B+ motorhomes
I just bought a Trail Lite B+ 211s with 8.1 Chevy engine. This is my fifth motorhome (others range from an old 20' Vagabond, and three Winnegagos, from 19 to 32'. This vehicle is fantastic. I am...
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Hello All!
Yesterday was my first day of retirement from teaching engineering at LSU at the ripe age of 50! Martha still has her work, so no major changes in RV use pattern. We've been doing overnight trips to local SP and a few private campgrounds mostly in the Hammond and northshore of Lake Ponchatrain area every three weeks or so. The south is so hot and humid that about all you do is walk the dogs around the park, sweat, jump in the pool if they have one, and cool off in RV w/ AC on continuously. We hope to take a few longer trips in coming months.
Caution to all.
Last outing the steering wheel went from even to a noticeable right slant of about 7 min. on an analog clock face, and a somewhat discernable leftward pull. We were at a private camp w/ unpaved sites and maybe martha had to turn wheels w/ more vigor.
None of 4 local chevy/GMC dealers would lift RV for alignment (one said his machine was out for a month), so we went to a local place that specializes in truck suspension work.
They found that the locknuts on both tierods were totally loose!!! This is from factory, as unit was just delivered from Indiana back in March. Check your front ends!
The repair folks had no trouble aligning the our 213 for $75.
My RV dealer gave me the RVision # so they can give me the Chevy # so they can probably tell me they won't pay for the fix, but I'll make the calls anyway.
Happy travels.
Yesterday was my first day of retirement from teaching engineering at LSU at the ripe age of 50! Martha still has her work, so no major changes in RV use pattern. We've been doing overnight trips to local SP and a few private campgrounds mostly in the Hammond and northshore of Lake Ponchatrain area every three weeks or so. The south is so hot and humid that about all you do is walk the dogs around the park, sweat, jump in the pool if they have one, and cool off in RV w/ AC on continuously. We hope to take a few longer trips in coming months.
Caution to all.
Last outing the steering wheel went from even to a noticeable right slant of about 7 min. on an analog clock face, and a somewhat discernable leftward pull. We were at a private camp w/ unpaved sites and maybe martha had to turn wheels w/ more vigor.
None of 4 local chevy/GMC dealers would lift RV for alignment (one said his machine was out for a month), so we went to a local place that specializes in truck suspension work.
They found that the locknuts on both tierods were totally loose!!! This is from factory, as unit was just delivered from Indiana back in March. Check your front ends!
The repair folks had no trouble aligning the our 213 for $75.
My RV dealer gave me the RVision # so they can give me the Chevy # so they can probably tell me they won't pay for the fix, but I'll make the calls anyway.
Happy travels.
