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  1. 10 minutes ago, RSBILLEDWARDS said:

    Joe,  if that is on Pine island our grandson lives there, nice area. We have not stayed at a park but in their driveway. Fort Myers is very nice too. Plenty of fresh seafood.

    Bill, so far all I’ve eaten has been seafood :). We’ve determined it’s time to plan the logistics of a move


  2. All I have to say is WOW! Beautiful location, cute small campground with only 10 sites. it was tough to get into our site but manageable. Probably would have been easier if I backed in from the street since (Small street with NO traffic) the sites are slightly angled. But after 14 hours of driving I just wanted to relax so a 3 point turn did the trick.
    absolutely love it here!! Highly recommend this place. 

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  3. 13 hours ago, skipbev said:

    Firestone W01-358-9376

    That's what was on ours, all 8. I just replaced all 8 in May and they were all the same part number. Our Chassis are different models but from what I have read that air bag part number carries over many chassis models. If you remove one front and one rear the part numbers on mine were still legible. 

    Looks like you have an RM8C Chassis, which is a raised rail configuration. 

     


  4. Tx, we have friends with trailers. I have worked on theirs over they years and these are the brands I thought were of decent quality and affordable.

    Jayco, Jay Flight.

    Zinger, when owned by Crossroads.

    One thing that I have seen lately that is a huge concern, some have this sticker inside. If I saw that I’d move onto the next one. At no time is the health of my family or myself worth any trailer!
    Our one friend upgraded their Zinger to another one made by Thor, the chemical smell is so strong inside it permeates their clothes and food. You can actually taste it in the food stored in the Cupboards. 

    And as a rule of thumb, if the roof is well taken care of and there are no water stains or soft spots it was taken care of. So many are not, so please be careful.

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  5. 1 hour ago, UrbanHermit said:

    and that you say over time the overdriving will begin damaging sensors and shut the engine down

    Dave typically doesn't monitor this page so I can explain what I believe he was referring to.

    He's retired, I am still in the business.

    Most aftermarket performance tuners/chips etc will force sensors and actuators to out perform their design, some will send more voltage in, others will manipulate and provide false readings so actuators will keep pushing past their designed threshold to achieve more power.

    Great example; I had a customer come into the shop a few years ago complaining that his 6 speed manual transmission keeps cracking the case. I replaced the transmission case and took the truck for a ride. Unknown to me the 7.3L power stroke was turned up to almost 600hp, fun ride it was. Back to the topic, I could hear the electronic solenoids on the injectors grinding on acceleration, keep in mind, I could hear this over the diesel cackle. From the factory they were 110V DC, out of curiosity I monitored them via the scan tool, his tune was sending 140V DC into them. There was a few other safety items built in for protection that the software was forcing to ignore, one was injection timing, as you accelerated it would yank injection timing out of its designed threshold and over power the fuel injectors thus creating more power.  There was a few other items it was manipulating by either ignoring one sensor so the engine would continue to push to meet its required threshold while others it was sending more voltage into it to make it do something it wasn't designed to do. This is too technical to get into detail but that was how they achieved more power. I did ask him if he had other issues with all of that power and he was on his 3rd set of fuel injectors and the truck was still under base warranty, of course he paid out of pocket for those injector replacements at $525.00 per injector installed times 8 as it was a V8 Diesel. He brought it to us as the selling dealer was denying him any warranty now. 


  6. I suspect we will spend a fair amount of time on Sanibel Island while on the west coast. There appears to be a fair amount to do on the island of Matlacha. This will be our 2nd trip to the west coast of Florida. We fell in love with the west coast the last time out there. I would love to move somewhere in the Punta Gorda area. When we venture back to the east coast which is just north of Daytona most of that time will be in St Augustine and just on the beach at the campground. We've been to that area many times. Waves are better to ride on the east coast or id just stay on the west coast.

    We are headed to Navarre in August. 


  7. Ok, Here is what I own;

    • Weber Smoky Joe Charcoal
    • Weber CHAR-Q (Charcoal Q grill)
    • Traeger PTG portable pellet smoker/grill
    • Tough Tripod with Dutch oven and grill. https://toughtripod.com/
    • Weber Baby Q (propane)
      • Weber Q grill fold up stand

    I carry all BUT the Weber CHAR-Q (Charcoal Q grill).

    I prefer to cook over the fire, that really depends on what wood I have in the fire, my next go to is with the pellet grille or charcoal. I use the Baby Q for when we stop along the road at a rest stop, its quick and cools down fast. Which makes it convenient to pull out, throw some food on, cook it and while you eat its cooling down so it can be put away and hit the road again. This was my main grill when we started camping in 2008, still works like new and very rugged. 


  8. So I thought the same and when my old transponder (lower weight class) stopped working on the new coach I called them and was advise the reason it wasn't working, "your RV is too heavy for the rating of the EZpass, there fore it will not read, we get an error on our end". 


  9. Cummins air compressors are located on the passenger side of the engine lowest component, underneath the fuel injection pump. Bolted to the front housing. Typically the power steering/hydraulic pump is bolted to the rear of it. 
    Cable pulls are designed to be pulled in a straight line. Most coach builders have them to the left of right. When you side pull them they almost never seat properly and you have to the pull straight to get them to seat again. This happens with brand new valves also. 


    If it were me, I’d block the coach so should you lose air it will not injure you, crawl under and Straight pull each one for 1 to 2 seconds just to see if anything comes out. If nothing comes out you know your air dryer is doing its job. That’s typically what I see on our Coach. 

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