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RE: water heater drips
Clay L wrote:
The following is info from the Atwood service manual on how to properly establish the air pocket.
Step 1: Turn off water heater
Step 2: Turn off incoming water supply
Step 3: Open the closest hot water faucet in the coach
Step 4: Pull handle of pressure-temperature relief valve straight out and allow water to flow until it stops.
Step 5: Allow pressure-temperature relief valve to snap shut, turn on water supply and close faucet.
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This will not work for my water heater. I have a check valve installed by the RV manufactured at the hot water outlet. This was put there to allow water heater bypass for winterization of the RV using RV antifreeze. My bypass utilizes a single shut of valve for the water heater supply, along with the check valve at the water heater hot water outlet.
As I stated before. Inject air by hooking up a hose that is not filled with water....... This works for me.
I also have the single valve winterization system with a check valve on the hot water outlet and the procedure works fine with my water heater.
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Clay L
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02/09/12 11:51am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: water heater drips
The following is info from the Atwood service manual on how to properly establish the air pocket.
Step 1: Turn off water heater
Step 2: Turn off incoming water supply
Step 3: Open the closest hot water faucet in the coach
Step 4: Pull handle of pressure-temperature relief valve straight out and allow water to flow until it stops.
Step 5: Allow pressure-temperature relief valve to snap shut, turn on water supply and close faucet.
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Clay L
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02/08/12 10:17am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Motorhome Tax
The three most popular states for full timers are SD, TX, and FL.
If you expect to actually live in the state, TX or FL would be better than SD unless you like cold weather.
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Clay L
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02/07/12 09:08am |
Beginning RVing
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RE: K&N Air Filter
This site has some testing data on K&N filters
TEST DATA
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Clay L
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02/07/12 08:54am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Bluetooth GPS Receiver for Laptop
The Delorme BT40 GPS will work with Street Atlas 2012 on a Win7 64 bit machine.
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Clay L
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02/06/12 10:18am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Hooking up inverter
I was originally going to do it that way but ended up buying a transfer switch and wiring shore power to it and the inverter output to it.
I do have a check list mounted next to the inverter showing which breakers to flip off before it is turned on.
I could have put in a sub-panel and avoided having to flip breakers but I didn't have enough room to do it.
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Clay L
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02/05/12 11:35am |
Tech Issues
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RE: laminate floors
Several years ago we removed all carpet and replaced it with laminate flooring. We used Armstrong's best grade of laminate. We picked it based on some tests that Consumer Reports did that showed it had better wear and scratch resistance than Pergo. Its 3/8 inch thick.
We were surprised to find that a Carpet Time store had much better prices on the best grade than Home Depot or Lowes had on the middle grade which is all they carried. The best grades were special order.
We did the installation of our flooring ourselves. We couldn't find an installer willing to do the job.
It took us about ten day’s altogether (we only worked about 4 hours a day though). It wasn't terribly difficult but did require a lot of cutting and trimming because of all of the corners. There were also some challenges at the front of the slides, around the stairs, and underneath the dinette.
Before we did the installation we did a test by removing a square of carpet and making sure the slides would ride over a piece of T molding, laminate and underlayment.
Some people try to cut the carpet back under the slide, but we cut the carpet in front of the slides leaving enough carpet to be stapled down. I was afraid the slides would catch the carpet when the slide went back out. A Tee molding covers it so it doesn't show.
If you do the job yourself I would recommend a few things to have:
1) table saw, 2) chop saw, 3) good saber saw, 4) Rotozip tool, 5) air slight head brad nailer, 6) air stapler, 7) utility knife and sharp hook blades. 5) A staple puller - looks like a flat blade screwdriver with a V cut into the bent end of the blade. 6) heat gun for a few places where the carpet was glued down (stairwell for example)
There were two grades of the foam underlayment available. We used the best grade - more expensive but thicker and provides a moisture barrier.
We also used a special waterproof joint glue in areas that are prone to getting wet - like in front of the sink, refrigerator, and around the stairwell. (This is used to glue the joints so spilled water can't get in the joints - not to glue the flooring to the subfloor).
We also used silicon caulk to fill the 1/4 gap at the edges in those areas.
The caulk and waterproof glue are both recommended in the instructions from Armstrong.
We vacuum and mop carefully before we bring the slides in to avoid leaving anything on the floor that might scratch it. In spite of that over the years we have had some minor scratching in three or four places. One fairly deep place at the very beginning was due to our cat batting a couple of paper clips under the slide while we were working on the project.
I stapled door sweep strips behind the base boards in front of the slides because of that.
Even with the scratches it looks much better that the carpet did after only a three or four years. In addition it is so much easier to keep clean.
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Clay L
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02/05/12 11:09am |
RV Lifestyle
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RE: Lynx Levelers
Your C was not too heavy for them. I use them on my Class A which is probably somewhat heavier than your C.
The ones I have are several years old and are still working okay. I break some from time to time due to rocks and soft or uneven ground. Just the cost of doing business. I buy a replacement bag every few years.
