Axle flip on a small 16 feet Sportsmen

johntinacamping wrote:
vlopddap, I see you have done a dual propane tank setup on yours also. That's definitely on my to-do list. One simply is not enough. And it's not fun to wake up at 3 in the morning with the wife saying "it's cold in here", then having to go out for a bottle swap to get the furnace back up and running. Ask me how I know :-).

This is funny you say that because I am actually working to downgrade it back to a single 20 LB tank because the dual system add way much tongue weight to the trailer and I tow it with a Dodge Caravan (2014) and we never use the propane heater (too much noise) nor we never cook inside the trailer, I always use a portable barbecue outside with disposable 1 LB cylinder. During the entire last summer season we use about half a 20 LB tank because we only use it for the water heater and I manually switch my water heater from ON to PILOT during the day (because I have the basic NON-DSI water heater). Anyway the PILOT keep water very hot for the dish use. For heating I use a electric low-power (750W, 6 AMP) oil filled radiator portable heater, it make NO noise at all (whisper quiet) and it keep my small 16 feet trailer very warm even near freezing temperature outside. Sometime I use the propane heater just to quickly warm the trailer, then switch to the electric heater.

What I do right now is I have one completely empty tank (out of my home barbecue) and one half tank from the last season. I already tried to tow the trailer with two full 20 LB tank and it cause A LOT of rear suspension bouncing on my Dodge Caravan, so I immediately swapped a full tank for an empty tank I had at home and it reduce suspension bounce significally.

The previously owner make the 2 tank conversion and I think it's useless depending how you use the propane. It's unwanted tongue weight for no gain in our case.