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Hiswar: That was a casualty of the Alaska Highway between Beaver Creek (just inside the Canadian border) and Destruction Bay in Canada. We were going 35mph and the frost heaves in the road made it bounce just enough to cause this to happen to the tongue. The welder that fixed us up in Whitehorse said that he sees about 6 or so trailers a year to fix a similar issue. Luckily this summer they have done a lot of road maintenance and have smoothed a lot of them out, but there are still a few to watch out for! Hiswar wrote: That looks sturdier that what I have on my old camper! Will try and steal and build upon your design. Was also wondering about something....double clicked on your picts and was transported to your flicker site. Saw the rest of your picts for the stabilizer mod, but stumbled into a pick of a collaped front frame of a camper...can’t help but ask goooooddddnesssss! What happened? coobrey wrote: Hiswar, here is the link to the part of the forum where I posted photos and a description. Over a year on now and they are still working great. http://forums.goodsamclub.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/23729010/gotomsg/27693865.cfm#27693865 Hiswar wrote: coobrey wrote: I made my own stabilizers and they made a HUGE difference when we are all setup. With 4 people walking around it really firmed up the trailer. I was very impressed with how much it helped. I can't speak to the SteadFast ones personally, but the concept is great. RainbowsEnd wrote: A new season begins. Still have our original camper and still doing good. Our windows and doors haven't leaked again since the adjustments. We're seriously thinking about SteadyFast stabilizers. Is everyone still satisfied with them? Would love to know how you did that.345Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
Hiswar, here is the link to the part of the forum where I posted photos and a description. Over a year on now and they are still working great. http://forums.goodsamclub.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/23729010/gotomsg/27693865.cfm#27693865 Hiswar wrote: coobrey wrote: I made my own stabilizers and they made a HUGE difference when we are all setup. With 4 people walking around it really firmed up the trailer. I was very impressed with how much it helped. I can't speak to the SteadFast ones personally, but the concept is great. RainbowsEnd wrote: A new season begins. Still have our original camper and still doing good. Our windows and doors haven't leaked again since the adjustments. We're seriously thinking about SteadyFast stabilizers. Is everyone still satisfied with them? Would love to know how you did that.345Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
I made my own stabilizers and they made a HUGE difference when we are all setup. With 4 people walking around it really firmed up the trailer. I was very impressed with how much it helped. I can't speak to the SteadFast ones personally, but the concept is great. RainbowsEnd wrote: A new season begins. Still have our original camper and still doing good. Our windows and doors haven't leaked again since the adjustments. We're seriously thinking about SteadyFast stabilizers. Is everyone still satisfied with them?296Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
I have a 31bhpr, and it really squats the rear end of my 2005 Excursion. It drops the ball 3 3/4" inches when the trailer is attached (without my equalizer brand distribution hitch attached). Even with the distribution hitch attached I have quite the squat in the rear. Just yesterday I swapped out the stock Excursion springs for those that were on a F350 (c-code, 3000lb each). I STILL get a 3 3/4" drop when I attach the trailer. Now the F350 springs gave me an 2 1/4" increase to start, but it still drops a lot. I haven't hooked it up with the equalizer hitch yet so I am hopeful that some change will have come from the spring swap. Is anyone else seeing this with their trailer? I don't even have the water tank 1/2 full right now. Thanks for any info.395Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
carjocky wrote: Possibly the torsion bars to tight? I just can imagine unless they were cracked that out of the blue with it not overloaded it would just bend like that. That is some thick steel. I had wondered about that, but I use the equalizer brand hitch setup and I followed their instructions in the manual. The shop that I got it repaired at actually said that the steel is so thin that he can not even purchase that thin steel himself. He said that it was 100/1000th or less and he put on 188/1000. So almost double the strength. (Not sure if it's accurate, just what he told me)412Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
Funny thing is we didn't have much at all loaded in the front of the trailer. It wasn't even full of water (tank is under bed in front of trailer). Black and grey water were empty. The trailer wasn't even close to carrying capacity. The tongue frame actually bent. The welds held, but the tubes crushed and bent like that. I had to switch over the shank to get it to ride higher while we crept onto the next town. They replaced the tongue tubes with almost double the thickness and put back the battery carrier, propane holders, coupler (silver so I'll have to get it painted), etc. It isn't quite factory, but for a weld shop in a small town they did a great job. The owner of the shop said that he is seeing this more as the trailers are getting lighter and lighter. My insurance denied the claim as they said that it was an accumulating defect and I am waiting to hear from Keystone.412Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
Just got home from our tour down to Skagway, AK, up to Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, then back home. Well, between Beaver, YT and Whitehorse, YT the roads are known for being bad, but this is what happened to our 2013 31bhpr. We had to drive almost 200mi with these conditions (about 3 inches of clearance) in the early morning hours to get to a shop in Whitehorse that could fix it. It was nothing really jarring either that caused this. We were going 35mph, or slower, over the bumps and didn't spill any coffee, soda, etc. in the tow vehicle cab. It was a huge surprise to us! (I guess Flickr doesn't allow photos to display on forums anymore, so the link is below until I post it somewhere else) Picture Here411Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
Does anyone know what I need to do to get the sound to come out of the main television speakers? There is a setting on the tv to turn on tv speakers, and that setting is on, but the sound still only comes from the 2 ceiling mounted speakers. Those speakers are a bit too loud (kids can hear from the back room), and we sit on the couch which is closer to the tv than the ceiling speakers anyway. Thanks.410Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
Here are some images of the stabilizer setup that my father and I made for our 31bhpr trailer. Being in Alaska, shipping is very expensive for the JT Strongarm, etc. so we decided to make our own. We used 1/2" interior black pipe and solid rod that fit inside of the pipe. He welded angle iron onto the ends of the pipe and rod to attach to the angle iron that He welded to the jack feet. We then attached angle iron to the frame and attached the pipe there and the rod to the jack feet. We used 9/16" bolts to attach to the feet, frame and into the black pipe to tighten down on the solid rod. In total it was about $100 in parts. It is UNBELIEVABLY stable now! I can't believe how much this helps with the rocking of the trailer.431Views0likes0CommentsRe: Keystone Bullet Premier
baunno wrote: We took our tt on the first camping trip of the season after de-winterizing earlier last week. Everything works great until it was time to go. I hooked up to the black water tank cleaner, turned on the water and my wife was soon yelling to stop. There was water pouring out from under the bathroom sink, in fact it was a reservoir of water in the bottom. We moped it up and then I had her turn on the water. The black valve in the picture is the culprit as it spewed water like a fountain. Has anybody had this problem? Do I simply replace the valve or is the cleaning jet clogged in the holding tank? Thanks, Kevin The clickable link is a picture of the valve under sink I had the same thing happen to me after the first year. It's the vacuum breaker check valve (so nothing comes back out through that line). I am guessing that ours froze as I did not run any antifreeze through this line when winterizing the unit. I was surprised though as it is located very high in the line and I thought that water would just drain out. Anyway, the local dealer replaced it for me, though it did take a while to get the new part.431Views0likes0Comments
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