Gluing the Pieces Parts Back On!

Debbie and I are getting ready to start our fulltiming adventure. We had originally planned to leave earlier this summer, around June, and spend most of the summer in Washington, but instead of just a three month summer vacation, Debbie and I decided to lease our house, move into the Horizon and try fulltiming for awhile. It's taken longer than expected to pack up the house and try to stuff all the stuff we think we need into the Horizon. It seemed to have a lot more storage space when we were only going for the weekends.

We also had to get the house ready to lease. This job became a lot easier when the youngest son decided to move into the house. We left him most of our furniture to use including my HDTV I had just mounted over the fireplace in the living room. We moved the rest into a spare bedroom. He moved in the first of August and is going to take care of the yard and our mail. We have our fingers crossed.

This weekend we are hosting an outing at Bodega Bay with our RV club, the Concord Caravaner's. After a Continental breakfast Sunday morning we'll head to 7 Feather's RV Resort in Oregon. It will be a long day's drive but the park has a fantastic indoor spa which is great after a long drive. We plan to just be there one night and then on up to Port Susan where we have a camping lot. It will be a shorter drive and after taking time for breakfast in the 7 Feather's Casino and grabbing a couple of poor boy sandwiches from the deli for lunch on the way, we should reach Port Susan early afternoon.

It may come as no surprise to other Winnebago owners that some of the body parts of my coach are temporally glued on. Both the front and rear hood brackets came loose as well as a bracket glued to the lower right front cap. The lower front cap bracket allowed the bottom of the cap to move forward as you can see in this picture. I didn't remove the existing glue, I just roughed it up with a wire wheel. The metal bracket was also roughed up with a course flat grinding disk..

Front cap has moved forward as seen by the white paint line

This is the bracket re-glued on the inside of the cap

I also removed the the front hood so I could re-glue the fiberglass to the inside hood frame. There were some cracks in the glue joints but it hadn't fallen off yet. Here is a picture of the hood off and the back of the hood with the frame re-glued.

Front Hood Removed

Re-glued Frame to Hood

The rear engine hood bracket was also re-glued and the frame was re-glued without removing the hood. I only was able the glue the top and bottom of this hood frame.