Lance 830 Window replacement
Anyone have any experience finding a replacement? My bro forgot to latch his and it blew off on the freeway. He called Lance and they told him the company no longer makes that size and he is basical...
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Hi Chris
two months now and about 10 days/nights in the camper in the Sierras with snow/rain.
The windows are doing good ( I actually changed the passenger bedroom one too).
The best advise is take your time to make the mod, I would say the most important is to make sure that your Dicor (I used 3/4 Dicor tape/roll) is uniform around so when you torque it is really sealing the window.
I would have liked an original window, but this is not an option anymore so I think this is the next best thing.
(shipping is not obvious, the second window came destroyed by UPS, I took pictures before opening and requested feedback from the seller before moving forward). The unit was not salvageable, the seller send me a new one that came with no damage)
best of luck.
Thomas
Thomas, thanks for the update. I ordered the second window yesterday and finished the first install today. I believe it’s going to work well and it’s certainly the best replacement I’ve seen. I have several comments that might help others. I ordered the mg16rw from the same group on Amazon as you did. It took about a week and came undamaged but without instructions. It is fairly intuitive but I had to dry fit it to figure out how the clamps worked. The supplied clamps do not work on the top and bottom. I was then able to go to a sheet metal shop to have them bend a piece after which I drilled and cut to width. I made the long side about 1/2” longer. These were only for the top and bottom. Interestingly enough the window fit in perfectly but……the upper right and lower left were right on the edge so I had to slightly modify the opening to balance. It took all of about 5 minutes with a hack saw. I would strongly suggest dry fitting at least a couple of times. Like you I used shims at the top and bottom but I used 3m 4000 with some stainless sheet metal screws to attach to the foam. At the bottom I fastened to the metal L-brackets. I also used Dicor butyl tape to seal. As you commented the torque is a little uncertain so I tightened by hand several times around then used a wrench to tighten a little more.
Good stuff. I am glad that you found the solution that works fo you too. We are now at about 20 days/night with the new windows in the Sierras with no issues. I realized in my previous post that I said Dicor on the window frame, but I used the butyl tape (ie not the tube sealant) As for the top/bottom brackets, I used/made some from 2”x2”x0.5” corner brackets from HD/Lowes that I cut and drilled to the correct dimensions as I did not think about a custom sheet metal option.
Happy camping.Hello Thomas, I found this thread as I had a window fly off today (drivers side upper bunk). I must have not latched it correctly. A bummer after 11 years of travel it without incident. I was wondering if you (or anybody else that may read this) would be willing to sell their original window as I know a few people have had the same issue and replaced them with new windows in pairs. I am hoping to avoid replacing the whole assembly as I'm afraid my skills are not up to the task. I would be willing to pay any reasonable amount it as it would really be a life saver. Thank you very much. Henry Pauli 845 453-7319
Hi, HenryPauli, I am sorry, I am keeping the extra window that I changed on the passenger side as a backup for the two other original windows. A lot of boondocking with that camper on my side, so I replaced the orginal windows twice (tree branches) so I am pretty sure it will happen again.
The replacement is by itself pretty straightforward. I was personnaly quite afraid of playing on anything that could potentially leak or change the frame and I was not conviced of the look, so I really looked hard everywhere to not have to do that mod.
But overall, the repair is not that difficult. the chances of messing up are minimal as you are not touching the frame or cutting any existing wall. If you want, I can try to walk through the most difficult parts through a facetime on my already modified camper (to show you on the camper the four most important portions of the repair "the removal", the "butyl tape", the "shim" and the "special brackets".) Anyway. let me know.
