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RE: How hard was it for you to decide to retire?
I bought out my business partners a year ago, work from home, and I've decided I can work from anywhere - including my RV. Starting Medicare next year. Concerned about the insurance for my wife who is four years younger. Nonetheless, we have decided to figure out HOW to do it not WHEN to do it. We're going to go for it. Oh, by the way, we live in a modest house in upsate NY and pay more than $700 per month for real estate taxes so we, too, have FL in our sights and plan on getting out of NY as soon as we can sell out.
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TrueLarry
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10/20/09 04:39pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: B+ motorhomes
Jeanniewes,
We had a dog that hated to travel so we generally let him stay with friends. However, a few times we did travel with him, we gave him about 1/3 tablet of Benadryl and that did help him quite a bit. He was about 18 pounds. We have read various articles that say you shouldn't give dogs benadryl but our little mutt was close to 18 when he finally died so I guess the benadryl didn't hurt him any.
Our present dog, a rescue Shih Tzu, starts off trembling but once we are headed down the road and she knows she's not going to the vet or the groomer she does fine. I will say that she does much better in the GMC Envoy where she can lay on top of luggage and see out than she does in the RV where she can't look out the windows. Also the RV is noisier than the Envoy. I've been trying to figure out how we are going to take care of that. Maybe if we strap a big pillow on the sofa so she has a cushy place to lay and she can see out, she will be happy.. Lol, what we humans do to take care of our fur babies...
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TrueLarry
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08/24/09 01:43pm |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: Slide won't move on Lexington 255 GTS
Thanks for the suggestions. For what it's worth, I was able to stand on my head and read the name of the manufacturer (Venture Mfg Company - www.venturemfgco.com)and spoke to a gentleman named Doug who knew right away what was wrong. The shear pin broke on the horizontal shaft (inside the gearbox). My sympathy to anyone who encounters this issue and it will probably happen to all of you sooner or later since it is a pretty weak link. The good news is that the shear pin can be purchased at tractor supply company for 49 cents. The bad news, it takes a hydraulic jack, a saber saw and about 8 hours of labor to repair it. The deck under my folding couch in the slideout now has an access panel so the next time this piece of******breaks, it will only take three hours instead of 8 to fix it. By the way, in addition to the 8 hours of actual work there was another four hours of trying to figure out what steps were necessary to actually get to the gearbox. I'm thinking about buying a spare one to have so I will be prepared when it breaks.
To save anybody who tries this a lot of work, start by removing the sofa and ripping up the carpet. Then get a sabre saw and cut through the top and bottom panel and the styrofoam in between. Remove the access panel you thus created(mine is about 9" by 12" and it is pretty adequate). Then unbolt the bottom casing that holds the motor and bottom gears to the gearbox using a box end wrench that you must move about 1/8 turn with each movement because there is no room to swing the wrench around and no room for a socket (no, not even a 1/4" drive). Then unbolt the shaft extension (both ends) that drives the right side cog and slide it all the way to the right (don't bother trying to remove it completely because it is a half inch too long to actually come out). Then unbolt the cover of the gearbox and remove it and the worm gear. Next take out the two outside top support guides for the left track (good luck with that since you can barely reach the nuts and you just have to fish the guides out with your fingertips in the blind). Next, jack up the slide on the outside as high as you can get it so it takes the pressure off the cog. Next, stand on your head and hit the left end of the shaft slightly with a 2# hammer and force it back about an inch so you can reach the hole in shich the broken shear pin must be replaced. When you pull the gear off the shaft and the old pin falls out, put in a new one (it is a 5/16" x 1-1/4" tension pin, by the way). Once you have the new gear pin installed, then reconnect the right side shaft to be sure you have everything lined up and then shove the gear back into the casing all the way and be sure the left side cog is lined up. Remove the right side shaft again and shove it to the right so you can reassemble the gear box. Lower the jack holding the slide. Using your fingertips, working in the blind, reinstall the top slide guide bolts. Disconnect the right side shaft again and shove it out of the way so you can resintall the worm gear and the gear cover. Reinstall the bottom drive and motor making sure the shaft pin lines up with the notch in the bottom of the vertical shaft. Finally reconnect the right side shaft and test the operation. If everything works, get some medium duty metal plates and make a set of brackets to hold the access panel you just created and reinstall the floor. Reinstall the carpet and reinstall the sofa. At that point, sit back, grab a beer and slowly cool off so you don't immediately writing a scathing letter to both Forest River and Venture Mfg for creating a concoction that breaks in a location that cannot be reached to repair it when it breaks! What a joke.
