[SilverStreak] Some trip tips

["Eddie" <Eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,
Take a spare tire ready to go. Take wooden blocks. If you get a flat, pull 
your trailer up on blocks (good tire) until flat off ground. No jacking, 
tire forced down and clears wheel well. Safe easy way to change a flat or 
pack bearings. Practice! You need to know how many blocks to use, so 
practice before flat, or you won't know. Make sure you have the 
where-with-all to remove your lug nuts. Take personal wet-wipes and keep 
handy to field-clean your hands.

Never tow a trailer with anything in the waste holding tanks. Beats up the 
tank, trailer, and puts wrong weight on the tongue. Yes, put a gallon or so 
in tanks to slosh and keep clean in transit. Never put anything in tank that 
won't dissolve to mush like toilet tissue dissolves. Make sure the kids 
know, no Kleenex!

Lay a hand towel on the stove and then put cooking grates on top to prevent 
rattling and damage. Take grills out of oven, put in a towel and then lay on 
the towel. This prevents the grills from beating up the oven. Put a towel in 
the sink. Put loose things on the towels in the sink. This prevents the 
stuff from falling into the sink and beating that up. Put loose things in 
the trailer, on the floor and forward. It is when you have that stop that 
everything goes flying forward and tears up your trailer.

When getting gas, feel those tires and wheel bearing caps. Get used to what 
is normal warmth. No wheel or grease cap should be warmer than the other 
three. This reveals problems before they turn into monsters.
-Eddie- Houston, TX