Vintage RV upgrades
Hey everyone! I’m back with more questions. Recently purchased a 1977 dodge Sportsman RV. 43k original miles, in excellent shape for its age. All appliances in working condition. Picked it up for $750...
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DrewE wrote:
If it has 16.5" wheels, I'd replace them with 16" wheels. Since you have a bunch of new tires, I'm kind of guessing it doesn't have the 16.5" wheels as 16.5" tires are getting pretty hard to find.
Otherwise, there's not much chassis related I can think of beyond usual old vehicle stuff: make sure the brakes are in good shape and operating freely, change fluids if they're at all questionable, check belts and hoses and spark plug wires and distributor bits, that sort of thing. (Note that my inability to think of stuff doesn't mean stuff doesn't exist that would be good to do!)
For the house part, if the converter is original or even comparatively old, replacing it with a modern multi-stage converter would be well worth doing, and probably doing fairly soon. There haven't been as many improvements in most of the other appliances and stuff over the years.
Thank you! I actually did find 16.5” tires, I ordered them through giga tires and it only cost me $750 for 7 tires. With install through Walmart will he another 175. Wish I could have done a 16” swap but I need tires to get her home, I live in the middle of no where so wouldn’t have been able to find them before I go pick up the RV. The RV currently has 8x16.5, I went with 8.75x16.5 because i read on some forums they will fit and drive a little nicer. Hope I didn’t get to wide of tires I guess we will see.
Lucky for me, I bought a modified sine wave years ago thinking I’d use it camping in the car, and never did lol. So it’s brand new, ready to go in. Not as nice as a pure sine wave inverter but honestly I won’t be running much with it. Currently just have lights to power, fridge when it’s not on propane, and will eventually get some more small stuff to put in but no major electronics like a TV or computer. The modified sine wave should do great, we will see.
Anyone upgrade their bumper? There is a guy on YouTube (Deep South homesteader) that put a really nice cargo bumper on one he renovated. I would love to have that but he didn’t mention where he got it.
