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Blue Ox has good customer service. Probably be glad to help you.

Have no reason to change. Have been treated well over the years by State Farm. Had the same agent for almost 41 years and he could not have been better. I did take an Internet look a time or two for rates from the other biggies and we were better off with State Farm.

I used to fish when on the road as a trucker. Most often in Colorado because their license with per day stamps was reasonable. Find a safe place for the trailer, pin lock it and bobtail to the fishing hole.😊

Bill/ I used Racor products until 2004. Then I bought my last truck with a series60 and spin on primary and secondary filters. Things worked well so I never installed a Racor.

My previous post is meant to show that things can repaired under warranty if you work with the right customer service reps, never lose your temper, and ultimately get them on your side. I usually wound up working with the same two or three reps. That was a help. They stayed with me and were always pleasant. They knew how to lean on the Cummins dealers for extra consideration, and that benefited me. If your engine is out of warranty and needs some fixing, customer service might be able to help direct you to the right place for you to spend your money. Usually more $ per hour of service , but most of their mechanics really know what they are doing. Caterpillar has some really good dealers too. Cleveland Brothers in the Harrisburg PA area is also really good. The Cat dealer in Salt Lake City really helped me out once. Of course working on an engine in a commercial truck is easier. Just raise the hood and it is all there and usually readily accessible.

Cummins probably has an 800 number for customer service. I know that they did in 1977. Those guys started recognizing my voice because I called them many times. Had injector failure 9 times averaging one a month and lost the camshaft at 90 thousand. All warranty paid for. Big Cam Cummins 400HP. Turns out the wrong Jake Brake had been installed and they repaired everything one more time even with it being out of warranty because it was a recurring problem.

I level our Phaeton while in storage with the onboard jacks and did the same with our 34ft. Georgie Boy bought new in 1988. Find a can of grease at an auto parts store or use a grease gun if you have one, and smear the exposed shaft with grease. Did it for years on the Georgie Boy and the jacks still worked fine on the day it was sold. Have only had the 2003 Phaeton since May of 2014 , but so far so good.

Bill/ Had Racor fuel/water separators on my trucks starting in 1977 on a new Peterbilt 352 large bunk Cabover. Had no problems with them other than in 1977, the filters were not readily available because the unit was quite new. Learned to keep several spares after crawling up Donner often times on the shoulder.🙄 Always had the plastic bowl and had to quickly break (by lifting the lid) the vacuum to get water and crud to drain out. It was my primary filter. Have even changed filters on the side of the road a few times. Easier on a truck though than a motorhome.

Love air brakes in the mountains. Old truckers habit.

I bought a quality 50amp extension cord from RV Upgrades. I usually get close enough to the power pedestal for the extension to reach inside the power bay. The surge protector is inside, out of the weather, and of course out of sight.

Seems to me that a good portable is easier to deal with in the event of a a failure. Go to a UPS store, they will package it properly for little money, ship it UPS to the factory and soon you should have a replacement. No painful removal of a built in unit. If I had the resolve, I would get rid of our hard wired transfer switch. Lost the one that came with the used coach before we took our first trip. Our first coach had a power cord that connected to a generator power female socket for use when underway, and to the power pedestal when in a park. No moving parts.

We have the same unit that Jim has. It is our second unit. The first lost the surge protection feature during an electrical storm. All other features still worked. Turn around on a replacement from the factory was less than a week and the unit was not our original one. It was brand new. That was in 2016 before the buy out though.

Carl 🤓

1/32 inch toe-in for radials on a solid front axle used to be the standard. Probably still is. Metric?

I have been with State Farm for 50 years. Service has been very good. House, cars, motorhome all with them. 2014 a tree fell on our first toad (totaled) and we had not left on the first trip with the Phaeton. Toad was a Subaru Forester 2010 that we had put 94 miles on from purchasing dealer to RV dealer that would install Blue Ox baseplate with diodes . Parts and labor on the base plate installation was over a grand. When I called in the loss, I knew that I was going to lose big. Wrong!!! Actually came out a little ahead of our total cost for everything. All other experiences with State Farm have been good (they are few). Maybe that depends on your agent??? Mexico coverage? Could care less! Napoleanic system of justice. You are guilty until proven innocent. Been to the border many times as a trucker long before 9/11. Could'nt get me into Mexico for any reason. Period! Will be with State Farm until I stop breathing.

They are looking for a cabin or trailer to rent in an RV park. Look back a few posts. Apparently they want to be around RVers.

Good stuff Carl.👍

Carl, In southern PA, air drying consists of charging the tank to at or near full pressure and opening the drain valve at the bottom of the tank before daily business starts. Have a friend that turned wrenches for decades and said "bull____" when I mentioned the discussion about air dryers for shop air and tire work. Of course, we are not in sub tropical coastal Texas.

Now I remember the Newmar Integra mistake that I made. My fault. Our neighbors had a tag axle unit that was the next to the top of the line Entegra. Not a Newmar but a beautiful ride anyway. They were worried customer service might not be as good after Thor bought Entegra. The Shadow knows!!

Had to do something because when Tom Butler mentioned Deliverance, I knew that he was having a panic attack.🙄 My second choice with an additional 120 miles of travel is probably best for the inexperienced. As far as Nevada roads, I enjoy them. Frequently found loads from the northwest to Arizona in the winter because I liked the weather in the wintertime south west. Loads from produce producing areas heading east that paid well were usually easy to find. That is after a day or two in the sun.😉

Remember both when I lived in San Angelo the second time. Maybe 53 to 56 or thereabouts.

My experience with northern Nevada roads started in 1980. A road less traveled is always a favorite for me. Fewer idiots per mile.😏 Top Gun school is in Fallon. Never know what you might see in that area.

Ok. I remember that the folks with the Newmar were concerned. Bad info I guess.

I do recall getting a friendly wave from a Nevada State Patrol officer when he passed me heading north one winter on 93. Guess he was glad to see another person. 😎Might have been December when that happened. There is a second choice, but it is 120 miles further. Take US 95 south out of the Boise area. Runs you over into Oregon's SE corner and then south to Winnemucca. Head west on I-80 to Exit 83 and then south on US95 to Las Vegas. Once you get south of Fallon aways, traffic will increase and you won't be so lonely. US 95 is the main road route between Vegas and Reno. When I wound up in Winnemucca and was heading south, I almost always headed east to Battle Mountain NV and south on NV305. Another lonely road by the way.

Wasn't Newmar acquired by another company in the summer of 2016? Maybe Thor??? Vaguely remember discussing new ownership of the company with the owners of a gorgeous Newmar parked next to us at the Swan Bay RV Resort in Alexandria Bay NY that year.