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Small Class C - Mercedes Diesel vs. Chevy Gasoline?
This is a two part question and I greatly appreciate any help. First, we are getting very close to pulling the trigger on the purchase of a small Class C. Our traveling and camping friends have a Coach House Platinum II that is about 25 feet long with a queen bed that runs "front to back" ("north-south") with space to walk along both sides of the bed. We don't have the budget to purchase a new Coach House($200K ??), but we would like to find a new RV with similar features (without the luxury) at a lower price point. We were looking closely at a Winnebego View but I don't think they offer a north-south walk-around queen on their 2019 models. The second question is what non-Ford chassis options are out there for a small Class C with a north-south walk-around queen bed? I am a life long GMC / Chevy fan and I read a while back that Chevy was launching a new platform for Class C motor homes, but I have not been able to find one with a north-south bed. I don't need the Mercedes platform and perhaps not having to deal with diesel will be a benefit, but it is tough to find a non-Ford option. My wife refuses to approve of Fords because the Ford based Class C units we have seen at RV shows, etc. have a passenger-side footwell is much narrower than the driver-side foot well. I am the driver, but I can see why she does not want to have her feet shoved into a tiny space for 500 miles a day. Help? Happy Camping!5.5KViews0likes27CommentsRe: Roof Repair - Lance Aluminum Roof
Thank you to everyone for the help. Just returned from a quick trip - camping and picking huckleberries on Mt. Adams (Washington State). Tomorrow I will go buy a gallon of one of the sealants you recommend and patch the hole(s). I may try to do the entire roof at a future date but that will require removal of two solar panels that have been mounted up there for 16 years with zero leaks and zero problems, and I don't want to create new problems. For now I think I will just paint the patch material in a 12 inch circle around the area with the tiny holes and see what happens. Happy Camping!1.1KViews0likes0CommentsRoof Repair - Lance Aluminum Roof
I have a Lance camper with a one-piece aluminum roof. A tree branch fell on the roof and made two tiny - almost invisible - punctures in the roof. I am not even sure that water could get in, but I don't want to take any chances. Suggestions on repair? Hopefully some sort of simple "paint on" rubber coating that I can just put on the spot of the puncture and not have to do the entire roof? Thanks, and Happy Camping!6.4KViews0likes15CommentsRe: Convection Microwave vs. Gas Oven
Thank you to everyone for the great (and fast) advice. You have given me some things to think about (gas oven vs. microwave / generator). I hope to see you down the road and maybe offer you a fresh baked cookie. Happy Camping and Happy Thanksgiving. Greg1.5KViews0likes0CommentsConvection Microwave vs. Gas Oven
We are about to pull the trigger on a larger RV. Up until now, every RV we have owned has had a gas oven as part of the cooktop assembly. The model we are considering does not offer a gas oven as a factory option but comes with a nice gas cooktop and a convection microwave. Installation of a gas oven as an "after market" item looks to be complicated and expensive (and will sacrifice a lot of storage). I do not know if this is the right place to ask this question, but can you cook blueberry pie, or biscuits, or cinnamon rolls, or bread in a convection microwave oven? Is it as good as the food cooked in a regular propane oven in an RV? We have friends with convection microwaves in their RVs but I think for most of them cooking = heating up coffee or maybe a bag of gourmet microwave popcorn or a frozen TV dinner. Help appreciated, and feel free to move this to another forum category if I posted it incorrectly. Happy Camping and Happy Thanksgiving. Greg9.2KViews0likes26CommentsRe: Sheep Invasion!
Great photos. I have decided I like to eat lamb more than beef (except for the occasional bone-in rib eye). There are some great local farmers who sell me a whole lamb (cut and wrapped) for a very fair price. We are taking off for Canada in a few days and are taking some lamb shoulder skewers, a lamb roast or two, some ground lamb, and some nice packages of lamb chops. Isn't it great to be traveling with a freezer in your camper? Hopefully we will catch a lot of fish and alternate between salmon, halibut and lamb. Should keep us alive for 6 weeks. Happy Camping!479Views0likes0CommentsRe: Stuck Tailgate 2000 Chevy Silverado 2500
mkirsch wrote: Even if you cut the tailgate it may not release. First off if the pin was bent forward, pushing BACKWARD on the tailgate will not help the situation. You need to relieve the pressure on the pin, not add to it. MKirsch, I owe you a salmon fishing trip. I used a couple woodworking clamps to pull the tailgate forward and it released immediately. And I think I can use a piece of galvanized pipe to straighten out the pin so it does not happen again. Thanks, and I will PM you my information - I am serious about that salmon fishing trip. Greg479Views0likes0CommentsRe: Stuck Tailgate 2000 Chevy Silverado 2500
mkirsch wrote: Even if you cut the tailgate it may not release. First off if the pin was bent forward, pushing BACKWARD on the tailgate will not help the situation. You need to relieve the pressure on the pin, not add to it. Thanks to all for the ideas. The body shop can't fit me in until the last Thursday in August and I need to leave for Canada on Wednesday. But the above idea is interesting. I have a lot of woodworking clamps and I will try to put one end of a clamp in the "stake well" in the bed on the middle of the driver side and see if I can tighten the clamp and move the top of the tailgate toward the front of the pickup to release pressure on the latch. As always, you guys are a great source of ideas. Happy Camping! greg479Views0likes0CommentsStuck Tailgate 2000 Chevy Silverado 2500
Feel free to laugh at me later, but I have a serious question and problem. When I was loading the camper in March I must have bumped the metal box protecting the utility connections on my Lance against the steel stud that the tailgate latches to. When I removed my camper from the truck in July the steel stud on the driver's side was bent toward the cab (along with a bit of the surrounding sheet metal). I tried to straighten it with a hammer but that did not work. My wife urgently needed me to haul a few loads of topsoil and bark dust so I used brute force to make the tail gate latch. Now I need to remove the tail gate so I can mount my camper for a fishing trip. I have tried everything I can think of to get the tailgate to unlatch. This morning I put a bottle jack and a 2x4 in the bed and had my wife lift the tailgate latch while I pumped the bottle jack but everything is still stuck. I have to leave in two days for a long fishing trip. I have decided to use my sawzall to cut the tail gate in pieces so I can remove it and then buy another tailgate when I need it next summer. It appears new tailgates only cost a couple hundred dollars (plus painting to match). Any other ideas? I need to fix this by tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. Thanks and Happy Camping.1.5KViews0likes9CommentsRe: Help with Class C
Thanks Logans. I think the unit you mentioned is more like 28 feet than 26 feet. The Alaska Ferry people are like the IRS and FBI combined when it comes to measuring length. I need to stay under 26 feet no matter what! But I appreciate the help and advice.484Views0likes0Comments
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