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02-15-2015, 07:03 PM #1751Registered User
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Dope rig
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02-15-2015, 07:10 PM #1752
Congrats..... That looks like a sweet rig. You will really enjoy it.
Don't ask.... Don't tele
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02-16-2015, 05:53 AM #1753
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02-16-2015, 12:55 PM #1754Registered User
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Your rig sounds awesome! Do you have a Newmar?
Jackson hates us. HATES us. Not quite as much as Telluride (where you can't even have lunch quietly inside the rig!). The most you can hope for is to pull in after the close of the ski day, which is when the parking lot attendants shove off for the evening (just after sunset?), and park for the night. Then they come in during your breakfast / coffee sesh the following morning and ask when you got there. The answer is that you just pulled in. Maybe an hour ago. Woo what a drive over the Pass! They notify you that you may not park overnight here and you agree wholeheartedly. Go ski. Come back after the tram closes. Now you have two options. Best one is probably to shove off for Driggs / Grand Targhee and ski there tomorrow. Or, you can feign a mechanical, saying I can get it started (Thank goodness I can charge batteries & stuff!) but I cannot get it into gear. A tech is coming in right away from SLC. Not sure when he'll be here. We're stuck till he fixes it. Kinda sketchy but doable. Think like a dirtbag!
*EDIT* BigSky seems to have changes policies on overnighters. This bears further looking into before proceeding up there. This is very sad as it was such a great place to do this.
You should know that Big Sky is not that far and they WELCOME us! FREE! I parked there for 3 or 4 nights and we loved it and they loved us. We even parked under the chairlift @ Moonlight but I'm just tellin' ya, I might not drive the coach into Moonlight again. It's like getting lost and ending up on a rollercoaster. That's their road. Maybe unhitch the toad from Big Sky & do a test drive up to Moonlight. I don't think they actually call it Moonlight but you get what I'm saying.Last edited by anemic; 02-16-2015 at 01:06 PM.
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02-16-2015, 01:05 PM #1755Registered User
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02-16-2015, 03:06 PM #1756Registered User
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Jackson Hole Campground has some sites open in winter. Maximum RV length is 35'. The Motel 6 in Jackson is cheaper.
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02-16-2015, 08:11 PM #1757
Good tip.That Motel 6 is much cheaper than I would have guessed,less than $60
“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” HST
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02-18-2015, 06:41 PM #1758Registered User
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Motel 6 in Jackson will give you 30% off if you stay for 7 nights or more and the best part is that they recently remodeled the rooms with new flooring, HD TV, new beds, cabinets, sink, shower stall. Only negative is that the rooms are very small...but not compared to an RV.
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02-18-2015, 08:49 PM #1759
Good lookin rig! Last summer was my first summer with my new-to-me pop-up on my 2000 Tundra. One thing I did last year that I didn't do when I loaded it this year was leave the tailgate down.
I really liked having the gate down, but later realized that if I need to change my tire, I couldn't access my spare with the long bar-insert-into hole-thingy.
I travel in areas where I may really need to access the spare, so when I loaded my camper earlier this evening I took off the tail gate so the spare will be accessible. I also carry a slime full repair kit with tire plugs and a mini-air pump as back up.
Food for thought-
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03-01-2015, 02:21 AM #1760
Trip went great.
Couple small things I need to address (leaky gasket in the sink, latch for fridge, truck to camper electrical doesn't appear to be happy), but otherwise, awesome.
Want to figure out how to set it up so that I can charge the camper battery while driving.
Hit Moab perfect, ~60 deg temps. Rode Ahab for the first time which was cool. Drove a bunch of Highway 1 in CA. Not the ideal vehicle for that road, but a really cool place to be.
and Bovine- good point... I have the jacks stored in the bed of the truck, so in an emergency I think I could lift the back end up enough to pull the tailgate off momentarily. No real offroading with the camper in the back yet, but I have to imagine it would have to be pretty spicy to be slashing tires (for the most part). I do have an air compressor, should I need to air up/down the tires.
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03-14-2015, 12:12 PM #1761Registered User
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03-14-2015, 02:32 PM #1762Registered User
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03-15-2015, 09:28 PM #1763
Get a large charging solenoid from an auto parts store. I have an 80 amp solenoid that is only "on" when the truck is running, it's wired into an accessory port in the fuse panel that powers on when the gauges are on. Run #4g heavy duty wire from solenoid (+ lead) back to camper battery (+). Make sure you ground your camper battery with #4g to the frame or other heavy duty ground. This will charge your battery when your truck is running at a much higher amp rate than the silly method of charging through the taillight connection. Be sure to have a big fuse before the solenoid, and one before the battery.
I've been running this way for quite a while, works great. Solenoid won't allow current to flow backwards, so you can run your camper battery down and not worry about draining your truck starting battery.
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03-15-2015, 09:40 PM #1764
Just carry a spare solenoid as those have a limit to how many times they'll cycle. Also pretty sure solenoids are just a switch, current can flow both directions when power is to the solenoid, usually not a problem as most alternators will over come the difference. An isolator prevents current back flow.
Also learned that the 250 amps at start up my 7.3l was throwing at the solenoid will very much shorten the life of it.
I went to a manual switch.
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03-16-2015, 12:36 PM #1765
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03-16-2015, 12:48 PM #1766
I'm sure I've posted this somewhere before in this thread, but my battery setup in the truck camper runs through a 12V golf cart solenoid, like this:
http://www.amazon.com/CONTINUOUS-SOL...+cart+solenoid
I've been using it for 4 years now. No issues. From what I read when setting up the charging wiring, isolators typically cause a small voltage drop, unless you buy a really fancy (i.e. expensive) one. So I went with the large solenoid instead, which is cheap and easy.
I don't rely on the alternator to charge the camper batteries fully, but just to keep them topped up while on trips -- I connect a battery charger directly to the camper batteries in between trips to fully charge them. (Two 6-volt golf cart batteries from Costco = lots of AH.)
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03-16-2015, 11:01 PM #1767Registered User
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03-19-2015, 08:34 PM #1768
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04-08-2015, 08:00 AM #1769Banned
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04-08-2015, 08:56 AM #1770
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04-10-2015, 10:26 AM #1771Hungover & Homeless
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4x4, Diesel, Dual Tanks, Allison Transmission, 77k miles, $4000. Someone needs this.
http://eastidaho.craigslist.org/cto/4940280979.html
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04-10-2015, 10:35 AM #1772Registered User
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Who needs an RV?
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04-10-2015, 03:26 PM #1773
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04-10-2015, 09:08 PM #1774Hungover & Homeless
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I'm about to trade in the 'rester for it. That thing gets a little tight, especially now that I'm travelling +1
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04-13-2015, 09:31 AM #1775
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