square ft of the floor was rotted through from the door side front corner back to the wheelwell.
I've cleaned all that mess and have a gap between the bottom of the wall and the top of the floor frame where I cleaned out all the rotted wood. Now I need to get the new floor back underneath that wall, and I need to make a little more room, so I loosened some of the nuts on the bolts that go through the frame outrigger to the floor frame, thinking they were carriage bolts holding the wall down through the floor frame. What I got however is some of these bolts have loosened and wont tighten back up. They act like theres a nut on the top of the bottom plate of the wall. Can anyone tell me about the bolt type and if I need to pull the paneling off to get to a nut or something on the top?

Its a Jayco Jayflight 195RB



Odd they'd use a nut and bolt for an outrigger, at one time they used lag bolts to secure the outriggers to the floor and/or bottom plate, since the outrigger only supports the weight of the outside wall. If it's wallowed out its not going to tighten up. If it's a lag bolt you can go up a size, i.e., 5/16" to 3/8".