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Winter Repairs & Upgrades

It’s been a few months – 7 to be exact since the last post.

Here’s what has been going on . . . but first, here’s the April snow we had today:

PROPANE FURNACE REPAIRED

During our final campground stays last year, our propane heater began making loud whining noises. So much so that we could no longer use it to heat our RV. Not good.

After some research discovered that our furnace fan was kaput. Luckily, the fix seemed straightforward – just replace the fan motor.

Removing the Fan Cover and the Heater Fan was a piece of cake.

Luckily, it was MUCH easier to install the new fan motor and then to put everything back together again.

After a few seconds of running the fan, the furnace ignites, and all is quiet. Success.

GENERATOR FIXED

On our long cross-country trip to the Midwest we had to rely on our dash air conditioner to keep us cool during the hot summer days. We were unable to use the RV’s rooftop AC units because they need to be powered from either an external power or our generator.

Unfortunately we had removed our generator before we left because it wasn’t working.

This made for some VERY uncomfortable driving during parts of our trip, especially in the southwest.

Determined to fix our generator, we had it reinstalled in our RV. It still didn’t work, but at least the “heavy lifting” was done.

After some lengthy investigating, we found out that the generator fuel line was clogged. We couldn’t clear the blockage and it would have been very, very expense to replace the fuel line.

What to do?

Install a new fuel tank. Seems obvious but it was the last thing we wanted to do. However, it worked:

NEW WINDOW BLINDS INSTALLED

One of our three window shades became unstrung but we did not want to fix it by restringing.

So we removed the old shades, purchased new custom blinds from blinds.com, and the rest is history:

STARLINK MOUNT INSTALLED

We decided to get rid of our Verizon Internet hot spot and replace it with a Starlink dish using the Roam plan. Unlike the Verizon hot spot which we have to pay for every month whether we use it or not, the Roam plan allows month-to-month use. That made it a no brainer as Starlink is much faster than our former hot spot.