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I woke up this morning and the temperature was only 71* and the furnace was set for 75*. I checked the regulator on the lp bottles and the dot in the middle was red and the arrow was pointing to the right. Both tanks valves were open. So I figured I must be out of gas. I took the strap off of...

The best thing I have found for breaking down the solids is liquid laundry detergent. I put some detergent in right after I am finished dumping and washing the tank. I always use a section of clear fitting on the drain ahead of the hose and run the tank washer for quite awhile sometimes I will...

Did the extra 60 HP come from the work on the transmission or was that from chipping the engine or something? I have thought about chipping ours but when I figure the fuel savings from the chip compared to how long it would take to repay the work done I have stayed with the stock. I did install...

We have never had a problem with a Dometic in our travel trailer or the fifth wheel and I do know that it is pretty common to just replace the cooling unit on the back of them. I think the most common problem with them is when you see the yellow stain at the bottom of the coils it means you are...

I just replaced the first bulb in mine today. I knew something was wrong when it wouldn't come on when I just flipped the switch once. The bulb was tinted black but I couldn't see any break in the filament but it comes on right away with the new bulb. I have the old type fixture so my bulb is a...

She wanted an oil filled radiator heater so we bought one and set it up in the living room. Then she decided that it didn't put out enough heat so she shut it off and unplugged it. Then she turned the ceramic heater back on. She left the radiator heater sitting a couple of feet in front of the...

Hi. Roy yes we plan on being here in site #73 if you can catch us at home come over and say Hi. I don't know if my p.m.s are getting sent or not because it doesn't show a confirmation that they are. Tom

I installed my own Smart Light motion sensor lights on both side of the 09 bighorn about 3 years ago. I had problems with mine coming on when the weather was warm. I think they sense body heat or something. I sent the first set back and told them they weren't sensitive enough to come on without...

I propped a wireless thermometer up against the bottom of the wall in the UDC this morning and it is reading 38* so it looks like I'm getting some heat in there. The water that I left dripping is still dripping this morning and I plan on buying some bigger diameter foam pipe insulators later...

We left San Antonio yesterday and stopped at Ardmore Ok. for the night. The guy running the place said what we need is a heated hose or we could let the water drip all night. When we got up this morning the water wasn't dripping anymore and it was froze up outside. I went to the office and told...

On mine I point the green dot end towards one bottle first and open the valves on both. When the first bottle is empty the dot in the middle of the regulator will turn red, that way I know the first bottle is empty. I turn the green dot end of the regulator towards bottle number two and close...

When we changed the ceiling lights out for the cool white LEDs we got a lot brighter whiter light instead of the dim yellow light from the old bulbs. I am hoping that the ones above the couch will be the same way. Tom

I found the cool white LEDs on EBay and they were a lot cheaper than the others listed. The funny thing about the ones that come from Hong Kong is that they look like they are manufactured by the same people that the local folks are selling but minus the huge mark up and the higher shipping...

One of the light bulbs above the couch burnt out and it looks like they have to be ordered from somewhere. So I wondered if anybody has found them in a cool white LED. The cool white LEDs I have in the ceiling fixtures put out the kind of light that we like. Thanks! Tom

When I set up my hitch for the Bighorn I measured the distance from the pin to the bottom of the overhang on the front of the fifth wheel. Then I measured how high I would need to set the hitch for the clearance I wanted above the bed rails. When I hitched up the clearance between the bed rails...

I had to add a relay in the under the hood fuse box on my Ford. It is a black cube with a couple of spade connectors that plug right in. Tom

I haven't had time to read all of the comments so I might be beating a dead horse but here goes. We tow the 09 BH 3370RL with a 2000 F350 PSD SRW. I haven't heard of anybody having a problem towing with a diesel that is running right but the weakest link on ours is the single rear wheels. If you...

Wow sounds like you stayed up there until the cheese nearly froze this year. We are at Houston but we will be heading over to San Antonio tomorrow. Mary wants to see some of Texas before we have to make a trip up to Missouri to help our son and his wife move. This will be the first towing since...

Just get situated in the site and lay the leveling boards outside of where the tires contact the ground. Then back up or pull forward enough to be able to scoot the levelers over in line with the path of your tires. Then pull up or back up onto the levelers. I carry two sets of the Lynx levelers...

