Buying a New TC Hauler
I started the process today of replacing my 2010 F450 with a 2016 model. The Ford dealers here in Little Rock hardly ever have them though, and I had resigned myself to probably driving to Dallas in o...
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Just an FYI… to update this thread (which I inadvertently hijacked along the way)
We finally made a boot for the “escape hatch” :)
And we (hopefully) will be testing it out next week!
So, I will post a picture sometime soon too (if that option is working again still.)
Ps - We have made the following additional upgrades now in addition to the escape hatch! We also have swapped 2 flooded lead acid 100 aH batteries out for 2 LiFePO4 (2x 260 aH batteries; from sunfunkits dot com) as well as added a 40 amp Renogy dc dc charger along to the 200 watts of solar charging which we installed last year when we upgraded all the lighting to LED. So we should be set for boon-docking and minimal need for using generator to charge up the batteries, since it’s equivalent to having 5 FLAs! Although we will need to use the generator for AC items like the microwave and electric coffee maker and other residential items we wish to run, because we do not yet have an inverter.
We finally made a boot for the “escape hatch” :)
And we (hopefully) will be testing it out next week!
So, I will post a picture sometime soon too (if that option is working again still.)
Ps - We have made the following additional upgrades now in addition to the escape hatch! We also have swapped 2 flooded lead acid 100 aH batteries out for 2 LiFePO4 (2x 260 aH batteries; from sunfunkits dot com) as well as added a 40 amp Renogy dc dc charger along to the 200 watts of solar charging which we installed last year when we upgraded all the lighting to LED. So we should be set for boon-docking and minimal need for using generator to charge up the batteries, since it’s equivalent to having 5 FLAs! Although we will need to use the generator for AC items like the microwave and electric coffee maker and other residential items we wish to run, because we do not yet have an inverter.
