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If room is a problem for the coach battery, the size 29 is only 1/4 inch longer than the size 27 and has much more capacity.

I used the recommended PARALLAX 7345RU upgrade kit. It's an easy retrofit. Cost is about $200 I stated before that about 18 battery brands are made by the same manufacturer. I bought mine in Wally World. Theirs is the same as the high priced brands and they gave the best warranty.

Wally World has the scissor jacks el cheapo. They're getting hard to find.

I had a Dolphin with the horizontal removable tank and it was a 7 1/2 gallon. Same size as the chassis mounts.

Back in the old days, that was a sign that some of the chemical condensed as a solid in the coils due to improper leveling. Once formed, they never go back to gas or liquid. What was done was to drill holes in the bottom of the freezer to let cool air in to the firdge area. Do the coils in the upper back of the bottom fridge get cold? They should have ice form on them.

Sounds like the parts store from oooo. Did you have to hold your hands in the air while they rifled your wallet? They're only sold as a set of two. There are some from Hellwig brand that are expensive, but that's not what we're talking about. Knechts here in Oregon wants $39.99. Autozone sometimes carries them. I'm sure others do.

A gallon of propane has 96,000 BTU s per gallon. If I remember correctly the average RV fridge uses about 1,000 BTU s /hour. Our seven gallon tanks should last over a month. If you install a small computer fan to vent the coils in the rear, they're much more efficient.

Sorry, I have "old timers disease" and can't remember what premium brand. It was over 16 years ago. There is something I remember. I noticed the pulleys were highly glazed so I burnished them which helped. I also remember buying a belt that was a monkey hair wider.

You're right about volts time amps. However, there's another problem with motors. They draw two to three times the power to start. You would need an inverter with enough peak or surge capacity. By the way I went from the standard size 27 to a size 29 deep cycle. It's only 1/4 inch longer but substantially more power.

This brings back memories of my first toyhome which was a four cylinder. I marked the position of the pulley. It was definitely the belt stretching. I finally bought an ultra premium belt. That seemed to help. I often wondered if the belt was too narrow. If I didn't sell it I would have changed to wider pulleys and belts. My next four cylinder and my six didn't have that problem. .

I used the full length 2,000 # leaf boosters made by Superior Automotive http://www.amazon.com/Superior-11-1040-Hel...3981265-5232361 They cost about $38 and go right over the shackle. Many auto stores carry them.

You won't see any serious elevations on the Oregon coast. There are many mini climates so if you do hit some cross wind, it won't be long before you're out of it. Head winds are a rarity. The road goes inland in a number of places. The first town Brookings is about 22 miles from Crescent City in CA. Brookings has two state camp grounds. http://www.oregontravels.com/brookings/cam..._brookings.html It's worth your time to go the 9 miles up the Chetco River to Loeb State Park. It's on the river. I'm planning a camping trip for the locals to there in the next few weeks. Just before the bridge on the north side of Lower Harbor road is a great fried fish place. It's about 100 miles to Coos Bay/North Bend, good size towns with a super Wally World if you need to stock up. Go west a few miles to Cape Arago. http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_94.php It's very nice and there's a state campground in Sunset Bay http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_100.php If you decide to bypass Brookings, Gold Beach about 25 miles north is the next nice place. It's where the Rogue River meets the ocean. It's about 50 miles from Brookings to my digs in Florence. Six miles south of here is the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. Go in there to the Waxmyrtle campground on the left. Try and get a site next to the Siltcoos River. There's trail leading to where the river meets the ocean. It's awesome. There's a jillion waysides, attractions and state and federal campgrounds on the coast. I would go to their sites and plan in advance. Any questions, feel free to contact me. Sunday May 17th is the Rhody days parade in Florence, one of the biggest in the north west. If that's your arrival date, your screwed. There isn't a square foot of camping available unless you want to plug in at my place. Enjoy

Those Ford style will not stick out far enough. Here's what I did for my first Toyota MH many moons ago. I bought a pair of the Ford mirrors and drilled a hole on the side of the bracket where it curves. I then moved the mirrors to the side so that they stuck out further. Actually, I use a short extender to bring it out farther. I placed those small paste on fish eye mirrors on the bottom of the large mirrors. The reason I did this was that I had a very narrow driveway and needed to fold the mirror to get in. The other reason was that I hit the old mirror and nearly tore the door off. One other setup I saw was from someone who mounted the mirrors hanging from the cab over. That worked pretty good also. He bolted flat bars sticking out from the cab over and attached the mirrors to those. The original setup is okay but if you need to fold the mirrors these work good.

Regular bleach is an oxidizer that uses chlorine. The color safe bleaches use hydrogen peroxide. Oxyclean is one of those. You can go to the dollar store and get a container of generic color safe bleach. It's usually SUN brand and has a little detergent in it. I assume that you have a shop vac to dry it with.

