How To Tighten Awning Over Slide Out

During regular use of your rv the awning fabric and slide in the awning tube causing alignment is.

How to tighten awning over slide out.

And rvs with slide outs a compartment that extends out from the main cabin providing extra living quarters are sometimes made with awnings over the slide out. In order to get the awning up and stable the tension needs to be adjusted to get the fabric taut. How do you tighten up slideout awnings that are sagging. Roller should now be free of mounting hardware.

It s best to have three people for this job. The roller has a spring in it. Many if not most slide toppers have only one spring which is probably the side that is tight. Depending on the make and model there is a different method to adjust the tension.

Two people will handle the awning arms one at each end while another one will feed the cord into your awning rail. The awning over the big living room slide collects water because there is not enough tension to keep a constant slope. The last step is to reinstall the rv awning. Here is brad taylor showing how to adjust an awning fabric.

Dear jim well it depends on the size and make of your slide topper. Remove end cap or mount. I had my slide out awnings installed by the dealer lakeshore rv. If not then repeat the previous steps.

Roll the awning back up to observe how tight it is. Usually takes 2 people. Make sure it will not fall out. Different rv makers use different awning systems.

If you over tighten the spring it will break. Thanks for submitting your question on our ask an rv question page. Since you do not tell me who manufactured your slideout topper awnings it will be very hard for me to tell you how to adjust the tension on them. Only rotate the legs one or two turns at a time and don t do more than 4 or 5 total.

Roll up topper on roller. Is there a way to adjust the tension on the end of the awning. Adjusting slide topper awnings is fairly simple. Just like that your awning is back in action.

And i ve called and left a message still awaiting the return. If you are satisfied move on. You do not need to put the screws back in. Step 5 re install awning.

You ll be sitting cool in the shade. The awning over my slideout is sagging on one end but the other end is tight as both ends should be. Put a cotter pin in the hole. The slight slack allows water to puddle then as the puddle gets bigger.

However perhaps someone here knows how to tighten the slide out awning.