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2008 Heartland Big Country 3250TS Triple slide, brand new set of Michelin tires, aluminum rims, A/C, awning, external shower, crank down rear stabilizer jacks, porcelain toilet and sink, 27" flatpanel TV, antenna, ladder, microwave, oven, stove, thermal pane windows, washer/dryer prep, water...

It's disassembled and packed up in the storage compartment.

Yay, the Michelins are installed!!! Made in the UK! No more China bombs other than the spare. Next to the thick walled Michelins, the Missions looked like cardboard cutouts.

Haha, they sure are mounted as intended. There are 4 vents on the roof, two of which are now equipped with a cyclone.

Here you go: Perhaps I'm wrong as to what the front vent is venting, but it sure is the stinkiest vent. I still don't know which tank the washer hookup is draining into. Basically the two cyclone vents are now on the two worst smelling vents and I still had no problem since. Temperatures have...

I just wanted to post a quick update on this issue. Changing the anti-siphon valve made no difference whatsoever. So I installed a Cyclone vent for the kitchen gray tank which also did not make much difference. But as I did this I noticed that the black water vent is actually at the front of...

I read a few threads about the Marathons on this forum with some people not being very happy with them. It appears they are just another set of China bombs with a brand name on it, so I do prefer the Michelin option.

I'm ready to pull the trigger on these new tires. The Goodyear 614 are certainly outside of my price range. I do not want to remove my shocks, so the 265 Michelin are a no-go. So I am considering the Michelin XPS RIB LT235/85R16, Load Rating E, Max Load 3042 pounds at 80psi. Is that sufficient...

I was in Surf City, north of Wilmington on 'Lanier's Campground'. Surf City is beautiful, great beach and very residential, no tourist chaos. It was probably my favorite place on this trip. The campground is pretty nice for being near a beach town, but the sites are a bit small and it's pricey.

The snow in TX in late March came a bit of a surprise. I don't have any immediate new plans yet, I'm back on my home campground in Scottsdale, AZ for a while. The next trip will be north to Wyoming and Montana, but probably not until next year.

Here are a few random photos of my life in the Big Country trailer. I hope you enjoy them. Matthias Moving out of the stick house in July '08: Shakedown trip: I survived and didn't hit any trees: Adventures across the beautiful U.S.A.: NM: TX: KS: AL: NC: "All America lies at the...

Thanks for the reference, very interesting indeed! I think I need to come to this forum more often and read more of the discussions. I just looked under my trailer to see how this all looks and I noticed one shock lost the rubber mount and jumped from its lower connector. It sounds like the...

Thank you all for the responses! I had the trailer on the scale with all my stuff in it and it is at 13000 total, with 10400 pounds of that on the axles, so I should be good. SouthernNights, was there any modification required to overcome the clearance problem?

I have a 3250TS, GVWR 14k pounds. 6k per axle, I believe.

Hi, I had a china bomb go off on me on my trip back home from Toronto a month ago. For my next trip I would like to replace all tires with a quality brand. Is there a consensus here what brand and type of tire is the most reliable for the BC? Thanks, Matthias