Like everything else in these Montana's EVERYTHING has to be reinforced, restrengthened, or rebuilt. While you have the refrigerator out, get some lumber and build a new frame inside the cabinet where the refrigerator sits. Start from the floor up and wedge everything in tight. Make one additional new structure firmly connect to the adjoining part so the entire new structure is self standing and self supporting. No dependency on the trailer walls. Anchor to the floor, then use very short screws to anchor to the styrofoam wall. Liquid Nails works great too.
Then attach the refrigerator to the new construction. I did this with the main closet when the entire shelf and attached cloths bar collapsed (on our very first trip), and also in the cabinet where the washing machine and dryer sit, since neither the washer or dryer is sitting on the floor, but on a shelf, directly above the water heater.
Sometimes, you've just got to rebuild these campers, or at least part of them to make them truly functional (and strong). ... No, I do not depend on the aluminum studs. I build from the floor up. So far, everything has performed well after my various rebuilds.
(as I write this, we are getting the washing machine and dryer installed). I took 3 days to reinforce the cabinet where they will sit, including painting the inside of the cabinet where it was raw wood, and the new supports holding the shelves up. It was a lot of measuring, cutting, and fitting, but those shelves will be holding some weight and bouncing down the road through an earthquake. I built that sucker strong!
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