Garry |
10-24-2014 07:05 PM |
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Originally Posted by sam
(Post 23273)
Spent three small sessions getting the HiLo ready to be towed out for inspection. Had to remove the cover. Part of it had shifted and was frozen slightly in the ice. Next year we will stake down the drivers side of the tarp. Next the battery was reinstalled and then the tires pumped up to the correct tire pressure. The next day it was towed to Dunn tire for five new tires. We had to order them in and defeniately had to pay a stimulation price to boost up the economy. The last tires were put on in 2008 and cost two hundred and some dollars. Yuck!! inflation. Cheaper than a blowout!!!! The HiLo was shiny and oh so clean until we towed it out our dealer for inspection. The inspection was only $6.00. It cost more in gas to get there. No work was needed. All registered and ready for camping. Waiting for Friday when the weather will be a balmy 50 degrees. I will wipe down the exterior and recover. Sunday I brought DD to work at HD and decided it was time to order new 1" aluminum blinds as they were on sale at 20% off. I did all the research for this in the fall. Ended up going to the HiLo(parked off site) and raising it up to decide how many inches for the wands and a few other details. Called our sales person up with the changes. Sure was cold in the HiLo 20 degrees. Felt so good to be back inside our expensive hobby!! The blinds should be coming in about two weeks. Worst case we take our noisy generator over and run the furnace and get the blinds installed. Something to look forward to after my April 11th major surgery. The blinds only come in room darkening. Hoping this will be okay. The old blinds lost a lot of their coating when we washed them. I will post pictures when they are installed. What did you get for your RV today?
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Returning on 5 October from our 4 week camping trip, there were a number of repairs and improvements that need to be done before putting our sleeping beauty back to bed. In the time that it took me to complete the repairs, a number of you could have completed a full refurb! First thing to work on was the water heater, which started leaking when we were dry camping south of Ouray, Colorado. We did not have any leaks with the tank itself, just with the plumbing to the tank, but those repairs, which were started on the 12th, weren’t completed until the 18th. With a continued drought here in sunny California, I did give sleeping beauty a sponge bath and after she was dry I climbed on the roof and cleaned all the sealing tape around the vents and such and followed up with self leveling Dicor along all edges of the tape. While I was on the roof I noticed the vent lids on both the kitchen and bathroom were cracked so I replaced those today. On 3 October, just east of Tucson, we lost the tread on one of the trailer tires and I called AAA to change the tire, with the worthless tire throw into the back of our truck. After completing a few of the afore mentioned repairs, I realized there wasn’t any way this senior citizen could get the new spare back in place...under the trailer and secured with two bolts....so, since I had a hitch receiver on the back of the trailer (not heavy duty) I ordered a spare tire carrier that I could slide into the hitch receiver. I also cleaned all of the old caulking (squeeze out) from around all of the windows and re-caulked around the windows with a silicone caulk. On the front window guard, one of the wing nuts to hold the window guard up could not be tightened to secure the sliding bracket, so I had to drill out the rivet at the top of the bracket and then remove the screws holding the bottom part of the bracket. I removed the small bolt and epoxied a new bolt in place and re assembled today. The sleeping beauty has now been put back to bed. Winterizing? Nah, this is Southern California and so far climate change isn’t so severe that we have to worry about a freeze.:)
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