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05-18-2014, 02:57 PM
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#561
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Senior Member
Thor Owners Club Nor'easters Club Mid Atlantic Campers Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 2,098
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5 Star tune doesn't advertise better mileage just better performance and a better planned out shifting schedule. The increase in power can give you better mileage as long as you drive it reasonably. Most people like the increase in power and tend to push harder negating any benefit in MPG
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05-24-2014, 03:03 PM
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#562
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Washington
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Been a bit quiet in here….what all have you guys been fixing, modding or sprucing up?
You all are bad influences (or good inspirations)….we are following the trend and are putting in a sound bar. We picked one up week before last when we were in Sacramento and found we couldn't hear the TV over the A/Cs! We picked up a nice Samsung with a wireless subwoofer. Trying to coerce DH to get it installed this weekend.
Over the winter I digitized our entire DVD collection and have it all on a 2TB Western Digital Passport drive. With that and the WD Live Player we now have our entire movie collection to take with us on the road! We hooked it up prior to our Sacramento trip and it worked like a charm. Haven't played with streaming anything over Netflix, Hulu, etc. in the RV yet, works great on the one we have in the house though.
My task for the weekend is to install the new handle for the forward door. I bought a digital lock handle because DH was worried about us accidentally locking ourselves out…and I got tired of the man making me carry a huge set of spare keys on a neck lanyard. Uh, no thanks.
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05-24-2014, 10:14 PM
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#563
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Senior Member
Damon Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hollywood Beach, FL & New Braunfels, TX
Posts: 863
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Orangepeel
Been a bit quiet in here….what all have you guys been fixing, modding or sprucing up?
You all are bad influences (or good inspirations)….we are following the trend and are putting in a sound bar. We picked one up week before last when we were in Sacramento and found we couldn't hear the TV over the A/Cs! We picked up a nice Samsung with a wireless subwoofer. Trying to coerce DH to get it installed this weekend.
Over the winter I digitized our entire DVD collection and have it all on a 2TB Western Digital Passport drive. With that and the WD Live Player we now have our entire movie collection to take with us on the road! We hooked it up prior to our Sacramento trip and it worked like a charm. Haven't played with streaming anything over Netflix, Hulu, etc. in the RV yet, works great on the one we have in the house though.
My task for the weekend is to install the new handle for the forward door. I bought a digital lock handle because DH was worried about us accidentally locking ourselves out…and I got tired of the man making me carry a huge set of spare keys on a neck lanyard. Uh, no thanks.
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Change is good. And it keeps us out of mischief, or so it's said.
This may be too late, but a cheaper alternative to the digital door lock is installing a combo Masterlock style lockbox to the wall outside the door. I installed one years ago for people to access my spare keys and move my rig in case of an emergency if I was traveling out of town. It was a good $30 investment.
I think I have pictures of it on my mods blog (link below).
Best to y'all and post pictures of your work!
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05-24-2014, 10:54 PM
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#564
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Washington
Posts: 454
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BpK9Miami
Change is good. And it keeps us out of mischief, or so it's said.
This may be too late, but a cheaper alternative to the digital door lock is installing a combo Masterlock style lockbox to the wall outside the door. I installed one years ago for people to access my spare keys and move my rig in case of an emergency if I was traveling out of town. It was a good $30 investment.
I think I have pictures of it on my mods blog (link below).
Best to y'all and post pictures of your work!
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I had considered something like this but went with the digital door lock because of our sons. With this they can get in and out of the RV and no worries about them losing a key. We have something similar on our garage at home, it is a keypad the boys can use to open the garage door to get into the house.
The digital door lock does have a key option in case of problems; I was thinking of putting that in a master lock key safe in that bay where the propane tank is.
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05-28-2014, 04:41 PM
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#565
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 143
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OK, help me out here gang! I want to store my 'stinky slinky' outside the bin and I know I read where someone had detailed instructions on doing just that, but I can't find it doing a search.
Thanks,
Mike
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05-28-2014, 05:09 PM
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#566
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Washington
Posts: 454
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Bachman
OK, help me out here gang! I want to store my 'stinky slinky' outside the bin and I know I read where someone had detailed instructions on doing just that, but I can't find it doing a search.
Thanks,
Mike
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Dan has direction on his page. I was just looking at it a few days ago.
Hula Hut RV Mods and Changes
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05-30-2014, 09:00 AM
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#567
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 143
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Thanks for the info, Orangepeel. That will be my next project.
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05-30-2014, 02:05 PM
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#568
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Senior Member
Damon Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hollywood Beach, FL & New Braunfels, TX
Posts: 863
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Bachman
Thanks for the info, Orangepeel. That will be my next project.
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It's easier than I made it out to be on the blog. If you have any problems feel free to drop me a note and I'll be glad to help.
Dan
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05-30-2014, 08:07 PM
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#569
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Washington
Posts: 454
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So I purchased the wrong digital lock handle - of course we did not discover this until we got the old handle completely taken off. We had purchased off of Amazon a few months ago and were now outside the return window. For those wondering why we would let it sit in a box that long all I can say is this - it rains a lot in the PNW during the winter! Changing out a handle is not something we wanted to do while getting rained on; we decided to wait til spring.
We called the manufacturer to see if they would do an exchange. They asked when we bought and we told them the date thinking there was no way they would do the exchange because of the length of time. Turns out that at the time we purchased there was an error on Amazon, the wrong pictures were on the site so we got the incorrect handle thru no fault of our own. They were happy to do the exchange for us.
Hopefully the correct handle will come in next week. I will post pictures once we get it installed. I hope it works well because so far Bauer has been a nice company to work with!
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06-01-2014, 01:17 PM
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#571
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Moderator Emeritus
Damon Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Lone Star State
Posts: 19,203
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Scott,
Very nice mod!
The lights are on the awning reel...right? Where do you get power from?
Many folks put the lights on the wall, right under the awning mount channel for making power feed easier.
Safe travels
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06-01-2014, 01:50 PM
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#572
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Senior Member
Damon Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 1,358
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Yes the lights are on the awning reel. I am just using the included power supply and plugging into the exterior receptacle on the coach.
I suggested to my wife that we mount them as you suggested just under the awning channel on the wall but she didn't like the look of it when I held them up there. I don't think you would really see them and you could have the lights on while the awning is rolled up but she pointed out that 90% of the time when we are outside at night the awning is out.
The lights are 12 volt so you could do a direct connect if you mounted as you suggested and ran some wire.
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06-01-2014, 02:42 PM
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#573
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Washington
Posts: 454
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No more Klingon War Symbol
The only thing I have ever truly disliked about the Outlaw interior is the "art work" they started putting above the TV in the newer models. We jokingly have called it the Klingon War Symbol.
So we decided to pry that bad boy off and put up something else. We took a paint stick, started in the corner and slowly pried it off.
I was kind of surprised how long the nails were!
I found some retro camping graphics featuring PNW locations, had them framed and we got it hung today.
Also hung some boxes to the left of the TV to keep the various remotes.
Still waiting on the sound bar. The tune DH ordered from 5 Star came in the mail yesterday so I have a feeling I will be waiting until next weekend for the sound bar.
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06-02-2014, 02:09 PM
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#574
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Washington
Posts: 454
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MrOrangepeel installed the custom tune from 5Star this morning and then we took a drive. There is such a noticeable difference in the shift points, especially on hills.
Best thing we have added to the Outlaw so far.
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