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RE: 5th wheel combination unique to Australia
Snakes, and spiders, and flies, and crocodiles, and centipedes, etc. :)
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fj12ryder
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07/29/23 02:20pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Reflection 337/TPMS Question
Don't know about potential problems with the flow-through sensors, have had no issues with mine in the last 10 years, but they are an unnecessary expense, and a minor PIA. Due to the restrictions of the sensor, they take a very long time to add any significant amount of air. A couple psi may only take a couple minutes, but try adding 10 psi, or more, and you're going to be there for a while. I take mine off when adding air, which pretty much negates the whole premise behind them.
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fj12ryder
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07/29/23 02:18pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Awning Separation Repair
That's the main reason for the butyl tape, it's supposed to help seal around the screw holes so that doesn't happen.
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fj12ryder
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07/29/23 07:40am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
Don't see why not. If it wasn't okay, send them back and get some regular ol' brake pads. Fancy sounding pads just cost more. Unless you're going racing hi zoot brake pads are not really necessary. Just another way to separate you from your money.
Clearly someone who doesn’t understand what they’re talking about. Or happens to like copious amounts of brake dust….
Don’t worry 12V will be along to support you in the “ceramic pads are dumb” comments.
Myself, I prefer equal or better performance, long life and mostly my wheels not looking like I haven’t washed them in a month, 2 days later.
To the OP yes ceramic pads are just fine with stock rotors. Just burnish the rotors good to side in bedding the pads unless you get really good pads like EBC with a bedding compound on them. Even still it is best to scuff the rotors completely.I like ceramic, personally I don't care if the wheels get a little dusty, but spending a lot of money for high zoot stuff, when the basic ceramic will do the job 90% as well, makes no sense to me. I sometimes forget that subtle is wasted on some. :)
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fj12ryder
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07/28/23 02:20pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Creak when reversing the fifth wheel
I said "I don't recommend them", I didn't say "Don't use them". You are certainly free to do whatever you wish. It's your grease, and money, to waste.
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fj12ryder
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07/28/23 02:12pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Awning Separation Repair
Well, considering you can see the seam of the roof, and the awning is below that seam, the black thing in the picture, and if you blow up the picture you can see that there is something that sure looks like butyl tape under the awning rail, you could possibly be all wet. Perhaps even wrong, vehement doesn't necessarily mean right.
And my awning is past the edge of the roof membrane, so maybe you could be incorrect.
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fj12ryder
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07/28/23 07:00am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Carbon ceramic pads question
Don't see why not. If it wasn't okay, send them back and get some regular ol' brake pads. Fancy sounding pads just cost more. Unless you're going racing hi zoot brake pads are not really necessary. Just another way to separate you from your money.
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fj12ryder
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07/27/23 06:26pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Creak when reversing the fifth wheel
Just to clarify, you can't get too much grease into the axle to blow past the rear seal using the EZ-Lube system and a hand powered grease gun. Excess grease will exit the axle past the grease zerk. If grease gets past the seal, it's a bad seal.
The problem is, using the EZ Lube is akin to working blindfolded. One cannot tell if a seal has failed until the damage is done.I don't recommend using the EZ-Lube system, I was just explaining you can't "blow the grease seals" by adding too much grease via the EZ-Lube zerk. I don't use them, and don't see the value in using them.
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fj12ryder
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07/27/23 06:18pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Awning Separation Repair
Yes, Butyl tape, not Eternabond.
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fj12ryder
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07/27/23 07:51am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Changing AV programs or???
Yup, Windows Security Essentials here, Windows Defender, too.
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fj12ryder
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07/26/23 05:47pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Awning Separation Repair
Generally there will be a strip of something like Eternabond behind the strip before it is screwed down. It's unlikely you'll be able to simply screw in the pulled out screws. You'll likely have to go bigger, and/or put in some expandable screws in a couple places.
To do it right, you should probably unscrew everything, pull the whole strip off, and reaseal and rescrew.
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fj12ryder
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07/26/23 05:44pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Question on parking lot or walmart camping
I don't know where you've been, but I haven't seen an RV resort for $20 in ages, and that includes out west, midwest, north, and south.
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fj12ryder
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07/26/23 05:41pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Can't get key fob for a sprinter
If it's so difficult, why are there all kinds of places selling key fobs for MB Sprinters? I'm confused.
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fj12ryder
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07/25/23 02:23pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Air Deflector Van + Cargo Trailer Fuel Improvement
FWIW, I've drafted on a bicycle behind a van, and as long as I was within about 3-4 feet of the van I was basically traveling in still air, but any further back than that, and lots of air resistance. That was up to 55 mph. That's what makes me pooh-pooh those deflectors that mount on most trucks: they're just too far away from the trailer to do much of anything, and they're at such a steep angle, they just act as another air stopper. They may throw the bugs over the top, but the wind is just going to curl back around and continue on into the front of the trailer.
IMO Maurice's air deflector looks like it would work because it ends close to the front of the trailer, and is a more gradual slope than most of those add-on wind deflectors. JMO anyway.
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fj12ryder
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07/24/23 07:59am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Handheld air compressor
Not exactly a handheld but it does have a handle, but I have the Dewalt inflator, and for the same reason as 3 Tons: I have multiple batteries to use with it. It will inflate to at least 110 psi, which is what my trailers are rated to, but it does take a while. It's rated to 160 psi. But not having to worry about any cord to connect to battery or outlet is nice. I can just set the pressure to what I want, and then wander off to do other stuff. It will shut off when it reaches the set pressure, or will shut down if running too long. I've run it for 15 minutes, and neither the housing nor the battery got warm.
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fj12ryder
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07/23/23 11:07am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Air Deflector Van + Cargo Trailer Fuel Improvement
Actually for RV's I think there are more studies that say they don't work than there are studies that say they do. So stop trying to make yourself believe it can happen!
You think they work, and I think they don't. We'll just have to agree to disagree. :)
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fj12ryder
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07/22/23 07:17pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Air Deflector Van + Cargo Trailer Fuel Improvement
"I could actually care less if you can't find the studies. If you don't believe it, don't do it. I doubt there are any truckers anywhere who have taken their wind deflectors off."
There's a very big difference between the placement of semi wind deflectors and RV wind deflectors, in fact it can be measure in feet. If you don't get the deflector close enough to the trailer, there isn't going to be much benefit. Of course if everyone agreed that they worked as well as you're suggesting, there wouldn't be a semi out there that didn't have them. But there are lots of them, so there must be a lot of delusional people out there. :)
And .5 mpg increase can be put down to many things, not the least being a unconscious desire to make sure the mileage is better, i.e., backing off just little bit, a little less acceleration, many things can show .5 mpg increase. A person could perhaps be delusional to think it has to be the results of a wind deflector. Sometimes the data is worked with to support the theory, rather than vice versa.
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fj12ryder
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07/22/23 01:42pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Handheld air compressor
If you notice, they refer to those things as "inflaters", not "compressors". I got one, small enough to carry on a motorcycle, and it worked very well considering it's size. It took about 5 minutes to inflate a 15" car tire from 15 psi to 45 psi.
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fj12ryder
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07/22/23 07:38am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Level-up jacks
Yeah, any decent hydraulic shop can rebuild the cylinder easily, and not cost you all that much. There isn't much to them: seals and O-rings.
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fj12ryder
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07/21/23 07:40pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Can’t get motorhome off leveling jack
I don't know about normal procedure, but maybe your compressor is a bit weak?
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fj12ryder
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07/20/23 08:05am |
Tech Issues
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