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jurob

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About jurob

  • Birthday 02/28/1972

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  • My Toyota Motorhome
    1987 Toyota Granville
  • Location
    VA

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  1. I've never used the propane in my Toyota. Decided to test the stove/oven and heater because I may need the heater and don't want to use the majority of my generator to run electric because we are going next week with out hook ups. I decided to top off the propane after all checked out. Note inside my tank door a note says to push red button hard if it will not fill, cap says pretty much the same thing. Well, it wouldn't fill and there was no red button. There is a thumb screw connected to the fill and once that opened and air was coming out it filled and took 4 gallons. Is that the proper way to fill by opening thumb screw to vent out air or? Tks
  2. Tks, I really appreciate it. Yes, to run the ac. I've only got 7100to btu and my honda can run pretty much the whole coach. Going down the road with both cab and coach it gets very comfortable for someone like me who hates to sweat.
  3. The coach battery charges when driving down the road with the alternator. My rig did not come with a gen so I added ones portable Honda to the back so that I could use it when going down the road. This may seem like a stupid question, but it's been bothering me. When driving with my cord plugged into my running gen, won't both alt and gen be charging the coach battery? Does it bypass one for the other or??? Hope this makes sense.
  4. I only have about 1500-2000 miles. I've never had anything else to compare it to other than the old tires that were originally on when I got it, but I have no complaints and no visible wear.
  5. 65 or so when its relatively flat. Most inclines drop it to below 60 and the long ones below 50. Getting 12 mpg with frequent downshifts to 3rd and occasional 2nd gear though Va and west Va. Can't wait till I'm out if the mountains. I get 17 mph at 55 on flat ground. Hoping for at least 15.
  6. I came up with 3900 4.10 rear, 25.6" tire, 1.45 2nd gear and 50 mph. Traveling in the mountains as speed starts plummeting to 50 in 3rd as you approach a long steep steep incline I drop to 2nd and was mostly able to hold 50 mph except one hill it dropped to 45 in 2nd. I'm very impressed with this Toyota! 3900-4k is ok? Doesn't overheat or burn oil.
  7. 22re automatic with 185r14 tires. 50 mph in second gear. Any education estimates?
  8. The company is legit and don't waste your money through eBay. I have a set of goforms on my granville and they are doing just fine. I paid $340ish shipped for 6 tires. I've also ordered other tires from them without issue.
  9. Nothing fancy like some projects people have done here. On the rear of my 86/87 Granville they made a tow hitch by welding the receiver square tubing to each rear frame rail then tying it together with another piece of square tubing and adding a mount for a ball in the middle. I had a warn winch receiver mount that I cut up and added 1/4" steel and then built a cage to lock into. I couldnt find a big enough plate of steel so i cut it in half to cover more area. I have not added the front and rear locks to the cage yet and may add a bar or two before I leave on my trip next Friday, but the gen will not be able to be removed once it's locked unless someone really wants it.. My goal is to be able to run the gen going down the road to power my small 7k btu roof air and also be secure if I am sleeping at a rest stop or wherever. I have not tested the gen to see if it will work going down the road yet. Plan is to use strap to secure the gen to the base and lock the cage on the base with two locks front and back and use a hitch lock to secure the base to the rv. Square tube welded to frame was drilled up and down so I drilled my base up and down to lock it in, luckily my buddy had a drill press. The cage wouldn't fit in the oven so it's only rattle canned. Didn't have black so we powder coated the base red. My only other option was yellow. The frame is made of angle iron which I welded tube steel to fall into the front holes and I added pipe to the rear for the rear tube steel to go into. I originally planned on drilling into each steel tube to lock the cage to the base, but now I drill through front angle iron and base and add a lock near the middle and then will add a tab to the rear to lock the back. Hope it works! It's no show piece, I'll update how it works going down the road once I am able to test.
  10. I'll let everyone know what happens. A couple years ago, the wife and I were meeting a jeep club in the George Washington National Forest. I was on 64w in a 4 cylinder wrangler going up Afton mountain which is a long steep stretch that I will be traveling to go to Illinois. It was 3-4 in the morning and I didn't know it was coming. Was going 65 or so in 5th then suddenly speed dropped and I kept downshifting till I was going 25 mph in 2nd and couldn't go any faster. I thought 2 pistons exploded or something. That stretch of road from there into w Virginia worries me. I'm sure I would have done much better had I been ready for the grade if I had seen it coming.
  11. http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/rvs/4564826146.html
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