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Live 1:30 PM today 11/25/08 Fleetwood update
If you want the details of what Fleetwood is up to go to their site at 1:30 PM Eastern, today and click on Financial Updates
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trop-a-cal
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11/25/08 09:23am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Need help in Savannah area finding Chevy P-32 service
Yes ,I did ask where to take it they said. Dick Gore.
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trop-a-cal
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11/25/08 08:32am |
Class A Motorhomes
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Need help in Savannah area finding Chevy P-32 service
Dan Vaden Chevy at 9393 Abercorn (rt 204) says they can't handle more tha 34 ft on their repair lift rack. Mine is 36 ft. So if you know who in the Savannah area that has a capacity to handle larger rigs please let me know. And of course it's a Chevy. Thanks
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trop-a-cal
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11/24/08 04:09pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Generator Racing
Sounds like the choke is not adjusted correctly. They also speed up to build the charge, and as more demand is put on electrical draw they speed up. Always waite a few minutes, for the charge to build, before turning on electrical appliances. Check the fuel line hose for cracks as that would make it suck air and intrerupt flow of fuel. Also generators start running bad when the oil pressure sensor starts leaking, as it starts sending signal to shut off fuel flow. Indications that the oil pressure sensor is going bad is oil on the drip pan right under the oil pressure sensor. It looks like a big spark plug, and has two wires going to it.
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trop-a-cal
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11/24/08 02:09pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: turkey fryer
Note the two sizes, as the add is for the smaller one. Safer than the oil cookers that's for sure.
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trop-a-cal
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11/24/08 02:00pm |
Camp Cooks and Connoisseurs
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RE: Getting puppy to sleep
Dogs respond to smells that perhaps your furnace is making. The noise too would wake her. Dogs are pack anaimals that means they eat, sleep, hunt, and sleep together. The puppy is just lonesome, it needs to be with the pack leader, that usualy is its mother or the eldest active dog. The one that feeds her and walks her and grooms her, is her human replacement for the pack leader. She knows that you come if she persist, and that indicates she's not ready to be alone. Try putting a worn, unwashed, piece of your clothing in with her so she can smell the pack leader, sometimes that works. I assume she has water where she can get at it in her cage, as that's a requirement. Good luck. They always demand attention, as puppies, and when they are realy old.
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trop-a-cal
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11/24/08 01:49pm |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: Towing a Saturn SL2
Just put the key on so it steers and out of gear, brake off, it should be fine.
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trop-a-cal
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11/24/08 11:54am |
Towing
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RE: different slant on old topic
Your overlooking your ability to write so elegantly as a source of income. While you're not alone in your plight, I suggest you submit some of your thaughts to AARP for publication. Yes, getting older and having medical pain is about the worse thing one could feel, weather it's physical or emotional or both. Hearing that you have conscern for others not going further in debt is understandable but if jobs are created the money will be spent well, as it won't be going to those that don't deserve it. The big boys will pay the piper with a tax increase to pay for the little people that need work. Have a great Mexico trip!
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trop-a-cal
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11/24/08 04:53am |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: Let the big three fail !!!
GSB (Government Sponsored Bankruptcy) is what is needed. That would allow the court to remove the management and appoint new. Then it would void the UAW contacts and mandate retooling for energy efficient vehicles only. Then in about 5 years they come out of it after paying back all loans the taxpayers made. It would be paid back with the stock being held in escrow. They can't fold and walk away from all the pensions and debts due to thousands.
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trop-a-cal
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11/23/08 05:06pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Need new calipers on HR - How much should it cost???
Well you will need a complete brake job and repack the wheel bearings up front. That probably means the rotors have to be turned or replaced if they can't. I would guess about $1,100 to $1,600.
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trop-a-cal
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11/23/08 12:00pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Faucet Water Filter
To increase your water pressure fill the fresh water tank and turn on the pump as it will bump up the pressure for a high pressure shower.
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trop-a-cal
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11/23/08 09:19am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Disappointing WDW Campsite
Always look out for Mickey Mouse operations! Thanks for the information. I see there's no grass either.
