Don,
Good to hear from you, sounds like a great trip planned. We missed the wyoming rally because my old truck was in the shop and it took a few weeks for the dealer to figure out what was wrong, kind of bummed. Was looking forward to it. Maybe next year....
New truck is nice, will be towing this tuesday for the first time so kind of curious to see how it does stock, i have a tuner on the way along with an intake and dpf back exhaust, i wanted to get everythng installed before we take off but had the exhaust on backorder so stock is goinv tonhave to do for now.
I took our shower surround off, cleaned everything and tried to reseal, i have used the shower twice and so far it seems to be working but the rv is level or slightly to the left so no water sitting or running along the surround, we'll see if i fixed it this coming week, there was alot of silicone used at the factory suprisingly so i don't know why or where the water is coming from unless its leaking from behind and under the inside surround, i took the door surround off is all, water was coming from the front side corner, looked liked maybe from under the white plastic or fiberglass, if thats the case i'll let the dealer tear it apart.
We still need to get back in and get the rest of the warrenty work done from the first trip in, and should have while we have been sitting at home. Are you talking the shear pin on the electric motor that runs jacks up and down?? That would be an easy repair, just need a rill pin punch to remove he broken pieces and install a new pin in its place, that is a new one for me to hear of but i plan on hauling a punch and extra pin now. How are you running leveling jacks down now?? Front has a spot for manualy raising and lowering but i can't find or see any access to the rear to do that. Sorry for you, sounds like a pain. So far we have only had minor issues and the dealer was on the spot for repairing what they could, parts were the only reason they couldn't finish. I need a new hitch cover and fender flares now for ours, they cracked in a few spots so hope those don't take months to get replaced. I drilled a hole at the top of the crack on the hitch cover, should stop it from further damage.
Since we bought the Gateway last november we have been able to use it 6 out of the last 8 months, missed may because of the truck, should have used it in jne but have been busy with our house and property. Will be.on the road july, august maybe sept and november and then winterize.
I would hope by now anything that is going to go wrong has and no more issues, tires look good still and have several thousand miles on em, i think if the pressure is correct they will be fine, i have read horror stories on them so still a little leary but as i said so far so good, my dealer has laser for alignment and after we came home from spokane last trip we were definatly heavy, probably overloaded if truth be told so if anything was going to shift i would think it has, i plan on keeping a close eye this trip to see if any odd wear occures, roads will be alot hotter as well from previous trips, just another reason to keep an eye on em. Will let everyone know if i see any problems.
New truck has General tires on it, never heard of em but planned on running till they need replaced, i'm surre they aren't the best but if i get 25-30k out of em i'll be fine with that. I ran Yokohama AT's on the old truck and they were great, first set got 57k out kf a 50k tire, and we had 35k on the second set when i traded off the truck. We had great luck with them. Don't like the idea of buying 6 tires instead of 4 when its time to replace but with what i paid for the truck i saved ennough over the cost of a 2014 to cover several sets replaced.
Not sure on biodiesel, haven't seen it around here, still dealing with the def for the first time, so far its less than a penny a mile for that additive so not as bad as i though it would be.
Good luck on your trip, safe travels.
Marcus, Shelki and pretty boy Floyd
