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Water tank won’t fill water blowing out
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Hi Techies one of my caravan water tanks wont fill , when I shove the hose in the water blows back out. I have tried to clear the breather hole at the fill point , any ideas ? regards Cisco Kid
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Fixing to side wall of caravan
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Hi folks. We've just purchased a new second hand 2014 Millard XTrack, and wanting to fix two external stainless steel rectangular plate pad eye hooks about 60 cm apart so we can attach a DIY shower screen - the external sheeting is the narrow horizontal corrugated style. Do I need to find the studs, I th...
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22L Brass Monkey Fridge
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If you have wondered whats in a 22L Brass monkey fridge from Jaycar? Well heres a few pictures. What i liked about these was price 3 yr replacement warranty. They are fairly easy to access most of its parts, & does what its suposed to do. The control buttons are nota physical switch as such but sense t...
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Portable Camping Gas or Diesel heaters for my hardfloor camper.
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Now I am pretty sure nobody here has one, and I don't know yet if they are waterproof, but am wondering whether something like this would be okay as a heater in our camper for cold weather. We do have a portable sit on bottle gas heater ring, and we used it recently, but with 2 windows open. It did keep us qui...
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Truma Ultra Rapid Hot Water System
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Hi I have posted this on another forum but Im getting a little desperate now! Hope someone has some experience with this. Im search if anyone with knowledge of Truma UltraRapid Hot Water Systems. Ive had on going issues with mine since new and it now its out of warranty. It works fine on AC. Often it will w...
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Electric Brake Voltage Drop
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Doing a service on the brakes today as they were getting a bit light. Before doing the mechanical adjustment I decided to check voltage Drop between the Teconsha controller and brakes - 1.2V . So I checked Controller to Plug. 0.5V. I wired the controller to socket myself with wire size recommended by a...
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Best rev range for Isuzu 4.6 litre engine.
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Hi everyone, today myself and my beautiful wife are the owners of a 1998 Swagman Signature 25 ft motorhome, we have been waiting 3 mths to go to Victoria from Sydney and pick it up. Very happy campers, lovely motorhome, just a question about ideal and max revs for the 4.6 liter motor and if we get it turbo c...
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DC DC charger
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What do you recommend ? Probably around 40A Will be mounted external at this stage, so Enerdrive and a couple of others are out. Anyone using Matson ? If you are, can recommend ? Thanks
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RobDor
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Thetford C402 Toilet
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Wondering if someone can please help if they have one of these. The van is new to us, so still learning. When the cassette is pulled out, there are two wells with lids underneath, what are the two round plugs at the bottom ? The two in ours look to be rusted out, so I cant make out how it is or should be ? Cant tel...
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RobDor
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Changing from Cassette toilet to Natures Head Compost toilet
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We have purchased a new caravan but it is the demo model so we have to take it as it comes. It currently has a Dometic Cassette toilet and we are wanting to install a Natures Head Compost toilet. Has anyone done this and how easy is it to do?
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Caravan ATM upgrade success !
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I know there has been some discussion on here about upgrading the ATM on a caravan, how to go about it, what you can do, what you cant do etc. Well, I can share my experience on a completed upgrade and it may help you if youre considering the process. Ill start by saying the whole process took about 2 months...
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RobDor
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Repco 25ah Batt pak Jump starter, Instead of Dedicated Battery of 45ah up in front storage box
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So the questions is as the Jump start battery, went real well, just for a led light ( 1 strip of a Korr led light), and only used 1 bar of power of the 12 bars that it has, for 3 nights recently, instead of using a dedicated battery of 45ah agm, or a 20ah lithium. No other need for the power in my camper at this s...
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How to physically remove/replace a heavy battery from the far corner of an A'van Cruiseliner
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I need to replace the battery in my A'van Cruiseliner. The battery is located deep in the far corner of the van, which is also deep under the far corner of the double bed. It is 'impossible' to physically lift the very heavy battery - with arms extended to reach into that far, restricted space. Can anyone...
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2 way fridge
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Hi Anyone using the brass monkey duel zone fridge freezer from jaycar electronics very reasonable price with 3 years warranty I would like some feedback Cheers
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travelyounger
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How not to lock yourself in with the hourglass door
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So here is the door beware it will jam closed/locked if you touch the horizontal lever in the process of locking yourself in at night With the door split you can see the offending lever red ( it looks orange in the photo) stay safe ! -- Edited by Cisco kid on Friday 5th of November 2021 02:38:07 PM -- Edited b...
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We managed to lock ourselves into the van and couldn’t get the door open
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Some time go we were settling down for the night, I went to lock the door and accidentally triggered the lever that splits the door frame from the fly screen this caused the door to jam and I could not unlock it for love or money Typical male I refused to ring the after hours number at the caravan park My wif...
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extractors HZB50 bus
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Hi i have a toyota coaster HZB50 4.2 1HZ motor year 2000 ,put a turbo on and keeps getting hot under load cant fit intercooler so have decided to remove turbo and i want to fit a set of extractors but cant seem to find any to fit ,i am in sa does anyone know if a set of landcruiser extractors would fit thank you...
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New MUX Izuzu towing reveiw
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According to Isuzu, the MU-X LS-T 4×4 we tested has a kerb weight of 2,175-kg and a GVM of 2,800-kg giving a load capacity of 625-kg. You could expect a 3.5-tonne van to exert a tow ball load of 350-kg leaving just 275-kg remaining cargo capacity. If you have two adults in the car weighing 90-kg each (180-...
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Heaters and carbon monoxide monitoring
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Hi all this article in West Australian newspaper yesterday. I got a bit worried about our diesel heater and carbon monoxide poisoning a while back. I installed a monitor which you can buy at the big green shed. -- Edited by Cisco kid on Monday 1st of November 2021 10:12:10 AM
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Avida Motorhomes
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Hi all you other Avida MH owners. I have a small problem that you may have a solution for. The time displayed on the house control panel is incorrect. Is there any way I can reset the time to local current time? Have tried all manuals and no info. Be grateful if anyone could help please.
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