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I-84 to the Mass Pike, exit at Auburn onto I-290, to I-495 north, to I-95 then North to Maine. 495 can get busy but it beats trying to go through Boston. There are some backroads, but be careful in New England. Low underpasses can be an issue. If your desire is to get to Maine with the least amount of trouble, the roads that I have listed really are the best way.

Good looking coach. I haven't bought anything new with wheels on it since our 1988 gasser. My new one is a 2003 Phaeton purchased in May. It was garaged only 40 miles from our home. Just too convenient. There were older ones out there but they involved more travel. Hope you got a good deal.

Another worry with Bio Diesel is that it has solvent characteristics. It loosens a lot of stuff in your fuel system that is best left alone resulting in fuel filters being changed earlier than normal. I retired from trucking in 2011 and I would not run anything with more than the mandated 5% in my home state of PA. My engine was a 500hp Series60 assembled in 2000. Maybe Brett is aware of some way that the blenders are able to remedy that problem today. When we leave later this month for Colorado I hope that I will be able to stay away from the higher concentrations. My Cat has one filter that doesn't look all that large to me. Guess,I better stock up on replacements just in case.

Re: US160. La Veta Pass west of Walsenburg is a hard pull but not to worry on the downgrade. It is rather easy because you drop from 9413 ft to the San Luis valley with an average elevation in the mid 7s. There is a little town 5 miles west of Ft. Garland named Blanca. It used to be and probably still is a speed trap. Olathe Sweet Corn will be available at City Market in Alamosa through most of August. Best sweet corn in the world, but don't over cook it . 2mins after return to boil at the most. Walmart Super Center a little further west of Alamosa. Wolf Creek Pass is legendary and beautiful. Take Heman's advice. Be careful. I am when descending that one, but I still have to take a glance at the beauty. If the park in Pagosa Springs that Herman mentioned is open in October, we are going to try for that one on our trip back east. We will probably leave Durango around the tenth or so of October. Durango is a really cool town. Francisco's for mexican is always on our list. It just a short walk from the train station. Save some tummy room for a sopapilla. It is what I would call a Mexican pastry that is served with a side of honey.

I have traveled it a few times over the years. Was always in a tractor trailer. The stretch from St. Joseph to I-70 is lightly traveled most of the way. I have even received waves from a few Kansas State Troopers. I don't remember any rv parks, but then I wasn't really looking.

When we had a gasser, quality inverters either did not exist or were quite expensive. We now have a "new" 2003 Phaeton with a Freedom inverter/ charger that should be up to powering our Dometic. We cooled with propane in the gasser and it worked well. I will try the inverter on our big absorption frig. If it is hot on our trip west we will probably be running our Onan 7.5 Quiet Generator and that can power the frig. So far, I am really impressed with the genset.

Sounds like you are losing prime to me. After setting for a few, can you reach the filter with a wrench? Take it off carefully and if the filter is not full the problem might be upstream. Perhaps Brett could weigh in on a solution. Check valve bad. My Series60 Detroit had a check valve that caused problem for some. I was lucky with mine though.

The water pumps on the big guys (C-15) are gear driven. Guess I can't be that lucky. I have looked for access from the bedroom. Can't find it. A long call on hold is next for me with Tiffin. I will call Cat with the engine serial number to check. Big guys don't have that issue either. Thank you for the help. Will do everything that I can to follow up.

Fired her up this afternoon. Grill up. Nice flow of air coming through the radiator from all areas. Had the dash air off so the high pressure switch would not turn on a possible fan clutch. Guess it is just bolted on and belt driven. Short of being a contortionist and working my way up from the gravel it is parked on alongside the engine I don't know how to even get a look at Cat yellow. No access up top. Sure do miss popping the hood for a look. My guess CAC receives first blast of air and then the ac condenser or are they both mounted to get an equal amount of the fan's first blast? Where can I see a chassis of this age before a coach was built on it? 2002 chassis and 2003 coach. If it was stored on concrete or blacktop I might be able to get alongside the engine even at 70yo. Wasn't used hard. All 17,644 miles over 11years were put on primarily running back and forth to Myrtle Beach from Taneytown, MD before we bought it. Plan on a VMSpc system to watch EGT, Boost, and tranny temp.

XZEs are available in PAs Service Tire Company's network of 40 stores. Had six put on last week and saved $102 per tire thanks to FMCA. They seem to be a big outfit to me, but hopefully, if they have them others do. No difference in the ride to me.

Is there a post on this site for a sprayer? Are they custom made or available at retail? I am heading across Kansas in late August. Last year in early September it was 100 F. Contrary to popular belief, Kansas is not completely flat on I-70 and then there are often headwinds. Managed with my F-150 pulling a travel trailer and grossing 13,800, but I had a front facing radiator and a good set of gauges. When I get to Poncha Springs, Colorado I have Monarch Pass to deal with. Probably won't be a scorcher up there, but it is a long hard pull.

