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That's the same one that we have. It isn't great but it works and I didn't need to reengineer it to make it work for us.

I ended up leaving our old one in there, but my understanding is that you do need to vent them. I put a piece of wood over top of the microwave and screwed it in so that now, the microwave can't bounce out of the little holders that the legs fit in. Our rig has easily over 10K miles on it since...

I know that this is a very old thread that some would probably rather forget, but it popped up on me and I read it from start to finish. I had considered starting a similar thread for our 2011 Bighorn 3055 but never did as the rig is long out of warranty and I've done most of the repairs myself...

I typed up a long reply yesterday but for some reason it isn't here. Bottom line is it works great. I added a third 280 watt panel so now have 840 watts of solar and a 2,800 watt Magnum inverter. I took the advice of one of our other members and put down a strip of dicor tape and then put the...

They are better than nothing if you just need something temporary but they did leak. I talked to a friend that ran a forklift repair service for decades and he told me that they use them all the time but not on the lines that Lippert uses. He called them plastic coated instead of rubber coated...

I called the factory and they had them in stock in Elkhart, Indiana. I picked ours up as we're only a hundred miles or so from there. It was also pretty inexpensive at around $70 for ours. If you call them make sure to have the serial number of your rig handy as they'll need it to make sure they...

The only 120 that we have in a generator or inverter and I don't want to run the inverter for the same reasons that I'm leery about running the fridge with the higher voltage. I think even if I'm running the fridge on 120 it still may be getting the power for the control board from the battery...

Greetings, I'm getting ready to equalize the batteries in our RV and will be running the voltage up to 16.2 volts for two hours. I usually just turn the refrigerator off and keep the doors closed but with the weather warming up it would be nice to be able to just let the refrigerator on...

Our tire pressure monitoring system alerted me to a low tire on our trailer one morning after we had stopped for the night. Instead of 100 psi for the G rated tires that the previous owner had installed, one tire only had 53 psi. I couldn't find any leaks so I got out my compressor and pumped it...

Thanks for the responses guys. I got it fixed. After I posted this I took a look at the gas valve and found the line that goes to the pilot. Unhooked it and lit it with the knob pushed in but it barely lit and then went out even when I was holding the knob fully in. It has always had a very...

Hello fellow campers, My wife and I have a Bighorn 5th wheel that we've had for about 6 years and for some reason the pilot won't light on the oven. It has always worked fine up until now. I don't think it's the thermocouple as it will the burner will light and stay lit if I hold a lighter...

I have some of those coming today to try to repair my lines. Hopefully they will work but I have concerns that the OD is too small on my lines. The link to Ebay in post #2 says the OD of the hose should be .593 and my lines are only .433. I have a machine shop so if the OD needs to be larger I...

Did you have any luck with those fittings on your hydraulic lines? I had rats chew through the outer coating on mine and they seep oil.

I found these on Ebay and think they will be a good way to repair the hydraulic line with a leak in it without having to fully remove the line. Hopefully there will be enough extra line to get it to where I can cut it and repair it. I still need to measure the line and make sure it's the right...

That's what I was looking for. Hopefully it will find it's way through the underbelly without getting snagged on anything.