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General Boards => Technical Support => Topic started by: Walter Davis on July 16, 2026, 11:47:26 PM
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On my 2001 Marquis Jasper double slide, I am having an issue with the basement door just to the aft of the AquaHot bay. The one with the slide tray behind it.
When you open the rear end side of the door releases but the top of the frontend side is catching on something. To open you have to get your finger on the open side top and work to the front pulling the gap open. When you reach just passed the center it will pop open on the right side.
Initially I thought the door was not aligned properly and the right side need to be lowered. However lowering that side will make the gap between doors uneven as it won't be square any longer.
Not sure what to do here. I don't want to take a grinder to the top inside lip of thge door, but don't know what else to door.
Any ideas on how to fix wouold be greatly appreciated.
Walter
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Look at your other doors, there are small blocks that keep the door centered. When they wear out or fall off the door can move back and forth.
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Another look at it....... If your coach is like ours, then the doors open outwards and their bottom edges swing up vertically, and what sticks on one side of the door when opening it is the retractable nylon catch about half way between the top door hinge and the bottom of the door. The catch is not mechanically adjustable, but the catch's receiver can be moved a bit or the nylon leading edge can be filed down to shorten it. Usually what I find to be successful in opening the doors is to make sure I lift the door latch completely up as high as it will go to fully retract the nylon catch.
Note: Our coach's curbside slide basement door is farther to the rear and its door is a double-wide panaflex style bus basement storage door. It also catches on one side and is difficult to open.
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I make sure to push in on the doors when I lift the latch. Also some WD40 helps some of my doors.
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David has the right idea, push the door in tight, then pull the latch. What I finally did was put a slight s bend in the latch rods and now it works great.