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Posted By: firemedic08 on 12/19/12 12:59pm

Thought about it sitting at home lonley while im stuck working away from home.....

Donnie
1994 Chevy 2500 Extended cab
1987 28 ft travel villa 5th wheel.

Posted By: portscanner on 12/19/12 03:39pm

Called out someone to fix the generator that starts then stops running after 5 seconds.

One beautiful wife
Mattie and Trooper the furcampers
2019 Dodge 4500 with 2008 Lance 1181
2015 Jeep Wrangler toad w/ ReadyBrake/Brute
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Posted By: iwon415 on 12/19/12 03:48pm

We got down to 29 degrees last night...oh no! So I turned on heater and set thermostat to 40. Turned it off today cause its due to rain and temps are going up again. Whats winterizing mean? Got to love parts of California...

Posted By: Ski Pro 3 on 12/19/12 03:51pm

iwon415 wrote:

Me too! Verified water still pumped to the sink in kitchen, bathroom and the toilet, then turned on a little electric space heater. Didn't want to turn on propane heater since the camper is covered. The exhaust would burn down the cover and camper I bet...

Posted By: mountainkowboy on 12/19/12 06:04pm

skipro3 wrote:

iwon415 wrote:

Yup....26* this morning when I got up. Set the little catalitic at 45* last night. Sposed to be the same tonight, so I'll leave it on.

Chuck & Ruth with 4-legged Molly
2007 Tiffin Allegro 30DA
2011 Ford Ranger
1987 HD FLHTP

Posted By: Raften on 12/19/12 06:46pm

Nothing to the TC but put new front shocks on yesterday and now the exhaust break won't work. Guess trying to get that drivers side done buggered something. It is a tight place and there are wires right there. I'll start checking fuses and power tomorrow.

Posted By: mark_be on 12/20/12 03:51am

It's only something small (and potentially stupid), but before telling WHAT I did, I'll first tell you why I did it. I actually did only one thing, but had to do with 3 different things. These things are:

1. I've had a bad glowplug relay, which is difficult to find out because it doesn't always happen due to how the relay works (it's a ring that turns a bit every time to get a fresh contact every time, but that works only one turn). Every time you test the relay, Murphy's law decides that you'll get a good contact and every time you need to start, the same law tells the relay not to make a good contact. This makes you search around for the cold starting problem for a long time before you get the problem.

2. I have a solenoid based battery separator and can disconnect it in an emergency with a switch in the wiring to the ground.

3. I've installed an "emergency start" switch. (and have 1/0 AWG to the 3 house batteries)

Well, what do these things have to do with each other, you probably ask. Well, at first I needed to find a place for an LED-light that's wired to the glowplugs to show me that the relay is actually working (found this idea on a forum), 2nd, I also needed a place for another LED-light that shows me that the batteries are connected by the emergency start switch and 3rd I needed a place for the "cut-off" switch.

I wanted everything to be kind of obvious for outstanders to know which led is for what and what the little switch is actually doing there, so - and here it finally comes-sorry about that - so I made a sticker that's going to accommodate both LED's and the miniature switch.

Please let me know if my effort to make it all clear by using this sticker actually worked or not.

This is the sticker (the led's and switch come inside the upper part of the sticker).

Click.

2001 Ford F350 7.3 Diesel (DRW Crew cab Long bed)
Sonnax TQ and Sonnax 4R100 rebuild - 6.0 transmission cooler and OTW cooler.

2011 Arctic Fox 992 - 2.5kW propane generator - 315AH Trojan batteries - 2kW pure sine wave inverter - 140Wp solar

Posted By: Kidoo on 12/20/12 07:00am

Finally got the rear dood airtight. I installed a 1/2 inch foam seal on the door frame and a brush type air seal on the door. Now when the door closes, they make a very good seal.

I also fabricated a space under the counter to store my Espresso Machine, can't go without it for a free broue in the morning.

Monaco Cayman 34 2003, Cummins 300HP
Bigfoot 2008, 10.4, F350, 2006, Diesel 6.0, Black, 4x4, long box, Air lift, Rancho 9000, Rear sway bar.

Posted By: Kellikastle on 12/20/12 03:15pm

Replaced all my low-pressure valve stems on my rig with hi-pressure ones. Glad I found the info on that here on RV.net, the tire dealership replaced them for free and admitted it was a mistake to have installed them in the first place. I looked at the valve stems they had just put on a local ambulance and they had used low-pressure stems. This is perhaps a common problem.

Posted By: ggadwa on 12/20/12 08:27pm

Traveled from 20 Miles South of Battle Mountain Nevada where it was 22 degrees this morning and all water was fine in the Eagle Cap. Only heating with the Wave 3. This evening in Lakeview Oregon....so far its only 35 degrees out....The EAGLE CAP 950 always seems to do fine until we get into the teens....Sure have a lot of salt spray to get washed off of the truck and camper....Roads were yucky..

Gary and Laurii

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

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