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RE: Slide out Awnings sagging
I had to remove my toppers last year as part of other maintenance. Found several You Tube videos with detail procedures to remove the toppers, replace the material and adjusting/setting the spring tension. Not diffacult but unforgiving if you make a mistake.
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Dale.Traveling
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05/13/13 06:40am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Tire pressure readings using a TPMS
My pressure will increase 10-15 lbs typically.
They do increase different amounts depending on several factors.
Sunny side of RV
Road roughness
Inside or outside dual
Crown of the road.
The variances bothered me some on the first couple outings.
Then I got used to it and jsut remember now that it's main purpose is to alert me if something is going wrong.Same with me. 10-15 lbs.
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Dale.Traveling
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05/09/13 08:05pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Motorhome tire life?
You also need to consider the real age of the tires and not the model year of the coach. The chassis builder buys and installs the tires then delivers the chassis to the coach builder. No telling how long the tires were warehoused at the chassis builder or how long the chassis was waiting before the house was built. So you could have six year old tires.
Check the date codes and do an off the rim inspection. Any good Over The Road (OTR) truck tire service center can do the work. Get a price estimate for replacements so you can budget the cost between now and the next 12-18 months from now.
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Dale.Traveling
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05/09/13 11:48am |
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RE: spare tire / flat tire - how's it work ?
As mentioned AAA can be difficult to use with RVs. Best change to one of the nation wide specialists. ERS = Emergency Road Service. Also check with your insurance provider which may include ERS.
If you have a replacement tire (mounted or not) the ERS subscription may pay for the roadside service call (need to read the fine print). If you're like the rest of us and no spare the ERS will may pay for the service but you normally will have to pay for the tire (read the fine print, again). Buying a tire while on the side of the road can be expensive. A bit hard to shop around for the best price and the tire you want.
My one flat was a fast leak when the valve stem seal failed. Tire was destroyed by the time I was safely on the side of the road. Called Good Sam (aka GS) they took my info and started searching for a service provider. 15 minutes later they called back to tell me help was on they way from So and So and they should be on site within an hour. So and So called me 15 minutes later to verify location and tire size required. About and hour later repair truck arrived and replaced the tire and valve stem in about 15 minutes. Cost me $500 which I paid to GS and a 2 1/2 hour delay.
I suspect I was very lucky in that I was on I64 between Norfolk and Richmond VA which has a lot of truck traffic so help was close by. I also now have a tire pressure monitor which would have caught the leak before the tire was destroyed. My road side emergency cost may have been $0 to fix a valve stem and air the tire back up if I had caught the leak early.
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Dale.Traveling
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05/03/13 04:32am |
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RE: Thor quality
Third summer ownership of an 06 Hurricane 31D and I am very satisfied with the coach. The chassis is failure free and I have yet to have anything go wrong with the house side that caused anything more than a mental note to look into it next chance I get.
My thoughts are you have to take each owner and their prospective of a particular coach uniquely. I had the step motor fail the first year I owned the coach. Fixed it myself and didn't think much of it. Others may consider it a catastrophic failure and add it to the ever increasing list of problems. Also what I consider acceptable in terms of quality others may down check the entire manufacturing line. I like the light weight cabinets. Keeps the empty weight of the coach down so I can add more of my stuff to it.
Good luck with the upgrade and whichever manufacture you end up going with.
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Dale.Traveling
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05/01/13 01:52pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: My wife can't decide, Please Help
Booth for us. Like the large storage areas under the seats for sodas, dog food and other nonperishable's. Useable while on the road with seat belts in the front face side.
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Dale.Traveling
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05/01/13 12:09pm |
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RE: Kelly Tires
I'm running 245/70R19.5 Kelly KSR under a Ford F53 chassis with no problems after 18,000 miles and just starting year 3. From my observations they pick up about 10-15 PSI while on the road and will generally run 10-20 degrees warmer than ambient air temp. Unable to make a comparison since these are the only tires I had on the coach. I'm happy with them and the price was within my budget.
Kelly has been a sub of Goodyear for a long time and in general terms Kelly tires benefit from the Goodyear R&D efforts. I compare it to buying store brand canned food over name brand. Same stuff inside, probably same production line just a different label.
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Dale.Traveling
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05/01/13 07:52am |
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RE: F53 Oil Change
My drive way looked like the Gulf of Mexico after the first attempt. I jack the chassis up enough to make room between the drain pan and the oil plug while my Navigator heads out on a kitty litter run.
Need to check out the Fumoto Valve.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/25/13 09:02am |
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RE: What did you do to your Class A MH today???
Installed cell phone booster amplifier and the associated antennas. Headed out to north western Virginia which will be a good test. Engine oil and filter change along with a brake fluid change. Transmission and coolant are on the bucket list before the summer trip.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/25/13 03:21am |
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RE: Intellitec System Battery Issue
I really do not want to bash Damon/Thor as I think I got exactly what I paid for.
Very high quality work by the Damon electrical team.
I'd have zero reason to expect any other problems ...
That's not good but considering the coach is 10 years old stuff happens. If you want to read a horror story there's a very long posting from an owner of a $500K+ 2013 Tiffin Zephyr with a more or less blown engine at iRV2.com. Even paying top dollar for a rig doesn't mean it will be trouble free for the rest of it's life. Stuff happens and even NASA doesn't get it right 100%. Plus if you are the second, third or what ever owner there's no telling what the past history of the coach could be. You'll figure out the battery problem with a bit of work and probably never have another 12VDC problem again.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/23/13 06:37pm |
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RE: Curious about maintenance...
