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Re: Looking for standard bed campers/ for Dodge MegaCab truck
ScottG wrote: No it doesn't matter in SRW. In fact a 1500 Mega and a 2500 mega are the exact same truck with different badges. Eng choices aside, they are otherwise identical for a given model year. No longer the case starting in 2013. The 2500 and 3500 use totally different rear suspensions.627Views0likes0CommentsRe: Water heater fitting?
I actually dumped the PEX and used a 1/2" nipple on each end and a braided stainless toilet connector to get rid of half of the connections and make sure that there were no plastic fittings to worry about and insulate the plastic valve with the flexible braided hose.561Views0likes0CommentsRe: Water heater fitting?
ckwjl wrote: It looks like the nipple at the cold water inlet of your water heater snapped. This nipple is a threaded check valve made of black plastic. The hot water outlet also has one, just turned in the opposite direction. My hot water outlet check valve cracked and I broke it completely off trying to remove it with a wrench. Get a $9.50 Pipe Nipple Extractor Set HDX167 at Home Depot. Harbor Freight has a similar set. Getting the check valve out with this is a breeze. I replaced the plastic check valve with a brass one I found at my local RV supply store. This was exactly it. And that extractor worked great. Now to piece together the PEX from the bypass valve to make sure this doesn't happen again.561Views0likes0CommentsRe: Water heater fitting?
The fitting didn't fail. The 90 was hard against the black drain pipe below it and it snapped due to constant pressure from 30 miles of washboard. Also, I'll have to look at it again but I thought it was a smooth fitting glued in there. I haven't pulled the stub out yet so maybe it's not. If it is threaded into the water heater, that makes this job easy. Is that normally the case? I'd go look but the camper is in my warehouse across town.561Views0likes0CommentsWater heater fitting?
A couple of months ago, I was driving some washboard roads with my Lance 850 to get to a remote campground. Get parked and leveled, turn on the water pump, and immediately hear water in the cabinet. Turns out that the 90 fitting going into the water heater was installed too close to a drain pipe and vibrated against it. It snapped off clean flush with the water heater. I'm pretty sure that I can get rest of the fitting out and find a replacement so I can reroute it further from the drain line. My question is, what glue or caulk should I use to install the new fitting? It looks like there's some kind of caulk there now. Here's a pic.3.9KViews0likes10CommentsRe: The price of wanting a "stick"
weedrancher wrote: My 2ยข worth. Real trucks don't shift themselves. Today, "real" trucks do. And they come with factory exhaust brakes, integrated trailer controllers, 6 speed auto transmissions with the ability to lock out any gear, etc. And they don't need crazy low gears to tow huge loads. With 6 gears and a 1st gear that revs out at 25mph it's just not necessary. My 2014 Ram 3500 SRW with 3.42 gears is rated for 17,000# towing and almost 4000# payload and gets well over 20mpg on the highway empty. Even with that evil DEF stuff. And it's comfortable with my 4000# Lance camper at 80mph. Face it. Todays trucks are so much better than trucks of the early 2000's it's not even a fair comparison. If you haven't spent time driving one either carrying or towing a load you have no idea how much better they are.134Views0likes0CommentsRe: What are the chances...?
805gregg wrote: You have to remove your tiedown to put fuel in your truck? Happy ending! Yep, some folks do. Not with Happyjacs You have to drill on your brand new $60,000 truck to install tiedowns? Yep, some folks do. Not with Torklifts. And not all Torklift installs cover the fuel cap. Mine doesn't.295Views0likes0Comments
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