kaypsmith

My wife and have a system to load and unload car on dolly, takes 5 minutes to load, and 3 to unload. And remember that I did not say any method was best for everybody. Remember, "Different strokes for different Folks", that was a sitcom, but it still applies here.

Bill, you have a point about possibilities, but, I will only rent from a REPUTABLE company. Just think how that would work out if a CEO flew into an airport and the car rental didn't have a car available after he a reserved one. I tell my DW often, if you didn't pick on me every once in a while, I would not think that you still love me.

On some occasions, I reserve a rental car at my destination, don't worry about towing at all. When not site seeing along the way to the destination this worked well for us. If anyone is not already equipped for towing and only travel a couple times a year, it will be cheaper to do this. Again, not true for everybody, but certainly an option.

You asked for it, you got CARL-OTA! Now that was easy, all I had to do was to click top right corner, "start new topic". 9 See FMCA Roadside Assistance

Here is my story and I'm sticking to it! I had already used 11 gig of my 12 that I was paying $80.00 per month for, and that was in 5 days. The bill was reduced to $65.00 per month and I am now into my 9th day in the billing cycle, my usage is still showing 0 with a note that says stream all you want your unlimited. I feel that I am still ahead of the game because I am saving $15.00 and the overage charge on the old plan is $10.00 gig. At work I have a 20 meg fiber line and a 90 meg cable internet service, I used to use these only for downloading and sending large files, and if the slowdown happens, I will go back to doing that. For right now though I am enjoying the fact that I can stream at home, and going to run test for several months. If this works out like I am hoping it will, I will change my DirecTV to basic service and save another $80.00 per month, and using internet tv for movies, I can watch the ones that I want and not have to pay for the ones that I don't. We live just far enough away from town that the phone company nor the cable company will provide service is why I use the Verizon service anyway. So I can actually say that I will be winning whatever happens. Oh by the way, the Verizon tower is 120 yards away on top of the same hill that I live on top of,

Thanks Bill, I am aware of that, just forgot to mention, that's when a trailer works well. Even some of the 4 wheel drives can't be towed 4 down or on a dolly.

Bill, I know that I am in the minority on this issue, but I like the ability to tow any vehicle that has front wheel drive, we currently own 4. This way I do not need to special equip 4 vehicles, ie transmission coolers, or have to shop for a special vehicle that allows recreational towing, or need to put supplemental braking on all of these, or move one unit between those. Also I like to carry the golf cart to a lot of places, and my dolly has provisions for that, as it is a tandem dolly. The dolly has surge brakes which is legal at this time in all states that I will be going. As I stated, I still prefer a trailer, which I have a car hauler also, but most campgrounds do not have facilities to store it unless I rent an extra space, which I am not going to do. Also the only time that I have ever had an issue towing was twice, and both times, I was towing 4 wheels down. Not trying to say that it is best for everybody by no means, but there are different issues for different circumstances. On the golf cart issue, I could place it in the back of the pickup truck, but I would need to add a driveshaft disconnect, and on and on. By the way if I used a manual tranny in most cases there would be no need for the dolly except that the BOSS, DW refuses to drive a straight shift!!!! Darned if you do, darned if you don't. Thanks for asking, Kay

Acme would be my choice if buying new also, but a PM to Joe sure can't hurt because Roadmaster is a very good brand. To send a private message, click on a member name or avatar, then message. Welcome to the forum! By the way, next to a trailer which really prefer but it is much harder to store it in a campground, I really like using a tow dolly over flat towing.

Bill, they may track it for their own use, but I had already used over 11 gig when I changed from my 12 gig plan. I changed over on the 19th of this month, and the monthly renewal date is the 14th on my bill. I requested changeover retroactive to the beginning of this current month, the data usage was reset to 0, and has remained there since, only three days so far, IT is what I do for a living and this has been a very busy month.

Here is a converter box http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/172364991994, very simple, just plug AVI cables to the box, and coax out of box to TV. Unless your tv is pretty old (crt style), it probably will have AVI located on the tv, most LCD/PLASMA/LED's usually have both hookups. And there is a device that can be added to the receiver that as DD69 said sends to all TV's within range, simply tune the tv to the correct channel required by the transmitter, last one that I bought, was $99.00 at Radio Shack.

