Host F550 4X4 Motorhome Quad Slide 330

On the way home I swung thru a OR weigh station for grins & giggles just to see what this beast weighs. OR DOT leaves the scales on even when the weigh station isn't in use or manned.

Front axle: 6,400
Rear Axle: 13,750
Trailer Axles: 4,650

Total Weight: 24,800

I was expecting it to be between 23-24K. The Hemi Jeep obviously weighs a little less than mine will but I'd guess I won't be over 25.5K combined weight.

Fuel mileage on the trip was pretty consistent once I'd picked up the Jeep My worst tank was 7.9 MPG when going through Zion NP and then the rest of the way I was getting 8.9-9.3 MPG depending on how much two lane compared to freeway driving I was doing. I don't expect it to improve that much as th engine gets broken in more but we'll see.
 
On the way home I swung thru a OR weigh station for grins & giggles just to see what this beast weighs. OR DOT leaves the scales on even when the weigh station isn't in use or manned.

Front axle: 6,400
Rear Axle: 13,750
Trailer Axles: 4,650

Total Weight: 24,800

I was expecting it to be between 23-24K. The Hemi Jeep obviously weighs a little less than mine will but I'd guess I won't be over 25.5K combined weight.

Fuel mileage on the trip was pretty consistent once I'd picked up the Jeep My worst tank was 7.9 MPG when going through Zion NP and then the rest of the way I was getting 8.9-9.3 MPG depending on how much two lane compared to freeway driving I was doing. I don't expect it to improve that much as th engine gets broken in more but we'll see.

Did you go through the tunnels? From what I understand, to take an RV through the tunnels, you have to wait until they stop traffic coming the other way. Then you need to keep your rig in the center of the road.
 
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Did you go through the tunnels? From what I understand, to take an RV through the tunnels, you have to wait until they stop traffic coming the other way. Then you need to keep your rig in the center of the road.

Yes they stop traffic and you drive in the center of the tunnel. It was a fun experience too.

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Walking around Vegas...

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Stopped at Hoover Dam & saw some local wildlife

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Top of Hoover Dam

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Welcome to AZ

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When we were headed south we'd stopped by my mom's place in the Tri-Cities to say howdy real fast & surprise her. She had fun following us on SPOT for the whole trip.

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Catching up on picture sharing....

Walking around Vegas...

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Stopped at Hoover Dam & saw some local wildlife

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Top of Hoover Dam

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Welcome to AZ

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When we were headed south we'd stopped by my mom's place in the Tri-Cities to say howdy real fast & surprise her. She had fun following us on SPOT for the whole trip.

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Should have taken the dam tour
 
I rode through there on the way to Sturgis several years ago. Those tunnels are small. The windows are cool though.

The tunnels have windows you can see out of?


Catching up on picture sharing....

Walking around Vegas...

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Stopped at Hoover Dam & saw some local wildlife

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Top of Hoover Dam

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Welcome to AZ

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When we were headed south we'd stopped by my mom's place in the Tri-Cities to say howdy real fast & surprise her. She had fun following us on SPOT for the whole trip.

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Say cheese... or not. Cool pics, the hoover dam is awesome, I read that some of it is still curing it's such a large concrete structure. The water line on the rocks is cool if a lil sad.
 
The tunnels have windows you can see out of?




Say cheese... or not. Cool pics, the hoover dam is awesome, I read that some of it is still curing it's such a large concrete structure. The water line on the rocks is cool if a lil sad.

Yeah. At points, the tunnels are cut near the side of the mountain. Along the way, there are windows cut out of the side. They were used to dump the rubble into the canyon during construction.
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The tunnels have windows you can see out of?

There were only a few but the "windows" are a cool touch...

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Yeah. At points, the tunnels are cut near the side of the mountain. Along the way, there are windows cut out of the side. They were used to dump the rubble into the canyon during construction.
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I didn't know what the windows were used for. Wasn't a lot of spots to pull over with the motorhome & trailer combo either. Next trip I'll have a rig to run around with I hope.

