Rene T
Site Team
I recently purchased a truck camper used and just got to use it for the first time this weekend. I wanted to extend the side awning which is a Freedom lll Box Awning by Carefree. I extended it with the manual crank and found that the 2 awning rafters (for lack of better words) were different lengths. The one closest to the front of the truck was just about straight (they pivot in the middle) and the rear one still had about a foot of travel at the center pivot before it would have been straight. Without taking a actual measurement (no tape measure) of the two rafters, I would guess that the rear one is probably at least 8" to 12" longer overall than the front one. Is this normal. The owners manual doesn't say anything about this. I'm wondering if the previous owner had to replace one rafter at one time and the factory sent them the wrong one.