Something not to do getting ready for summer |
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john in idaho
Senior Member Joined: 04 Nov 2014 Location: Eagle Idaho Online Status: Offline Posts: 611 |
Topic: Something not to do getting ready for summer Posted: 21 May 2017 at 2:39pm |
Time to take the 179 pod out of the barn. I took the spare and mount out and slid them under the rear of the trailer in the fall for more walking room behind. Moving stuff out of the way, I look at the spare, and think - I will just move ahead about 6 feet and then put the stinger on the tire mount into the socket and drive out the door. Then I won't have to carry the spare and mount outside. Good plan. Except I had to raise the front of the trailer quite a bit to slide over the ball on the truck because of the incline in front of the barn door. Which resulted in the stinger poking a 1 1/2" hole in the floor. of the pod. Looking behind the bottom drawer, the inner surface of the floor was just dimpled slightly. Nothing that a can of foam filler won't fix. If I didn't keep getting in my own way, I would never get anything accomplished.
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Leo B
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 13 Jan 2012 Location: Lyndonville, VT Online Status: Offline Posts: 4517 |
Posted: 21 May 2017 at 2:43pm |
Ouch!
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Leo & Melissa Bachand
2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
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yakinator
Newbie Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Location: Houston, TX. Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
Posted: 21 May 2017 at 2:57pm |
Murphy's law takes the lead in the winner take all contest of world domination.
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2017 RPOD 180 named VentuRpod
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6326 |
Posted: 21 May 2017 at 8:00pm |
I lost the sewer hose carier when I wanted to take the R-Pod out of the driveway without the Equal-i-zer bars hooked up to test the Hayes No-Sway I had purchased. Between the driveway's slope and the curb gutter, it bottomed out just enough to break the mounting brackets. I now know that I need to put something down to eliminate that dip at the end of th edriveway before I try something like that again. The fix for mine was not too bad. I just had to order new doors and brackets, and do a little cementing of them on the tube which I had to repair since it got cracked also, but only at one end and not bad enough to buy a whole new tube.
Your puncture is worse. I hope you can patch it up sufficiently so there wll be no additional damage. |
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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