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RE: BALL JOINT
Balljoint replacement COULD VERY WELL affect your alignment! Especially if the last alignment was done on worn balljoints.
Correct, but ONLY under those circumstances.
BUT...
A good alignment shop will NOT do an alignment on worn balljoints (at least without telling you first). So replacing worn balljoints should bring you front end BACK into alignment just by itself.
My point is, balljoints install with very percise, machined fit. One set of balljoints will not change the alignment from another. So if a repair place tells you that you MUST get an alignment JUST becuase he replaced you balljoints, he is ripping you off. Unless he was also the one that did a previous alignment on your worn balljoints (another unethical ripoff).
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Mousefart
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10/01/08 07:25pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: trouble with pans on stovetop
LEVEL YOUR TRAILER!!! :W :W :WIt is NOT a leveling problem. We have the same issue with ours and we are always level. It is a problem with smaller sauce pans. The grates are too far apart. We do not have children so it has not been a big issue. If we did I would most likely replace the pans with larger ones.
Umm, it was a JOKE! :B
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Mousefart
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10/01/08 07:11pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Honda 2000i Generators
I have 2, 5 year old Honda generators and I am starting to have challanges with them.
Just yesterday after filling it up with fresh gags, I was able to start one after the usual pull-more-than once cold start with the choke on. I ran it for a hour or so. Then after sitting for about 6 hours or so, it just wouldn't start. I checked the air filter and it was clean.
What to do?
Does anyone have some sort of tech diagrams with discriptions for trouble shooting?
Thanks!
The problem is obvious.
You filled it with fresh gags, so you CHOKED your engine! :E
:W :W :W
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Mousefart
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10/01/08 05:28am |
Tech Issues
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RE: trouble with pans on stovetop
LEVEL YOUR TRAILER!!! :W :W :W
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Mousefart
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10/01/08 05:24am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: WINTER EXERCISING
Boy that is a lot of exercise, when compared o my lawn equipment and tractors that just get shut down in the late fall and cranked back up in the spring. I don't have a passle of batteries sitting around i the house either.
I donno. :h
It's not the engine that needs excercise, it's the generator itself (which you lawnmower doesn't have). This is because of the brushes and the commutator (brushless generators don't need "excersizing").
The big V12 backup generator for our 911 center gets excersized under full load every week.
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Mousefart
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10/01/08 05:09am |
Tech Issues
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RE: "Pool Boys" , gentleman farmers and Gardeners rejoyce!
I have to laugh when they use the work "truck" and associate it with that picture.
It is a CAR with a very large trunk (with the lid missing). :R
They took the original SUVs (remember the full sized Chevy Blazers, Ford Broncos, and Dodge Ramchargers? Back when we were PROUD to drive a MANLY SUV?). Turned them into huge, sissified soccer-mom vehicles with NO off-road capabilities. And now, have evolved them in to plain old cars with AWD (what exactly are they "crossing over" to anyway? :h).
Now they are playing the same game with our beloved pickup TRUCKS? :E
SUT? "Sport Utility Truck"? How about "Stupid Useless Toy"? :B
If it ain't get a seperate CAB, and a BED, mounted on a FRAME, it anin't no stinkin' TRUCK!
(turning off testosterone valve now...) :W
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Mousefart
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09/30/08 04:23pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Overhead MPG readout vs. hand calculation
I compared the overhead with hand calculating over two tanks of gas. Both represented about 300 miles of driving. All highway driving was 55-60 mph. Both tanks included about 25 miles of non-highway driving, mostly cities & small towns. The first hand calc was only 1/10 of a mpg lower than the overhead. The second hand calc was 1.9 mpg lower than the overhead. Curious that there would be so much variation. Ample reason to do the hand calc and ignore the overhead.
No, ample reason to ignore the calc (which is very inaccurate except when averaged over MANY. MANY fillups). There is just no way to fill your tank EXACTLY to the same level every time. It can be off by a gallon or more depending on the nozzle.
The overhead computer use the same sensor that measures the fuel to your fuel injectors and this is VERY accurate (or you engine would run like krap).
BTW, the thermometer on your overhead display uses the same sensor that the engine computer uses to determine ambient temperature.
All the sensors in an engine have to be very accurate (when functioning properly). It is easier for the manufacturer to hook these existing sensors to a display than to have a second set of inaccurate ones just for the display (just to make the "Chinese junk conspiracy theorists" happy).
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Mousefart
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09/30/08 04:02pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: redneck deer camp
So now the question is, can you LEGALLY ride in the back? :h
Guess it would classify as a truck camper (on steroids) and not a motor home. Can you ride in the back of a truck camper? (I know we did as kids).
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Mousefart
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09/30/08 03:40pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: WINTER EXERCISING
I excercise my generator all winter long.
