2720SL lights in vent dumb idea

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After we picked up our 2011 2720SL I noticed the living room lights, the ones in the vents, rub the back shell when the front shell is closed. My fix for this dumb idea; the lights are in the vents because of clearance when closed anyways; is to pull the lights a little tighter into the vent. To do this I used some scrap inch and half aluminum angle and 1 inch flat aluminum. Cut the inch and half 4 inches long. Cut the 1 inch flat 2 1/2 inches long. The 1 inch flat needs to be bent at an 1 1/2 inch minus the thickness of the 1 1/2 inch angle. You are going to pop rivet the flat piece to 1 1/2 angle in the middle thus forming a small channel. Align all this with the bracket that runs front to back in the vent, has the crank handle attached, and the two holes closest to each other in each light that face the front of the TM. If someone can give instruction I'll add pictures to this post. I drilled the two holes in the four inch piece of aluminum to line up with the two light holes closest to each other. When everything is tightened down the lights are now only 1 3/8 into the camper where as before they were almost 1 3/4 inch. This gives a stronger mount then a piece of plastic laying on the screen also. While you are there might as pull out the wiring for the lights remove the wire nuts, solder the wires, seal with silicon and replace the wire nuts. Note: drilling over head like this use a full face shield to keep stuff out of your eyes