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2 Days snowed in planing next season

Living near Chicago we've had 14 inchs of snow and wind chills of -40 for 2 days. My wife is a secretary at local school, I'm retired from AT&T and drive a school bus for the same district. To pass some of the time I've been researching Door County f...

edsland by Explorer
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Pump question?

Howdy folks. I've been gone for a while but I'm back now and I've got a question about my water pump.We've had our Rockwood 8315BSS for 4 years this month and we've never used the water tank before since we've always been hooked to the campground wat...

Air compressor tank drain

little like, shutting the gate after the cows get out.but if you have not drained your air tank in a while, you might want to think about it, would not want the water to build up and bust your tank, or rust out the bottomI checked mine this morning, ...

tires on 2500HD

Time to put a new set of tires on my 2007 GMC 2500HD. When I bought the used truck it came with 10 ply load range Ds on it. (LT 245 75 R16) I have to run these tires at 50 PSI or else when I am driving especially empty, the ride is stiff and rough. A...

jbres by Explorer
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Battery Boxes

I would like to install my TT batteries (2 and would consider 3) in a nice metal box. Can anybody suggest a source for a box that would do the job for me? I would really like something that is attractive and would be tongue mounted. Checker Plate wou...

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2012 RAM 2500 Cummins 4WD issue

I'm having issues with the 4WD engagement on my 2012 RAM 2500 Cummins. Twice now, in damp weather, I get a service 4WD light and the 4WD won't engage. It clears after several hours of driving. The first time, the dealer replaced the engagement dri...

Any old time RVers around?

Hello from Idaho.I was wondering how many true old timers we have here..Back in the day before even the Camper special or any factory tow packages.We learned from experience about what would my truck take or how much we could safely pull...Sometimes ...

New guy, quality question

Hi all, first post here.My wife and I are looking at buying our first travel trailer. We live in Washington and do lots of camping/kayaking and we're tired of sleeping in tents with all the rain we have here (we camp about 9 months of the year).We'r...

Trip report : Christmas in Cornwall

We've done Christmas at home, just the two of us, Christmas with family, but we've never had Christmas away. This year Sally decided we should try the latter. I initially objected because I thought she was talking about flights, hotels, etc. which wo...

Road tripping Yosemite in a winter storm

Sometimes you get an urge to do something and even though common sense is screaming at you that this might not be the wisest time to go and you say what the heck, we planned on cold and snow and the forecast is just for colder and more snow. We had ...

Buzzcut1 by Nomad II
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Ram 3500 Real Life MPG

I am looking for some real life mpg numbers on the Ram 3500 primarily for 2010, 2011 models. I am thinking about swithcing to a one ton model. Please include hand calculated numbers only. The overhead computers (at least on my 2005 2500) read two to ...

rtate by Explorer
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Ladder table?

I'm sure I read it here, but can't find it now; I'm looking for the thread where someone built a ladder table. This was a piece of plywood cut and fit to the ladder on the back of a camper for holding stuff, like a BBQ. I'd like to build one for pu...

2013 Holiday Trip

We ended 2013 with a trip to Las Vegas from the Bay Area to visit our son who wasn't able to join our traditional family Christmas and see the grandkids one more time! We stopped during the middle of the trip to camp at Red Rock Canyon State Park (Ca...

lift jacks

One of my lift jacks runs but will not lift or extend. has any one taken one of the electric jacks apart, do they have a sheer pin in them. any help appreciated

gbsb by Explorer
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Bad smell

Recently we went to Virginia . I know what you're thinking.... why would anyone want to go up to cold country from Florida ? Well to make things simple I was over ruled . So my wife , son , and two grand children left with wife an grand children in...

6pac by Explorer
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