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It's likely a common rear axle, usually from Dana. Pretty much any large truck shop should be able to handle it.

My wife and I have shared the same PCP for a number of years now, and for the past few years even sharing most appointments. She works for a multiple clinic practice run by our nearest hospital. Our PCP is a gem that routinely goes above and beyond her normal duty requirements. She has responded to my patient portal messages after hours, on weekends, and once renewed a prescription for me while attending a friend's funeral. The only other doctors I was seeing at least annually before my first stroke were my dermatologist and my VA PCP in order to stay active in the system. Since the stroke, I'm also seeing a cardiologist and a neurologist regularly along with speech, occupational, and physical therapists. Shortly before my second stroke, I was given a preliminary diagnosis of Addison's Disease pending confirmation by an endocrinologist. Still waiting on that. Oh, and my Advantage Plan does not require referrals for most specialists.

Thanks, Linda. Yes, both our daughters have been a godsend to us over the years, especially now that our daily lives have gotten more difficult. We're also fortunate that our grand daughter and her family live only about 20 minutes away from our favorite state park where we hope to be spending the most time next spring and summer on our favorite site.

Thanks for the kind words everyone, and we do want to get well enough by spring so we can at least keep camping at our area state parks. We have reservations covering 2 weeks including Memorial Day, 2 week including the 4th of July, and a week at a fairly new NY state park that we haven't tried yet. Labor Day will be covered as soon as the reservation window opens. All are within 2 hours of our base. One of our daughters and her partner have offered to drive the motorhome to the campgrounds and help us get set up if necessary, but we hope that won't be necessary. It's very reassuring to know the help is available though. It's going to take some getting used to this lifestyle change, but basically it just means going back where we were in 2005 when I retired and we bought our first motorhome. Of course we're not happy about it, but we'll sort it out eventually. Thanks again everyone!

I knew it was probably coming since my stroke last April, but hoped for better. During my appoint with my primary this morning that she requested, she dialed up a pre-arranged conference call with my cardiologist, neurologist, and physical therapist, and they all agreed that it wasn't safe for me to continue driving our motorhome for now. Some things they hoped would improve have unfortunately gotten worse. My stamina has declined to the point where I can't be active for more than a few minutes at a time, making hooking up the car for moves 15-20 minute process instead of the 5 minutes it used to take. My balance has also declined so much that I've been forced to move from using a single cane to using two canes, and recently to using a walker. The doctors did agree that I should keep our spring and summer NY State park reservations in place, in hopes that I'll improve enough by then. Our NY reservations are all within 2 hours or less of our Adirondack cottage and permanent camp site, and I was told not to make any further away than that. And in case anyone wonders, my wife's health conditions have kept her out of the motorhome drivers seat for the past several years, so that's not an option. I suppose at 80, I expected it sooner or later, but I'll admit I was really hoping for later. Fortunately, my wife and I are both still cleared to drive our car, so that's a relief anyway. I have already started canceling 4 months of winter reservations at state and national parks in Georgia and Florida that were to start in January, but I think the one that will hurt the most will be our planned stay at the SKP Sumter Oaks park near Bushnell, FL. We haven't been there in a few years, and were really looking forward to getting back there. We're going to continue to live in the motorhome at our private site until the weather gets cold enough to drive us into the cottage. And I'll be working hard to get clearance from my doctors to drive the motorhome again by spring. I'll still hang around the forums to offer what ever help I can. Wish us well!

"12600 Stowe Drive, Poway, CA 92064" is the address of Scenic View Industrial Park. "STE8" would be the suite the RV Water Filter Store occupies.

Aren't you doing the same thing whether it's monthly, weekly, or daily when all utilities are included?

Isn't the 118.8 sat pretty busy already carrying the Dish International channel package?

I hope she meant 119, not 118. None of the current standard WA LNBF's will pick up 118.

I should add that neither of us had any ill effects from any of the shots beyond the expected injection site soreness for a day or two.

Walgreens here has the shots. We got ours last Monday, the day after we got our RSV and flu shots.

We're fortunate in having both Verizon (Visible) and AT&T unlimited data plans that only cost a total of $50/month. Everywhere we've been over the past several years, we've had good service with one or the other, and often both.

Thanks for the report, Denny. It was worth a try, but I'm sorry it didn't help. I haven't owned a VIP211K for a number of years now, so I couldn't try it first.

For those of you with VIP's, has any one tried clearing the satellite list by disconnecting the coax to the dish and running a check switch? Accept the message that says you have fewer satellites, and then reconnect the coax and run the test again. It should only find the 110 and 119 sats this time of course, and hopefully stop looking for the dark 129 sat.

We sort of have the best of both worlds when it comes to severe weather. When a storm is approaching, we often switch from Dish to the DishAnywhere app on our Firestick that's streaming from the H2 at our Upstate NY cottage. The weather is usually sufficiently different between there and where we are that the service on that end is either not affected or at least the storm hits at a different time.

