Outriggers Forest River parts

If it's dry you should be ok. If unsure get a wood moisture meter. Inexpensive and very handy tool to have around. You can also check water content in firewood, leaks around windows at home, etc.


moisture meter

If they moved the frame out the floor would just sag worse in the center instead (there are plenty of cases of center sagging too).

They were trying to make the lightest cheapest floor possible and use a cantilever arrangement with overhangs on each side to make it work. Cantilevers are used all the time to extend the span of beams, and they generally work well.

The problem here is the thin lauan sandwich loses stiffness over time so while the cantilever design is sound in concept in practice it didn't work.

I saw a new 179. The outriggers are now factory installed. That does not help those of us with older RPods, but it is good to know that FR recognized the problem and has actually done something to address it.

Unfortunately, I did not take pictures. I think there were four. I only looked on the slide-side. They seemed to be evenly spaced. I did notice that they were welded to the frame and looked to have a rather sturdy bolt coming down through the end.

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