Born Free Leap'n Lions RV Club Info & Discussion Forum

Ann, I guess I should explain a little more about the furnace drain on the batteries. Where the furnace can deplete the batteries in only two nights is when it is relatively cold out so the furnace (and fan) run quite often during the night. I am talking about out outside temperatures down around 40...

JacK Lassen, Did your PD charger/converter always cause a squeal in your AM radio since you installed it or was it a problem that developed later? If the interference is coming from the PD unit, it should be there both when the coach is plugged into shore power or when your generator is providing th...

Your Born Free Motorcoach came equipped with a Magnetek (later called Parallax) Model 6345 or 7345 Charger/Converter. This unit will over-charge your coach batteries if you stay plugged into shore line power for an extended period of time (like more than approximately 3 days). That is why you should...

Bill, I agree with you completely. I use a Garmin 2610 StreetPilot GPS and it is the extremely accurate speed and odometer measurements provided by the GPS that I used to calibrate the Scan Gauge readouts of those same measurements. Unfortunately however, the GPS can't do anything for us on accurate...

If you are an accuracy freak like me, the Scan Gauge system provides a means to enter calibration factors to make the following readouts more accurate in an individual vehicle like your E350/E450: Speed (MPH) Odometer (Miles) Fuel Used (Gallons) Speed and odometer accuracy can be corrected to within...

Check out this Scan Gauge II device. It has tachometer and many other readouts for only $169.95. It has so many readouts that you won't ever look at all of them. You can display any four readouts at a time - I usually display RPM, MPH, MPG & GPH. I have had the older model Scan Gauge for approxi...

Rob, Our club website has two locations in which to browse used Born Free coaches. The first is a link to the Born Free factory listing of preowned units as reported by RVN4US in the post directly above. Use the link in his post to go directly to that site. The second is that our club has a section ...

Dave, I have had the same problem with needing to prime my water pump in my 2002 BF 26' RSB coach. I never had this problem with my earlier 1999 BF 24' RB coach. So my solution has been to have about 12 oz of drinking water in a container that I can get a mouth full from and then with the water pump...

tedelman, I don't know for sure how the various batteries were mounted in the 1992 Born Frees but I will make a guess. If, your BF is a diesel, then I believe the two batteries under your hood are probably in parallel and are used to start your engine and then you have only one deep cycle coach batt...

Don, Thanks for the info on Jerry Erhardt. Jerry sold me a new 1999 Born Free 24' RB motorcoach back in 1999 of course from the Humboldt factory where he has been a long time salesman. We live only 78 miles from the factory. I consider Jerry to be a friend and a very nice guy - I guess I won't see h...

Trisha, After discussing Kathy's problem with her by phone, I did some research on the two different water heaters that Born Free has used in their motorcoaches. In my current 2002 BF 26' RSB and my previous 1999 BF 24' RB, both of these units were equipped with 6 gallon Atwood LP water heaters. The...

Kathy, From your post asking where the water heater drain plug is located, I am not convinced that you ever drained the water heater. On my 26' RSB motorcoach, I can access the back side of the water heater thru a white metal flip down grill located in the right rear corner of the coach. On mine, th...

KathyH, It normally should take only 1.5 gallons of the pink stuff to completely winterize your Born Free. If you have pumped in 5 gallons and none of the excess has come out, you have a problem somewhere. Potential problem #1 is that you really have not bypassed your 6 gallon water heater and you h...

Steve and Donna, Congratulations on the purchase of your new Born Free motorcoach. The Born Free factory will automatically paid for your first year's membership in our Born Free Leap'n Lions RV Club. You should receive notification of that membership sometime in the future from our club secretary M...

Brent, I can tell you my experiences with my wireless equipped Avertec 3150H laptop. The internal wireless card worked but I suffered very short range problems to the point that it was almost useless in most of the situations I encountered while on the road with my born Free. It works quite well wit...