blakleyfamily

Going to be traveling to some colder areas, and curious if it's safe to drive with the rv house heater running to keep it warm inside? It's propane forced air heat. The dash heat doesn't get warm enough. I think the whole furnace system is 12v so I should be able to run the heater by just leaving the inverter on, no generator? Thanks.

F433921, you were exactly correct..

I just figured it out thanks to reading some of these blogs. My Freedom inverter has 2 breakers and one of them was tripped, flipped it back on and that did the trick. Thanks again.

We have an 05 Discovery. We are staying in an RV park for a couple of months and everything has been fine. Last night I plugged in a space heater that worked fine all night long but this morning when I turned on the coffee maker it turned off half of the outlets in the coach including the ones for the coffee maker and space heater. There is no problem in the AC breaker box located in the bedroom . There is a gfi in the bedroom near a wash basin and another one in the bathroom (about a foot away ) that apparently is fed by the one in the bedroom. I used a tester and the "load" coming out of the one in the bedroom is hot but the wires going into the gfi in the bathroom is not and can't be reset. Looking for help. Thanks.

I think maybe we'll just go to a radio shop here in San Diego and let the pros install whatever it takes. Thanks for all of the suggestions.

Thank you, I went to the dashboard and typed in "towing" but wasn't able to select 1990. Thanks for your suggestin though.

might get a 1990 Jeep Pioneer automatic with 4X4 and want to tow it flat on the ground. Does anyone know if the proceedure is the same, just put the transfer case in neutral and the transmission in park or neutral? ThanksI I should add that there is no owners manual in the car, that's why I'm searching around for the info. Thanks.

Good morning from So. Cal. I want to install a CB radio antenna on my 2005 Discovery, any ideas on the best set up? Thanks and have a great day.

Thank you, we ended up going to Ace hardware and got a copy made for $4.50

I wantb to get a copy made of the ignition keys for my fleetwood rv, will any locksmith work/ Thanks foryour help.

Good morning, we have a 2005 Discovery on a Freightliner XC chassis. I want to replace the front shocks so I gave the last 6 digits of the VIN to our local Freightliner dealer and was given the original part number 1618075000 for the shocks. $113.00 ea at Freightliner so I found a matching Gabriel number 83174 for $67.00 ea. Problem is nobody sells the Gabriels. Frustriating.!

I've been thinking about doing that. The other thing folks need to consider on these rigs is that when Freightliner puts the oil pan on there are two differen pans. A long one, and a short one. The long one hold 23 quarts and the short one holds 19 quarts. Putting too much oil in the short pan is not only bad for the motor but causes more oil to blow out the slobber tube. There are also 2 different dipsticks, I changed my oil and put in 19 quarts and when I checked it looked like it was a gallon low on the dipstick so I made a new mark on the stick to indicate where it was with 19 quarts. A picture of the slobber tube catch can you made would be great. Thanks and have a great day, T.

Extending the blow by tube to the side with a piece of pipe is a huge help.

I did exactly that. Our 2005 C7 continued to get hotter and hotter to the point I had to climb hills in 1st gear to spin the motor fast enough to keep it from melting. When I got home from that trip I pulled the engine cover from the floor of the closet. I bought a yard sprayer from the hardware store for $14, bought 2 gallons of Industrial strength, non corrosive Simple Green. I used the yard sprayer to spray the simple green onto the charger air cooler and engine fan from the engine cover in the closet, then I sprayed the simple green on the radiator from behind the coach. I waited about 30 minutes and took a garden hose inside the coach and sprayed the charge air cooler with water from the engine cover in the closet using a power nozzle and being careful not to bend the fins with too much pressure. Then I went outside and sprayed the back of the radiator with water the same way, doing both until clear water came out. I cut the blow by tube a little shorter, clamped on a 90 degree elbow and threaded about a 4' piece of pipe to the side of the motorhome ( I made it long enough to be sure it went further back than the radiator) so that the blow by oil wasn't picked up by the engine fan and blown directly into the charge air cooler and radiator. You have to be sure to do all of this in a place where you can recover the oil that comes out of the radiator and charge air cooler and not let it seep into the ground. I've put 10,000 mile on it since then and it hasn't overheated one time. It's a messy job but when you consider that the local Cat dealer wanted $3000 to seperate the charge air cooler and radiator, and clean it that way, it's well worth it.