Flyinbowtie
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If you are like me the thought of unused, inaccessible potential storage space in your Hauler drives ya nuts.
There is a space above the sealed generator box in my Genesis, this appears to be common on the haulers.
The footprint is about the same as the genny box, and it is about 14 inches tall.
I had been looking for a place to mount a small 110v air compressor, and this seemed perfect. I got ahold of my family member who is the Senior Service tech at the dealership we bought our rig from, and we came up with a plan. We cut an access and installed a new compartment door to get into the space. (Cutting that hole was a bit stressful, I won't lie to ya)
The sound insulation on the box is hard foam and about 2 inches thick. I painted one side of a piece of 1/2 inch plywood white and used some construction adhesive to glue it (bare side down) to the insulation.
Then I shopped around for compressors, and landed on this little Roseair deal, it is so quiet you cannot really hear it running from inside the RV. I mounted it on the plywood, and ran the power cord over to the existing plugs in the basement pass through storage. The space next to it now has a little half tall plastic crate for stuff I don't use often but want to have with me, and there is still room for an additional 2 gallon air tank if I want to add capacity. Having high pressure air in the RV is a good thing, imho, and it runs just fin on the inverter, don't even have to fire up the generator.
I bolted a 25 ft hose reel into the side compartment where the battery shelves are. I can get to all the tires on the RV and the truck with it. If we decide to double up our batteries to 4 the additional 2 will be in a rack above the existing 2 behind the propane tanks.
My RV guy sent me pics of a new rig they had just got in from Genesis a week after we did this little mod. Apparently they had a lot of requests from customers to make use of this dead space hole and are now offering a factory installed compartment as an option.
It cost me about 100 bucks for the compartment door...
There is a space above the sealed generator box in my Genesis, this appears to be common on the haulers.
The footprint is about the same as the genny box, and it is about 14 inches tall.
I had been looking for a place to mount a small 110v air compressor, and this seemed perfect. I got ahold of my family member who is the Senior Service tech at the dealership we bought our rig from, and we came up with a plan. We cut an access and installed a new compartment door to get into the space. (Cutting that hole was a bit stressful, I won't lie to ya)
The sound insulation on the box is hard foam and about 2 inches thick. I painted one side of a piece of 1/2 inch plywood white and used some construction adhesive to glue it (bare side down) to the insulation.
Then I shopped around for compressors, and landed on this little Roseair deal, it is so quiet you cannot really hear it running from inside the RV. I mounted it on the plywood, and ran the power cord over to the existing plugs in the basement pass through storage. The space next to it now has a little half tall plastic crate for stuff I don't use often but want to have with me, and there is still room for an additional 2 gallon air tank if I want to add capacity. Having high pressure air in the RV is a good thing, imho, and it runs just fin on the inverter, don't even have to fire up the generator.
I bolted a 25 ft hose reel into the side compartment where the battery shelves are. I can get to all the tires on the RV and the truck with it. If we decide to double up our batteries to 4 the additional 2 will be in a rack above the existing 2 behind the propane tanks.
My RV guy sent me pics of a new rig they had just got in from Genesis a week after we did this little mod. Apparently they had a lot of requests from customers to make use of this dead space hole and are now offering a factory installed compartment as an option.
It cost me about 100 bucks for the compartment door...
