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Old 10-20-2022, 04:44 PM   #21
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By the time you carry enough parts to fix your RV there won't be any room for you to sleep at night. Just when you think you brought everything that could brake nothing you bring will ever brake. It's called Murphy's law. It will brake but you won't have the part. I just carry some tools and hope it's a simple fix. I did however bend a wheel hub and It was out about 10 degrees. No way can you fix that on the road. I was a long way from a repair shop about 250 miles. Cost me 4 tires new axle only $4,700.
 
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If you carried all of this stuff you would need a tractor trailer following you and it might be overloaded.
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That's true. I have found that what breaks is never what you have prepared for. It's always something else.
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Old 10-23-2022, 03:49 AM   #24
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We have been full time for year, and i can say most of my spare stuff like our spare slide motor is still in the garage. I have had 4 slide cables snap, and thats even with checking them monthly and adjusting. They dont take up much room so i keep them handy.

I replaced our water pump with a "quiet" one and kept the original as a spare. We use it for a transfer pump now when boondocking.

Other than that the stuff that broke was major stuff like a front jack. But the small stuff saves ya everyday headaches, like spare hose washers and fuses.
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Wheel bearings

It seems wet bolts and wheel bearings are popular items to carry spares for - where do you get a set of spares? I should probably know this...

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It seems wet bolts and wheel bearings are popular items to carry spares for - where do you get a set of spares? I should probably know this...

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I called Dexter directly, gave them the info about my axle, and they gave me the part numbers for every piece associated to my axle down to the cotter pins so I don’t have to look and search for proper part numbers later. While speaking with them, they let me know I could put the 7k never adjust brakes on my 6k axles as an up grade and get better braking, so when I replaced all 4 of the brakes, I upgraded to the 7k’s and it made a noticeable difference stopping. I locally sources my spare bearing and races using the part numbers. I believe it’s better to have this type of info ahead of time when it’s not needed than to be trying to track it down in the heat of an event.
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