I do it by going CAMPING! :B
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Mousefart
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09/30/08 03:37pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: BALL JOINT
Your ball joint most likely is fine. They only need replaced when they get loose and sloppy. I still have one original ball joint in my car with 145,000 miles, it is the non lube type.
Cost to replace a ball joint is dependent on the vehicle. I just had two done at a cost of $485 including an alignment.
Also keep in mind that if they tell you that you NEED an alignment bacuse you had you balljoints changed, walk away VERY FAST. They are just suckering you for your money.
Balljoint replacement DOES NOT affect your alignment!
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Mousefart
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09/30/08 03:35pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Inverter powering refrigerator - anyone have this setup?
Except for high dollar RVs, they come with CONVERTERS, not inverters.
Converters convert 120v to 12v, not the other way round.
You need a LOT of REALLY BIG batteries to power a 120v compressor fridge from an inverter.
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Mousefart
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09/30/08 03:25pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: 2001 Shamrock blows tires
Proper tire pressure is paramount -- this is usually 50 psi. Yep, that much.
-- Chuck
Had a friend that had a boat and trailer. When he towed, his tires looked almost flat.
I asked him how much pressure he put in them.
He said 28 PSI. :E
I asked him why.
He said, his car tires take 35 psi, the trailer tires are much smaller so they should have less pressure. :S
I tried to convince him that the tires were supposed to have 60 psi in them, even showed him the pressure rating on the sidewall. He wouldn't beleive me.
He had LOTS of breakdowns when towing (he also didn't believe in putting the dust caps back on after repacking the bearings, after all grease is waterproof, right?). :R
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Mousefart
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09/30/08 03:20pm |
Hybrid Travel Trailers
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RE: Spell Checker
Spell checker, shmell checker, all the humorous misspelling are WAY too much fun. :B
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Mousefart
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09/29/08 03:28pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Opinion: sway bar or no sway bar
"I" have never needed or used a sway control device in all of my 267,000 miles of towing the rig. But I think that it is due to my setup being VERY solid. No feelings of being "sucked" around by the semis, always tracks right behind the truck.
"YOU" might need one. Only you can know for sure.
"I" have never needed seatbelts yet in all my 30 years of driving, but I still WEAR them!
There have been links posted to more than a few YouTube videos showing why sway control is not an "opinion", it should be the LAW like trailer brakes.
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Mousefart
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09/29/08 05:24am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Sticky Gel to keep items still in RV
Shoot, the way my trailer bounces, you would have to call it anti-gravity putty. :B
When I get to camp, all my silverware is "shuffled" in the tray. :R
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Mousefart
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09/29/08 05:09am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Porch lights vs. scare lights ?
With the "Scare LIght" you would want something about three times brighter, or even a couple of fixtures, so that you startle the wouldbe burgular, and scare them away.
Fred.
So Fred, what area fo the BRONX do you camp in? :h
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Mousefart
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09/29/08 05:05am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Gas prices and people getting stupid!!
This forced some financial investors to cover their short positions positions to avoid taking delivery of physical barrels of oil.
Record-breaking leap in oil prices
I say if you don't have a huge tank in your back yard to actually put the oil in, you shouldn't be allowed to buy the oil in the first place. If you buy, you MUST take possesion!
This would slow down the oil speculators BIG TIME!
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Mousefart
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09/28/08 09:40am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Winterizing mistake - wrong antifreeze
I think the orange antifreeze is propylene glycol, which is the same as the RV antifreeze. Read the label and if it is propylene I would do nothing. Propylene glycol is used as a gel in children's medicine to keep the medicine from settling to the bottom of bottle.
NO IT IS NOT!!!!!
The orange HOAT antifreeze is NOT, I repeat NOT the same as the pink RV antifreeze!
DO NOT USE IT IN YOUR WATER SYSTEM! :E
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Mousefart
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09/28/08 09:18am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: When was the last time you inspected your toilet?
Maybe all the rust was cause by...
Poor aim in the middle of the night? :B
I have a friend who is NOT allowed to use the bathroom in my camper any more. I think he spins around 360 degrees when he pees, it's EVERYWHERE! :E
I have a shutoff installed in the toilet line for winter use (use antifreeze instead of water to flush). Gues I could use that if the flush valve failed open.
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Mousefart
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09/28/08 08:56am |
Tech Issues
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RE: My Flagstaff Dometic electric awning is now ok in the rain
Okay, I just read this thread and determined that I will NEVER buy an electric awning.
Everyone, I mean EVERYONE who has a manual awning tilts one end slightly lower to shed rain. They also don't raise it up so it's completely horizontal (roofs slope for a reason. DUH!).
Are you saying that electric awnings have NO ability to do this? :S
That pulling down with a tiedown strap on one end, putting strain on the support structure and gearing is the only solution? :S
RV "engineering" never ceases to amaze me! :E
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Mousefart
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09/27/08 10:48am |
Travel Trailers
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