What Did You Do To Your RV TODAY?

[Bookemdanno]

Got home last night from Catherine's Landing last night...beautiful park! Going was uneventful...other than I stepped in a hole at the back of our site and sprained my ankle! I had the DW go purchase a brace and worked thru the pain! The pump quit working on the drive and when I fired up the furnace it didn't want to do anything! I get the click from the thermostat, but nothing at the furnace, so I'll have to pull that out to see what's going on there! What kills me, is I tested it before we left and it fired up like a champ! Driving back, I had to stop twice to fix the TV...the tube for the air intake came off twice. 1st time I just tightened the hose clamp. 30 mins later when it came off again, I retightened and grabbed the duct tape! No more problems! Cleaned out the RV this morning and got everything put away and I closed up the slides and the driver rear tire on the RV was almost flat?? I grabbed the compressor to fill and heard the hissing! Found a nail in the tire...so off the tire came and off to Discount Tire. 45 mins later it was patched! Just got back from taking to storage.

All in all, lots of memories made. My oldest is off to college in the fall and said she will miss being able to pick up and go out on short weekend trips in the RV.

[Kim Gass]

Beat up on it
More accurately I 81 in PEnnsylvania beat it up.
What a horrid surface!

[SmokerBill]

Checked the voltage of my Trojan batteries. Still 12.6 volts after being disconnected 3 months ago.

[colby]

Originally Posted by Kim Gass

Beat up on it
More accurately I 81 in PEnnsylvania beat it up.
What a horrid surface!

Ouch... That's too bad, I will be on that road next month! Which is the worst stretch so I can prepare?

[extrachrispy]

Just before this trip, I added a Furrion S Sharkfin backup camera. It has been very helpful so far.

[TxLoser]

Towed it back to storage after prepping for a trip. Sick kid with a fever. First trip we’ve had to abort. At least it rained last night and washed the pollen off. No longer tinted green.

[Loaded-N-Rollin']

[QUOTE=Bookemdanno;1101209]Got home last night from Catherine's Landing last night...beautiful park!

Spent a week at Catherine's landing last October, and doing it again this year. It is a nice clean park, and we love to visit Hot Springs.

[Loaded-N-Rollin']

Installed RV Air in both A/Cs of '23 Seismic 359. She is coming along. A lot more to do.

[LuckyDuck]

Uncovered it after a long, wet winter (which isn’t over yet). She goes in for a bearing pack, brake check, wet bolt lube etc. next week. NWS says it will be pouring

[colby]

Originally Posted by LuckyDuck

Uncovered it after a long, wet winter (which isn’t over yet). She goes in for a bearing pack, brake check, wet bolt lube etc. next week. NWS says it will be pouring

I'll take rain at some point. Everything is still snow covered here, it looks more like the end of February, not the end of March. The 14 day forecast doesn't look like much better with lows below zero every night and daytime highs around 40. Calling for more snow the first week of April. Supposed to pick up the trailer the first week of April and get it ready for the trip at the end of he month. If it keeps going like this, I may have to dewinterize when we get further south!

[ttavasc]

De-winterized it this morning. Glad to get the winery smell out of it. I didn't notice that I got alcohol-based antifreeze this time... Found a couple of issues - the hose connector on the bottom of the Oxygenics Powerflow Shower head fell out of the handle so that needs replaced. I opened a warranty case with them as it is only a few months old. Then the cold water faucet on the outdoor show turned out to have a crack in it and was leaking. So a replacement unit has been ordered.

[Route 66 Traveler]

Both of those issues might have been caused by water freezing in the lines. Did you do a complete de-winterizing?

[ttavasc]

Originally Posted by Route 66 Traveler

Both of those issues might have been caused by water freezing in the lines. Did you do a complete de-winterizing?