In the thirteen years my wife and I have been full-timing, I think the most common frustration that has followed us from park to park has been getting acquainted with the layout in grocery stores every couple of weeks and finding restaurants we like. Over the years though as we've aged, we've found ourselves returning more often to parks, and even specific sites, that we enjoy and have found comfortable for us, and both the stores and restaurants have become more familiar as well. We're just not into the adventure and challenge of finding new places anymore. As far as medical issues, yes, we've had our share of those, including some ongoing issues affecting both of us. Fortunately, we have an excellent Medicare Advantage plan that's accepted nationwide, and we've developed a cadre of doctors in the appropriate specialties that we can refer to either in person, by telemedicine, or phone call. If nothing else, a number of times both of us have managed nicely with a local urgent care facility for simple wounds and infections. We've also had no trouble locating lab services for blood draws, etc, as requested by our doctors. Last winter when my wife was hospitalized in Florida due to complications from COPD, her Upstate NY pulmonologist quickly called on an associate in Florida with hospital privileges there to manage her care and consult with him. Her cardiologist also had an associate stop in and review her testing and treatment to ensure there were no heart related issues. Our costs were all just her usual co-pays for in-plan services. We haven't found full-timing to add any significant issues to finding proper medical care when needed using the relationships we've developed over the years. It was fortunate that we had arrived at our Upstate NY permanent site the day before my stroke last April, but with a lot of help, I've recovered enough that we were able to make a few trips to NY state park campgrounds, and have one more coming up before stay put for the holiday before heading south again. We're now at an age and condition where continuing to full-time will probably become prohibitive fairly soon, possibly by next spring. Our "hang up the keys" plan is in place, so we'll see how it goes. The bottom line is that we've never regretted one minute of the years we've spent full-timing, and won't trade it for any other life style until we have to.

Sorry, but the Hopper series receivers do not have the software installed needed to control the X2 or any other portable "dome" type antenna. Even as a secondary receiver, it still needs the software to control changing channels.

Apparently CB2 and 3 are fed from CB1, and since the outputs are separate feeding separate loads, CB2 and 3 are not acting as a 60 amp breaker, but as individual 30 amp breakers. I agree that protecting a 30 amp breaker feed with a 30 amp breaker is a bit strange though.

After two failed transfer switches in about 8 years, I gave up and wired my Onan BGE 5000 to a standard NEMA 14-50 "poor man's transfer switch" outlet installed in the power cord bin. Other than the rare time I've had to go out and plug the power cord in during a rain storm, I've been quite happy with it. It quickly became routine to plug into the outlet when stowing the cord after disconnecting from shorepower for travel.

Yep, even the older 5000 with the 20 and 30 amp breakers came with 10 gauge wire for both outputs. It was probably just cheaper to only source one size for a range of models.

Both the Onan 5000 and 6500 have two 30 amp breakers on the output, although some early 5000's have a 20 and a 30. Both are also supplied with the same size output wiring, that if memory serves me, are 10 AWG stranded wire for the hots and neutral. Not sure about the safety ground.

The USPS "Look Up a ZIP Code" site identifies addresses issued by a CMRA (Commercial Mail Receiving Agency). Many business organizations use this feature to verify deliverable addresses. https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?byaddress Try this test address: 650 E PALISADE AVE STE 2 #123 ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS NJ 07632 When the address validates, click on the down arrow and note the 'Y' under the "Commercial Mail Receiving Agency" header

When I replaced my failed OEM B&W camera and monitor, I used a two camera system, I mounted both cameras, one just below the other, in the original camera location just below the center marker light. I aimed the lower camera down for a view from the rear bumper back about 15 feet, and the upper camera for a longer view from about our toad's windshield back. I normally keep the monitor on the upper camera, switching to the lower camera from time to time to check on the tow setup and when backing into a tight campsite.

For a couple of months, Dish had been doing a planned upgrade of the western arc sats at 110 and 119 as they transitioned from MPEG2 to MPEG4 protocols. The upgrade also included moving all HD programming from the CIEL-2 sat at 129 to Dish's 110 and 119 sats in preparation for the end of lease/end of service life of the CIEL-2 sat owned by the Canadian Ciel Satellite Group. CIEL-2 was launched in 2008 with a 16 year design life and its entire capacity was leased by Dish since launch. The Dish sats at 110 and 119 are owned by soon to be merged Dish sister company Echostar.

Mac McCoy, better known to many of us as "Mac the Fire Guy" from his many fire prevention talks and displays at various rallies, etc., has passed away. I found out this morning from former RV'er Nick Russell's blog remembering Mac. Rest in peace Mac, you will be missed: https://www.gypsyjournalrv.com/2023/08/rest-in-peace-mac/