Hope she is going to be okay. We rented an rv one time and the owner had replaced the gas water heater with an electric one and installed the wrong kind of fittings on the end of the gas line. The first time my wife tried cooking in it it blew up like a bomb and if we hadn't had the outside...

I thought the noise was coming from the furnace but when I finally pinned it down it was coming from the propane tanks. This is the first time I have actually let the primary tank run out of propane. I was looking for the green dot on the side towards the tank to turn red. I just thought that I...

I don't know if mine would work on just the 110V or not, never needed to, but I do know that they will work with just the 12V because I have run them in and out with it before. If you need to get to something inside while you are travelling you can just turn the thumb screws shut on the slides...

I thought the electrode would be called an ignitor so that's what I looked up. They did call it an electrode--Suburban RV Furnace Heater Electrode-230956- on Ebay for $12.19 plus $2.29 shipping from -Any RV Parts store. It has a loop on one side and has a prong for the spark to jump between on...

The way the wind has been gusting today we are getting used to it rattling the slide covers but just now we had one that sounded like it was trying to rip the slide cover off. Just wondering if anybody has had any damage done to the slide covers from the wind? Tom

Thanks! I went out this morning and reset the breaker on the pedestal. As it was counting up the seconds to restart I got to thinking that maybe I should have left well enough alone. Half the power would be better than if it didn't kick on at all. Then it kicked on and has been reading normally...

Hi. First let me wish you a Merry Christmas. I was outside a few minutes ago and happened to notice that the surge guard had a blinking red light on it and the readouts said RV ON L1 123V Then it said L1 123V 3A L2 LOW We are using very little electric right now because it is 65* and...

I keep a 9" plastic level just inside the door so that all I have to do is reach inside and off to one side to get it. I check the floor just inside the door until I get it close enough for all reasonable purposes. After you do this for awhile you will learn to leave the front a little high so...

We stayed just south of the canal at the town of Okeechobee in an RV Park a few years ago. Shortly before they decided to shut down the sugar cane production to save water for the Everglades. At that time the lake was about ten feet low on water. We had fun there and the people there were real...

Your emergency brake cable didn't come unplugged while you were moving over did it? That will lock your brakes up and would make removing the shoes very difficult and should make moving the trailer around more difficult too. I always back off the star wheel before I remove the castle nut and...

I am drilling a hole in the side of the bedsaver for an eyebolt and will use a double ended dog leash snap on the end so I will be able to snap it on farther back. This should give me plenty of extra length if needed and put it far enough behind the hitch to keep it from getting snagged on the...

I was trying to back into our site down here at Houston yesterday and I had the Bighorn going the right way but for some reason it just did not want to cooperate. So I did everything I could think of including pulling up and backing from the other side. That's when one of the guys watching me...

That looks like it must be a common problem. I don't think I had the same problem but mine did seem to be weak as far as blowing the cooled air out the ducts until I blocked off the ends of the ducts that went past the ceiling vents and did like so many others did like taping up the extra gaps...

I made a mistake in the weight of the empty tank it is actually 23.5 pounds. A little backwards I guess. I didn't want anybody to wonder why their full tank weighed short.

The way I understand it the only way a gauge can show the real level of a propane in a tank is if it has a float that goes down inside the tank. The rest of the gauges only show that the tank is empty. They might say full and empty but they won't show the level of gas in the tank. The strip that...

I am already thinking that a portable motion sensor light clamped to the ladder in the back could be switched on from inside if it were plugged in at the awning receptacle. Aimed down and if it were not real bright it shouldn't bother other campers.

Thanks! I have the Reese 18K too. I did wonder about my bolts that hold it down today while towing through the mountains of Arkansas. I will check those welds too when we get to Houston tomorrow. Thanks- Tom

Thanks Ray! I dug out the 50 amp cord and start using it in place of the 30 amp cord so we are running an electric heater and the fireplace and the truck heater all at the same time when needed. The weather warmed up real nicely today and so I quit using the engine heater and dewinterized the...

I started thinking that it might be a good idea if we had a front and back light on the Bighorn. I have the motion sensor porch light and another on the other side in place of the scare light but wondered if anybody have added anything to the front and back of the fifth wheels to light those...

Thanks Capt. I will have to check that out the next time I get behind the basement wall for something. I did some major rerouting on my duct work to get the heat where we wanted it in the 09 bighorn-less in the bedroom--more in the livingroom, but I never checked how much heat would build up...