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  1. Wood? Wow. I'd be very wary of that. On the other hand, if your travels take you on only smooth paved roads, it could last a long time. Hard to say 😉 Our little RV was really put to the test with hundreds of miles of unpaved and pot hole strewn roads.
  2. Hi, I just answered on our blog too 🙂 Sorry you're having problems! We removed as much weight as possible from the back of the rig. Including spare tires and carrier. We took everything inside. Kind of a pain to live like that, but the alternative is worse. We made it back to St. Augustine without making it too much worse. We have a great friend/mechanic who turned us on to a welder. You could also try strengthening it with thick metal plates bolted to the weak buckled part of the frame. Welding is tricky with the propane right there. Try to find a machine shop and explain what's going on and see if they can make you some plates to bolt on. You can straighten the buckled areas by jacking up the back end of the RV. Maybe jack it up a few times and/or let it sit. The weight of the RV should straighten the frame out. Good luck! Sorry, no photos
  3. We wrote about it in our blog: Finding Tires for a 1991 Toyota Winnebago
  4. You can find them on Amazon: Hankook Vantra RA18- 185R14 102R 8 Ply
  5. Hi, you're plan sounds great! We actually did have some issues with the weight on our bumper and on the back tow hitch. We carried 2 spare tires and after maybe 8K miles, with a lot of bumpy unpaved roads, our bumper was almost completely "ripped" off of the RV. We posted about that incident and our repair on our blog you found. ALSO, we discovered that our cargo carrier acted as a lever of sorts and damaged the back of our RV. Basically, the Toyota chassis ends a foot or so behind the rear wheels. Winnebago extended the chassis a few feet with inferior materials. Right at the joint where the Toyota part ends and the Winnebago begins, it buckled. On both sides. Yep, the two beams on either side extending beyond the rear wheels, bent from the weight and lever action of the cargo carrier. We discovered this after prob 12K miles or so? We were on our way back and I think in Tennessee? Adam realized the back of the RV was sagging dangerously. We took the spare tires off the back bumper and removed the cargo carrier and stowed it and it's contents inside for the rest of the way back. We carried 2 folding chairs, our telescoping ladder (20lbs?) and our little folding stainless grill (15lbs?) and a big rubbermaid storage bin (40lbs?). For some of our remote driving, we also carried 2 X 6 gallon jugs of gasoline. It didn't seem like much, but I guess it was. We only recently got it fixed by straightening the areas that were buckled and welding supports to reinforce those areas. If you plan on weight on the tow hitch, welding supports and beefing up the rear beams is not a bad idea before hand, especially that area where Toyota stops and Winnebago begins. Cheers! and safe travels
  6. Thanks so much! That's a great idea to remove weight. That extra bed weighs a lot. We wished we had time to do more cosmetic work on the exterior, but we didn't have time before we took our Arctic trip. We plan on focusing on the outside of the motorhome now that we have more time. Good luck to you!
  7. Also, thank you Linda for your kind words! We found that in the mountains the overdrive was making the trans work too hard, for example, the trans would down shift abruptly going up hill. We felt it was a little easier on the trans to not engage the overdrive and to try to anticipate going up hill. As in we build up speed going downhill in anticipation of the next hill, stuff like that. Overdrive is great on straight flat highway.
  8. I believe we inflated them to 60psi. 65 psi is actually written on the tires. A tire shop guy suggested 60psi and it made a huge difference in driving stability, ie when a big truck passes in the other direction on a 2 lane highway. The RV is much much easier to handle and doesn't tend to sort of swerve in the sudden gust. Same in heavy wind. The higher psi was very noticeable and very welcome. Our RV says to inflate to 55psi. Hope that helps someone.:-)
  9. My boyfriend and I bought a 91 back in January of 2018. We had extensive mechanical work done due to the open recall. It was at the Toyota dealer for a month. Then, when we finally got it back we started on our own remodeling and refurbishing, including adding solar. Check out our blog using the link below, I hope this helps some of you out there: 1991 Toyota Winnebago We ended up just about completely replacing all of the old leaky plumbing with PEX. We added 8 (!) 12v outlets, rebuilt the shower enclosure and rebuilt the over cab area. So far, we love our little Winnebago. We're in Alaska right now. It's July, and it's cold and rainy. We're perfectly comfy and cozy and loving our motorhome. A couple of things: We inflated the tires to the tire manufacturer's recommendation, NOT what Toyota recommends. Rides SO MUCH BETTER! We do NOT use the over drive feature. We are a little slow getting up mountains, but we're doing fine. We're getting about 10-12 miles/ gallon in the mountains (Canadian Rockies) and around 15 miles/gallon on flat roads. Going down long steep grades, we shift to "2" to let the engine help slow us down.
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