Replace A Coleman Abs Roof

Drill the end s of any cracks to reduce the stress and keep it from cracking further.

Replace a coleman abs roof.

Sometimes you may need to slide a putty knife between the abs roof and the old seal to coax it off. Also be sure and remove the old gasket and residue as you will replace it after resurfacing the roof. Original coleman and fleetwood roofs and equipment. Coleman abs roof 1.

It doesn t have to be a big. Placed them in a small canning jar in a ratio of 1 part pellets to 1 1 2 parts acetone. Gaskets seals latches trims and more are available from the experts in pop up camping. Pour equal parts abs powder and mek into a glass jar.

Making the abs paste. We carry a large selection of original equipment hard to find roof and related hardware. Let it sit overnight. My other thought is i wonder if they would sell the blueprints for the replacement roofs.

Stir mixture with screwdriver. The a c unit is of course heavy so be careful taking it off. Once the cover was off i slowly rocked the unit back and forth to free it from the double sided sticky sealant gasket on the roof. No way would be right as there s no new roof replacement for a failed abs roof since this roof has been out of production since 2003 and the coleman factory itself is now permanently out of business.

Abs powder and mek can normally be found in the pvc area at most hardware stores. Rough up the abs around the crack and clean it with abs pvc cleaning solvent. The abs had separated into a liquid slurry and a gel like chunk. Purchased abs pellets from apache replacement parts.

Remove the old rubber seal. Abs cleaner is sometimes called pvc abs cleaner solvent. The sun really dried them out and there was some severe cracking and delamination on many campers. I had to work a bit.

Clean the area with abs cleaner to remove all debris sap or anything else on the roof. Coleman had to replace quite a few roofs. Does anyone know if coleman made thier own replacement roofs for the failed abs roofs or did they sub it out to anouther company. If someone could make them and sell them reasonable they could properly make a buck or 2.