Lance 1161 Wing Repair

I put the finishing touches on a couple of nights ago..... Getting ready for a 3 week adventure to Yellowstone National Park, via the I-90 route through SD and the Black Hills, then back through the midwest.... Will be in Grant Village at YNP for 5-6 days over the July 4th holiday.....



Here is the finished product. I love the Marinco electrical connection.... Much better looking and makes the cord easier to handle... only drawback is cord storage but a sacrifice I'm willing to make. The filon seam molding is labeled as "Roof Seam Transition Molding" on my invoice from Lance. It normally comes 102" in length and I had them cut it in half and ship it with the filon. The rear jack mount to the bumper was originally bent a little so I took this opportunity to straighten it back out while the jack was off. Bolted the jack back on using the existing bolts/washers/nuts.



This is the back side of the wing. Between the wing and the black plastic "belly pan" Lance used what I believe was some type of weather strip. I cleaned off the old stuff and used a new weather strip that compressed well. The belly pan was screwed back to the wing (the above picture is missing two screws...... those were added after the picture was taken). The interior seam was heavily caulked. I wasn't too particular about its appearance but it did turn out well.

While I was at it with the caulking gun, I cleaned up the wing on the passengers side near the entry door. There is some rot in there too but not as bad as the drivers side. I'll tackle that when I get back from vacation. For now, I pulled some of the shorter screws out of the molding and replaced them with longer screws so they would grab in to some solid wood and then I re-caulked the molding after removing the old stuff and wiping everything down with 3M Adhesive Remover.... Ready to roll.....



And last but certainly not least..... getting the wiring connected to the dinghy!! For the last few years we have pulled a VW Beetle on a dolly behind us for the adventure drives once we set up camp..... Mixed it up a bit this year and got a new-to-us Jeep Wrangler for that purpose now. Still have the Beetle which is my wife's daily driver....

Well, that's all for now. It was a fun repair project and not terribly hard, with the right tools. As for cost, the biggest cost was from Lance for the filon and the seam molding. The filon was $45.00, molding was $32.00, and the cost to ship it (FedEx 3 day air..... I was in a hurry!) was $58.00. Caulking was $6.00 (1 tube), screws were $8.00 (1 box), Fresh Butyl tape was $13.00 (1 roll - I have enough to do about 25 wing repairs now!!). The Marinco power inlet was about $42.00 with shipping (ordered on Amazon), and the 30 amp twistlock plug with the locking boot was $29.00 from local Camping World. Everything else that I used was either free or "stuff" that I had in the garage and shed, mostly leftover from my previous camper's wing repair jobs. So a grand total of about $233.00 into this project..... As for time, I probably have about 20-24 hours total into the project. My 17 year old son helped quite a bit too as he loves the challenge of the mind....

When I get to the repair on the passengers side, I will log that as well.....

So for now...... West bound for Yellowstone!!!!