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I had to cram it into two weeks of vacation that I can take at one time. Left home on a Friday night, drove for 4 hours, 10-12 hour days after that and I believe we pulled into Anaheim CA on Tuesday afternoon. The drive was just shy of 50 hours or windshield time, if you can spread it out longer I would certainly do so. We spent a few days in Disney Land and then stopped at many places along the way home to absorb the rest of the time so it wasn't such a rush to get home to go back to work. If I had it my way it would have been a two month trip, not two weeks.

We did it 2 times. PA to CA and back. No issues other than weather. First time was July 2008, no weather issues other than high wind. The second time was November 2013, I do not recommend that, nor will I ever do that again in the winter months. Ice storms, snow accidents all over the place. Both trips out were I-81S to I-40 West straight across. Coming home in the winter we had to divert to I-10 E from the west coast, I thought we would be far enough south to avoid bad weather, got stuck in western TX in a bad Ice storm just east of Van Horn TX. Both times were our Gas coach, haven't been farther than New Mexico in the DP. Moral of the story, plan in a good season for weather.

I think it would be easier and less of a hassle to build a dam on the roof to divert the water to one corner to drain. Something as simple as automotive weather stripping would suffice. Our coach has the drains that run down through the walls to the ground, two on each A/C unit, no condensation pumps, I think if it had those Id remove them and let it run off the roof. That is just a great example of over engineering something that will ultimately fail at the worse possible time.

Tim, beautiful coach and Congratulations!

That’s a fantastic quote!

Judging by the photos, I would consider replacing all of the above. Once its open its not so bad, you don't want to go into all of that twice and lastly if it only works for a short time, Murphy's law it will fail on the road and then it will become more costly as you will most likely have to pay someone to repair it.

Mine are also machined Alcoa, I put them on two years ago (pulled the steel's off) for that reason and the weight savings i.e. low rolling resistance = fuel savings. Cogriffins, what was the outcome and who came out to assist you?

Usually the difference is the inner dual's are often steel where the outer wheel is aluminum with the polished portion on the dished portion of the wheel while the opposing side is not polished. The front wheels the polished portion is on the opposite side, the wheels are the same otherwise. In a pinch you can move them around i.e. carrying a spare mounted on a steel wheel could go into any position, aesthetically is the only concern.

Any update, who came out?

Great find!

Itistime59, Welcome to the FMCA forums! I tried to google it, wow was I surprised in those results! Coach hand bags apparently makes key chains, and there are several "Country" themed key chains. Nothing for Country Coach. My recommendation would be to seek out a Country Coach club, ask there. Link to the 1st club that popped up; https://www.countrycoachclub.com/

Great information, thank you!

I figured out where I got my lines crossed, I was thinking of the echo charger.

That area is a new one for me. Drove past it up 95 many many times for work. Never knew of it’s existence. I’ll be headed past it again the first week of June, I’m headed to South Portland Maine for work.

Hmm, my bad. Learn something new every day.

Any particular campground up there you prefer?

YUP, that's why guys like you and me modify/tinker with them so they operate in a fashion that actually makes sense

Rayin, I believe you are getting these mixed up. The Bird type unit is for when you are parked and you want the generator or shore power to charge the chassis batteries.

Ernie, hard to tell from the photo but this one is the same, the outer tire is not quite on the blocks.

Carl, I'm with Richard on this, have TCC install an Echo charger while its there, the chargers are around $100.00 and it will do it all for you.

alkmona, Welcome the the FMCA forums! ADCO makes a nice cover, different options to choose from. link; https://www.adcoprod.com/

YUP. It actually pays me to pull them at year 5. As long as we can swing it in year 5, it's a good deal. I have a fleet up here that pays for them, they run them off on dump truck tag axles, since they just get scrubbed off fast. They prefer virgin tires (non recap) as the caps fail faster from the scrubbing.

My pull and sell works like this because of my common truck tire size 12R22.5. At year 5 they are worth $225.00 each at year 6 they are worth $150.00 year 7 $0. It pays for me to pull them earlier and sell them off, I already have a buyer. At Year 7 they are useless no matter the condition as they will be going onto dump trucks and they will be to old for DOT inspections.

I agree with him they do not degrade as fast. If it were me I'd replace the steer now and roll the drives for another year and have them rechecked. I have my steer on a 5 year pull and sell plan. Drives 6 depending on how their semi annual inspections go.

Richard, what is the date codes on them?