He didn't say why the refer died. Maybe it's something that be remedied. I remember when I first experienced the old spider nesting in the gas orifice problem. On the older ones that are sensitive to leveling, there's an old trick to reclaim them. You can't undo the hardened chemical in the coil but if the freezer is still working I've heard of drilling some holes in the bottom to let the cold in to the lower part. Have you actually seen the flame working???? Did you try it on 110vac?

You may have the old 120ac to 12dc inverter. They have a bad habit of boiling the coach battery. They also will not power things like a cell phone because their dc output is substandard and not well filtered. There is an upgrade kit called a parallax 7345RU. It's an easy conversion. http://rvpowerpartsplus.net/index.php?main...;products_id=17

There is an after market generic replacement with it's own brackets. If I remember correctly, it had a rubber bushing in place of the ball joint. I used one on my first Toyhome. It costs much less than the Toyota one. I'll tell you one thing though. The exact Toyota replacement is much better quality.

There was a National Traffic Safety Administration recall. Toyota sold the chassis in good faith but our American manufactures didn't tell them that they were going to overload them. The oversees manufacturers generally did not overload them. About 18 American manufacturers went out of business rather than make repairs. Toyota got stuck with supplying the upgraded axles for these motor homes. The axles were worth about $4,000 each in 1988 dollars. Toyota only charged for shipping which was about $70 back then. Toyota would not supply any more chassis to the American Manufacturers after getting burnt like that. There was one equivalent for a while after that which was even better than the Toyota. It was the Winnebago Vista http://www.rvweb.com/guides/manufacturers/...a-1085496777819 which was made until 2004. It had a 201 HP VW V6 engine. They have very high resale value. The Sprinter mounted MH started off good but now they're expensive overloaded monsters getting about 15 mpg. The first class Cs were smaller without slideouts and got about 19-21mpg

I don't know if your summers are humid or where you plan to travel to. On my first Toy that didn't have AC about 17 years ago I installed an evaporative roof cooler in the front roof vent. http://www.turbokool.com/ In that location I could vent it down on the cab while driving by sliding the matress insert forward. They use very little electricity. They will not work good in humid climates. They do use water so I take an extra six gallon jug along. My present Toy has regular dash and roof air but I installed an evaporative unit anyway for use in the desert. I can run it without a generator.

Ever listen to the Bert & I albums of down home Maine humor? I used to spend Xmases in Bangor and Bah Hahbah.

Download Irfanview http://download.cnet.com/IrfanView/3000-21...&tag=button It is a free viewer that is fast and small. It will allow you to re size pictures. Go to image, re size and change set new size to inches. Change the size to whatever you want. I would suggest save as a new name so that you don't lose original size.

Does that bring back memories. I used to own a 55 corvette (Ya, I know I never should have sold it). I wanted to go on a long vacation and didn't want to leave it alone at my house. I decided to leave it at work (SoCal) in the parking lot which was secured. There was a large wastewater plant next door which had sprayers going all the time. When I came back, I found the carpet had a beautiful thick layer of grass growing in it. I'm assuming that I tracked in grass seed or the wind carried it. The moisture from the sprayers probably incubated it. What I want to know is how come when you intentionally try and plant a lawn, it doesn't grow worth a darn?

I only use the inverter when I have no alternative like my microwave. Otherwise there are plenty of 12v devices. Here's some coffee pots. http://www.12voltaccessoryoutlet.com/catal...p?idCategory=67 One of my projects is going to be to make a 12v compressor roof air conditioner. They have them for semis in Europe. http://www.dcairco.com/DC4400.html I'm looking for a used roof unit to convert.

Here's a link to the towing laws. http://www.brakebuddy.com/Towing-Laws The remote brake requirement is as low as 1,000 pounds.

The chassis are all the same with a few twists. Dolphin seems to add more springs to the rear axle. Some add air bags. Sunrader air bags are premium. Winny's are junk. The coaches are the big difference. I have had a class A Winny and my 91 Toyota Winny. They both were consistent in shoddy construction, engineering and cheap material. Not that they aren't usable if you work them over some. Winny is obsessed with pressboard and staples for construction. For example, I took out all the drawers and hot glued them then refinished the fronts then melted wax on the bottoms to make them slide. My Dolphin was much better planned out and assembled. I have been really impressed with Sunrader for premium parts and engineering. Winny made the most of any Manufacturer. About 18 of them went out of business when the rear axle recall occurred. There's really not much to compare to the size and weight of the Toy homes. There were a few in that size made on the small Chevy and Nissan trucks. For a while Winny made some C classes called the Vista with a VW drive train and chassis that were pretty good. http://www.newrver.com/winnebagovista2002.html They had a better power to weight ratio than the Toyota's and slightly better gas mileage. They still have high resale value. I think they had some tow capacity. There's the Realto from Winny but they have a lot of problems and their interior layout is terrible. Their five cylinder model had overheating problems.