2001 Lance 1121 Rot Repair
Update 05/02/2020: This is a topic I posted in 2014 detailing the replacement of the two rear skirts on a 2001 Lance 1121, which is an all-wood frame camper. After the skirt replacement, I then cov...
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I like your excellent report.
I can't say that I enjoyed it though... I felt the pain... the aggravation of substandard factory builds.
I know that many of us caused the problems.... we want more and more appliances, solar panels, bigger water and holding tanks.... and we want to haul our mega campers on trucks with barely enough capacity.
It's much bigger trucks or the lightest possible campers...
Filon. Ugg!
The truck manufacturers also have a problem... they build trucks with minimum amounts of ridged metals... to increase the amount of payload...
ligt weight framing which makes the trucks flex in subtle ways... those flexs are transfered to the campers... furthur stressing the campers light weight frames and the filon... causing gaps, tears, leaks and rots.
It is our fault. If we could just be satisfied with reasonable wants.
Thanks for posting the fixs...
Sleepy
I can't say that I enjoyed it though... I felt the pain... the aggravation of substandard factory builds.
I know that many of us caused the problems.... we want more and more appliances, solar panels, bigger water and holding tanks.... and we want to haul our mega campers on trucks with barely enough capacity.
It's much bigger trucks or the lightest possible campers...
Filon. Ugg!
The truck manufacturers also have a problem... they build trucks with minimum amounts of ridged metals... to increase the amount of payload...
ligt weight framing which makes the trucks flex in subtle ways... those flexs are transfered to the campers... furthur stressing the campers light weight frames and the filon... causing gaps, tears, leaks and rots.
It is our fault. If we could just be satisfied with reasonable wants.
Thanks for posting the fixs...
Sleepy
