dennis.mcdonaugh

I ordered the 20V De Walt grease gun from Amazon. I went with the kit that comes with the case, battery and charger. Since I have other De Walt cordless tools I can use another charger and battery.

We really haven't used our motor home in two years. Over that time, I've sort of kept up with maintenance, I put a new chassis battery in it last year when I drove it over for its yearly safety inspection and I've kept up with re-caulking the roof and things like that, but I have not been doing most of the maintenance as it came due since we weren't using it. Now I'm doing all the deferred maintenance at once. Holy cow have prices gone up! I'm starting at the front and working my way back to the end. I going to end up spending close to $1500 just for parts and fluids. The upper and lower service kit for the Haldex Pure Air Plus air dryer is over $275 from NAPA. The cheapest I could find the engine air filter is $190 for an AC Delco unit from Amazon. The fuel filters are over $100 for the pair of Fleetguard replacements. Oil and oil filter are over $130. The generator oil and oil filter, fuel filter, air filter and antifreeze are over $100. Transmission oil filters are right at $100 and a gallon of Transynd is $50. Has it really been three years already? The three filters for the hydraulic reservoir are $100 and 5 gallons of AW-46 hydraulic fluid is $75. Finally, 20 quarts of gear oil for the differential is $400. That still leaves miscellaneous things like grease for the chassis, PAC brake lube, Dexron transmission fluid for the hydraulic systems, windshield wipers, and fan belts.

Well, I think you guys answered my question. I didn’t know dewalt made one, I have other dewalt tools so…

Anyone have a recommendation for a good, durable pneumatic grease gun. I've bought a couple, one $50 and one closer to $100 and they both worked great for a couple years. The seals started leaking after only three years in the cheaper gun and the more expensive one quit pumping grease. The both worked great when they worked, especially after I installed the locking nozzle. I've been looking at the Milwaukee cordless gun, but I wonder how much pressure it can exert. Most of the pneumatic guns can apply upwards of 6000 PSI.

We’ve been pretty lucky. Our auto insurance renewal only went up $75. It’s the home owners insurance I’m really worried about. Between skyrocketing building costs and natural disasters, there’s a lot of pressure to raise rates. Wildfires have replaced hurricanes as our number 1 natural disaster. Hurricanes do more damage, but they don’t happen every year. There are hundreds of wildfires annually.

That’s dirt cheap.

Is that $340 for the whole year??!!

I just received my renewal notice from Foremost and my policy went up $300 this year. Our policy is through Farmer's insurance.

My coach is now 24 years old, I paid $47K for it almost 10 years ago. If it’s totaled, I don’t want a 24 year old replacement, I want reasonable compensation and for them to pay to haul it off. I’m thinking it won’t take much real damage to total a 24 year old coach given parts availability and labor costs.

Homeowners rates in Texas rates have risen substantially the last couple of years, mainly due to a high claim rate because of weather. I thought it was mostly caused by hurricanes, but turns out its wildfires. The town of Fritch, in the panhandle, was ravaged this week for the second time in 5 years. I had a roof claim for hail damage of almost $40K a couple years ago, but my rates didn't go up last year. I'm dreading this year's renewal. Having a recent claim makes it hard to change companies.

I’ve been running Final Charge in my coach since around 2008 and changed it again in 2017 when I had a hose fail. I drained the system and replaced all the hoses - including the heater hoses - and refurbished the metal pipe. I have not tested the coolant, but I only put about 70,000 miles on the coach in that time.

I had one of those, but it wouldn’t work on my coach. I had to shorten the bit by half and use a mini vice grip to turn the screws.

I fixed one about 5 years ago and haven’t had issues with it since. It’s not a difficult process and you don’t need special tools although two home made ones might help, one to remove the screws holding the window in place and one to measure the distance between the edge of the glass and inner seal. https://www.irv2.com/forums/f115/2000-dynasty-drivers-side-window-334706.html

How does that tool work? I used a 90 degree air wrench to get them loose on my Dynasty. The two in front of the rear wheel were the hardest as access is an issue. Removing the wheels would have made a lot of difference, but would have introduced other problems since I had no way to break the lug nuts loose or retorque them to specs.

I removed and repaired the slider on my 2000 Dynasty. It cost me around $100 in supplies and took a little over 4 hours of actual work. Here's my thread on iRV2. I took it out by myself, its not hard, but make sure the window is locked, otherwise it'll slide and that change of balance can surprise you. https://www.irv2.com/forums/f115/2000-dynasty-drivers-side-window-334706.html

I’ve heard that Dicor will crack skylights, but never from someone who had it happen to them. I’ve been told by the fewpeople who’ve used it that they had no issues. I used it when I replaced mine a few years ago and have contemplated removing it, but decided it wasn’t worth the effort. I had two skylights custom made so I could use them as a double pane skylight. The inner was about 2” shorter than the outer. Even with two skylights, it’s not as dark as the original was.

Good explaination! That’s about what I did, but my jack stands aren’t tall enough to do it exactly the same way. I have hydraulic jacks so I drove up on ramps made of 3 layers of 2X lumber then placed blocks under the jacks and dumped the air. I removed the nuts holding the air bags and air connections, then raised the jacks to clear the air bags and put blocking between the frame and axle. I had plenty of room to remove and replace the air bags.

Check your bay door switches. They have interlocks and must be closed to activate the slides.

Running a new air line shouldn’t be an issue. All the air lines on my coach run through corrugated plastic conduit. It doesn’t look like yours does.

Just a thought, I repaired my drivers side slider about 5 years ago and it’s held up great. The materials cost a little over $100 then.

I don't think my 2000 Dynasty has a gravity fill.

We always run the generator when cooking if not plugged in to shore power. I put in the switch because the induction cooktop has some parasitic power draw even when off. https://www.irv2.com/forums/f115/do-you-smell-smoke-411575.html https://www.irv2.com/forums/f115/inverter-or-appliance-trouble-429382.html

I installed an induction cooktop and used the outlet under the back of the propane cooktop. I removed the outlet and made it a junction box and extended the wires to a switch just inside the cabinet door.

here’s my post on iRV2 about changing my lines and rebuilding my cylinders. https://www.irv2.com/forums/f115/2000-monaco-dynasty-slide-room-cylinder-rebuild-and-hose-replacement-547651.html

I replaced all my hoses a few years ago. I connected the new hose to the old with a coupler and pulled it through. The difficult part was disconnecting the hoses from the Tee connector since it was outside the basement over the fuel tank.