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RE: 2006 AF 990 odd slide issue
So you can still manual crank the slide? That’s good.
If it helps, the AF campers structures haven’t really changed since your model, and slide out mechanisms aren’t camper specific per se, so you just need a motorized slide out system. Not necessarily the same model as was in yours. Great chance the current system in a newer AF fits yours
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 11:21am |
Truck Campers
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RE: Wfco8930/50
You can keep the panel and just upgrade the converter.
I was looking at the same thing with our old toyhauler but then I fixed the converter with a for sale sign….so never got to actually do it.
It’s a relative drop in replacement
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 11:17am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: 2009 Tiffin Phaeton Engine Rebuild
^Ok, so it overheated.
What happened and what’s wrong with it?
Assuming it seized up and got brought in behind a wrecker? No, you said YOU shut it down when the light came on. That’s a good thing.
Did it dump the coolant?
Be an advocate for yourself here and understand your issue at least in basic terms or you’ll be even more at the mercy of every place you take it.
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 11:14am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Tow truck ideas / advice
Well the only thing left is new tires. You've thrown everything else at .
Tires and drag link.
This thread is more of a “want” a newer pickup, not a “can’t fix the old Excursion.”
I get that. That ole Ford is getting long in the tooth. With 400k miles I wouldn’t have sunk that kind of money into it in the first place (likely…anyways unless it is the most pristine old 7.3 smoker you’ve ever seen). Even moreso if you’re not a diy mechanic.
At this point, rotate the tires (just because), cut your losses on the front end work and do what you really want and largely the best decision, find a newer truck.
Any 2014-newer ram 1500 if you’re good with beefing up the rear suspension. 2013-newer F150 Eco or 5.0 (a few annoying 5.0 issues to consider but overall a good choice). Or any 2015-newer GM 1500. 5.3 or 6.2. But I’d shy away from the 8 speed. And be aware of AfM issues with the LS motors.
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 11:09am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Truck was totaled, looking at GM 6.6 Gasser
Why would you buy a brand new truck if you’re “not a truck guy” and only put half an oil change a year worth of miles on it?
Consider the “gift” you got when your truck got totaled and go buy another one, just like it. With low miles, for less money than your settlement.
Financially that is the best solution. Especially with a declining economy and very inflated truck prices still.
And yes I’m very well aware of prices then (2017) and now.
Heck for 3k miles a year, I’d throttle back to a much older, low miles grampa truck. Any gasser new enough to have a 6 speed (except a Ram with a 66rfe) or any pre tier IV diesel. (But those 2000s diesels bring too much money for what they’re worth).
Edit: My response above was predicated on the assumption that you have some sort of “normal” income. If the cost of a new truck is less than 20% of your annual income, what I said doesn’t apply I suppose.
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 09:52am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Intermittent 12v electrical issue
Shook the wires and it worked again is about 95% chance an intermittent dead short in the wires you shook.
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 09:48am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Bearing puller for utility trailer
If you’re using it for local use only (can’t imagine big road trips with a tiny wheeled trailer), first clean it all out and see if there’s a real issue.
Next, unless the races are trashed or severely worn, you can likely leave them in and just slap new bearings in, if the bearings are bad.
If you need to remove the races, it’s easy with just common hand tools.
Heat the hub hit with a mapp gas torch. Knock the races out with a socket (like from your socket set) that just fits inside the bore.
Or loan a tool or buy a bearing/seal install kit. I’ve never done that but have replaced probably 100 different wheel bearing races with heat, the right size socket and a bfh.
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 09:46am |
Tech Issues
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RE: 5th Wheel Cover before snowbirding
^Careful. Don’t get someone upsetteded by suggesting a plastic tarp….lol.
I mean no one wants something waterproof that snow and ice slides off of very easily….apparently…
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 09:40am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: 2006 AF 990 odd slide issue
Sounds like you’re looking for used parts or retrofitting whatever is available currently.
Camper hopefully was very cheap.
I’d try AF service dept as well. Maybe you’ll get some good advice
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 09:37am |
Truck Campers
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RE: Jayco Skylark
Once a camper is that old, there is no such thing as is it good or bad. But only, how good of condition, and how well it was maintained.
At this point if it’s clean, doesn’t leak and everything works, that is what you’re looking for.
Or any combination of those things and your knowledge or ability to fix whatever is on it’s to do list.
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 09:33am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: 2009 Tiffin Phaeton Engine Rebuild
A long block is not the same as a complete engine, it is the block, crank, rods, pistons, and cam. That is it. You still have to reman the heads, turbo, pump, injectors, valve train, gaskets, etc.. Then you have to flush cooling system and after cooler. Not to mention all the other parts that need replaced, coolant hoses, charged air boots, fuel lines, filters, oil, coolant, etc.. The access is nothing but a pain in the ass and removal of the engine/transmission assembly is the only option to even try to work on it. It has to be dropped from the bottom or slid out the back. That takes a lot of man power and equipment. Sound's steep, but that is what you get in a pusher motor home
You are wrong about a long block. It includes the head. There is no internal/machine work required w/a long block. Any engine.
