re: good
I'm in. I got my 5th wheel delivered to Sleepy Hollow this past Saturday.
I took it up, parked it and set it up this last weekend because I have a wedding to attend Saturday the 24 in Clinton, OK. So, I took the 5th wheel up a week early so I wouldn't have to try to do a marathon pull, park, and set in a record time.
. It's a 17 hr drive from OKC to OSH, so my brother & I took a nice little weekend drive to OSH and back. Was a good thing too. I had the trailer on the drive way with all the slides out so we could load it and get everything ready to go. Apparently, when I sucked in the rear slide on the trailer, all the trailer light wires (stop, turn, marker, etc.) had gotten into a pinch point or something and when the slide was coming in or going out, and gotten sheared in to.
It took my brother and me an hour and 45 minutes to pull the belly down locate and repair the wires, and resecure the belly. Still didn't have trailer brakes or "keep alive" power to the trailer from the pickup battery. We left anyway. I've pulled lots of trailers with no brakes, the traffic was light, so I figured, just be extremely careful.
While driving down the road, my mind was "wandering", (it's amazing what you think about when you don't have anything to think about) it occured to me, there's a fuse under the hood of the pickup for the keep alive pin in the recep for the trailer plug. Well, at the next fuel stop, we checked this fuse. sure enough, it was blown. But, it's one of the little square type that actuall plug onto instead of into the holder. 7-11 and Wal Mart didn't have 'em. So we "jumpered" some things and viola, had lights, brakes, and all the power in the trailer we were supposed to have.
We are both electricians and have some symblance of basic "how to make things work in a pinch" electrically.
Anyway, we drove on through the night, arriving at Sleepy Hollow about 11:30 am. Got the trailer all set up. Then went to the parts store for a fuse.
And the ground up there is soggy. Jeff, at Sleepy Hollow, said they had 4" of rain last Monday.
Marshall Alexander