Recent content by RogerE

There is a set of contacts that pass electrical signals from the door jamb into the door.  Our coach has four brass colored buttons toward the bottom of the door jamb that pass signals for the keyless system.  The buttons move in and out when the door is opened and closed.  As the unit came from...

A negative for buying an in-stock unit is the amount of wear and tear that it has absorbed from other people looking at it.  This is especially true for a unit that has been on display at one of the major RV shows. 

We had a Sleep Number years ago and we threw it away.  Neither my wife nor I could ever get comfortable on it.  Our new 2014 Winnebago Journey came with an Ideal Rest sleep-number inflatable bed.  We threw it away because it would not maintain consistent pressure - one day higher than set, next...

The Schwintek drive mechanism for RV slides has been the subject of much discussion the last several years due to numerous problems and failures, including one with our living room slide. At the RV Supershow in Tampa yesterday my DW and I were looking at the 2015 model of our coach, which is a...

I wound up ruining the battery in our towed vehicle on our first long trip after having the Invisibrake system installed at Camping World.  We were doing all daylight driving, and I was following the written instructions for the Invisibrake which state that it charges the towed vehicle battery...

We had this same issue earlier this year when our coach was new.  We left Florida in late February after having the propane tank filled in Ft. Myers.  We stopped a few days later near Baton Rouge LA for the night.  It got very cold that night (around 28 F).  It was too cold for the electric heat...

This is a definite hint.  The park where the problem first occurred has very hard well water and very sandy soil.  I am about to purchase a water softener anyway and will get one with a sediment filter prior to the softener. We changed parks yesterday and I had the same issue this morning...

We are considering replacing the entire shower enclosure with one that has either a swinging or straight (not curved) sliding door.  The issue now is that the doors are on the part of the shower enclosure that is a 90 degree curve.  We would need a different enclosure to go with a straight door.

We own a 2014 Winnebago Journey 42E with the "Big Shower".  The shower has two movable doors that travel on a curved track.  The doors are a nuisance - they either jam or jump out of the bottom track on a regular basis.  They are retained at the bottom with two pins that are always working loose...

It was a slower leak - more of a steady drip - and it was all from the overflow pipe.  The plug was still in place in the gravity fill opening and the gravity fill plug was not leaking in any manner.  The problem was corrected when I cycled the fill/normal valve a couple of times.

Thanks for your replies.  My suspicion is that something happened to the check valve during the trip.  I'm just glad that it was an easy fix:))

Traveled yesterday.  Pulled in to a new park for a month and hooked up the utilities.  Went to bed. Woke up this morning to walk the dog and found water coming out the overflow of my fresh water tank.  Big puddle on the ground.  Checked the tank and it was full.  Checked the valve in the water...

After some additional research, I added another pair of HDMI to Cat 6 extenders for the exterior TV and a 2x2 HDMI matrix switch, both by Star Tech.  The total for the two boxes (purchased on Amazon.com) was $150.  I have my Blu Ray Player and my Satellite 1 receiver as inputs into the 2 x 2...

Portal RV in Moab is a good choice.  They have an older side that is less expensive, and a new upscale A/C/5th wheel area that is great but more expensive.  Something for everyone.

We have a 2014 Journey 42E with the keyless entry.  We had intermittent operation problems that were not corrected by two service visits.  I pulled apart the contact switches for the lights, keytless etc. in the door jamb and found a mis-adjusted switch that was not making consistent contact. ...