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Posted By: MORSNOW on 04/14/14 10:44pm

vwoval wrote:

our friends new class a came with all led lights and they had problems with the lower channels on their TVs the dealer changed out a bunch of the led lights (they knew exactly what to do no checking for days)with old style and the problem went away

LED's do mess with electronics, I put one in my garage door opener...remotes all stopped working while the bulb was lit. Put a standard bulb back in...remotes all worked again.

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Posted By: ISBRAM on 04/15/14 07:05pm

After all my personal brain damage hashing out my options over and over again I made the jump to a 19.5 tires and wheels set up. I’ve known I was running at the weight limit for a few years with my stock 245/75R16LT setup but I never had an issue.
After looking all over for wheels that would properly accommodate a 285/70R16LT tire and rated at the same 3750 lbs, I gave up.
I found a great deal on this set up from a gentleman that went thru the same tire dilemma and then sold the slide in and went to a class a diesel pusher.
I had them out on the highway today, very smooth and stable with a very little bit of the high pitched semi truck tire sing. Vision Heavy Hauler wheels and 245/70R19.5 Sumitomo ST918 tires, I just had them Saf-Tee siped for better ice traction.
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Posted By: Buzzcut1 on 04/15/14 08:22pm

the round retention pins for the Lance strut mount on the cabover of my 8 year old 1055 had developed some play where they insert into the aluminum block so I replaced them with new mounts

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Posted By: JoeChiOhki on 04/17/14 01:18pm

Cried a little bit when I discovered that water had started to pool in the skin of the cabover floor, punched a couple small holes to allow it to drain out till I can take the skin off.

Another leak has cropped up and the weather is too ****ty to fix it.

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Posted By: narcodog on 04/20/14 04:38pm

I finally got the rot in the wing back together. Wind rain and cold made a single day job four days. If that thing rots now it's just possessed.

Posted By: the tc life on 04/24/14 06:31am

finished a good spring cleaning on the inside of the camper. MOST importantly, i put new batteries in the smoke / co detector. have you checked your detector lately?

ill be taking it out for a day use trip saturday, then next weekend a short trip over to montana.

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1999 c3500 dually 12' flatbed

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Posted By: portscanner on 04/28/14 06:42am

I bought a de-humidifier and put it in the TC. That thing is going to be turned on and running through September unless we are out camping. Not going to deal with the mess we had last year with mildew!!!!

Set it on the counter so it will drain into the grey tank. We are out camping at least once a month so I dont have to worry about the tank overflowing (or the bucket in th de-humidifier filling up and it shutting down)

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Posted By: Mello Mike on 04/28/14 07:36am

Took my truck and camper to a nearby CAT scale to get reweighed.

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Posted By: Harleybullet on 04/28/14 03:30pm

Mike Why did it gain weight from last year or is it all those mods? Love the website..... Dave

Posted By: narcodog on 04/28/14 05:29pm

Not today but a few days ago I got rid of the depleted Optima and installed a Universal group 24 in the engine compartment.
I spent four days in the GSMNP and just used the Universal for the first three days. I used the mattress warmer two nights plus all of the other stuff. With the 75 amphrs instead of the 55 it worked great. I drew it down to 60% then went to the other set up. I didn't want to pull it down further on it's first draw down.

One thing I'll say no more Optimas for me...

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