From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sat Dec 24 2005 - 19:43:48 PST
You been talking to my wife? Thats exactly what she asked me. lol
Sonny
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> --- Sonny Heath <sonny@defuniak.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm sending this for any and all comments but
>> primarily to get the opinion
>> of TJ Smith. I wrote to TJ privately but he somehow
>> has not been able to get
>> an email through to me.
>>
>> Three years ago I turned my 1996 Freightliner Condo
>> in to a recreational
>> vehicle by stretching the frame slightly to accept
>> an eight foot by fourteen
>> foot aluminum box that I had on an old GMC cube van.
>> My state, Florida, did
>> a new title and etched a new vin number on the
>> windshield and door glasses
>> plus they put a data plate on the driver door post
>> and gave me a title for a
>> 2003 ASPT, which means, they say, that its assembled
>> from parts.
>>
>> I somehow got lucky enough to turn out an RV Toter
>> which makes the ones
>> manufactured up around Elkhart, In. and some other
>> places including Texas
>> look less than finished, IMHO.
>>
>> I have a two and five sixteenth inch ball for my
>> gooseneck trailer under a
>> closed plate when not in use. I also have a class
>> three hitch mounted under
>> the rear of it.
>>
>> I'm strictly a collector of motorscooters,
>> motorcycles, old farm tractors,
>> and military vehicles among other things too
>> numerous to go in to. I do not
>> sell anything at the shows I attend, I only exibit
>> for free. I do not ask
>> for nor would I accept donations just to make myself
>> clear on that.
>>
>> My RV is thirty eight foot long from bumper to
>> bumper and my longest trailer
>> is a thirty two foot gooseneck. Sometimes I drag a
>> sixteen foot closed in
>> trailer if I go to a scooter meet for example, but
>> usually I have either no
>> trailer or I have the gooseneck with maybe a deuce
>> and a half or a HMMWV and
>> a tractor.
>>
>> My trailer is rated at 25000 pound with two axles
>> and eight tires, four on
>> each axle. I have never hauled, to my knowledge,
>> more than 25000 pound
>> including the trailer weight. The trailer has
>> electric, 12 volt DC, brakes
>> activated by a Techonsha (sp) brake controller
>> operated through the cold
>> side of the brake light switch on the RV. Both
>> trailers are 2003 as well as
>> the truck.
>>
>> Now TJ, am I mandated to stop at weigh stations in
>> your state of Texas and
>> if not, would you if this was your set up? I have
>> nothing to hide, consider
>> myself to be totally safe and hold a class A CDL. I
>> do not get an annual
>> DOT medical check, and my health is good, so far
>> anyway. I have stenciled on
>> the side of the original sleeper "Recreational
>> Vehicle, Not for Hire" on
>> both sides. I do keep my truck in "ready for the
>> road" condition since I've
>> been in that field basically all my life. I retired
>> from the Army in 1982
>> as a Chief Warrant Officer, Automotive Maintenance
>> Technician so I just
>> don't trust my maintenance to anyone and will not as
>> long as I'm physically
>> able to do it myself, although I'll admit that some
>> things are cheaper to
>> have hired as I did last week getting an inner wheel
>> seal put in but I was
>> right there helping the mechanic as he is a good
>> friend. I also let him do
>> my brakes simply because it makes me feel better but
>> some things I do the
>> second time after I get my OJT from him. I never
>> had full air brakes when I
>> was in the "machine". They were always air over
>> hydralic so I don't have
>> much experience with full air. My truck has the
>> newer, so I'm told, brake
>> chambers that adjust automatically but when I
>> replaced the shoes and springs
>> last week he adjusted them initially or else it
>> would take the automatic
>> adjusters too long to get them adjusted. Is this
>> normal?
>>
>> Sorry for rambling on fellers,
>>
>> TJ, tell me if I need to change anything I'm doing
>> please.
>>
>> Sonny
>>
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