Recent content by rankjo

Hi all, back after a few years absence My Brake Buddy just imploded, and I'm reconsidering the whole thing before buying again. My GVWR for the Winnebago Adventurer (gas-powered) is 20,500 lbs and the toad is a Jeep Cherokee, curb wt 3600lb, so I'm nowhere near the 25% mark. But my personal...

Hi, the Onan 4000 in my Winnebago is 12 years old and has never given much difficulty even though I don't use it much, though I do a "maintenance run as often as I remamber. I do routine service fairly regularly, oil, filter etc. But for the first time it gave trouble this weekend, on a hot day...

On the way home this year we had a problem we've not encountered before. After three days of running, at lunchtime we noticed that the lights were dim, and the voltmeter was going crazy with numbers over 1000 followed by numbers like .1, whatever that means.  Thinking that there was something...

OK, we had two cracks in our countertop, one was straight, and the other was a four-armed starcrack. I contacted Vendura and ordered a repair kit. It was $35 plus shipping and has enough resin/mix/and hardener to do a couple of yards of crack, much more than I needed. I also spoke to Steve at...

So I searched the net and found posts by people who had done repairs. It seems straightforward. You drill holes with a 1/16 drill bit every 1/8 of an inch or so through the countertop, avoiding drilling right through the laminate, since the resin would otherwise drip through. Then you tape off...

Hi, I clumsily hit my Vendura countertop with a cast iron frying pan, and got a big starcrack in it from the sink to the counter edge. I left the crack in place to remind me not to be so clumsy. But now it has shifted a bit, perhaps a mm in height. I came across all sorts of counter repainting...

Hi, I searched the site but didn't find the answer. This must be a common thing though. When the HW is turned on, there is a groaning noise from the back of the HW tank at the outlet. I can't see back there but I can get my hand on it and there is a vibration at the right-angle in the plastic...

Just a final post to finish up this thread. After getting advice from this forum and researching the web, I decided that the cause of the problem was most likely water contamination of the air filter. There's lots of stuff about it on the web. I satisfied my hesitations about the fact that the...

Thank you for those replies. The first reply was about the air cleaner sucking water. Well, not only was the filter wet, there was a cupful of water in the inverted rubber dome at the bottom of it. Remember that this only occurs in torrential rain, (so far at least), and we had no problem on...

Hi, I'm back after a two year lay-off for family reasons. Great to be here. On the way down from Canada to the Great Outdoors in Titusville Fl., we encountered two major rainstorms. Each rainstorm, the Ford V-10 Winnebago 37G developed a "condition". There would suddenly be a single jolt...

The Smart Car crash tests have been criticized for being misleading. Apparently the company reported crash tests between TWO smart cars, which might be expected to be much better than a crash between a smart car and a pickup, (or anything else for that matter). I like the car for a city...

Hi, I have been thinking of nitrogen for my RV tires, since several people have recommended it. But one of my favourite radio shows, "Click and Clack the Tappit Brothers"  on National Public Radio, NPR, have recently cited nitrogen-in-tires as a SCAM. They say that the only advantage of...

Hi, it sounded good, so I went there and tried to access the videos.  None of them would open up for me. Rankjo

I have Vendura in my Winne Adventurer, and my crack came when I swung a cast iron frypan too freely, and clipped the counter.  The point of all this is that the star-shaped crack in the counter, which has dropped 1mm or so (ie a fraction)  has been stable for three years now.  I keep MEANING to...

re tire shops and plugs-- how much can you charge for plugging a tire in 2 minutes, without even taking it off the car, -----versus the standard repair which requires demounting etc etc etc. Rankjo