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Sunny and 71 yesterday, 30mph winds and 40 today

Great information Andy!

Kay, that’s one great story!

If overnight and I need to empty tanks and refill the fresh water we use google or one of the apps on our phones (Book your site, RV Parky, KOA) to search for a campground. If we don’t need the above I seek out shopping areas like a Walmart. We always call ahead and ask if it’s ok to park out of the way for the night off in a corner of the lot Or Cracker Barrel’s have Bus/RV parking. With new trucking laws (logs) I will not use a truck stop anymore. There is a shortage of available truck parking in the US and those places have become a real hazard to park at when the “professional driver” left the industry. Truck stops are also taking reservations now, so if you slip into a spot you could get a knock on the door from an angry trucker in a few hours after you settle wanting the spot they reserved.

Carl, what make/model toilets do you have? Might be helpful for the next person...

That's my wife's type of RV resort, we need to keep them apart

Learn something new every day! You wouldn't have know by the quality of the builds we looked at.

Good thing you got her, shes definitely creative!

gwestckd, Welcome to the FMCA forums! My wife and I were at the Philadelphia RV show two weeks ago and looked at the Renegade line up (and every other coach manufacture there also), we were both a bit surprised at the overall quality of Renegade and how it blew the competition away. I have a friend with an older Dynamax (2006) his coach is built fairly well, but Dynamax then and now are two different companies, Forest River owns them now.

Based off of the tire size it sounds like a Class A on an F53 Ford. I would check the FMCA home page (link below) for the best deal. Anyone of those manufactures will ride decent. I drove an F53 on Hankook tires before, it handled fine. https://www.fmca.com/rv-tires-discounts

Ken, Welcome to the FMCA forums!

CCrider, has this been an issue from back in 2014 that wasnt resolved?

We stayed at Pine Mountain once before, nice place. Easy drive to Gatlinburg.

Bill, our Atwood in the last coach had the same issue. Started to squeal at the beginning of a cross country trip thanksgiving day (of course). I did exactly as Brett recommended and it got me a few months of quiet fan operation. Replacing the motor was simple and make sure to order the fan wheel, I did and it was a good thing as the original was stuck on the motor shaft and the plastic was brittle. If I remember it was less that $20 for the fan portion.

You telling me that all of you Texans aren’t headed to Sweetwater TX for the Rattlesnake round up??

I just returned from a business trip to New Hampshire, Thursday morning at 11am it was sunny and -2 My skin looks like fish scales!

Ditto! PA sent out letters with a list of what you needed to bring, I rounded it all up went and renewed my license. I might have been there 10 minutes longer and that could have been caused by some other reason. I only heard people complaining that couldn’t produce proper papers or failed to follow the instructions.

We do this in locations where the Good Sam card doesn't work, otherwise I only fill up with that GS Pilot Flying J card.

I am good with a pushrod engine, especially with roller lifters and roller rockers. Ran many high HP engines over the years with that set up and never had an issue. Anyone else notice the size of that exhaust valve . Looks like a monster from the factory!

No such thing now a days as a million mile diesel. The base engine is capable but the emissions system cost 2x the price of the engine it it will not last that long!

Bill, good information! From the sounds of it I'm impressed!

Moonwink, vacuum is for the blend doors behind the dash. They all operate off of vacuum. Defrost is the default when not enough or no vacuum is present. Most will have an electric pump and some sort of storage, usually a small plastic tank within close proximity to the pump. The pump will usually overcome small leaks, I have had pumps that run but do not create vacuum. Leaks do not usually occur on their own, often created by someone bumping a hose loose. The majority of the time it’s the pump.

Yeah, but at least he has his coach information listed

Shot me down, toad, tow bar and coach are 60'.2' Great research Wayne!

Denny, good location, we stayed there back in 2016, beautiful resort and the owners were very pleasant.