New member here, been camping my whole life with my parents, but finally my wife and i bought a camper to take our family camping. had a bit of a mishap in a small gas station parking lot. Long story short, I made contact with a parked semi trailer with the rear of the awning
, and ended up bending the rear arm towards the back of the trailer, and pulling the awning arm end off the aluminum round housing that its riveted too, which exposed the spring. I bent the arm back into place(which actually wasn't that bad, but sure looked awful) but i had to rivet the awning arm back onto the aluminum round housing that the awning rolls onto. Got it all put back together, and the awning amazingly extends all the way out as it did before. But when reeling it back in, it seems a bit slower than what it was previously, and the rear arm doesn't get tight to the camper like the front does. I did have to smack the rear arm rail that is mounted to the camper a bit to get it to allow the part of the arm that folds out so it could properly close tight to the camper. I am a fairly mechanical guy and not afraid to rip into things, but that spring got me thinking, can that be wound up, like a garage door spring to assist that so the rear arm gets tight up against the camper? the front arm works like its suppose to and is tight against the camper. any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you