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Clay L
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02/05/12 10:32am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Engine cover gasket replacement
The tool for removing the cover is a large Allen (hex) head wrench. I don't recall the size but I bet someone will.
If you can't get a strip of the proper gasket material at an auto supply store you can call Lichtsinn Motors with your VIN. They can cross it to your coach ID number and sell you the part. They are a couple of miles from the factory and have provided great service over the years when I have ordered parts from them.
Their site is Lichtsinn Motors
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Clay L
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02/05/12 10:01am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Excessive mail
When we sent the permanent change of address to the PO, after maybe three months or so they stopped forwarding third class mail.
If we didn't send the company sending catalogs our new address they didn't know where we were.
As stated above if we order something from a company they will start sending us their catalog. In that case we call them and tell them to take us off their mailing list.
We also used Credit Card Opt out to stop new unrequested credit cards being sent to us.
We also called our two credit card companies and told them to stop sending us the pre-approved checks in the mail.
We pay all of our bills online either by transferring money from our account to a given company or in one case (Visa) having our bank send a paper check to them.
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Clay L
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02/04/12 10:19am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: what toad
The Honda Accord up to 2004 is towable 4 down and is more roomy than the CRV I believe. I have the Ex with a 24 valve six cylinder engine and it is very peppy.
Total miles is about 200,000 with 60,000 towed.
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Clay L
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02/03/12 08:54am |
Dinghy Towing
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RE: How many leveling blocks?
I carry four packs of ten and on one occasion used them all. Park was full and no other site was available.
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Clay L
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01/30/12 10:25am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Part time- Full time from Hawaii
You can see some good info on what a legal domicile is HERE.
It's a good idea to keep your SD license because that helps establish your desire to be a SD resident. Like many states Hawaii might like to have you keep paying their taxes.
Some states want you to become a resident if you spend more than some period of time in the state. For example in CO it's 3 months. In AZ as I recall it's 6 months.
In many states if you have a job in the state they expect you to become a resident.
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Clay L
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01/27/12 12:28pm |
Full-time RVing
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RE: Satellite dish choice
I am having trouble with my KingDome dish! I was told by a repairman that my 06 model dish is a model that has had alot of problems! I have been looking at a Wineguard minimax model which is small in diameter but is 3 inches taller than a standard dish 12 in to 15 tall! Has anyone had any experiance with this model? I have been looking around Quartzite! It seems that this dish is about 1000 dollars installed! WineGuard also has a low profile model but it is 300 dollars more for 3 inches shorter!
You might consider having a Winegard Traveler installed in case you ever want HD Direct TV. The cost is more - about $1600 to $1700 installed - but it has a lot more gain (much less rain fade than any dome)and works great.
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Clay L
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01/27/12 12:06pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: BATERY MINDER FOR DUAL BATTERY TRUCK
Thanks for the input. I will go to their website and do a little reading. Hadn,t thought of hooking red on one battery and black on the opposite battery.
That will only work if you have two six volt batteries in series. With two 12 volt batteries in parallel you could connect the battery minder in that way.
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Clay L
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01/26/12 02:56am |
Tech Issues
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RE: BATERY MINDER FOR DUAL BATTERY TRUCK
The BatteryMinder Plus will keep up to four batteries float charged.
BatteryMinder site: HERE
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Clay L
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01/25/12 11:34am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Guages not reading accurately
My wife and I find that we add about 10 gallons of waste water to the gray water tank and about 3 1/2 gallons to the black waste tank. One of us takes a shower each day.
Our gray water tank is 30 gallons so we have to dump it every three days. The black tank is 35 gallons and it has to be dumped every ten days.
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Clay L
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01/25/12 11:11am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Losing Water
I ran a loop of the overflow tubing up several inches above the top of the tank. The tank is shallow and it is easy for water to slosh out. The loop means the slosh has to be quite a bit higher to get out of the tank.
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Clay L
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01/23/12 10:30am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Best Water Softener
We have the WaterPur Mark 8000 we bought from from Flow Pur. The cost today is $240 which includes shipping. You can see it. We have the WaterPur Mark 8000 we bought from from Flow Pur. The cost today is $240 which includes shipping. You can see it HERE
From what I have seen the On The Go sold by Camping World and the one we have are both good quality units. If it uses the better resin (gold?) I suspect most softeners will be okay.
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Clay L
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01/23/12 10:04am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Greetings
Glad to have you on board!
One thing to note: many Honda transmissions can be damaged when towing if the emergency towing procedure is not followed exactly.
For example many(all?) Hondas with automatic transmissions require that the transmission be shifted from park all the way down to 1st and then shifted back up to neutral. Failure to do that can leave part of the transmission in reverse and that can cause major damage.
Mine also requires that the engine be run in neutral for 3 to 5 minutes to insure fluid is in the right places.
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Clay L
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01/22/12 11:34am |
Full-time RVing
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