I used Sprint hotspot for 2 years, before 4G, 3G back then, and it was so slow and coverage was so bad back then is why I went to Verizon 3G. Sprint was about 700 to 900 K with spotty service, Verizon 3G was 1.7 to 1.9 M at the same time,and it was almost the same price then. I currently am enjoying on 4G, 17 to 20M up and down on Verizon myfy, Also the newest U plan "says", no video slowdown. I put "says" in quotes because it does NOT say GUARANTEE.

Looks like Sprint is a pretty good deal, but their fine print only guarantees 23 gig per line at 4g speed. http://bgr.com/2017/02/14/verizon-unlimited-data-plan-details-fine-print/

Verizon has just introduced a truly UNLIMITED plan, it is designated with the the letter U. I changed over last week, was paying $80.00 for 12 gig, the U cost $65.00 and covers 10 devices. Here is copied and pasted from my data usage page. My plan: THE NEW VERIZON PLAN UNLIMITED View previous usage View international usage Stream all you want, you've got unlimited data

You will not need to use 5 gallons, 1 or 2 will do just fine for test run and carb cleaner purposes, the main issue is to get another fuel supply hose into the picture. I have seen many times that an old fuel hose caused the same issues that you are having. You may very well be having hard start issues, but I still think that the genset should not be bogging down enough to shut power off.

Thanks for updating us, this can help for future references.

oneway, did you ever try the gas can test that I suggested earlier? If you have owned the coach for 12 years, the fuel line may well have broken down, and partially stopped up, or a pinhole developed, allowing air to be pulled into the fuel. Either of these conditions will show up under heavier loads.

I drove a 91 cross country for several years, same thing happened to my unit, there was two flashers under the front module hatch on that unit. The flasher modules were identical, one module flashes the hazardous warning lights, the other the turn signals. To locate the flasher, I turned on the haz lights and followed the sound. After locating it, I moved that flasher to the other location, right beside it, and "viola" the signals began to work. Went to parts store with the faulty one to match, bought two, replaced one and kept a spare from then on. Hope yours is that simple.

With that reply Joe, my brother and his family were transferred to Pittsburgh in 1964 from Birmingham of course. We all love turnip greens here in the south, so sis in law went to the local grocery store to get turnip greens, only found turnip roots, she inquired where the greens were, you probably guessed it, they were in the dumpster. She asked the produce manager to save some for her next time, they ate greens the entire four years that they were in Pa., for FREE.

In a pinch, if you should lose a hitch pin, and do not have a replacement, an electrical wire tie of adequate size works well, at least until it can be properly replaced. I keep several sizes in the coach at all times.

Actually if one output is drawing too many amps, then the circuit breaker on the generator should be tripping instead of bogging down, unless someone has put too large a breaker, or has defeated the breaker somehow. This leads me to believe that something has gone awry with the genset, as stated in post's by others above.

You asked for ideas for hitches, I assume that carriers would be the correct term. Here is an idea for a lightweight scooter, http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorcycle-Scooter-Bike-Car-Carrier-Hitch-Mount-Rack-Load-Ramp-Fit-2-Receiver-/122219401815?hash=item1c74d81257:g:X8oAAOSwa~BYN6o0&vxp=mtr, this is of course a scooter carrier, you could add your present bike carrier to the rear of this carrier and carry all three as long as the total weight does not exceed your hitch and coach weight limits for tongue weight, not to be confused with tow weight.

Yes a bad start capacitor would show on any electric service, and once started the start capacitor is not in use anyway. You might want to try to use a separate fuel container to test run the generator just in case the fuel has lost some octane, I'm assuming that it is a gas generator,and you have stated that the coach sat for four months. The coach motor may not affected as much as the generator because of more cylinders and the electronics on board.

I have not looked into any of the newer coaches that have intellitec, but from the older days a 30 amp coach would not even run both AC's on 30 amp shore power, in the old school, you had to crank the generator to run the second one. But with that said, if 30 amp shore power will run two AC's, then a 5500 watt generator should have no problem running them, as 5500 watts is almost 45 amps @ 120 volts. As jrock stated, a clogged fuel filter, or a near clogged air filter can produce a loss of power. The only observation by the tech may have made to concur that it needed rebuilding, is that a compression test revealed too low compression, which can be caused by bad rings, or bad valves, or poorly adjusted valves.

Who said that the inside photo was from the sold coach. The new one is a good looking coach, congratulations.

I lost the key one time also, so no more locks, although I have considered a combination lock, that way the combination could be written down and stored in the coach.