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    Major project?

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    Believe me, if I had my way, I would take a tent anytime! That's how we did it when I was a kid. But his Dad hates tents (everytime we did camp in a tent, it rained!) and, believe it or not, my 10 year old BOY absolutely hates bugs and he's afraid something will crawl over him when he's sleeping.

    I'd even take a pop-up, but we have no truck & we have 2 dogs (1 a husky) we'd like to take with us on occassion. So, to comprimise, I thought an RV would be the way to go. I think the Toys out there are awesome &, I hate to use this word, but; cute!

    What do you guys think of the 4 cylinders? If I hear all of you say your not too keen on 4 cylinders, I guess I'm going to have to be satisfied with an american winnebago or some other american made motored RV. And hope someday my finances will allow me to trade in my not so great american made motor for a redone Toy.

    Derek up North, wanna fix this one for me? I'm in Pennsylvania and would be more than happy to bring you a new project. I'll even throw in a case of beer.... ;

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    I love my 4 cylinder it has fuel injection and Overdrive and it climbs hills just fine I am not sure about a mountain but I am going to find out when I go to Arizona from what I understand keeping the tank topped with fuel really helps on a lot of them , I realize this is not always possible but when I think of 18 miles to the gallon versus 6 in some other MH I can handle it just fine.

    I Finally bought one!

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    Yep, the ACs are notorious for leaking. With time, the load of the AC unit makes the roof deflect toward the AC so that you actually have standing water right on the gasket. Even when it's not raining, the condensation will pond under the unit, against the gasket. That gasket can keep out wind driven rain, but it was NOT made to be stop infiltation of ponding water.

    So here's what I did...

    When I reroofed mine with Peel & Seal, I cut out a spacer from 1" thick high density foam roof insulation (it's the stuff they put under rubber roofs). Dimensions were 14"x14" inside and 18"x18" outside. With the new roof freshly applied, I screwed that spacer down and applied a layer of Peel & Seal over it, rolling it in good with a rubber roofing seam roller and applying heat with a heat gun, and extending the seal 6" out away from the outter edge of the spacer.

    So that made a 1" high curb which the AC unit sets on. Water will never be 1" deep on the roof, so the gasket will never see ponding water.

    Great ideas thanks, bodybagger

    You can install a similar curb for your AC using rubber and roofing adhesive and that will probably help you out tremendously.

    The other thing I am going to do is install a pair of condensate drain lines under the AC evaporator that lead over the right and left edges, resectively, of the roof. Probably a 3/8" vinyl tube.

    I Finally bought one!

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    Roof leaking despite a new rubber roof put on not long ago. looks like around air conditioner to me, half fast remodeling attempt done to interior but I still love it , I can't wait to get it the way I want. I have been looking for a couple of years and just never found one I liked enough things about to buy. I Look forward to talking with folks on here and seeing some of your ideas. First thing I am looking for is instructions on stove fridge furnace wiring etc . Can someone please hook me up with that info? thanks in advance

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