Recent content by OldMarine

I just use a heavy-duty tarp. It comes down about 25% from the roof top all the way around. Seems to work just fine. Just make sure to get the extra thick type, not the real thin blue ones that you see everywhere. I tied it down at multiple points to the frame under the trailer.

I believe it's because a Fifth wheel trailer, in essence becomes part of the truck pulling it, when connected. Thus it's kind of considered one-entity. When you pull a TT, it's considered a second vehicle/entity being pulled by the first. So adding a boat, pulled by a camper, pulled by a truck...

hey! looks like you are in eastern Mass? I am on the South Shore of MA .I have a Coleman Mach spare unit, complete, paid $150 for it used, then discovered that my unit only needed a fan motor, replaced that, and now it's running fine. So i don't need it If you want it, you can have it for...

116K?...YIKES!! ( remember, one RV mile is equal to about 3 miles in a car in terms of wear & tear) like EVERYONE here is telling you...just don't.

how many miles are on this rig?

around here,(MA), dealers get over $100 per hour labor. Average is about $120. $342 divided by $120 is 2.85 hours labor. Lets call it 3....seeing how they are doing engine & gen, it may be slightly high, but i would not say it's WAY out of line. Harley dealers gets like $150 to change oil on a...

yes..by battery, I mean the house battery. if it's low, the detector will beep, unless hooked up to shore power.

yes..LP, fixed it..thanks

most of the time when someone has a "beep" in their RV that they can't seem to find, it turns out to be the CO detector, which is usually down low by the entrance to the rig. Everyone first thinks it's a smoke detector, so they look up instead of down. CO/LP detectors will beep if voltage is...

you are potentially in for a serious mold contamination too...could cause severe health issues. If the floor is rotted, then most likely the walls are wet too...that's where the mold will be growing after you do the floor. As an insurance adjuster, I almost ALWAYS total any RV that has water...

regval is right....throw down some plywood, take the trip...then scrap this unit. If it's your intention on trying to replace an entire floor, without having experience in doing it before.....well...just don't. Sorry, but it is a HUGE undertaking to gut a TT and do a floor.

I have a Jayco Hybrid that has everything you are looking for....small enough to park in an average driveway( 23 feet closed up, 29 feet opened up), weighs under #5000 dry, tows like it's not even there, with 2 HUGE beds, one on each end, and a couch slide, that's also a jackknife bed. The thing...

might have put a pin hole in the tube when you were removing the thermistor?

whoa...looks like you have some damage to the middle of the condenser, and you are leaking freon.

almost guarantee the beep was coming from the CO/Propane detector. Had the same thing happening this spring. really hard to pinpoint the exact location of the beep because it's so loud. I took down a smoke detector thinking that was it...nope...kept looking around the interior as it...