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Posted By: Nautique200 on 07/14/16 04:52pm

This makes no sense to me. Post a picture of your installation. The only bolt is the bolt that goes through the leaf spring and its 1.75" long. The bolt goes from the top down through the leaf spring with the nut on the bottom. Easy.

Mine was also a 2014. I still have the Stableloads.

The Mad Norsky wrote:

thedavidzoo wrote:

Installed Upper Stableloads on the 2014 Ram DRW today. Called Torklift 3x. HUGE pain, had to jack up frame, cut bolts shorter several times, remove tabs, NO clearance for tools. Took all afternoon and into evening. Ha, 45 minutes and "your wife can do it" my a$$. SHeeeshhh. You'd think Torklift would have better instructions for specific vehicles...

Jacking up the rear, by using hydraulic jack and the receiver hitch, worked best for getting my StableLoads in.

Never had to cut any bolts though. ???????? Wonder why yours was so different??????? Our trucks are same model year.

Mind you, I did cut out some of the fender liner around the duals, it was the only way to get at the rear overload pad.

2016 Ford F450

2015 Arctic Fox 1150
2009 Trails West Warm Blood Trailer

Posted By: thedavidzoo on 07/14/16 06:41pm

Are you talking upper or lower SL? These are upper and the bolt was much longer than 1.75". We took off the factory pad and replaced it with the upper. Bolt comes in from bottom, nut on top. Clearance with long bolt was very small. Looks like the pic on Torklift website, the one with the Stableload shown in yellow screwed into the u-shaped cross piece, except almost immediately where the top of the bolt is, are a bunch of other truck metal bits. Torklift even said to cut the bolt to make it fit.

2014 Ram 3500 CrewCab Diesel DRW 4x4 4.10 Aisin, Torklift Fastguns, Upper Stableloads, Timbrens
2017 Northstar 12' STC
640W solar, 400Ah lithium LiFeMnPO4 batteries

Posted By: Nautique200 on 07/14/16 08:10pm

Yes, I was thinking the lowers. I did just instal the uppers on my F450 and all I had to do was jack the back of the truck up from the hitch so the springs would pull away from the stock overload.

Posted By: The Mad Norsky on 07/15/16 02:15am

If memory serves me, the bolts are long on the upper StableLoads, and space to work with tools very limited on my Ram.

Believe I used just regular box end wrench to tighten things down after hand starting the nuts onto the bolts as far as they would go. No room for a ratchet wrench with socket in there.

The Mad Norsky, Doll, Logan and Rocky
2014 Ram 3500 w/ Cummins/Aisin
2019 Northern Lite 10-2 EX CD LE Wet Bath
RV'ing since 1991

I took the road less traveled .....Now I'm Lost!

Posted By: thedavidzoo on 07/15/16 04:36am

Ran 2 110V lines down through the floor, underneath the camper, and back up to the inverter. Thankfully we only had to drill one new hole inside a cabinet through the floor, the rest of the run could follow previous wires and holes in the battery box. Now we should be able to power our microwave and one more socket off our inverter.

Posted By: nayther on 07/15/16 08:24am

mr70ss wrote:

Picked up my new 2016 Adventurer 910FBS last weekend, I installed a simulated tile back splash in the kitchen, installed plexi glass sheets around the stove, and mounted up a 32" smart tv.

This, and a previous post, inspired me to do the same. Went full height behind the stove, then under window and around above counter. Also section above the bathroom lav. came out really bitchin. I'll try to post pictures when I get it back home, it's in Paso at my son's for the summer, going to be my wife's "guest house" when grandchild #4 arrives any day now.

Thanks for the inspiration and eDubZ as well.

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'12 Duramax CC short bed
2019 Wildcat Maxx 285RKX

Posted By: ggadwa on 07/15/16 09:02am

thedavidzoo wrote:

I use the inverter connected directly to the 110 volt AC mains to run our microwave. I do however, have to throw the Charge/Converter Breaker in order to kill that huge AC draw. If I do that the Microwave runs fine off the 2000 Watt inverter. No need to try to charge the Batteries with the Inverter. The 285 Watts in Solar Panels does the job fine on the two 6 volt New River AGM Batteries. I run just a two foot long pair of 0 gauge Battery cables to the Inverter from the Batteries.

Gary

HAM RADIO Operator since 1964 'W7FSI'
EAGLE CAP 2011 950 CUSTOM BUILT by the great folks at LaGrande Oregon
2012 FORD 350 XLT 6.7L Diesel 4x4 Super Cab with lots of stuff

Posted By: run100 on 07/15/16 11:26pm

Replaced our water pump that died at the tail end of a recent extended trip.

2012 F350,6.7L Diesel,4x4,CC,SB,SRW
2013 Lance 855S

Posted By: freddypinak on 07/19/16 08:14pm

Finally broke down and had the Atwood furnace blower motor replaced in our 1997 Lance SquireLite 185 because it was starting to squeal when the furnace started. Read about others trying to lube the motor but that always seemed like a temporary fix. The old motor put in almost 20 years of service, with most of those years in Alaska. Figure we got our money's worth out of that little motor!

The hardest part of the job was deciding to finally get the repair done. The camper will be 20 years old next year and we weren't sure we wanted to put much more money into it. We bought the camper when it was less than a year old and we've made several trips up and down the Alaska Highway and across the US. With all the memories, and considering it still meets our needs, it was a no brainer to make the repair. It's like an old family member!

Will admit that I did not do the blower motor repair. A friend recommended a two-man mobile shop that comes out to the rig. The guys did a great job; 45 minutes start to finish including a complete heating system test. All for $275 parts, labor and tax. Yes, I could have saved some money by doing the job myself, but with triple digit heat, I wasn't going to take the job on. It was hard enough to even think about furnace repairs with the heat, but I know it will be well worth it when we go to the Albuquerque Balloonfiesta this October.

I did install a Honeywell TH1100DV1000 Pro-Digital 2-Wire Heat Only thermostat after the guys did the heavy lifting of the motor replacement. The new Honeywell moves the little Lance into the digital age :-)

2006 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD 4x4
1998 Lance SquireLite 165

Posted By: nomadictxn on 07/19/16 08:50pm

Loaded that Bad boy on the truck, vacuumed and cleaned the whole camper and getting ready to head to Great Sand Dune Thursday!

nomadictxn
2013 RAM 1500 QC 5.7, 3.92 4x4 6 sp.
2021 Flagstaff E Pro 19FBS

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