Hi,

here are some Pictures from my Summer project, Restauration of a 1985 Lance:













has some Water damage, but i hope i get it done well!

regards

Torsten

Man, a lot of work. I have seen so many folks run out of energy on restoration projects as they take a long time and a lot of commitment.

You have the same rot/water damage at the front drivers eyelet. Have you started your repair? I'm starting mine Monday.

Hi,

i have remove the Mattress yesterday, under it i foud a lot o Moisture traces. So i remove the rotten wood and find a older repair.

Someone put a weldet Steelframe in but they dont change the also rotten sidewalls and the Steelframe ist not srewed to the Frame. So its a stupid bullshit repair, i will take some Pictures.

My plan is to remove the planking and restore the complete front, wood be nice to see pictures from you, maybe we can help eachother.

This Program makes Pictures here realy easy: http://picr.de/ works great without registration, than only copy and pace!

Best regards

Torsten

Torsten, you need to pick up mine... No issues like that...lol

You and I both know, when there is a soft tie down, chances are it's rotted wood on the sill plate above it.

Hi Flip,

that not that easy, because the one from you is for my son , so the old guy must show what repairworks he can do

but hey! the Camper was for free, i like woodwork, wood is not that expensive and everything work on this unit.

best regards

Torsten

Hi,
here are the Pictures from the Waterdamage and the older repairs that i found in this Area



This is the old wood that i cut out



you can see the Steelframe, but it only lays on the old wood on the botom its not srewed in any points to the wooden frame









Best regards

Torsten

Hi,
after a long time waiting for dry and warm weather (we never had so mutch rain in the Summer like this year)

i start do disample the Lance, i remove all the Aluminiumplanking and find some damage and rotten wood now i can start to make a plan what wood must be replace and how i can do it.

The front of the Camper comes down around two inch in case of the stupid repair that was made years ago in a RV Shop in Arizona, i hope they go bust with there business, because they do not know what they do, and they damage more as they repair.

But the Homepage on the older invoice (preowner paid $2000 for this repair) is not longer online, so i hope they dont damage any Camper or RV in the future!




















Best regards

Torsten

here are the rest of Todays Pictures

















best regards

Torsten

Not a lot of damage. A few more hours, a few dollars for wood, and many hours of cleaning and you've got a really nice Lance!

Get rid of all that OSB. Amazing Lance used that junk. Replace it with CDX treated with Marine Spar and you'll never regret it.

Enjoy your project and the great outdoors!

Better you than me....

Hi DW,

not Lance use the OSB, that was an RV Shop that repairs the Camper with this Junk!

Flip you are right

regards

Torsten

OSB is terrible stuff. Easy to work with, contains chemicals know to cause cancer in lab animals, very prone to water uptake and rot.

Torsten, I'd yank all that spun glass wool water sponge) insulation and replace it with block foam insulation. Easier to work with, no itching and better R value.

Better off with an aluminium skinned camper. Filon skinned campers are 10 times harder to work on because removal and replacement of the Filon (fiberglass sheeting) entails a complete removal of a side (and complete replacement) and Filon is bonded to the inner substrate, a real PITA to repair.

Hi Flip,

you are right i will get all the USB out doing the restaurtion!

today it was dry so i start to remove the Planking from the Underside of the Cabover, now i can see the resuld of the stupid repairs in that area:













Did anyone know how the wooden strukture of the Caboverbottom looks in original shape?


Regards from Germany

Torsten