Yes - I always blow the lines clear first before adding the antifreeze. I know there was antifreeze in the outside shower faucet because you can see the pink of the antifreeze in the connector where the shower hose screws in. I always let the pink run through each faucet for about 10 seconds as well to ensure there is no residual water in the lines. As for the Oxygenics issue - I always unscrew the hose from the faucet and let gravity do it's thing so I know there was no water left in the shower head. I've never had any issues with doing things this way in the past - the only difference this year is different brand and type of antifreeze. I've made a note to make sure I don't get the alcohol-based stuff going forward simply because of the smell.

[David_ski]

I filled the fresh water tank and lines last Wednesday with a bleach mix, yesterday I drained the tanks and today I refilled the fresh water tank and flushed the lines.

We were going on a 4 day trip to the Norther Calif Coast tomorrow that we postponed for 3 weeks. There is another massive storm front that will hit the Calif coast this Tuesday and Wednesday. We decided to wait for drier weather.

Here is a puzzling question to throw out there for everyone to ponder. I recently purchased a fresh water gallons meter. I have tested it by filling 5 gallon buckets. It has been accurate. On Wednesday after I siphoned in 10 gallons of bleach/water mix, I hooked up a hose to fill the fresh water tank. I had the flow meter attached at the trailer. When the tank had filled the meter was at 95 gallons. Today I had the tank drained and I did a fresh water tank fill with the meter attached. The meter registered 109.7 gallons. I disconnected the hose and meter and reset one setting and filled a 5 gallon bucket. The meter reading was now at 5.0/114.7.

My 24.5CKTS has a 49 gallon fresh water tank.

Question: Has anyone else stumbled across this issue? When the flow gauge can flow freely, it measures accurately. However when there is some pressure on the outlet, the meter roughly doubles the gallon measurement. This was not an expensive meter. Buy another meter that is a different brand and compare results? Some more testing is in order.

[RoryDittmer]

Opened her up, washed rear and snout (East/West elevations) nice coat of Meguiars #56 liquid wax. Long sides next weekend. No better way to spend in central FL on 90 degree day..

[ttavasc]

Originally Posted by ttavasc

De-winterized it this morning. Glad to get the winery smell out of it. I didn't notice that I got alcohol-based antifreeze this time... Found a couple of issues - the hose connector on the bottom of the Oxygenics Powerflow Shower head fell out of the handle so that needs replaced. I opened a warranty case with them as it is only a few months old. Then the cold water faucet on the outdoor show turned out to have a crack in it and was leaking. So a replacement unit has been ordered.

To follow up on the Oxygenics issue. I opened the warranty case with them yesterday and provided my proof of purchase along with a couple of pictures of the broken connector. They contacted me this morning regarding replacement of the broken unit. Since it is older than 30 days they will send me a replacement unit for a $9.95 shipping fee. So that is on it's way and should arrive by the end of the week. Excellent customer service.

[Loaded-N-Rollin']

Installed the stinky slinky carrier on '23 Seismic 359. Surprised it didn't come with one.

[SmokerBill]

Let my son know that he could use my trailer any time he wanted to take his family camping, since my camping days are pretty much over, I think. I bought eight little fluffy chicks last week, and have a lot going on with my garden, so I won't have much time for enjoying the RV life. And that's ok, since I pretty much got all the RVing out of my system living in my trailer full time for 7 or 8 years.

[jetlag]

Originally Posted by SmokerBill

Let my son know that he could use my trailer any time he wanted to take his family camping, since my camping days are pretty much over, I think. I bought eight little fluffy chicks last week, and have a lot going on with my garden, so I won't have much time for enjoying the RV life. And that's ok, since I pretty much got all the RVing out of my system living in my trailer full time for 7 or 8 years.

Funny, we got done with the chickens and turkeys years ago. At one time we had 46 if I remember correctly. We do grow a good size garden though, have pepper and tomato seedlings coming up in the greenhouse. We planned not to travel, July and August, as that is when most of the crops are ready for harvesting.

[norty1]

I emptied my dehumidifier!