All ActivityMost RecentMost LikesSolutionsRe: Suspect Wheel Alignment IssueIs there any way that I can tell if something is out of whack, other than the tire wear?Suspect Wheel Alignment IssueHi folks, One of the tires on my 28' TT appears to be wearing on the outside more than the others, so going by what I have read, I'm starting to wonder if I have an alignment issue. My questions are: where does one take a travel trailer for a wheel alignment; approximately what would it cost and what do they do if they find a mis-aligned axel or axels, how do they fix it? Thanks very much for your help.Re: Ordering parts / accessoriesUp here in Canada I've used Amazon. Not the same as U.S. Amazon, so selection can be limited, but I've had good luck. We have a local dealer with a real good parts dept. too so I shop there when I can.Re: Battery Isolator For TT. Yes or No? vermilye wrote: If you install an isolation relay, be sure it is rated for continuous use. There are many that are designed for intermittent use & the coils overheat & fail... Thinking about this one which has been recommended. Link I just have to find one in Canada for a reasonable price. Amazon in Canada is out to lunch on this one.Re: Battery Isolator For TT. Yes or No? YC 1 wrote: I think you must first prove they are isolated or not. With thing connected start the truck. Measure the voltage on the TT batteries and the truck batteries. They will be a bit different so write them down. Shut the truck off and take the measurement again. Then go inside and turn every light on you can find, even turn the heater on if possible so you have a large DC load. Now measure the voltages on each battery bank. Write it down. You will see your TT battery voltage sink and if your truck is not already isolated with the ignition off you should see that battery voltage going down a bit too. If it holds steady you have isolation. That said, I too just unplugged my truck at night when I had a TT. Worked great. For a bit of a quicker picker upper I would face the truck to the TT and use automotive jumper cables to give the TT batteries a bit of a charge before retiring. This would warm the batteries too helping them in cold weather. I'm pretty sure they aren't isolated, because the terminal on the 7 pin connector is hot regardless of whether the key is on or off.Re: 7 pin trailer connector - no 12 volt for chargingI had the same issue. I connected the wire and installed the fuse, but now the terminal is hot all the time, regardless of whether or not the key is on.Battery Isolator For TT. Yes or No?Sorry for a stupid question if this has been done to death, but I've been thinking that I should install a battery isolator to keep my truck battery and trailer battery separate. When I started doing a little research, I found two camps on the issue. Some said absolute must and others said not necessary for a TT. What do you folks think?Re: REFRIGERATOR DRAINLINE SULTINI wrote: Bobbo wrote: I hope you sealed the hole around the hose well to keep moisture from getting into the RV through it. How does plastic turn to powder? From UV from the sun. Only the part of the hose that is actually outside and exposed to sunlight will deteriorate. Everything not exposed will be fine.Re: Overnighting-while-Urban, or OUWhat about light? You'll need blackout curtains at a minimum and no campfire. That kind of takes the fun out of camping for me. I love a campfire in the evenings.Re: MICE!!!You need to figure out how they are getting in and make it harder. A mouse can get in through a hole the size of the end of your little finger. Use steel wool, or metal scrubbing pads. Exterminators can sell you copper mesh, about 6" wide by however many feet you want. I paid a buck a foot and 5 or 10 bucks will do you for a long time. This works better than steel wool, because it compresses into the hole better. Follow that with some of that expanding spray foam. Get the rodent resistant kind. Check where your shore line cable comes into your RV. If you aren't careful, that's like putting out a red carpet for them. Keep food sealed up as much as you can to try to avoid the odours attracting them. We never cook in our RV, not because of mice, that's just the way we camp, we like to cook outside, but in 40 years, we have (knock on wood) never had a mouse in the RV and I think not having the cooking odours might have something to do with that. Be very careful about bringing in boxes or containers that have been sitting outside into your RV. You can being in a mouse with it. All these things are ways to keep them out. If you already have them, the only way to get rid of them is to trap, or poison them. Once they are in, they make babies and the problem starts to compound itself. Live traps if killing them is an issue, but I think if you ever turned down the sheets before going to bed and found a fresh litter of baby mice in your bed, you would be less squeamish. That happened to my niece last summer while we were camping with her. Yuck. Poison as a last resort for obvious reasons. Talk to an exterminator. They can be very helpful and they have seen it all.
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