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11/23/08 07:47am |
Campgrounds, Resorts and Attractions
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RE: Faucet Water Filter
Do the filtering at the outside water supply faucet. That way your entire system is protected. They require a 4 ft white hose from the pump to the intake side. Then turn the water on and the loose carbon filter element will flush out, every time you use it. Then hook the filter to rig white hose up. Use a bungy cord to strap the filter canister to the supply upright. In the 2008 Master catelog, for Camping World, they rate the filters on pages 78-79. Hydrolife 16007 gives 2.5 gallons per minute. Cost $74.49 and does the best job, cleaning out the most bad particles,and has the replacement elements 16008 for $32.99 (needed every year at beginning of season). Sometimes they are on sale for less. Since mine came with a fountain for just water, I also have a redundant inside filter in that faucet. Sill I use bottled water in some places that don't have clorinated water as the filters have no way of getting everything that may be present in a bad supply system. However most places are required to have inspections of their systems by county health departments. The check-in offices usualy can tell you the supply type, (public or private), if public it most likely is clorinated, some private are too, but subject to inspection that can't catch everything. I always use Sams purified water in the gallons for cooking and in bottles for drinking. It is reverse osmosses purified, with some minerals added. If your on medications make sure you are not drinking store water or well water with calcium, as it blocks the body from taking in the medications.
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trop-a-cal
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11/23/08 06:27am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: beeping alarms
They do beep when battery is low. The one doing it can be isolated by taking a paper cup with the bottom off and holding it up to them. Sometimes when you are breathing on them or cut an onion near them the co2 goes off. Some have said that cleaning fluids also activate them. So check your batteries, make sure they have enough water (distilled) in them and if you add water plug the rig in to an outlet so the system charges the newly filled batteries, otherwise they can go flat of acid and need replacement.
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trop-a-cal
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11/23/08 06:08am |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Tire Road Force Measurement - with lots of rambling
Very interesting data. The real world final ride tells the entire story including the suspension and the tire. The limits that the industry uses while checking new tire on new vehicles is good for just that. The older the vehicle gets the more vibrations increase. I remember back in the 1960's when my father had a 56 Cadillac Fleetwood. The tires would vibrate so he had it dynamicaly ballance to the hub. That was done with an electrical motor driven spinner that went up to the tire while it sat up on jacks just the right hight for the tire not to hit the floor, and allow the spinner to be put in place with the steering wheel straight. The way it was ballanced was putting a glas half full of water on the top of the fender just above the wheel. Then the weights were added until the water was almost still. It worked for the car being in one place, but driving down the road with bad ball joints and control arms mad it jump around anyway. The dynamic balance used today can detect a busted belt, as the tire once balance will not read ballanced when checked again, due to the belt moving inside the tire. The obvious bumps and inability to roll without wobble are signs of a tire ready to fail, as the belt are not even together but severed. That usualy happens from hitting a curb or pot hole.
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11/22/08 03:48pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Got my WDWorld R'vations again this year-NOT on-line tho
Did you forget this was a "Mickey Mouse" operation?
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11/22/08 03:23pm |
Campgrounds, Resorts and Attractions
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RE: How many have had flats due to valve extenders?
There are some sold that leak, as they don't seat right. They also have to be twisted to the right and then attached that keeps them righty tighty. If they are installed lefty, twisted, then the become lefty loosy. Mine were installed and leaked so fast the tires on the inside dual were flat before I left the lot at Camping World. I always check anyones work. They took them off and replaced them the right way and no problems since then. The bad ones were ZIP. The good ones are AIR MASTER.
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11/22/08 01:23pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Future without NEW Pick-Up Trucks?
They will be made but with 4 banger Diesels that get 40 MPG's. They probably will be 1/4 ton rated. Trailers will be big to haul the rest of the junk needed. If your into design nows the time to make a retractable trailer with wheels that envelopes right under the truck bed. Then just push a button and it's erected. That should haul another ton. It all has to do with CAFE that the trucks can't do with big V-8's and heavy bodies.
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11/22/08 11:56am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: 1997 Vortec all choked up
Thanks, it's going to Dan Vaden Cheverolet in Savannah they have the truck certified mechanic at 9393 Abercorn St. (rt 204). They will take it in on my way to North Carolina, (for Thanksgiving) in the CRV, and I'll pick it up on the way back. I'll try to fix the seat before I take it there, checking 30 amp fuse that it is powered from, after I make sure it's plugged in, as you'll recommended.
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trop-a-cal
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11/22/08 11:00am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Heading out in the monring!!!
Have a nice time! Let in some fresh air the heaters eat up oxygen.
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trop-a-cal
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11/21/08 08:30pm |
Toy Haulers
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