Sunday, October 17, 2021

Bringing The New (To Us) Lance Home

 So on Wednesday we completed the inspection and walk through, did the final paperwork, and hooked the Lance to our RAM 2500 to bring her home.



Since we only live a couple of miles from the dealership we were home in a few minutes. Backing this bad boy into the driveway was slightly harder than the clipper ... mainly because A) It's about six feet longer and several inches wider. 
Fortunately, we had a rear view camera/monitor on the Lance to assist. Actually, it was our camera/monitor off the Clipper we traded in ... they could not find the monitor that went with the camera that was already mounted on the back of the Lance. So they removed the camera and replaced it with the wireless Furrion camera I had installed on the Clipper and the matching wireless monitor. 

Our Husky Centerline TS Weight Distro System had also been properly transferred onto the Lance frame. 

*Note To Self* I really, Really, REALLY need to demolish that stupid brick and block mailbox that sits in the driveway and put up a new mailbox by the center sidewalk.

We seriously debated taking the Truck and Lance to the local CAT scales to get the numbers for our new setup ... but it was getting late and we decided it would probably be a better idea to load it up with our standard stuff that we removed from the Clipper before we traded it in, then fill the truck fuel tank, and make sure we had at least 75 gallons of water in the fresh tank. Also, the trailer fuel station was under 1/4 tank, it could probably use a fresh top off. Then hit the CAT scales on the weekend.

Those plans totally blew into the wind by Friday morning because ... 


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