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Originally Posted by eichhoma (Post 3179204)

you mind giving a little more info on this exactly? I replaced mine 2 years ago and they are about due again... I am liking the idea of what you are saying... have any pics? mark

No, I don't have any pictures. I went to a ACE hardware store and found a piece of a window seal clamp for a screen or window. It was C shaped, made of aluminum, and had just the correct gap to slide past the small metal cylinder shaft. It was the correct length. I just open the hatch, slide the C clamp looking object on the gas metal cyclinder and it keeps the cyclinder from closing. It wedges it open. I think it is about 2 inches long. The gap was a little small when I bought it, but I bent it open just a little to make it work.......$5.00

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Originally Posted by Croozin2 (Post 3178822)

One of my cabin hatches has come loose on the hinge side. It actually looks like the "pins" that the hatch pivots on have recessed back into the hatch itself. I've got a couple questions;

1) Has anyone else had issues with their hatches?

2) I'm assuming the headliner has to come out of the cabin in order to access the hinge?

3) Is the hinge-pin one long piece that runs completely through the hatch or a short piece on each end?

If anyone has had any experience with this, please chime in.

Thanks in advance, Guys.

sounds like a good excuse to take the cig to miami for the winter :party-smiley-004:

I like how you think! I know mine could use some LIPSHIP attention.

I did not know I had hatches up on the deck. If I do I dont think I have ever opened them. :grinser010: