RV Tips & Tricks

Moving the trailer with an electrical trailer dolly

For the last past year or two I have had to move the trailer with the electrical trailer dolly. I have to move it every 30 days according to the city I live in. SO, here's the problem I broke the "mount hitch" putting stress on it going side to side,...

Anyone tow a mobile office?

We're a large family, 8 kids (0-15) with a sports coach DP with the bunks. (Sleeps 10 if the mix includes kids, 7 if they are adult sized). We spend a total of about 3 months a year in this beast. We've tried to make the MH as comfortable as home, ...

Finally got a ProPride!

Well, after two years of casually watching Craigslist for a ProPride, I finally found one local and for a good price. The guy was only asking $350 for it! I drove out as fast as I could and picked it up. Everything looks to be in good shape (it is...

Rotten egg smell for water heater

A friend picked up a used motor home that has a few issues. Most of them we took care of, but what do you do about the rotten egg smell water from the water heater

trailer brake issues

Hey guys new to this forum. So first off hello. I have a 2006 shadowmaster trailer for towing my motorcycles. My trailer brakes randomly stopped working. I have checked all fuses and connections and I replaced the battery on the trailer. However the...

Gettin' there!

Had the day off today so took the F250 out to my RV dealer and had my new Eaz-lift WDH installed. Trailer was level, truck was level and the spring bars were level. Looked great!! Also had the Husky anti sway bar installed. Can't go anywhere yet as I...

Keeping it cool when It is 100 Plus

A AC if working properly will cool the incoming air by 20 degrees. In other words if the temperature in RV is 100 degrees the air coming out should be 80 degrees. Some tricks to keeping cool in an RV when the outside temps go over 100 degrees are. F...

Towing Info For A LandRover Discovery

This is the best and most throughly researched compendium of towing information for towing with a Land Rover.I wanted to post this info for the archive.Landrover Discovery Towing ResourcesWoodGlue

Equalizer hitch frustration

I will call tech support in morning but need to vent in the mean time.This is new hitch for me, so wasn't informed enough to challenge the youngster when it was installed. The outside link plate was upside down and the L-bracket was installed in lowe...

would you

On my way to another campground i picked up a nail in my brand new duravis r250 tire on the 5ver, had a company come out and they put a plug in the hole which was not in the sidewall but between the tread and they thought it was good to go. my questi...

Just breaks my heart

The 19 Firefighters that lost their lives on the wildfire in Arizona.And to read that so many others have died this year alone...."Before the 19 deaths in Arizona, 43 firefighters had been killed so far in 2013, according to the U.S. Fire Administrat...

Upsetting experience

We are traveling in our 40 foot motorhome and pulling a Saturn Vue. We stopped for an overnighter near Kansas City, MO the other night. The site they gave us was impossible to level our coach so they moved us to a back in. No big deal. We parked o...

Cable operated dump valves

Do they all stink (mechanically, not physically) like the ones on our RV?We have three tanks, one black and grey tied together, with their own cable/valve each, going to one outlet. And another rear (kitchen) tank on it's own. Even after attempting t...

Convection Microwave

I'm looking at a RV without an oven, it has a convection microwave.Does a convection microwave get hot, like 350, inside?Does it sound like a microwave---loud?I'm thinking if I bake something for an hour and half, I dodn't want to listen to a microwa...

Best grill for RVing?

I have seen just a few comments on the use of grills while camping. I currently use a smokey joe, but with the wind at the beach it is a pain sometimes to start. Thinking of going to a gas grill but I don't know much about them. Any suggestions. Some...

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