Curtainsider roller jammed in track!

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Any one got any ideas for a quick fix “on the road”?

Just had one get stuck half in/out of the rail, and it isn’t moving an inch.

Tried the following already-

1 Trying to lever it back in using a screwdriver

2 Adding a hammer to the above

3 Using a hammer to “persuade” it back to the kink in the rail where it dropped out.

4 Used a hammer/screwdriver to try and get it out of the rail completely

5 Going and having a ■■■ and coming back to it to see if I’ve missed something obvious. Tried the above again with WD40. No movement.

6 Used crowbar to try and lever it out which nearly resulted in me flying off the trailer.

Taking the curtain “hanger” off won’t solve it, cos the runner will still be in situ.

Any ideas?

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to be honest other than a bigger hammer and swearing at it no.

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Assume there’s a damaged part of the rail it’s popped out of - try tugging it back to there, but chances are it won’t budge now.

The hammer is a good idea, but you can’t hit it like a girl :laughing:

But also find the damaged part of the rail or history will repeat itself.

4

Forkie gives it a Big Nudge ?
But it may do more harm .

5

Tried the lump hammer to the point of deforming the track

Re the forklift. The only way to the damaged roller would be by folding the curtain inwards. Hard to explain. But you wouldn’t get any direct pressure onto the roller and just basically lift the one side of the roof.

6

Fixed. Sort of. (The roller has split apart)

Cheers for the suggestions

7

I used to use the curtain pole to hit it

8

Bit late now, but the best tool would be a Phone & a Defect Note.

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Aha…the good old defect note :smiley: :smiley:

10

NO low bridges about then :wink:

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No. No low bridges. Or cliffs. Or cans of diesel and a match. Sadly.

I just imagined the goods in staff at Asda Doncaster and went at it like that other well known lorry driver with a hammer, Peter Sutcliffe.

On the phone to the office about it and they just said “oh hasn’t that been fixed yet?”

It’s getting done tonight apparently now.

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Forklift driver is a good idea, but don’t try from the top almost guaranteed to damage it more. Strap a buckle to the top the pallet guard on the fork lift and ask him to drive slowly alongside the truck.

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cant do that its against elf n safety :smiley:

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kjw21:
No. No low bridges. Or cliffs. Or cans of diesel and a match. Sadly.

I just imagined the goods in staff at Asda Doncaster and went at it like that other well known lorry driver with a hammer, Peter Sutcliffe.

On the phone to the office about it and they just said “oh hasn’t that been fixed yet?”

It’s getting done tonight apparently now.

Boils my ■■■■ that ■■■■.

I went to a firm a while back, driving a rigid, and the curtain was KNACKERED, to the point that metal was coming from the weaving inside and scrapes the crap out of you, the rollers were knackered, some straps knackered etc.
What really got me though, was I put a defect note in for that truck a year before for the same issues :astonished:

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Same here. It’s not like we have 100’s of trailers. We’ve got 7!

Apparently all 3 of us drivers have had it happen now with that particular trailer and all 3 of us have defect noted/told the office within the last couple of weeks.