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I noticed that the category for tow vehicles has been removed and I think it would be good to have a place to post some of the most common problems we have with some of our trucks. Like this week I had to change the petcock at the water separator on the old 7.3 psd. When you start dripping...

I have a 2000 7.3 psd and it was set up with the tow package and I still had to add the relay in the fuse and relay holder box under the hood. The way to check if it is charging is to take a a VOM and check at the trailer plug coming out of the back of the truck. I guess you could check across...

That link is very informative and I bookmarked it to save it. I did notice that it does tend to--assume- a lot though. Like telling people that their tow vehicle will charge the house batteries. I thought the Ford was charging the house battery at first and then found out that I needed a relay...

WOW! 50 amps on each leg. I guess I can really use a lot more than I did when I was using the 30 amp service. Thanks-- Tom

We usually run off of the 30 amp cord but I had to plug in the 50 amp cord today. I went to Camping world and bought a Surge Guard 34750 and I think it is operating properly but not sure because the instructions are kind of confusing. Do any of you know if the--caution when flashing light-- is...

Okay! Thanks, That is what I thought but I wasn't sure. Mary was just worried that we needed to buy more propane already. I think the indicator on one side of the regulator is supposed to change to red when that tank is empty. I keep running off of the one side and try to keep the other tank as...

The furnace ran all night last night so I checked the propane tanks today and the one we were running off of had frost about 3/4 of the way up. Does this mean that the tank is 3/4 full or 3/4 empty? Thanks Tom

I took the screws out of the front of the trim on the fridge and pulled it out enough that I could get at the hose and replace it. I rested the front of the fridge on a garden stool with catalogs built up enough to balance the fridge on. The fridge will balance pretty easy on a stool if the door...

Thanks Neil! Somebody told me that lacquer thinner on a rag will work better than the spray cleaner for getting the chalk off too. I think the spray cleaner evaporates too quickly and by the time I wiped it with the rag it didn't pick up all of the chalk. The next time I will try some different...

My wife and I both tow the Bighorn. One thing we do a lot is fill up with fuel in the evening after we stop and unhook the fifth wheel. That saves us about half of our stops where we are looking for a diesel pump that we can get to. We ask for pull through sites if we can get them at the...

It is 51*-53* on the roof today-infrared thermometer- so I decided to do an the area along the edge of the roof where it tends to scuff on the low branches. I cleaned it with the eternabond cleaner and then stuck it down. Some stuck but some picked up the chalk from the rubber roof and didn't...

Congratulations Mom and Dad. Looks like you have a good one there. Hope to see you at some rallies. Tom and Mary

Thanks! Dave, I will look around the area and see if I can find a kit. Tom

While getting ready to wash the roof I found a small three corner rip in the rubber on the radius where the roof comes over. I looked up Eterna Bond products and found Roof Seal tape, Roof seal plus for deeper damage , Eterna cleaner and Eterna Primer. Do I need the cleaner and primer or would a...

I picked up an old Honda 2200X generator cheap and got it running. I just wondered if it is worth hauling around. It is rated for 16.7 continuous amps and has two 110v outlets. I see by the 09 Bighorn owners manual that the roof A/C and the microwave draw 15 amps each the charger takes 14 amps...

Every year I take a piece of wire and stir the sediment up and as the water drains out the sediment just washes out with it. I might be doing it wrong but there just seems to be about the same amount of sediment in there the next year. Like somebody said if the drain was all the way at the...

Thanks for all of the advice. It gives me more ideas of how to get down there. We found out we can take I-57 to I-55 and it goes all the way down to I-12 and we could go across I-10 and stay on expressways all the way until we get to the Houston area. The first time I saw the map showing Dallas...

It looks like we have to take I-35 from OK City to Dallas then I-45 to Houston. What is the easiest way to make the connection to I-45 and any suggestions on RV parks with easy access to the VA hospital on Holcombe Blvd.? We are usually Snowbirds in Fl. but this year we might have to be Winter...

Chuck- I would think that the check valve would be on the filler side of the lines so that it would keep the hot water from returning through the cold water line that is supplying the water heater. I would also think that the other line from the water heater would be for the hot water lines...