Oh well! If I do have a fan bolted directly to the shaft, I will be wasting fuel, but I won't have to worry about a switch. When I start up a grade on a hot day, I will keep my rpm up to move more water through the radiator and hope for the best. Rather than being on hold for a long time, I have an easy way to tell if the fan is bolted that saves trying to crawl underneath on a gravel covered storage yard. Just assumed it would have a clutch in order to save fuel. Re: 16,000 miles and a failure. Fan clutches last hundreds of thousand of miles on an 18 wheeler. Kinda thought some of that durability would be built into a DP.

On the Tiffin RV independent site, I read just yesterday about programmable cooling fans on the 43 footers (the Bus I guess) and some really high temps on the cooling systems of respondents while climbing hills. Bolting a fan directly to the shaft is really old school. That stopped in the 70's on commercial truck-tractors. The first effort was the viscous clutch, then the air operated clutch that only worked with 12volts applied, and finally the fail safe air operated fan clutch that was always on if there was a broken wire or blown fuse. I am not new to motor homing . We owned a 34' gasser for 17 years. New to DPs, but certainly,not new to large vehicles powered by diesel engines. I started driving them in 1965. If you folks are right, what a fuel waster. Commercial trucking went to fan clutches to save fuel. Cooling fans draw a lot of horsepower. Kenworth even programmed their fans to come on when the engine brake activated. I had that stopped on mine. It was annoying. On a long downgrade, if I felt that I needed some more braking I turned the fan on with the switch near my left knee. Dumbfounded I am.

We recently purchased a 2003 Phaeton 40' with a 330 Cat powered Freightliner chassis. Other than shuttling it around for service and new tires, it hasn't been used. My guess is that the engine fan has an air operated fan clutch. I don't see how a viscous clutch would work with a rear facing radiator. I would like to install a toggle switch on the left side of the driver's seat to turn the fan on when starting a hard pull especially on a hot day. I had manual fan switches on all of the tractor trailers that I have driven for over the last twenty years of my trucking career, and I know there value on a hot day. With a rear facing radiator they seem even more necessary. I have seen a number of DPs on the shoulder of a long grade probably cooling down (my guess). Eliminating power to an electric over air fan clutch usually causes a constant run. Would a fused switch that eliminates the fuse dedicated to the fan work?

This looks like just what I need. The tv will output optical to this unit and then give me good old fashioned right and left analog in to the Tiffin installed Panasonic DVD player with 135 Watt output to power the factory installed speakers. Simple and cheap. Thanks loads.

My inlaws used tv to tranquilize my DW while they played bridge. I was one of the first to subscribe to Direct TV to please she who must be obeyed . I have little choice in the matter after 44 years of wedded bliss.

Factory installed Panasonic DVD player has no optical input. There are five small speakers mounted around the main living area that I would like to use because the Samsung LED 32" doesn't have much volume. All that I am finding are large beasts in the way of amplification.

I have run US89 in a tractor trailer two or three times, over the years. Had no problems. All the way from Flagstaff to I-70. I then exited I-70 onto US50 and ran that over to I-15. I was usually headed to the North West.

My current roof top, though beat up by the former owner, gets excellent reception. I may be some in some kind of "honey hole" for reception, but at 40 miles from Harrisburg, PA & 40 miles from Baltimore, MD I am able to receive flawless digital signals from every station in both towns. Can that be improved on? Probably not by much. I will check your idea out though.

I want to replace a 2003 Winegard crank up antenna with the newer Sensar. Anyone know if the new will fit the existing hardware installed through the roof?

I damaged the antenna input on a 2013 Samsung 1080P 32" LED TV because I had it bolted on an expandable wall mount and made the mistake of using a short coax. My bad!! I have some experience in things electronic, courtesy of the draft board in 1968, and have always tried to repair my messes. I took the back off of the tv quite easily, and low and behold, everything there is a collection of modular wiring harnesses and circuit boards. The original coax input was easily soldered into place ( the old stuff was probably epoxy). My point in writing all of this is to point out that circuit boards in such an application are indestructible ( minus a sledge hammer ), and that there are very few manufacturers of LED displays in the world. Perhaps three or so. Whatever is in a so called made for RV TV is without a doubt the same display that is in every other TV.

I am a retired trucker. When I was in the business, I met a driver that worked for a small Caterpillar test fleet out of central Illinois, who showed me fuel mileage records that were astounding. He was running a 550 horse Cat, 10 speed tranny, and usually above 70,000 lbs gross weight. He never got in a hurry, never used his cruise control, and kept his top speed at 55 mph unless on a downgrade. His statement to me was that "you wouldn't want run with me." We will be leaving for a trip from PA into numerous favorite places in Colorado in August . It will be a lengthy trip and my first time behind the wheel of a diesel motorhome. I traveled the same routes in our 460 Ford powered 34 footer and the fuel mileage was terrible. I was not retired and therefore always in a hurry. I do know that good advice is to keep your speed down, keep your cruise control off, keep your RPMs down, stay off the accelerator on a slight rise in terrain. Let your speed drop on those slight grades. The amount of time that you lose at the end of the day will really not amount to much, and probably save a lot.