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I have a desk top HP running 7 with a terabyte hard drive and a wide screen HD monitor.Have not used it for awhile. When last used it was for online banking with Symantec scans before and after only. Hacking has me worried enough to not do online banking any more. Keep enough money in two accounts with Wells Fargo that I would not want to get into a pissing contest over whose fault it was. I also have a seldom used Lenovo running 8.1 bought a year ago from Best Buy. Wanted to run Silver Leaf, have the hardware, but just haven't seen the need. $$$$$ wasted. So/ In a year the new OPS is now 10. I think the big MSF campus in Washington State is kinda like government agencies reinventing things to justify there existence. I am with Carl/ gonna buy an Apple Laptop. I am currently trying to get my email account to once again work on my iPad. Five years fine. Did nothing to change it. Address the same. Suspect MSF saboteurs at work or a vast left wing conspiracy.

Replacing my chassis batteries would be a real task. Two group 31 (big batteries) with two smaller 6 volt golf cart batteries in the way. The other two 6 volt batteries would not have to be removed to be out of the way. Big heavy cables running everywhere and many smaller special purpose wires to be removed. Detailed pictures should be taken and masking tape labels applied with remounting instructions. My guess is whoever did the replacement screwed up. If everything worked fine before but doesn't now, what else could it be? IMHO

Another hurricane might get rid of the rest. Have seen a documentary on the devastating one that hit way back, late 1800's or maybe early 1900's. Absolutely heart breaking. History channel I think?

Go to the Campground thread way down the main topics page, click on that, and drop down some to campgrounds offering NYC tours. If you want to go to Manhattan, the one that jLeamont describes will get you the closest, but Tom Butler always has a lot to offer too.

I heard that fuel polishing was expensive, but didn't know that it was that high$$$.

Ours is a gelcoat that still looks new, but the graphics are decals I am guessing. Gotta polish them up. Hope regular car polish will work?

Blake/ thanks on the mention of possible interference. We still have fluorescent light fixtures, but none were on when the failure occurred. We have a lot of new tubes to use up before I convert. Have seen Joe's conversion in his HR , but his conscience (DW) said they are expensive. They really light the interior up though. Rich sent me a link to eBay that has a carbon copy for $49.95 new in box. My guess is a dealer is selling the unit. Don't remember buying anything on eBay, but I will give it a try in a few.

We have plenty of unused storage above and below in our 40' Phaeton and we have a three burner stove with oven below. Travel lighter.

Thank you for the reply Bill. Tried pulling the fuse twice for first 10 minutes and then 30 minutes. When I replaced the fuse each time the digital display partially appeared and faded. My multimeter confirmed that voltage was there. Now I am looking for a digital thermostat for a Coleman Mach roof top unit. 7 wire with. a mfg. date of 0246. The search begins.

Wouldn't it make sense to have a sump or low point area in the back or rear of the tank. That would eliminate road hazards from possibly dumping fuel on the ground. Never happened to me but in my early trucking years with the bottom hanging crossover between saddle tanks, it happened to fellow truckers. Then with the sump and a shutoff drain installed, one could drain the crud into a suitable container. I had rear drains on most of my saddle tanks, I parked on a slope, especially before winter started, and drained mostly water with some crud. Of course burning maybe 600 gallons of fuel a week and using a big Racor fuel water separator helped. Back to my point/ light aircraft have drainable sumps. Checking for water is part of the preflight. Why don't DP owners have something like that. Most of our rigs set for long periods. Opportune times for things to breed. Maybe Joe and others wouldn't have cooties crawling around in the tank if we could regularly drain the the junk out. IMHO

Front A/C will not start. No display, no compressor operation, but the fan will work if I slide the switch into run. Nothing else works. Rear unit works just fine A/C, display, etc. I suspect the front electronic thermostat. They are same manufacturer. The front one has been balky for the two years we have owned the coach. Troubleshooting will be tomorrow. Unit is being readied for a late July departure. Ideas appreciated. Both thermostats probably have a shared power source. Just a guess.

The OP asked for possible choices in a 36' or less DP. They are out there I am sure. Our 40' would not fit into most NFS or BLM sites. Do miss them though, but the long gravel roads getting there would be tough on a rear radiator unit.

The Foretravel 50th anniversary 45 IH is impressive. The Grand Villa Unihome also pictured is still a beautiful RV. Has anybody seen one lately? Just gorgeous.

I found a local seamstress to replace one of ours up front. Excellent work but pricey.

