Recent content by farmerbrown

  Exactly- It is common place for Diesels to get well over 500k and on up to 1,000,000 miles using such oil as Rotella T 15-40. I totally agree with Gary, for most RV's, the regular oil will have to come out before it's actually 'worn out'-syn would be maybe almost extreme overkill.     I guess...

  OllieM,     Lot's of great info in these post concerning your query of gas or diesel-When we start looking to upgrade from gas to diesel, I will be looking for one that has been driven as regularly as you say that your gonna drive yours. A gas or diesel that has set up and not been driven...

I haven't had time to check the weight of the axles, but was able to find a chart in the manual. According to it, the 50 psi that I am running is way too low, after I axle out I wouldn't be surprised if the chart doesn't call for between 65-70 psi. Maybe more, my Uncle or someone has 75 psi...

Dennis, yes, there is a salvage yard up in town. They may let me axle out on their scales. I know the weight of the MH is 5800#.   T he front tires were put on and drove home some 5-7 years ago and parked. So they are very close age-wise, the rear, I have no idea on their age. It's a single...

My Uncle gave me a 82 Spectrum, we just got it home early Sunday morning. Drove it from El Cajon to Arkansas which is several hundred miles. It is in general over all good shape, but does have a few areas of concern. It's a Class C sitting on a P 20 GM frame.   The main concern is that it...