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I am looking for any suggestions for a ladder design to assist in getting into the over cab sleeping bed of my 1990 Hawk. My wife and I are in our 70's and we bought the Hawk for one trip but have used it for a lot of trips since. We have had extended trips of between 30 and 90 days and really...

I guess that would work, and I thought of it, but that would then have required 2 new thicker mattresses and would have been heavier and probably more expensive than my solution. We have tried the new xped mats and they are extremely comfortable, in fact, as comfortable as our the Thermorest we...

This would not leave a lot of space to use when not sleeping. If all you do is sleep in the camper then I guess it would be alright but that is not how I use it. We go for some really long trips in it, one was over 60 days and 10K miles. I have made a descision about what to do. I am...

This sounds like a good mat and I will check to see if they have one 30 inches wide. I would hate to lose 10 inches of width (2 times 30-25)

It is not practical to increase the thickness on the pad since the only storage I will accept is in the existing matress storage area. That means that when the mattress halves are stored they must be in the existing area for the original pads. If I want more thickness, then the pads will have...

Yes the two halves of the mattress stacked on top of each other must not exceed about 4 inches. Remember that this is for a 1990 Hawk.

I remember quite a few matress discussions regarding the older Four Wheel campers with the 2 inch mattresses but for some reason I get a lot of other discussion links back on searches but not what I remember. My current foam was replaced just before I purchased the unit by others and is good...

Just a thought. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS248&q=bug+screen&gs_upl=195l1806l0l3733l8l8l0l1l1l0l291l1507l0.3.4l7l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=2122409506941339175&sa=X&ei=xN-FToqoOKLKiALAlZzXDA&ved=0CKIBEPMCMAM I had factory put in new door. The cost was the...

Another option I came up with is to slice off most of the window and use some high-strength vinyl tape to adhere a new, properly cut window with fresh velcro. I don't much like this idea, but there you go. As with most things, I believe that the hardest way will be the best. (Popping stitches...

It took a couple of days, but my husband installed drawers under the seat. He used the board that supported the bed and cut it into 4 sections. Three of those became the front of the drawers; the fourth became a pull-out front to access the potty (against the front wall). Using aluminum...

I guess there were always 2 different KISS principles that should be considered. One is the simplicity of the design or modification, and I understand that. The other is the simplicity of repeated tasks. I guess I am probably going for the latter, since the day to day operation of the unit...

I have a 1990 Hawk and of course it came without a hot water heater. Putting one inside takes up too much valuable storage space. I saw a thread discussing something else and ran across someone who put an ecotemp L5 heater on one of the FWC models. Searching led me to many who have used this...

Ok, working on industrial sites as an engineer, we always used oxygen detectors to monitor safety in confined spaces. 3 people in a small electrical room the size of one of these campers would set off the oxygen detector in way less than 4 hours. We set them at 18 percent. This is why you...

The mppt controller does not determine how effective it is, the solar panel does. Look at the maximum power rating, lets say 17.3 volts. Divide that by the maximum Voltage you set your controller for at the battery, say 14.4 volts. In that case you will get 1.20 or a 20 percent increase in...

I just got my 4 wheel camper, a Hawk on a 2004 Silverado extended cab with short bed. I had a fiberglass topper before that didn't go above the cab. The previous owner swore he got 21 with the topper. I never got over 19, usually averaging 18.5 or so. I knew he drove more gently that I did...