Mods
These are 100 watt flexible panels. Me I’m Mr. Overkill and never want my four AGM 6 volt $300 a pop batteries to ever go flat and I always want to have power when I’m out in the middle of nowhere.
When I first got my TrailManor the first thing I wanted was a tongue jack. I mean I was huffing and puffing cranking that thing round and around until I was ready to pass out!
I like to get away from it all… it’s just that I like to take it with me too. The best time to do that is in the fall when all the kids have gone back to school and all their parents have gone back to work and the crowds have become much diminished.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
When I got back from our last trip to Californication I decided to go ahead with swapping out my Dexter Torflex 4400lb capacity axle with the new Timbren axle-less axles rated at 7000 lbs. (or 3500 lbs a piece) and the 15” wheels and tires to 16” wheels and tires. I had such good luck with my Maxxis tires that I bought 16” Maxxis tires for baby’s new shoes.
One thing that I wasn’t counting on when I went to my new Timbren axel-less axels, 16” wheels and tires, was the fact that with the 16” tires and wheels, the spare would not fit under the trailer like I thought.
If I were to do only one modification to my TM it would be this. I am talking about the Thetford Recirculating Toilet. It is the Achilles heel of all the TMs.
This page is dedicated to all the small stuff on the outside of your TM. It will contain all sorts of stuff to make your trailer experience better and maybe lower the hassle of the upkeep a bit.
Anyone who has an RV should have a generator. I have a Yamaha EF-3000iSEB. It’s an electric start gasoline powered generator but also can run on propane or natural gas due to a special carburetor with a diaphragm regulator and hook up hose to LP tanks.
Building the plumbing blowout cage gave me so much pride….I decided to build one for the passenger side (you didn’t know I was a poet too)!
One of the short comings of most RV’s is the hot water. There just isn’t enough sometimes and if you have masses of hair (which I don’t) and want to shampoo that could be a real problem. So when I read about funpilot installing the Truma end-less hot water heater I thought this was a good idea…accept for the price. Truma is REALLY proud of their hot water heater at over $1,000!
This is a continuation of the previous page (24) and its modification and is mainly meant for the permanent removal and exchange of the Suburban 6 gallon hot water heater with a different hot water heater that runs on propane exclusively thereby freeing up the dedicated 110v AC circuit. The references to the images in the RED portion of this text can be found on the previous page
They say that the part of a chain that will fail first is its weakest link. Now concerning the center latches that hold the TrailManor closed, I believe that the part that is most prone to fail is not the latch itself because it is made out of steel and it’s connected to the trailer with steel bolts.
I like to get away from it all, but I like to take it with me too. I mean there are some things that we have grown accustomed to that are just too hard to let go of. One of those things is the computer and along with that, the internet.
AHHHH! Creature comforts… and living in Texas commands that one has air conditioning. It’s a MUST! It gets really hot here no matter what part of the state you’re in (well Ft. Davis is nice… but it still gets hot there… maybe not as much as Pecos or Laredo though). The joke about this is…"when Texans go to hell… they take blankets”!
It seems that on the forum one of the hot topics is the refrigerator fan. I have read a lot of threads on people that have replaced their fan with a fan of the same type, only to have it burn out in short order.
Not everything most rewarding has to be complicated. Case in point….the Trailmanor shower (tub??). Other than the toilet, it could stand the most improvement in the bathroom (preceding the lighting).
What I like about my TrailManor (and one of the reasons I wanted this model) is the King Size Bed! This allows two people to sleep “north and south” in line with the length of the trailer as oppose to sleeping “east and west” or in line with the width of the trailer (cross ways). The problem with “east and west’ is that if one of us has to visit the facilities while we are sleeping, one would have to crawl over the other and thus disturb their sleep. So the king size bed solved that problem.
When I was attempting to install my wifi booster I made the discovery that my converter/charger was on the fritz and was putting out 19 volts DC instead of the usual 12 or so. YIKES!
Ok, now that I have expanded the space inside my shower it only stands to reason that I can now expand the water flow pattern from the shower head..…er….uh….well maybe not from the one that is currently in there. So I think I would like one like I have in our shower at home.
How to install a door entry handle
For quite a while now I have been pondering the idea of converting my Trailmanor’s braking system from the electric drum type to the hardier electric over hydraulic disc brake system.
Back on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend of 2015, we were on our way home from Port Aransas Texas (that’s near Corpus Christi) when we suffered a blowout on the curbside trailer tire. The steel belted tread came loose and was flapping around like a mad whip.
On August 24th of 2016 we had planned to have disc brakes installed on our trailer and also we had planned a short trip somewhere to check out all the new modifications I had done to my Trailmanor trailer. I decided to combine the two and so we went off to the Ft. Worth area to do all of this. https://tmtm.leinbaugh.com/blog/water-pump#
I love my new toilet. On our last trip we really got to appreciate it a lot… NO MORE STINK like with that abominable Thetford stench puking re-circulator… however like anything thing else there is a learning period on how to best operate and maintain it. So I am still learning the when and whys of this toilet.
This was by far one of the most tedious modifications I have attempted on our TM. I, not being a purest type craftsman but rather a butcher of most things, was able to make this happen. Although it did not come out exactly perfect by no means it did come out ok but most of all functional (I’ve always been a more function over fashion guy anyway).