Industrial Gas Springs For Bed Storage

[77vetter]

We just tried to lift up the under bed storage and pulled the springs from the plywood mount. I cant get either spring to extend or contract, they seem to be frozen. The bed was in the lowered position so its not that the springs overextended. We could not get it to lift up so my wife and I both tried and thats when we pulled the springs loose from the top plywood. The RV is only 2 years old, do these things go bad this quickly or is there something I'm missing.

This is our first RV so everything is new to me. Do I just need to purchase a new set? seems kind of weird they are both like this???

Thanks!

[sourdough]

I've never had an issue with the gas struts on a trailer bed, nor that kind of issue at all. I have had several issues with gas struts on automobiles and boats. They're all basically the same. A strut can be very hard to extract so it may just be in the contacted state and hard to pull out.

If the struts were in the correct position and not one that had them in a bind thus causing them to pull out, I would say you need new struts. I've had them last for years and I've had some deteriorate in a couple of years. All of mine lost their ability to hold compression and would collapse too easily. You can probably get them from a dealer but there are places on the internet that sell them as well. Good luck.

[wahoonc]

It is possible that the struts were not mounted properly and pulled out.

I put major reinforcing when I put mine in. On one of my buddies units we used carriage bolts. The struts are under pressure, when you pulled them out of the wood did they open up? If not you have bad struts, remount the bracket securely and get a new set of struts the correct size.

Aaron:cool:

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