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Posted By: Bedlam on 04/09/17 09:28am

Here are the pictures of the Smokey River interior:

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Posted By: [email protected] on 04/09/17 09:51am

That would be way too dark for us. Not sure why but the RV manufacturers seem to love dark interiors. When we were shopping for a 5th wheel almost everything was dark, dark, dark. Speaking with other shoppers we found many who were looking for lighter interiors like we were. We finally got a light interior but it took a long time and a lot of looking. We did the same when looking for our TC. Very happy with this.

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The light colors make it feel much more spacious to us.

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Posted By: GeoBoy on 04/09/17 12:07pm

Smoky River is not for me, doubt Host will sell many with that interior.

Posted By: jimh406 on 04/09/17 12:20pm

I like the Smoky River interior tone. Like Bedlam, interior color being light seems to make the TC seem more spacious. My current one has a light interior.

'10 Ford F-450, 6.4, 4.30, 4x4, 14,500 GVWR, '06 Host Rainer 950 DS, Torklift Talon tiedowns, Glow Steps, and Fastguns. Bilstein 4600s, Firestone Bags, Toyo M655 Gs, Curt front hitch, Energy Suspension bump stops.

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Posted By: Wikel on 04/09/17 03:55pm

zb39,

Did you happen to get measurement of the furnace area when you had it out? Interested in what's the width, depth and length if there where just doors instead of the fireplace. Thanks [emoticon]

Posted By: Wikel on 04/09/17 03:58pm

[email protected] wrote:

Not sure why but the RV manufacturers seem to love dark interiors.

Dark colors hide flaws better?

Posted By: Bedlam on 04/09/17 04:37pm

Wikel wrote:

The wall width is 34" to the outside edges. Maybe 1.5" trim?

Posted By: Wikel on 04/09/17 05:37pm

34" top to bottom, left to right? Basically a square?

Also any idea on the depth? Thanks BL!

Posted By: Bedlam on 04/09/17 06:43pm

34" overall width left to right of the wall. I never took fireplace measurements since I was just looking at TV sizes that would fit.

Posted By: Bedlam on 04/09/17 11:05pm

I was busy making room for our Host this weekend. The original spare tire worked great with my short bed Arctic Fox, but needs a new home with the Host coming.

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The rear overhang will go from 2' to 3.5', so I also needed a longer SuperTruss than my current 28" model.

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I have put a bug into Torklift's ear that I was hoping for higher rated SuperTruss with some additional accessories for it, but they are still too busy fitting new truck tie downs to give me an idea when they could engineer an upgrade. I happened across a used 42" SuperTruss which should work well with my Host's overhang. I might even get some money selling my old one to defray the cost.

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This still left me with the problem of what to do with the spare tire. The Ford and Ram Class 4 and 5 chassis cabs use 19.5" rims with a 225mm 10-bolt pattern and 225/70R19.5 tires - This is roughly 125 lbs and 32" of wheel that needed to go somewhere. Chassis cabs do not have frame location for the spare (the fuel tank is in the typical location). The next best place is under the camper overhang - This leaves you the choice of under or over the SuperTruss. Unless you have a boulevard cruiser that never wanders past an RV resort, under the truss is not an option since ground clearance is reduced. I decided to put the weight as close to the receiver as possible on top of the truss since this is a stock SuperTruss and I already run a heavy tongue weight. I used two steel bands of 1.5"x0.385" metal stock to clamp the tire to the truss with 0.5"x4.0" coarse thread bolts along with some fender washers and lock nuts.

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I was getting deflection in the bars as I tightened the bolts. I could have cut some spacers to limit deflection, but decided I would rotate the tire against the truss so two of the four bolts were touching against the truss. Between the rim and truss, I used some packing foam to make a nonslip surface. After putting 50 miles on the my test setup today towing less than a ton (my small trailer), I deem the project a success. I still want to see what Torklift will design, but I now have no rush to get there. Our first trip with the enclosed trailer in tow is early May which will match everything up for the first time with a tow over the mountains.

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