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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Happy Halloween!
We just came from a two-nite stay at Lake Lincoln SP near Brookhaven, MS. The weather was very nice and very cool (70 degrees hi - 36 lo)
We now have 4 dogs: we adopted two just after Katrina to help make room at our no-kill shelter for refugees from N.O. It is a hard job herding 4 dogs and mixing our older two seasoned spoiled ones w/ two new and very energetic mutts!
We have had the 213 B+ since March, and I got to thinkin about whether we should winterize the RV here in Baton Rouge, where we typically encounter only a few nites where the temp stays below 32 for more than 5 or 6 hours (a hard freeze) all winter. We plan to use the rv all winter, and antifreeze in the system and all the things I read on the forums scares me into wondering if I could just get away with a minimum of:
a) do nothing
b) run an elec. heater on ptrdicted hard freeze nites to keep inside at 45 deg or so (I may have to see if the place where we store our unit allows this - we do have a dedicated elec outlet - the space is open to air, w/ only a roof covering)
c) drain hot water tank
d) drain hw and run a heater
e) drain both hw and fresh water tanks
f) drain both and use a heater
Any ideas and/or opinions?
Also, about draining, I did a rigorous search of the forums for winterizing, and especially several posts on this B+ forum back on 3/30 and 4/10 of this year. We were all talking about those pull rings located inside the coach next to the fresh water tank and the hot water tank (and someone said there was also a bathroom pull ring). Like several others said, these feel flimsy and feel like if you pull up on the ring, something will break. My salesman at the dealership returned a call and said his technicians said that these pull rings are indeed the drain valves.
Do these pull-up rings work smoothly?
Thanks
Burl
We just came from a two-nite stay at Lake Lincoln SP near Brookhaven, MS. The weather was very nice and very cool (70 degrees hi - 36 lo)
We now have 4 dogs: we adopted two just after Katrina to help make room at our no-kill shelter for refugees from N.O. It is a hard job herding 4 dogs and mixing our older two seasoned spoiled ones w/ two new and very energetic mutts!
We have had the 213 B+ since March, and I got to thinkin about whether we should winterize the RV here in Baton Rouge, where we typically encounter only a few nites where the temp stays below 32 for more than 5 or 6 hours (a hard freeze) all winter. We plan to use the rv all winter, and antifreeze in the system and all the things I read on the forums scares me into wondering if I could just get away with a minimum of:
a) do nothing
b) run an elec. heater on ptrdicted hard freeze nites to keep inside at 45 deg or so (I may have to see if the place where we store our unit allows this - we do have a dedicated elec outlet - the space is open to air, w/ only a roof covering)
c) drain hot water tank
d) drain hw and run a heater
e) drain both hw and fresh water tanks
f) drain both and use a heater
Any ideas and/or opinions?
Also, about draining, I did a rigorous search of the forums for winterizing, and especially several posts on this B+ forum back on 3/30 and 4/10 of this year. We were all talking about those pull rings located inside the coach next to the fresh water tank and the hot water tank (and someone said there was also a bathroom pull ring). Like several others said, these feel flimsy and feel like if you pull up on the ring, something will break. My salesman at the dealership returned a call and said his technicians said that these pull rings are indeed the drain valves.
Do these pull-up rings work smoothly?
Thanks
Burl
