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

Moosehumper wrote:
Re hung my fresh tank. Keystone did a very poor job the first time. Not much thought went into that set up.:M
This would have been a $500-$600 job at a dealer. I do have ext. warranty but summer is too short to sit on a waiting list only to have them scab it back together with more self tappers.

I did the same earlier this summer. 122 gal on my Tail-Gator 5th wheel toyhauler. It was sagging abour 4" in the frt. And on the toyhauler as you know it's in front of the axles so it would have gone onto the road. Made a round trip from Az to In, 3600 miles and when I went to drain the tank when I got home there it was. I'll never own another Keystone. Should have known better.

Tore into the new to me Victory lane today. Ripped up the maroon ugly carpet from the stairs. Fixed a loose wall and while I was in the wall I re routed the TV cable so that it would go to the new TV mount up above the fridge!

Sat inside the trailer and had a beer, then went out and stared at the torn apart front corner of my 05 Desert Fox... Sigh... The siding pulled free from the corner trim on the freeway and tore back about two feet on the way home from our week long camping adventure. Guess that is the end of the camping season for us..... Now for the big rebuild project.... It looks like it was leaking for a very long time. probably since new... The whole corner was not put together properly from the factory. The siding was not glued to the first two studs and none of the staples that were supposed to be holing the siding to the frame were even through the siding (all were just in front of it). The siding was cut so that only 1/8th of an inch in places was being held by the corner trim, and at the top near the transition strip the trim was barely touching the siding but was not actually over the siding, what a surprise that the wood is completely rotten, no sarcasm at all there........ To add insult to injury the floor is also rotted under the bath tub from the leak... What annoys me is that the trailer did not appear to be leaking, the interior has no damage and the siding did not appear to be delaminated even though the front two feet was actually delaminated. Oh well, in the end I have to rebuild the damn thing and it will be better than new when I am done.... I will post some pics and a rebuild story in a new thread once I dive into the project....

I converted my manual awning to elctric. Should have done this a long time ago.

I did this same thing only for different reasons. I kept getting an intermittent error message from the brake controller ('08 F350, integrated brake controller) that said wiring fault on trailer. I pulled all the cheap wiring out of the axle tubes and replaced it with quality wiring that I ran on the outside of the axle. Error message is gone. Upon inspection, the old wiring had chaffed in the tube.

fj12ryder wrote:

maak95 wrote:
Upgraded brake wiring to 10ga from front to back. Ran to a junction box and made all the wires going to the brakes on each axle the same. Also upgraded to the Dexter EZ-Flex kit.

Have you had the chance to check out the result yet? Does it really make a difference that you would notice if you hadn't done the work yourself? If you braked before you changed the wiring, and braked after, would you say, "Wow! That is a big difference"? Or would it be more like "Okay, that's a little better"?

Honest answer now. :)

It is definitely better. I tow with a 06 F250 that has the integrated brake controller. Before this upgrade I had to have the gain at 9.5. My current setting is 7.5. The only thing that was missing for the test drive was the toys and food. I had the trailer full of water and I took my passengers. I hit the brakes hard and no lock up like before to the front driver side. The way the trailer was wired before was wrong. All the splices and power to one wheel before jumping to the other wheels. Now they all get the same. I feel better and I didn't pay someone to do it either. That makes it all worth it.

maak95 wrote:
Upgraded brake wiring to 10ga from front to back. Ran to a junction box and made all the wires going to the brakes on each axle the same. Also upgraded to the Dexter EZ-Flex kit.

Have you had the chance to check out the result yet? Does it really make a difference that you would notice if you hadn't done the work yourself? If you braked before you changed the wiring, and braked after, would you say, "Wow! That is a big difference"? Or would it be more like "Okay, that's a little better"?

Honest answer now. :)

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Filter wrench

eightydo wrote:

Badhabt wrote:
Replaced the two fuel filters on my Onan 5500 genset with the new 1 filter setup...and changed the oil. Hardest thing was to get the oil filter off...if it was just an inch longer...;)

Onan makes a wrench for the oil filter. this makes it easy for me to change oil
See page 6
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Link no workee

Badhabt wrote:
Replaced the two fuel filters on my Onan 5500 genset with the new 1 filter setup...and changed the oil. Hardest thing was to get the oil filter off...if it was just an inch longer...;)

Onan makes a wrench for the oil filter. this makes it easy for me to change oil
See page 6
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