What Did You Do To Your RV This Week?

[Old_Crow]

Dug it out of the snow and moved it to Quartzsite.

 

[blueberry]

Replaced floor registers with the ones with louvered design and disassembled Atwood furnace in search of the source of burning plastic smell.

 

[phil-t]

Removed the wooden intake grill to the gas furnace and installed a peice of furnace filter material on the back side (found at the local Lowes). Makes it substantially quieter in the coach and no ill effects on the performance.

 

[Boat Bum]

I winterized all the water systems yesterday. Since this was the first time doing it I spent close to two hours doing it, had to go buy two more gallons of pink stuff. Compared to winterizing my boat this was a breeze and will take less than an hour next time.

Newmar did a great job in simplifying the whole process, everything convenient to reach and the instructions were clear.

 

[HueyPilotVN]

I picked up the RV from The detailer. He wet sanded the entire unit and sealed it. Looks like new except for the stripes. Small cracks from the sun.

I then took it to have the fluids changed and serviced.

From there to the fellow, Bill that owns Southside Welding to reinforce the receiver hitch. I asked him to take before and after pictures of the frame so that I could do a post on how he was going to stiffen the connection to the receiver so that I could post about it in case others want to have a little more assurance about better safety when towing.

The last thing I did was call to get high resolution pictures of my old murals from Joe Kline. I plan on putting three or four on the current RV.

 

[Reinigm]

I picked up the RV from The detailer. He wet sanded the entire unit and sealed it. Looks like new except for the stripes. Small cracks from the sun.

I then took it to have the fluids changed and serviced.

From there to the fellow, Bill that owns Southside Welding to reinforce the receiver hitch. I asked him to take before and after pictures of the frame so that I could do a post on how he was going to stiffen the connection to the receiver so that I could post about it in case others want to have a little more assurance about better safety when towing.

The last thing I did was call to get high resolution pictures of my old murals from Joe Kline. I plan on putting three or four on the current RV.

Do you have a before picture of the RV? Curious to see what it looked like before you had it wet sanded. Also, do you plan to run a recording of the "Whop Whop" sound of those choppers? That would be cool.

 

[HueyPilotVN]

Here are a few pictures of an older RV of mine with murals

 

[HueyPilotVN]

Here is a picture from a few weeks ago. It was so oxidized that I thought it was just white. It is actually tan.

 

[HueyPilotVN]

I got the murals ordered from the same graphics company that did the old ones in Phoenix.

I will have them installed here in Lake Havasu City.

They will go under the large windows just to the rear of the cab on both sides.

Each picture will face towards the front.

The one on the passenger side will require me to relocate the door holder.

 

[HueyPilotVN]

Just started another project.

After reading the post on LED tail lights I got to thinking.

Years ago I installed directional arrow LED tail lights on both my Jeep and my old RV.

I went on Amazon to buy some. I then went out and checked my cabinet full of electrical things. I found three sets of the same lights as I used for the old project.

I am going to install one set high up on the back of my Class C. The bright arrow turn signal are hard to ignore.

I wlll bring the other two sets to QZ if anyone wants to do the same. I have everything needed to install them/

 

[whiteva]

 

[HikerBob]

I did this a few years ago and thought that someone might like to do it. On my wife's side I only put 2 drawers high so she could hang stuff

 

[HueyPilotVN]

Nice work,

 

[garyb1st]

It's been one thing after another for the past few trips. Backed into a short but rather stout post at a BLM campground. That $4.00 a night campground became quite expensive. Probably $2,000+++ to repair. Replaced water pump last July. Lost and replace door to water heater last July. Replaced Propane detector last July. Passenger side steer tire failed when we got home from the July trip. Fortunately while parked. Had wheel welded and after 1000 miles it's still holding air.

On our last trip, the generator quite under load. The electric side of our water heater stopped working. The gas side quite but would ignite if I opened the door and tweaked the connections. Then the driver side steer tire was flat one morning. Turned out to be a failed valve. Had that replaced and we were good to go. The final problem occurred when I entered a curve a bit fast. One of the two kitchen drawers (heavily loaded thanks to the DW) literally came out and fell to the floor. It's a large drawer with 20 inch slide hardware. Picked sup some replacement slides and will install tomorrow.

We're probably safe for the next few months since we're not going anywhere.

 

[SargeW]

Two projects on the RV this last week. First the electric cord reel died and was not passing electrical current to the RV on leg one. Took it apart and had the contacts repaired at an Alternator rebuilder here in town. Put it back together and all is well again, for a while. Second was the 12 volt air pump that supplies air to the air bags when leveling broke loose from it's mount in the generator compartment. 2 of the 3 rubber mounting feet broke leaving the pump hanging by one leg. Took it out, remodeled the rubber mounts, and cleaned up the electrical connections. Reinstalled the pump, hopefully good for another 5 years....

 

[whiteva]

Moved the 20 lb turkey from the freezer to the bottom refer to thaw.

 

[Robert K]

On the road and have a fuel leak. Line runs from pump to top of engine on a Cat 3126. Have one being shipped from Ring Power Cat.
Other than that trip going good.
At least we're not home dealing with the 6' of snow

 

[HueyPilotVN]

Here is an update on the receiver reinforcement. It is at the welding shop now.

Quote from above:

"From there I took it to the fellow, Bill that owns Southside Welding to reinforce the receiver hitch. I asked him to take before and after pictures of the frame so that I could do a post on how he was going to stiffen the connection to the receiver so that I could post about it in case others want to have a little more assurance about better safety when towing"

Here are two pictures of the area where we are going to reinforce the receiver hitch.

I stopped by today and took this picture of what it looks like before the reinforcement and I used PC Paint to show where the new steel will connect the outside frame on both sides to the receiver hitch. There is a frame member behind the box that you see which is a sunken storage bin. It is probably an extension. I am to old to climb under there.

 

[HueyPilotVN]

I got my RV from Bill at Southside Welding this evening.

He did a very comprehensive job of reinforcing the back end of my Class C Thor.

He did use steel I Beams to connect from the original Ford factory frame all the way to the receiver hitch.

In the process he added running welds to the connection of the extension frame that most of the longer Class Cs have.

He also added gussets to the ends of the I Beams to provide more strength.

It is not certified to be able to carry more hitch weight than the factory states. However, It is much stronger and I am much more comfortable towing my oversized Jeep.

I do want to suggest that if you need any welding in Lake Havasu City I will recommend Bill. He specializes in all types of RVs. I told him that was posting this project for others that might want a safer receiver and actually a safer rear frame extension.

Here are some pictures of how he made it much stronger.

 

[Reinigm]

I got my RV from Bill at Southside Welding this evening.

He did a very comprehensive job of reinforcing the back end of my Class C Thor.

He did use steel I Beams to connect from the original Ford factory frame all the way to the receiver hitch.

In the process he added running welds to the connection of the extension frame that most of the longer Class Cs have.

He also added gussets to the ends of the I Beams to provide more strength.

It is not certified to be able to carry more hitch weight than the factory states. However, It is much stronger and I am much more comfortable towing my oversized Jeep.

I do want to suggest that if you need any welding in Lake Havasu City I will recommend Bill. He specializes in all types of RVs. I told him that was posting this project for others that might want a safer receiver and actually a safer rear frame extension.

Here are some pictures of how he made it much stronger.

I'd prefer Lizzy at Matt's Offroad Recovery do it for me.