Darryl&Rita

On a Trailer Saver, the hitch is welded to the pivot. As far as I know, Henry never did get a production run of Super Binkleys mounted to a Trailer Saver base, for us poor unfortunates. That may have changed, with the transfer of manufacturing that recently took place.

Old farmers never die, they just smell that way.

Anything is better than nothing. I use a similar tool to get grease into the bottom of the head. Between the pins being in single shear, and the inability to grease properly, the heads were designed as a wear item.

Gotcha. Thought you were still mid-trip.

Short answer, your hitch is done. The head, pins, and mounts all wear, then the pins walk out. I replaced the head, pins, and mounts with new metal. A local welding shop did the dirty work. There's been a few different rebuilds on the forum, but I don't remember who did them.

Local shop can make them quicker, price may be higher than EBay.

The problem with 24 volt thermostats is twofold. The 24 volt system is AC, while the RV is DC. The other problem is most RV systems don't have a ground reference wire at the thermostat location. The 2 wires are only a switched pair.

It wasn't what I expected to see, under there. I'm used to forged trailing arms, with bag mounts built in. This had stamped/welded arms, with a lot of afterthought pieces added last minute. I didn't measure, but the bag mounts seemed to be different distances from the front mount on each side.

Is how I could post this, but I won't. Recent guests had rear suspension issues on their motorhome. The drivers side trailing arm failed, letting the axle move around where it felt like being. This damaged the other side trailing arm, the suspension mounts, air bag mounts, and likely the universal joints, too. Trailing arms were sourced from 2 different US locations, suspension parts from others, air bags from another. It took almost a month to get everything gathered, with their insurance/road side assistance company taking decent care of them. I couldn't help but think that any truck suspension parts would have to be easier to source, even if using wrecking yard parts. Kenworth to the rescue! The owner and the towtruck swamper, using radios with the tow truck driver, steering around obstructions. Landoll waiting for the load.

Or powered by it's own on-board batteries. Opens up the field a lot.

Have a great 4th, everyone. Party safe.

Thanks, Rick and Dave. Living vicariously is still living.

Thanks, Barb. Back at you, in 3 days.

Phosphate is a fertilizer, and contributes to water quality problems. Septic systems don't care about phosphate levels, but the chemical enters the water cycle, eventually ending up in ponds and lakes.

With a little fiberglass to stiffen things up. Resin by itself isn't very stable as a repair.

Water clear. Might have a yellowish tint, depending on the condition of the pump moving it.

To wrap your head around, yes. Some guys like a colour coded picture, vs. the numbers in a spreadsheet. The initial work is the same, gathering measurements and weights, just the end result is different. PS: I like SolidWorks.

Propane will form a gas, until -44*. The rate of gas formation slows as the temps drop. The ways to counteract this slowing involves either a blanket and heat source, or a larger tank. A blanket, by itself, doesn't help a whole bunch. The tank in my pic has a lot more surface area to make gas off, than a typical RV bottle.

I only mentioned CAD because some guys can't deal with spreadsheets too well. SolidWorks, for example, gives a real world diagram of the truck, with weight vectors called out in different colours. Depending on how the parameters were entered, 1000 lbs can be represented by a green, orange, or red zone. Or 5000 lbs, or 10k. Of course, garbage in will give a garbage output, so the same numbers Jack is referring to, still need to be gathered with the same accuracy. ETA: SolidWorks also lets you change applied vectors quickly. Change trailers? Easy prediction how the new tounge will affect the truck. Add wind forces, with the click of a mouse. Too heavy on the front, move the fuel tanks a 1/16" at a time.

Follow the link.

Given the availability of the many CAD programs, and the drop in CAD developer's time, there's no reason to build "by guess and by golly". Facebook seems to gloss over this, in an attempt to portray builders as some kind of savant. It doesn't take long to learn the basics of any of the programs, to at least do a proof of concept on a design. A full, from scratch build can be fun to do, or can turn into an absolute mess. That's why programmers time can be a good investment. They have a whole filing cabinet of past projects to import data from, instead of running out to measure every time.

How has that trailer not sold? Easily the nicest trailer we've been in, in a while. Almost makes me wish we were in the market.

Craigslist. Depending on your location, there's often fuel tanks of various sizes. Mount a permanent tank to the frame, get a propane company to build the hoses, Viola. The alternatives are either BBQ type tanks, or forklift tanks. BBQ tanks feed vapour, forklift tanks feed liquid. Permanent tanks can be set to do either.

Any trailer can work in cold weather, it's just a matter of how much extra work you're willing to put into it. This is a photo from a couple years back, in northern Canada, following a cold snap. The only thing left open to the elements was the flues off the furnace, and water heater. The fridge had been abandoned earlier, due to low performance. This was not us. That's insulated tarps wrapped around the whole rig, and you can just see the propane tank in front. That was getting refilled every 2 weeks, if not sooner.