Regardless, at least the OP recognized someone trying to rip him off.
Now to find an honest shop that will first diagnose it correctly since the OP was very vague about what went wrong with the motor.
Leakin injector burned up a hole? Sleeve and piston
Lifted the head? = top end work only generally.
Rod knock? Yeah now maybe in the short or long block scenario.
Not enough info to even begin to guess, other than the prices he was quoted are about 300% greater than they should be “if” he actually needs and engine.
At that cost, it’s better to just write off the Moho and have it hauled away…
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 09:27am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: And the saga continues
But the genny should be powered from and charge the house battery(s).
Op mentions nothing about the house functions being dead nor checking the house batt charge level.
Always tough to diagnose something you’re not well read at, but start with the basics.
Does the disconnect actually turn off the house batts?
Are the house batts charged?
What else does or doesn’t work right?
Those are the easy things.
But we don’t know if the OP still has a problem since he was a one n done….so no point in replying to him.
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Grit dog
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10/01/23 09:20am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: 2009 Tiffin Phaeton Engine Rebuild
Yup that’s ridiculous.
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Grit dog
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09/30/23 11:18pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Tow truck ideas / advice
Steering and suspension isn’t magic. You just have a bad mechanic. Find a good one. Or any newer half ton will do everything you need. But the price of gas is a real factor currently if you put in a lot of miles on the daily.
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Grit dog
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09/29/23 07:02am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: F-250 vs F-350
Fairly certain that there will be minimal, if any, ride difference between the 250 and 350. The 350 has a spacer block and overload springs.
Ram has a decent difference between the great coils in the 2500 and leaf springs in the 3500. Ram offers factory air suspension, it's a shame that neither Ford nor GM have offered that yet.
All the more reason to stick w/Ram if air ride or factory overload bags are what you’re after.
And by the time you’re getting a new truck, the new trans for the Rams should have a couple years under its belt.
But if nothing more for the simple reason, looking under the hood of a Flowerjoke makes me queasy thinking about having to work on anything contained within the rats nest! Yeah those motors got some real jam….they all do. But best served for in-warranty owners and non diy’ers who like to pay more for repairs. JMO
LOL... I little too quick on the trigger there. The OP is purchasing a 7.3 engine.
lol is right! I got the brain stuck somewhere between this thread and replying to spoon about his thread…I better go take another geritol!
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Grit dog
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09/29/23 12:01am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Help identify high volume truck dealers
Sorry, spoon, that was my point. Hard to learn the specifics about 2026 model trucks now as well as who has the good prices 2 years from now. (Mutually exclusive things as well).
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Grit dog
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09/28/23 12:39pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Help identify high volume truck dealers
Certainly payload is an improvement.
There is a lot of improvement to be had between a 1500, 3500 and 3500DRW.
Maybe you can make the case between a 2500 and 3500.
But payload is a noticeable factor if you tow a heavier trailer
Buddy….try to keeper between the navigational bouys here….(RIP Jimmy buffet)
IE within the context of the thread.
Now yes the OP is hunting somewhere between srw land and drw territory.
But from his current truck to a new 1 ton srw, which he now just said is a 3/4ton, it ain’t enough to get excited over. Now he has other reasons for considering upgrading, as just stated, but the fact remains, if it’s a newer HD srw of any flavor, they all run out of @ss, real world, about the same time.
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Grit dog
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09/28/23 09:18am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Towing with 6.2l 3.23 gear ratio
^Lol, right?
So an hour at a supercharger (and finding a supercharger in the right spot, so an hour doesn’t take longer), or half a day at a level 2 charger every 100miles?
I’d eat a bullet by 10am on the first day!!
Still great as local vehicles, ok for traveling depending where you travel, and literally bottom of the barrel for towing.
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Grit dog
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09/28/23 09:07am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Towing with 6.2l 3.23 gear ratio
^None of that info matters unless you don’t know much about trucks and are trying to calculate it “by the numbers for the OP”.
This is how the rabbit hole gets so deep every time the same question is asked here by a different person.
Too much overthinking. It’s a heavy duty half ton with the biggest engine they offer and a trailer that is well below the tow rating of the truck and not a concern for tongue weight, as presented. And the answer would be the same for literally almost all newer half tons.
No need to make it into rocket surgery, as much as that appears to appeal to some people.
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Grit dog
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09/28/23 09:01am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: F-250 vs F-350
Fairly certain that there will be minimal, if any, ride difference between the 250 and 350. The 350 has a spacer block and overload springs.
Ram has a decent difference between the great coils in the 2500 and leaf springs in the 3500. Ram offers factory air suspension, it's a shame that neither Ford nor GM have offered that yet.
All the more reason to stick w/Ram if air ride or factory overload bags are what you’re after.
And by the time you’re getting a new truck, the new trans for the Rams should have a couple years under its belt.
But if nothing more for the simple reason, looking under the hood of a Flowerjoke makes me queasy thinking about having to work on anything contained within the rats nest! Yeah those motors got some real jam….they all do. But best served for in-warranty owners and non diy’ers who like to pay more for repairs. JMO
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Grit dog
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09/28/23 08:55am |
Tow Vehicles
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