Thread: Buying a pop-up camper

Originally Posted by slim

Make your own heat. That is why God gave us sex.

Pro tip: light your bedding on fire before crashing out, it'll keep you much warmer through the night.

Originally Posted by Davii

Pro tip: light your bedding on fire before crashing out, it'll keep you much warmer through the night.

Makes sense. I will try this next time I'm cold.

Originally Posted by slim

Makes sense. I will try this next time I'm cold.

Make sure to drink whiskey first, it'll keep your insides warm.

Davii is smart.

Davii is a handful in the sac

There is good voltage delivered to the furnace unit, but none at a post upstream of the motor. Maybe the module board is fried. I'd have to pull the furnace from its hole to diagnose. Don't want to pull the furnace because the gas valve piping that blocks extraction doesn't want to unscrew. So it's going in to the RV MX folks and I'll have a bill to pay.

The pigtail dropped to the highway asphalt for a few hundred miles and scraped itself into two pieces. The main battery fuse blew, but maybe not before it did some damage to the furnace hardware.

What's the over/under on the repair Hawgie?

$800.00?

The furnace sells for 500, so 800 is a bit extreme. The module board is 80 bux. The motor costs the same. Repair should cost 200 tops, but I'll find someone who will diagnose it free. I expect a 150 repair fee.

Is it wrong of me for laughing at the part about the pigtail dragging on the asphalt for a couple of hundred miles?

Originally Posted by Slick

Is it wrong of me for laughing at the part about the pigtail dragging on the asphalt for a couple of hundred miles?

Was not happy to discover that. Noticed the running lights looked dim and then realized it might be worse than that...but figured it's too late at that point. Then when we stop for lunch at BK in Kayenta on the Navajo Res, I get chief BK-parking-lot-earner trying to help me splice the pigtail back together. It was an epic quest of suspense, friendship, and high adventure.

Weird how the pigtail just flopped out like that.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

The furnace sells for 500, so 800 is a bit extreme. The module board is 80 bux. The motor costs the same. Repair should cost 200 tops, but I'll find someone who will diagnose it free. I expect a 150 repair fee.

So right around $800.00 like I said.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Just returned from Grand Canyon and other points southwest of Denver. The pop up is fine but not all is roses and champagne with our new addition. We arrived at 8:30 or so at Black Canyon of the Gunnison last night but the furnace did not work. I spent an hour troubleshooting that mfer in the freezing dark to no avail. So we plan B'ed to the Super 8 in Montrose. Nice military discount rate and clean rooms, but still mighty inconvenient.

Otoh, on the first day of the trip, we were headed for a random national forest site in New Mexico near Gallup. Something Aspen. Cloudy Aspen. Broken Aspen. Broken Arrow. John Travolta.

Anyway, it was 8 miles off I-40 before Cibola Nat'l Forest. The Stephen King Trash Can Man references finally hit home (Cibola = Las Vegas in King's story). We get to Travolta's campground but it's padlocked despite google saying it was open. No worries, we find some random space on a dirt road not 2 minutes away. Set up the pop up at 10 at night and all is well.

I just tried to upload some pics beef but 25meg is apparently too much technology for Tned's chickenshit website.

This is a five star travel report. Shitty place for the furnace to go out, I reckon. Nice humble brag on that Super 8 discount too.