By the way if this shear pin breaks with the slide in, just kill yourself because there is no way you could ever get to it.
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TrueLarry
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07/11/09 09:05am |
Class C Motorhomes
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Slide won't move on Lexington 255 GTS
This topic has been moved to another forum.
You can read it here: 22945617
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TrueLarry
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07/06/09 01:52pm |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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Slide won't move on Lexington 255 GTS
This topic has been moved to another forum.
You can read it here: 22945617
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TrueLarry
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07/06/09 01:52pm |
Folding Trailers
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Slide won't move on Lexington 255 GTS
I just wondered if anybody has run across this and knows what is needed. My slide motor works fine and I can hear it running but the gear shaft that moves the slide isn't turning. I heard a snap when it got to the end of the travel and I suspect there is a gear broken or (I hope) just a shear pin broken. Does anybody have any experience with this and know what it might be? Or for that matter, does anybody know where to get parts for this unit? I bought it used from a non-Lexington dealer and the unit is in great shape so I have not run across any issues until now.
Here's more. I tried to manually crank the slide in but the nut that you crank it with goes through the gearbox attached to the slide motor and it doesn't move the slide when I crank it manually. So it looks like the problem is inside the gearbox.
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TrueLarry
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07/06/09 01:52pm |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: B+ motorhomes
Molded plugs of all sizes, I have discovered are pretty bad. I have an electric high pressure washer that I ran for about four hours on Saturday. When I finished I discovered that the plug was partially melted and distorted even though the cord itself was cool as a cucumber the whole time. For a time I had it plugged into an extension cord and discovered that the receptacle end of the extension cord was also hot though not melted. Burlmart's lesson learned is a good one for all of us. Even though I'm an engineer (civil) I tend to forget some of this electrical stuff. Thanks, Artum, for the great explanation.
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TrueLarry
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06/29/09 10:45am |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: B+ motorhomes
I also can't type. I meant to say 6' 0" (72") duh! Both beds are exactly 6' long so it's not as bad as it sounded. I can hang my toes off the end but I did that for years growing up until Queen Sized beds came along. As near as I can tell, the bed is exactly double bed sized because we got double bed sheets and they fit perfectly.:@
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TrueLarry
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05/08/09 02:54pm |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: B+ motorhomes
My Forest River Lexington 255 has a back bedroom bed that is double bed sized (not queen) so it is 60" long and 52" wide. The fold-down couch, with the armrests removed is the same size but with a crack down the middle. These beds are not designed for real tall people. I am 6'0" and my wife is 5'4" so it works for us but it's not generous for tall people. FYI we have added an extra 3" of foam padding to make the bed comfortable enough to sleep on. The matress is not great in these units.
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TrueLarry
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05/06/09 09:42am |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: Motorhome Racing
This sure beats lawn mowers and tracter pulls for excitement! Man's motto: If it has an engine, let's race it!
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TrueLarry
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05/06/09 09:04am |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: This guy really needs a B
There's no subsititute for ingenuity. I suppose this guy like DuctTape too!
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TrueLarry
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05/06/09 08:54am |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: Battery disconnect switch
I have a 2006 Forest River Lexington 255 that I bought used last fall. The coach is in great shape but I'm puzzled by the fact that the coach batteries drain off in just a couple of weeks even with the disconnect switch turned off. The batteries are good - I took them out over the winter and they held a charge for four months with no problem. Does anybody have an idea about what could be going on?
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TrueLarry
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05/06/09 08:50am |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: B+ motorhomes
Hi there Artum Snowbird. Glad to see another B+ driver in the group. We bought a Lexington 255 last fall with almost the same floor plan as your Triple E. That back bedroom and closet wall were the deciding factors for us. We are under cover in sub-zero weather here in upstate NY looking forward to many happy miles starting next spring. Hope to see you on the road sometime. By the way, I fired up the furnace a couple of weeks ago when it was about 15 degrees and was able to get the air temp up to about 45 or 50 in about an hour. I'm not sure about camping in that weather, however. It would take a lot of propane to do the job I'm sure.
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TrueLarry
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01/20/09 07:05pm |
Class C Motorhomes
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