My gas coach is well out of warranty so I do all my own intermediate maintenance on the chassis and coach. I keep a log book with dates, mileage, engine hours, information concerning what product brand, quanity used, and so on. Don't know if it will make a difference when the day comes to sell. If I was buying it would if not negotiated price then curb appeal.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/23/13 11:40am |
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RE: Satellite options
If you really want to go with satellite get a carry out that will automatically find the satellites such as THIS one. As a follow east coast camper my roof mounted dome is blocked by trees or mountains more times than not and I pull the ground based manual aim antenna out. Sometimes I get it setup in a few minutes other times it has taken an hour to properly aim.
Also with a carry out if you find later that sat TV isn't for you selling the antenna of eBay or Craig's List is an option. Roof mounted not as simple considering you'll have to removal it.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/23/13 08:23am |
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RE: duffield, va trip
Highway 58 and 23 follow the old trails thru the mountain passes. Shouldn't be a problem. You could take I81 to I28 north to US23 and limit the time on the state roads.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/22/13 04:47am |
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RE: Air Ride on a Class A Gasser
I respectfully disagree.Very different situation. Your coach suspension was designed and built with air bags. Retrofitting air bags without changing the spring ratings may not achieve the ride effect desired. Generally about the same some of us did when we were 16-18 year olds by adding air shocks to lift the back end of our first car for the cool hot-rod look. Improve the ride, hardly. Did we care? Not one bit as long as the 8 track didn't eat our favorite tape.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/19/13 07:51pm |
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RE: Air Ride on a Class A Gasser
Do able but will run you $4K+ just in material which includes replacing the leaf/coil springs. A company call Kelderman makes front and rear kits for two prevalent chassis. I was considering it but I just don't put enough miles in a day during my vacation travels to justify the cost.
To get a true air bag ride you need to replace the OEM springs. Just adding bags won't do much for the ride other than being able to adjust the chassis ride height if the springs are getting a bit weak.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/19/13 06:28pm |
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RE: 22.5 tires inflation
Just run the tires at the max that the manufacture recommends for max weight.Which manufacture? Tire or coach? The coach manufacture recommended pressure is based on rig GVRW which works out well for my situation. Tire manufacture not so much. Harsh ride and excessive wondering.
Every coach and owner has different standards and possibly risk tolerance. Under inflated for the coach weight overtime will destroy a tire which is where the low risk tolerance comes in and the suggestion to run at max tire pressure.
I ran the numbers for my coach weight and the tire maximum loaded and found I have more tire capacity then what the axles can carry. As such running at high pressure had no real benefit and the coach was difficult to control. When I dropped to coach builder recommended pressure the ride was much better. I've also had my coach weight checked with my normal load and found I 2500 lbs under GVRW. I inflate to coach builder recommended pressure plus 5 PSI as a buffer.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/19/13 08:49am |
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RE: Radiator Bug Screen
Installed a screen two years ago not for bugs but the grill would start to whistle at about 40 mph. But keeping the radiator clean was an unintended secondary effect. Used solar sun screen I found on-line from Home Depot.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/17/13 09:55am |
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RE: Ford vs Workhorse ??
Considering 07 or 08 Fleetwood Southwind 32V. What are the pros and cons on the Ford Chasis vs the Worhorse Chassis?I think with either chassis in that year its a toss up. The Allison transmission is very tempting but the Ford transmission post 2006 is just as robust.
May be the down checks for the Workhorse is you have three different builders involved in the chassis, GM for the engine, Allison for the transmission and Workhorse for the remaining chassis parts. Its a bit of a reach to point out. Also GM has stopped production of the 454 due to EPA compliance problems and the future of Workhorse is a bit uncertain. Even with these minor issues supporting the chassis for the potential life time of the coach won't be a problem. They made a lot of them.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/15/13 04:08pm |
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RE: Used class A dealer priving
Any discounting will be part of the negotiating process but you will need to go over in detail the coach (house and chassis). Tire dates codes, roof seals, maintenance records, batteries, out dated TVs and such to back up your counter offer. And most important you have to be ready to walk away if the negotiated price is not what you are willing to pay. You can love a coach but it will never love you back.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/15/13 07:41am |
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RE: Driving to Europe
This is the OP.
The guys were from Holland. Their license plates were from there. Clearly they did not go from Holland directly to NYC. Siberia/Alaska is doable. This is not the first time I heard it was doable.
This post was meant to be serious so any of the snark remarks are not needed.But your initial posting clearly stated "They had ridden their bikes from Holland to the US. Up and over the polar region." They might have shipped their bikes air freight up and over the polar region but drove, didn't happen. It's not doable primary because there is never a completely frozen ice bridge between Europe and North America. Would have made a great Discovery Channel week long show. Takes six hours to fly going 600 miles an hour great circle route without stopping for bathroom breaks, sleeping or refueling. How long do you think it would take at 10 mph which is about as fast as you might be able to go if you can get the bike started at 50+ below zero, repairs, finding you fuel drops, meals, sleeping,,,. Plus arctic sea ice isn't a flat smooth surface. Its full of pressure ridges that you won't get a bike to cross. Not even on a super duper snowmobile is it possible with today's technology.
Fed-Ex will be more than happy to ship your bikes to anywhere in the world, over night if your check book is ready.
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Dale.Traveling
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04/12/13 11:02am |
Around the Campfire
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