We traveled to Colorado at least eight times or more with our Ford 460 cube gas engine. I did things to soup it up that were not mainstream, but it would pass most anything but a gas pump. You would not want to try that stuff with a newer V-10, but folks seem to like the Banks modifications. Have you tried your unit on some passes? Remember that mountain passes are usually only a small part of the trip.

Unless things have changed since I retired, PA only mandates 5%. Biodiesel. The lowest in the country. I will check the diesel pumps at a nearby station. I dipped our tank with water finder paste available at Tractor Supply last year. Nothing there. A petroleum engineer told me many years ago that water was a byproduct of the refinery process. He dipped my saddle tank's as a courtesy when I filled at his retirement project (a fuel stop just east of Amarillo he owned.) Nothing there. I recently changed my fuel filter (only have one) as a precaution after two round trips to Colorado's western slope. 9000 miles total. I always use Power Service Additive at every fuel stop. Adds 7 cents per gallon to cost. I also add Lucas injector cleaner occasionally. Don't laugh. I had a miss that Lucas fixed. Went from embarrassing to smooth. Joe/ you will soon be an RV expert. School of Hard Knocks Diploma.

Just about what our GCW is and we have a CAT 330. No trouble with Monarch Pass in Colorado 11,312 ft above sea level. Usually top out between 25 to 30 mph and I never have the accelerator flat on the floor. A little left. You will not see altitudes like that on the Alaskan Highway. Any where you travel in Alaska with a motorhome will not approach that. Don't let your friends scare you. Just make sure that your CAC and radiator have been cleaned, air filter serviced, belts are good.

If the brown stuff appearing on the sidewalls is good for the tires, why not just leave it on? That would be unless you are taking you rv to a beauty contest. Never noticed the stuff on my 18 wheelers because I used Blue Beacon and their pressure wands blow the sidewalls clean. Of course tires in that use wear out before timing out. I am going to gently wash the sidewalls from now on.

Yes/ WA 14 is an interesting ride . Have done it in an 18 wheeler a few times. My memory is looking south across the Columbia at the Cascade's. Very pretty. Little towns are not all that welcoming for big rigs like I was driving, and I usually had a targeted number of miles a day before shutdown. If you decide to run that way, when you get to the western end, not that far from I-205 WA 14 becomes 4 lane. In a motorhome if I had the time, I would go that way, but if it is late in the day and you have a reservation, stay on the big road.

This is the way I would run it. I-25 north to Ft. Collins/ exit 269 onto CO 14 west to US 287. North on 287 to I-80 at Laramie. West on I-80 to Echo Utah/ join I-84 west missing the Salt Lake City Traffic. 84 will join I-15 and run north to Tremonton then they split. Stay with I-84 and it will take you through Idaho, to Oregon. I-84 in Oregon is mostly a pretty ride especially when along the south shore of the Columbia River. If you want to avoid Portland follow I-205 north across the river into Washington state. 205 ends at I-5. I-5 north to Kelso. Have run that way a number of times in an 18wheeler and would go that way in a motorhome.

Kay/ where our coach is stored in the winter months, the snow is plowed in such a way that I would not try to take it for a ride, although I wish that I could. This ain't Alabama. By the way, I was born there. Why should we even wash the tires unless they are covered with Alabama or Georgia mud? Just polish the rims and be done with it.

Thanks Jerry/ I have heard pro and con on protectant. I do remember discussions on tires on OOIDA's website about exercising tires to "keep them young." I am guilty of not doing that though. Getting our coach out of storage is a chore. When I setup for storage or when we are going to be in a park for a week or two, I usually run the tires onto sections of 2 by 12 pine. I place blocks of oak non dimensional or rough cut oak ( having a saw mill a short distance away is a help) under the levelers along with some pine on top of them. Oak is very strong and mine is 2 3/4 thick. I don't dump the airbags. Then I Level the unit. Took the coach to a nearby RV repair service recently after five months in storage and the ride was really smooth. No flat spots on the tires from setting too long. I also run tire pressure up to to at least the max or a little over. I remember that our first coach sometimes took a while for the tires to smooth out on the first trip after storage. Did not use the method mentioned back then.

Shoot! You guys have all of that neat hydraulic stuff to get your genset out?. I have to get out, open the compartment door under the driver's side and pull a handle. I feel so low rent. As Brett once said when he wanted to call me stupid. KISS?

Can't help with Dish but Direct TV also offers Internet. My guess is neither is very fast. Of course, if you are dry camping , it would be better than nothing. "shades " of dial up. We have DSL at home/ no streaming there.

US 89 is marked for big trucks in the Motor Carriers' Road Atlas. Have not traveled that route , but the aforementioned atlas is very useful for RVers. It has been my "gold standard" for many years. Retired Trucker here.