What did you do to your Toy Hauler today???

Had a new main air conditioner installed. The old one (6 months old) had a bad evaporator and wouldn't cool. Took it to the car wash for a bath and now it's home for a month while I travel for work.

Packed the wheel bearings, replaced axle seals, replaced 4 brake magnets. Sure glad I did...peace of mind during my trip to Oregon in a couple weeks is priceless.

That's a great idea...

I always had a problem of where to carry the bike when on the road. I saw the idea for the mount on the web and decided to try it for the ramp of my Toy Hauler.

Inside the the Toy Hauler I made sure the mount was going where the bike would be clear from hitting anything and would be out of the way as much as possible.

The mount is made from 1/2" pipe T, Flange and 3 1/2" nipples. I bought the nipples that go between the fork of the bicycle extra long because I wanted to cut off the threads.



The 5/8" inch bolt with wing nut has washers that fit inside the fork making it impossible for the bike to slip out once tightend down.





Ramp door closed

Finally getting ours back from being repaired. We tore a front corner loose last fall while towing. Went almost back to the slide. We were lucky - nothing broke or came completely off. My husband quickly pulled over and we put duct tape over the whole seam and up onto the roof to seal the seam. We discovered that the fiberglass was held by the trim strip (less than 1/8" in some places). The day it pulled loose, we had a lot of wind. The insurance covered almost $3000.00 of the repairs for the corner and we had the dealer do some additional work on the roof. We replaced our bedroom A/C, the skylight had sun damaged and cracked, and we had a section at the back that had water damage. We are friends with the owner of the rv and even though he retired last year, he decided that the whole roof needed replaced - no patching. The fiberglass is all original on the camper (the dealer was able to remove and reinstall). The whole job is going to cost us less than $500 plus a few hours helping at the campground grinding out some ash tree stumps (okay, lots of hours). The owner agreed to an hour for hour on labor. We got almost $11,000 of repairs done on our camper and now have a new roof on the camper with no water damage there or in the walls. This will be a real selling point when we go to sell the hauler in the near future (planning to downsize since only one or two of the kids usually goes camping now and they will soon be leaving for college and jobs.
We hope to get it home tomorrow and pack it for camping next week (no more rain, please).

Strabo wrote:

Badhabt wrote:
From saturday...first time out with the Spyder inside her...

Super Cool.....Me like that alot, good for you. :)

I put mine in reverse. Gives me more room for the washer and the side cabinets. And it looks better ciming out too wheb there's a crowd.

Nice job. That saved you a bundle. Just hope you dont need it any time soon. Enjoy your travels

I finished my Spare Tire Hoist Project. My Toy Hauler did not come with a spare tire mount. I went to the local Upullit Auto Salvage and picked up a tire hoist off of a Ford F150. It used the same jack bar as the one in my F250.

When I got home I realized that the stock hoist pulls from above the frame and I needed it to bolt to the bottom of the floor of the Toy Hauler, meaning the bolt holes were down and I needed them UP! So I had to weld and bolt on some new brackets so I could flip the hoist.

I added a 10"x10" steel plate to the top of the floor for support.

I had to weld a bracket for the spare because the Y at the end of the cable was too small because it was for a F150 and the F250 center is much bigger, ooops!


I decided to add a perminent rod to the system. This was harder than it looks because the OEM jack rod has a specific shape and the new perminent rod had to be grinded down to match.


7/8" nut at end of rod. There is another nut on the other side of the frame rail to hold the rod so it won't move in and out.


I added a access hole for a speed wrench or extention with 7/8" socket. The access hole will be covered with a chrome plug when not in use.

The spare tire is 10 1/2" off the ground and about 2 feet behind the rear axle and 7 feet from the back bumper.

I was looking into doing a coating like Line-X. It would last a lifetime...

Started looking into this:

http://www.thervroofman.com/

Anyone know anything about it?