I took mine stripes off a few years back to clean. (I did not remove
the ends which are riveted on).

I just put in place and used my thumbs to squeeze and pop on.

Expect each side to take approx 1.5 hours.

I've had no problems over the years since using that techique.

Ira

Eric Greenwell wrote:
My 12 year old blue stripes turned brown several years ago, so I'm now
trying to install the new ones. It's not going well.

The factory instructions call for hot soapy water on the trailer and
stripe, then the end is pulled by one person while another feeds/pushes
it into the aluminum extrusions. This works until about 8 feet is on the
trailer, then it gets hard to go any farther. With 22 feet of trailer
left, I don't think we'll make it!

They do mention using an additional 1 or 2 people in the middle to help
push the stripe along, but we didn't have more people.

Does anyone have experience with this, and how did you get the stripe in
place? Ideas from people that have never done this are also welcome, as
I doubt there are many "stripe replacement" experts, and they might not
be reading RAS.