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I wonder if there could have been some confusion about how the state would use the figure from the initial sale of the camper. The paragraph below (from here) appears to say the value of the camper would be reduced by the percentage in the years-of-service table. Note also that it says the...

Looks like I should have looked around some more. There's another 08 with the lights in this thread. And another here on ExPo (you may have to be logged on to ExPo to see photos there). But this other one on Expo doesn't have them. Nor this Expo one. This 08 Hawk on WtW doesn't even have...

I see marker lights in the photos of a 2008 Hawk in this thread so I'd think your 08 Hawk would also have them. They're the small lights at the corners (above the reflectors) in post 1. And in posts 3 and 4 we can see the marker-light bars centered on the front and rear ends of the camper. .

We rented a camper van in New Zealand for 55 days in 2013.... one of the Toyota HiAce petrol vans from Cruzy Campers. We flew in to Christchurch on the South Island to pick up the camper and dropped it off at the Auckland airport on the North Island. Cruzy Campers has changed owners since we...

I had been thinking about buying a booster for some time and finally pulled the trigger on a weBoost Drive Reach after seeing this recent Youtube video from Brian on the "RV with Tito" channel .... (I even used the 10% discount code from that video) I've not even installed mine yet and...

Congratulations on your score, laherro! On solar pre-wiring.... In this post from 2007 Stan says solar pre-wiring on all camper models started in early 2006 so you should have it. Look for a coil of red and black wires near the battery. You also might want to look at the wires from the...

Yes, indeed! Thanks for the link to the song! .

This summer's corn seems to be doing well here. We had our first local sweet corn of the season last week and it was wonderful. I always think of corn on the Fourth of July as I worked on a dairy farm for a summer in my teens. The farmer told me the old 'knee-high by the Fourth of July'...

Looking forward to it, tbug! All- For readers wanting more on the SS1240 Badlands Edition, here's a well-executed video tour of one. The tour guide provides a lot of helpful detail on features... Interesting! Electric roof lift, windows all around the top, north-south Serta mattress with...

I just remembered Stan's excellent video on solar pre-wiring. It explains how the roof and rear-wall solar ports are wired together with Wago Wall-Nut connectors for the run to the controller. And then a run out of the controller to the battery... https://youtu.be/foHxHYq10Ns You may...

Just adding a photo of the Attwood female connector with the door open to document pin usage.... (The photo came from Stan's post here. I cropped it a bit and added the text) Testing notes-- - Be careful not to short the pins together while touching them with the meter/tester's probe (to...

Hi. wm87-- Can you tell us more about your Swift shell? And maybe post a photo of your battery/electrical compartment? I ask because I see the current spec sheet for a Swift shell shows they come standard with a battery and separator but I also know that wasn't the case until recently (but I...

If the Trojans are the flooded variety (as opposed to AGM), I'd also want to the check the water level in the cells and check them periodically from now on (if it's not already being done). Concerning the monitor panel.... As I mentioned in this post, I contacted the panel manufacturer for the...

Welcome, docalex! I too have had a fascination with Alaskans from an early age but I've not quite gotten around to getting one. Congratulations on your find! My browser is seeing three of the photos sideways so let me post upright versions. If you're seeing sideways ones in your post and...

When I bought my (used) Hawk in late 2014, I had many rusty screw-heads around the roof trim and the roof latches and under the cabover. I was having difficulty finding what to use as a replacement and of course looked to WtW for recommendations. After seeing multiple posts about...

(For some reason I'm sometimes losing the quote border after an edit-OC) --- canfindtom said- All your replies are great - very helpful. I think I have found a solution. I ordered some good heavy duty steel truck ramps that I can drive one end of my truck up onto and it will add 10" to that...

I ran onto this thread today which may interest you.... Front Dinette Hawk Shell Photos and Mods Look closely at that first photo. It's not a Lagun mount but same idea (sez me without looking at dimensions) Frosty_1 hasn't been signed in to WtW for a few months but a PM might get to him if...

Yeah, I know what you mean, buckland. Batteries, solar, and 12-volt systems in general are endlessly fascinating and often confusing... not to mention humbling. I have multiple AC-powered battery chargers and each operates differently-- on the same battery! And none of them operate like the...

This is getting better and better. The Wago in this case is the 222 series--- called a LeverNut. (The one joining the roof and rear-wall solar-port wires is from the 773 series and is called a 'Wall-Nut Pushwire' connector). We can see the differences in these two reviews: Wall-Nuts...

Until you get a more definitive answer you might take a look at the frame photos in this Here Until There blog post about an ARB awning. Those folks have a 2015 Hawk and the photos were apparently sent to them by FWC when they had a framing question. I imagine the photos were sent as...

Before doing a continuity test, I think I'd first try Patrick's suggestion (in post 8) of measuring voltage with the green wire's 5-amp fuse removed to see if you have +12 there. Then put the fuse back in and measure again (and we'd expect to find the oddly-low voltage). As Patrick advises...

Thanks! That's helpful. As the owner of an older FWC (and a shell at that) I don't often get to see how FWC does things in the newer models. I wasn't aware, for instance, that they're using that style of Wago connector (a 222-415, I believe-- or perhaps a knockoff). Wagos are just an easy...

----------- (deezlgeezer said-- Update....I managed to determine that my female Attwood plug (in the truck bed) is getting 12.6 volts. So I moved on to the Blue Sea Systems Automatic Charging Relay inside the dinette area. There's a large 'wago' with a 5A-fused wire coming from the ACR into...

I have solar maintainers on the starting batteries of several of my vehicles. I installed the first one on my mother-in-law's car in January 2018 as a result of this Frozen Battery thread. The short version of that is the battery froze because it wasn't being kept charged by the rarely-driven...

That's an excellent question. There's not a whole lot of info on the subject and what I am finding all references plastic gas cans and mower tanks-- nothing on vehicle tanks so far. I called in to my local County Extension office this morning and just had a call back from the insects guy. He's...