Looks like a great trip, Richardo. Sounds like the rig is hitting on all cylinders - literally.

And your rig weight sounds great. Last year coming back from Moab I hit a scale and was over 20k.

Thanks Jeff. It was a good trip and makes me feel better about dumping all that money into the rig. This was also my first real experience with a newer powerstroke so I wasn't sure what to expect since I've only had Cummins for the past 20 years.
Got a few little problems I've got to address on the motorhome but since this was only my second trip with it so I expected possible issues.
 
Got a few little problems I've got to address on the motorhome but since this was only my second trip with it so I expected possible issues.

Dropping it off at the RV dealer tomorrow morning for some work.


Well... If you're going to hint twice... ;)

What's going on with the motorhome? Looked like a good trip, but like you said, first long trip after a bunch of work will shake any issues to show themselves.
 
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Well... If you're going to hint twice... ;)

What's going on with the motorhome? Looked like a good trip, but like you said, first long trip after a bunch of work will shake any issues to show themselves.

The front left leveling jack decided to stop working. It's ziptied up right now.
And one of the rear slides is not working correctly. Still goes in and out but I'm not happy with it.
And then the entry door step doesn't always retract fully.
Nothing serious but I want to address these things now so when the Jeep is done I can use it.
 
Well after a long wait my motorhome is finally finished. They ran into some other issues while it was in the shop. The new man door latch that I'd installed 2 years ago froze up. So they had to replace it also.
The leveling jack was one of the valves sticking.
I'm not sure what they figured out on the slide yet. I'm not going to pick it up until after Labor Day weekend.
 
Well DAMN I'm not picking up my motorhome today.
Go to inspect the work they'd done and I was told they could never get the slide to act up. I run it out ONCE and it's still messed up.
So it'll be a few more weeks before I get it back now.
 
Well DAMN I'm not picking up my motorhome today.
Go to inspect the work they'd done and I was told they could never get the slide to act up. I run it out ONCE and it's still messed up.
So it'll be a few more weeks before I get it back now.

Welcome to (st)dealer workmanship. my guess would be they didn't want to deal with it, so they said they couldn't replicate the issue. Send it home, or it gives us another couple months to work on more profitable shit.
 
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Welcome to (st)dealer workmanship. my guess would be they didn't want to deal with it, so they said they couldn't replicate the issue. Send it home, or it gives us another couple months to work on more profitable shit.

Well they now know what the issue is and said they hope to get it into the shop early next week. So we'll see if they do and what they find out is wrong with it.
The one good thing I found out was that of all the slide systems available this tech said in his opinion I have the best ever offered.
The other thing he told me was that due to my smaller slides I had less chance of issues or damaging them compared to the full wall slides. I knew some of this but still good to hear it from a tech.

I am not going to try to figure out why they couldn't reproduce the fault before. But I am going to make sure it's fixed before I'll accept it back.
 
Well they now know what the issue is and said they hope to get it into the shop early next week. So we'll see if they do and what they find out is wrong with it.
The one good thing I found out was that of all the slide systems available this tech said in his opinion I have the best ever offered.
The other thing he told me was that due to my smaller slides I had less chance of issues or damaging them compared to the full wall slides. I knew some of this but still good to hear it from a tech.

I am not going to try to figure out why they couldn't reproduce the fault before. But I am going to make sure it's fixed before I'll accept it back.

Im skeptical, what slide system do you have.

If its Schwintek, it is literally the dumbest piece of "engineering" ever devised. Its so bad, everyone is spending the money at Vroom to have it replaced. Although expensive, it solves all of the Schwintek problems.
 
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Im skeptical, what slide system do you have.

If its Schwintek, it is literally the dumbest piece of "engineering" ever devised. Its so bad, everyone is spending the money at Vroom to have it replaced. Although expensive, it solves all of the Schwintek problems.

I'll have to check to tell you what slide system it is. But remember mine was built in 2007/8 time frame. The tech said the brand but I don't remember.
 
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