Well, we started out pretty early Saturday after dropping the cat off at the vet, Emerson and I went east and arrived in Yakima by about 9:15. We brought along plenty of ratchet tie-downs, old towels and U-Haul brand plastic wrap. Cameron (guy I bought it from) and I wrapped it all up and got her strapped down to the GTI for the trip home. Only adjustment I needed to make was the tie strap that went through the cab needed to have a rag under it so it wouldn't flap on the roof. This is my view on the way home:
So when I got home we unwrapped it, figured out it was longer than I thought it was... so we needed to make a few adjustments to make it work. First was now that it was an extra foot longer, I would need to mount the lower front foot above the wheel well, instead of in the trim behind it. I had to flip the top brackets over to make it fit.
Nothing to major. I will probably put another couple of screws in the top on either side of the mount point when I fully install it... right now since I don't have the fabric yet, this is a test run of sorts to make sure it fits and works properly.
So the front arm installed like this:
You can also see from here I needed to cut about 2 inches off the arm in the front to allow the inner leg and arm to retract enough to clip into the lower mount without lifting the arm out of the travel lock. This will not affect the total length of the arm at all, everything below that grey and black latch was not necessary for height.
and the rear into the trim (frame) like this:
You can see, there really is no longer awning that would have fit on this 25 Footer (remember the bustle is included in that length too)
and the full awning installed! (Awaiting new fabric, that green is NOT staying there! :)
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