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Posts: 58 		Post Options Post Options   Quote mcclurey Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: List Your Mods:
    Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 9:10am
Nice! Is that a custom welded and fabricated mount for your spare tire? If not, can you tell me where you purchased?
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Posts: 12 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Kobwo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Sep 2015 at 12:07am
Hello, I'm curious about your solar mount. Is the mount bracket welded to the rails?  Since you've had it for a while, how is it holding up in the wind?

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Shawn

Originally posted by BAYAGMO2

RPOD RP-172

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1. Relocate the spare tire to the tongue.
2. Install a second battery.
3. Fabricated a mount for Goal Zero Solar Panel.
4. Install a diamond plate tool box on the tongue.
5. Install sewer hose pipe underneath and behind both tires.
6. Install curtains and curtain rods on both bunked.
7. Install two corner shelve behind the dinette.  
Shawn, Mohyon, and Chewy
2016 Rpod 180 On Order : 2015 Silverado-Texas Edition
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Love love love the water proof toilet roll holder --- where did you get it and what was involved in the installation? 
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Sorry, shoe nook on 179 is to the left of the linen closet drawers.  Cut open dead space after taking plywood lid off bed, inserted a plywood bulkhead in front of wire chase and have 15 inch deep shoe nook.
Used auto door edge plastic trim in 1/8" plywood to look more finished.
"You can't change the Wind but you can adjust your Sails."
Carl & Marty
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Posts: 80 		Post Options Post Options   Quote LePodders Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Sep 2015 at 3:51pm
Where did you put the shoe nook? cant make it out in the picture
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Posts: 18 		Post Options Post Options   Quote starboardcarve Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Sep 2015 at 8:47pm
Haven't posted pics before and need lessons.
Shoe Nook try again.
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Posts: 18 		Post Options Post Options   Quote starboardcarve Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Sep 2015 at 8:43pm
Enjoy the stuff/mods you guys have done, I'm probably being redundant.
Have had our 179 for 4 months and did a nice 4,200. mile trip to Apostle Islands and back from south Texas and only had a few little problems, mostly due to ignorance being old pop up and tent campers.
Added a shoe nook in dead space in front of linen drawers and a shelf for my tea glass under TV.
"You can't change the Wind but you can adjust your Sails."
Carl & Marty
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Posts: 61 		Post Options Post Options   Quote M0tl3y Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 Sep 2015 at 2:56pm
In the following link you'll find a write-up of an install of 200W fixed solar panels for an R-Pod 178. It may not be universal across all R-Pods, but will give you a sense of how to do your own. I've also tried to cover the various controversies and real-world aspects of doing fixed solar.

uploads/3251/Fixed_Solar_Install_Forest_River_R-Pod_178_-_Compressed.pdf

Enjoy.

(Below is an example of the finished product. The write-up has several more)
The 178 club
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Posts: 364 		Post Options Post Options   Quote JandL Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Aug 2015 at 12:41pm
Another site I looked at is “Custom Vinyl Lettering.net”. They were also easy to try out different fonts. They have quite a few font choices only I did not find a font that looked like the rpod on my trailer.
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2012 177
2 Paynes in a Pod
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Posts: 26 		Post Options Post Options   Quote KrogPod Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Aug 2015 at 10:55am
Very nice job, I like the lettering and the theme.

Might have to try that in ours, 2 Krogs in a Pod or just the user name, KrogPod

Paul
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