Com-Ed is sending 700 workers from Chicago to help with recovery after the storm. They left yesterday and are supposed to stop short before they get to the worst of what is predicted. I guess by now everybody knows that this is supposed to be a real super storm with huge amounts of damage in...

If any of you think that RV and Marine antifreeze is to be used in the engine of the rv or boat then why wouldn't it just be labeled antifreeze or engine antifreeze. I just don't buy the fact that Walmart didn't make a mistake that could be deadly to the consumer. Yes the poison type of...

NO! It says on the label that the SUPER TECH from WALMART is not to be ingested and if it is to contact the poison control center. I took mine back and tried to tell them that they should only sell nontoxic antifreeze for RV and Marine antifreeze. From the response I got it made me feel like...

I bought some RV and Marine antifreeze from Walmart last night and looked at the label and it says "do not ingest-call poison control if ingested. This stuff is POISON so I thought I would warn others who are winterizing to read the label. The antifreeze I had before said that it was nontoxic...

We had a leak in our air mattress in the fold out too and we called Flair interiors, the people who supplied the air mattress in our Bighorn. They had a new one sent to the RV park office in a couple of days. We shipped the old one back in the same box. They sent instructions on how to fold the...

If you are tripping breakers that should tell you that you are trying to run too many things at a time. The things that use the most amperage are the-air conditioner, the microwave, any heaters-like the water heater on electric mode or room heaters or the fireplace. As long as you don't use more...

Thank You! Ken and Kathy and everybody who helped make the rally so much fun. It was great getting to see and talk to everybody. Mary and I had a wonderful time. Tom

I think I got my Totally Awesome at the Dollar Tree store. I don't mean to split hairs I just thought it might make it easier to find. Tom

I have the same set-up in the 09 Bighorn and the one nearest the hallway is the light and the other two are for the bedroom speakers. I had a bad switch for one of the speakers and Heartland sent me a replacement.

Still trying to download pictures of Mike with the firewood and Jon with the lighter fluid. Tom

A few pictures of the morning people and the dogs. Mike loads the fire wood in to the pit and we start smoking out Bill and Barb's Big Country. Jon brings the charcoal lighter and says "What smoke". Tom

I thought I would explain how I got the centering plate back into position. There is a hand crank that came with the bighorn hanging on the wall of the storage compartment and it fit the end of the shaft inside the landing leg. I figured out which direction I would have to crank to get the...

Yes the U-tabs must hold that plate all the way up for the gears to mesh. I had to crank the shaft until I forced the plate back up into place and then I bent the tabs in to hold it all the way up. Mine happened because I over traveled the landing gear. Tom

I wonder if you might have had what we call a brown out or some other quick interruption of the electric service and now it is trying to go back into the electric mode. I have the dometic but wondered if it might work basically the same. If it does, when you get an error code you have to reset...

Re: Oven igniter I'm glad to hear that somebody got theirs working properly. I added the electric ignition on mine too but with mine the pilot thermocouple has to be heated before it will release enough gas to ignite. I have to basically light it with a torch to start with and then it won't...

Re: You better check it out One time we stopped at a quick oil change place to JUST have the oil changed. They wanted to do everything except what I told them I wanted done--change trans fluid etc.. After leaving there and while waiting for the wife at the eye doctors, I raised the hood and...

I think it would be great if they put the good tires on from the factory too. Some people argue that it would drive the original price of the unit up and when people are comparison shopping they would buy a cheaper unit. I think it would be such a savings for the buyer to not have to pay for the...

I always change my filters out on the Ford diesel but I read somewhere that the air filters work better if they aren't perfectly clean. I still don't plan on letting mine get very dirty. Tom

I tightened a few water lines on mine and considered that a minor issue. If I had known back in 09 I would have ordered the Bighorn with a few upgrades like the better tires but all and all I am real happy with it and every time I read where somebody has a problem with their unit I check to see...

When Cookie says to check the breakers and not just a visual. I know what he means -- You can hardly see by looking that these breakers are tripped. If you need to reset one you have to switch it off and then back on. They won't reset by just switching them the rest of the way on, without...

Re: Still swaying! When I had a pull trailer I pulled it with a PULL-RITE hitch and sometimes I would forget the trailer was back there. The pull-rite hitch is designed to pull the sway out because the pull point is on a swivel at a point under the truck. Almost like a pivot point for the fifth...