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New truck has arrived home! 2" Leveling kit being installed yesterday 34" to the top of the door sill so far, guess I'm going to need some running boards of some sort.

Nice set up!

Hi and thanks for the reply Advanture, I talked to the elusive insurance company several weeks and all they could inform me from their multiple investigations is that the catalytic that was not the cause of the fire. We have gone to a 14" 3" camper so that we could keep almost the same layout...

Seen any write ups or real life comparisons?

Hi Jay and thanks for the condolences. I think the Sanyo's are the one's we have on our garage.

Latest driver's side cabinet layout with Platinum Catalytic heater shown. We decided to go with this as a compromise between furnace and catalytic heater. We don't know what caused the fire on the last one, but wanted to avoid both the Atwood furnace or the Olympic heater in case they may have...

Confirmation again on the difficulty of cooking with diesel in an RV when it's hot out. I wonder how the Earthroamer people do it, or are they so rich they just eat out every night? Here is the roof layout of the camper. The roof is two feet shorter than the camper and everything is a little...

Thanks for the condolences Mangymarmot. Update: We heard from the dealer that the truck is built and now waiting in Detroit to be shipped to Colorado. Hopefully it will be here soon. Wheels and tires are supposed to be here any day. Bumper is being built after Aluminess contacted Detroit...

Hi Don, Thanks for the reply. Glad to here another vote of confidence on the mpt 81's. I thought long and hard about the spare tire problem and just did not want to be moving the spare every time I needed in the back of the camper. I talked to Bryan and he is going to run cabinets all the way...

In the last camper I actually had two boots. One was a compressed foam ring and the other was a small tube with two rings. Each came from a different pop up camper manufacturer. The new camper will only utilize a boot when the top is up as the top when down will block the rear window of the...

Ordered a two inch leveling kit for the front of the truck from a company in Oregon called Revtek. I'll need this for the mpt81's to fit. They are one of the few that have there kits on 5500's and they actually talk to you on the phone. Truck is in production and should be here mid January...

As much as I like the cool ideas for the swing gates and various ingenious ideas of hanging a tire off the back, no matter what it will be in the way all the time. Every time I have to get in the back of the camper I will be moving a 100+ lb tire/wheel combination whether it is assisted or not...

Hi David, Thanks for the pictures and info. I not sure if I want to do a cutout in the rear. One side would take the cassette toilet out and the other the grey water tank. I thought about a swing out on the rear, but am limited on what would interfere if we were towing ever. Aluminess is...

Looking at this bumper by Aluminess in Southern California: Tire pivots up to use the winch. Have to find a place to put the spare since the chassis cab does not have anywhere underneath to hide it. Thought about in a rack above the cab, but I think the Rickson steel wheel and MPT 81 tire...

Hi Wild1, Glad to hear your opinion on the diesel, i don't think the price and drawbacks really justify diesel for me. If this was a boat, it may, but it's not. Anyone seen any good designs for a fold down set of steps that incorporate a spare tire?

Hi Francis, I see you have discovered the cost of diesel appliances as well. Amp draw is lower than a propane furnace, but still quite a bit. And no oven.

Hi Grizzlyj, Thanks for the sentiments on the camper. At this point of research we have decided to stick with propane. A full diesel conversion is about $6k more and there is no way we can put an oven in. They are simply not available for rv's in the US. The dog kennel idea was a complete...

Thanks, I may take you up on the offer and at least pick your brain. Carl

On the other hand I just ordered a Dodge 5500 tow weeks ago...

After the egr delete at 100k on my 6.0 I had no issues.