$2.99 a gallon
Sep 3, 2012 00:13:31 #
Hi -
This question has nothing to do with gas prices. However you have a travel trailer and so do I. BUT, mine is an oldie and I'm looking for shocks/springs for it and can't find them. It is a Sprite trailer whose original manufacturer was in UK, but the trailer wan an American experiment - they lasted about 4-5 years here and then "went home" to the UK. Now, they're out of business and I can't move the trailer without new shocks/springs!
Any idea if/how you or cna of your camping buddies might give me some leads? I've been working on this for over 5 years and am incredibly frustrates an I completely rebuilt the inside, made new bunks etc and now can't use it. I didn't realize how bad the shocks/sprigs were - it bounces all over the road!
Believe it or not it is a 1973 Sprite Muskateer and we'd love to go camping with out 4 year old granddaughter.
Can you be of any help - PLEASE???
Pilgrim (Scott)
Contact PM please.
This question has nothing to do with gas prices. However you have a travel trailer and so do I. BUT, mine is an oldie and I'm looking for shocks/springs for it and can't find them. It is a Sprite trailer whose original manufacturer was in UK, but the trailer wan an American experiment - they lasted about 4-5 years here and then "went home" to the UK. Now, they're out of business and I can't move the trailer without new shocks/springs!
Any idea if/how you or cna of your camping buddies might give me some leads? I've been working on this for over 5 years and am incredibly frustrates an I completely rebuilt the inside, made new bunks etc and now can't use it. I didn't realize how bad the shocks/sprigs were - it bounces all over the road!
Believe it or not it is a 1973 Sprite Muskateer and we'd love to go camping with out 4 year old granddaughter.
Can you be of any help - PLEASE???
Pilgrim (Scott)
Contact PM please.
Sep 3, 2012 00:15:14 #
Hi -
This question has nothing to do with gas prices. However you have a travel trailer and so do I. BUT, mine is an oldie and I'm looking for shocks/springs for it and can't find them. It is a Sprite trailer whose original manufacturer was in UK, but the trailer wan an American experiment - they lasted about 4-5 years here and then "went home" to the UK. Now, they're out of business and I can't move the trailer without new shocks/springs!
Any idea if/how you or cna of your camping buddies might give me some leads? I've been working on this for over 5 years and am incredibly frustrates an I completely rebuilt the inside, made new bunks etc and now can't use it. I didn't realize how bad the shocks/sprigs were - it bounces all over the road!
Believe it or not it is a 1973 Sprite Muskateer and we'd love to go camping with out 4 year old granddaughter.
Can you be of any help - PLEASE???
Pilgrim (Scott)
Contact PM please.
This question has nothing to do with gas prices. However you have a travel trailer and so do I. BUT, mine is an oldie and I'm looking for shocks/springs for it and can't find them. It is a Sprite trailer whose original manufacturer was in UK, but the trailer wan an American experiment - they lasted about 4-5 years here and then "went home" to the UK. Now, they're out of business and I can't move the trailer without new shocks/springs!
Any idea if/how you or cna of your camping buddies might give me some leads? I've been working on this for over 5 years and am incredibly frustrates an I completely rebuilt the inside, made new bunks etc and now can't use it. I didn't realize how bad the shocks/sprigs were - it bounces all over the road!
Believe it or not it is a 1973 Sprite Muskateer and we'd love to go camping with out 4 year old granddaughter.
Can you be of any help - PLEASE???
Pilgrim (Scott)
Contact PM please.
Sep 3, 2012 16:36:31 #
dpullum wrote:
quote=rfbccb quote=dpullum Before on UHH I have ... (show quote)
Wasn't Nixon President BEFORE Carter?
Sep 3, 2012 17:54:16 #
Diesel is $4.30 and gas is $3.60 this labor day weekend. Oil companies raised the price because they are afraid that the hurricane will cut into their 300 billion quarterly profits.
Sep 4, 2012 05:36:17 #
Richnash46: Yes, correct. However, President Reagan hired the then retired Nixon to help him physically remove those d--d things from the white-house. Ronny was against those new fan-dangled things and science for that mater. Nixon was a got-on-the-band-wagon environmentalist with clean air clean water legislation...From Scientific American we see the :thumbsdown: by Regan:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carter-white-house-solar-panel-array
By 1986, the Reagan administration had gutted the research and development budgets for renewable energy at the then-fledgling U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and eliminated tax breaks for the deployment of wind turbines and solar technologiesrecommitting the nation to reliance on cheap but polluting fossil fuels, often from foreign suppliers. "The Department of Energy has a multibillion-dollar budget, in excess of $10 billion," Reagan said during an election debate with Carter, justifying his opposition to the latter's energy policies. "It hasn't produced a quart of oil or a lump of coal or anything else in the line of energy."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carter-white-house-solar-panel-array
By 1986, the Reagan administration had gutted the research and development budgets for renewable energy at the then-fledgling U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and eliminated tax breaks for the deployment of wind turbines and solar technologiesrecommitting the nation to reliance on cheap but polluting fossil fuels, often from foreign suppliers. "The Department of Energy has a multibillion-dollar budget, in excess of $10 billion," Reagan said during an election debate with Carter, justifying his opposition to the latter's energy policies. "It hasn't produced a quart of oil or a lump of coal or anything else in the line of energy."
Sep 4, 2012 12:00:13 #
dpullum wrote:
Richnash46: Yes, correct. However, President Reaga... (show quote)
Let me see if I understand this correctly? You are saying, "However, President Reagan hired the then retired Nixon to help him physically remove those d--d things from the white-house." I'm very surprised that didn't make the national news that day, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan on top of the White House roof physically removing solar panels? Would this be a little embellishment of the story, perhaps? :lol: :wink: :roll:
Sep 4, 2012 14:55:06 #
richnash46, what, me embellish a story?!?! Humm, perhaps Ronny and I both have memoryitis and hearing lose of convince syndrome. :oops: :lol:
Sep 4, 2012 16:33:24 #
Pilgrim wrote:
Hi - br This question has nothing to do with gas ... (show quote)
Does the trailer have actual shock absorbers? We have a 25' travel trailer and there are no shocks, just leaf springs. Is that your situation?
What do you mean "it bounces all over the road?" Fore and aft hobby horsing? Lateral instability? Do you have enough weight on the tongue and hitch? When you rebuilt, did you work to keep the weight distribution as it was originally?
Most any suspension shop should be able to find appropriate leaf springs, bushings, u-bolts and shackles if that's the type suspension you have.
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