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Cruise Air and Liberty **&**&##
When I parked the coach last I knew the mid condenser fan motor was out. I replaced it last weekend. Not a big deal. I fired the units up smiling. Now the forward evaporator fan motor is out. Well better in my shop than on a trip.
Liberty builds a nice coach with very well built cabinets. Now try to get the evaporator out ****. Wow this is taking a little time. I can’t believe they built the cabinets around it. So far I have broken any trim.
Hopefully I will gain access tomorrow. Then on to the Wabasto blower motor. My list is getting smaller.
John
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Excellent effort, SkyWagon! I have the same set-up and actually removed the trip around that evaporator to try and clean it and its fan, and thought how it would be quite difficult to remove it! Please post more pics, including pics of the unit out. THANK YOU and best wishes for a successful project!
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That looks very similar to the upper cabinets on my 1984 Liberty Coach. I recently removed everything above the windshield to redo it, since I’m moving away from Cruisairs and didn’t need so much depth above the driver. Their puzzle assembly was both frustrating and impressive. Good luck!
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I have the same setup, Liberty #331. Yrs ago I was up to my elbows in the front cabinetry installing a larger LED TV, re-wiring it for current technology, and getting rid of all the old technology components and their wires. Hadn’t had to mess with that evaporator yet. I have pulled the the frig out to clean the mid coach evaporator. Keep us posted.
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Don:
Don’t know how your interior is set up, but after having to take my fridge out the 2nd time to clean the AC unit behind it I found a better solution.
My Fridge is on the DS just aft of the front slideout. Just in front of the fridge is a wine rack with a small storage area below it. When I had the fridge out I removed the carpeted panel in the lower storage are, cut a large hole in the plywood to access the AC unit behind the fridge, then put the carpeted panel back in to cover the hole I made.
Now the process of cleaning the AC unit behind the fridge is to open the lower cabinet below the wine rack, remove the center shelf, remove the carpeted panel to expose the hole I made. Now I have access (tight but do able) to the AC behind the fridge.
Chuck
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Skywagon and others, Here’s a thread I did here on PC when I pulled the frig to change the mid CruiseAir evaporator filter: LINK
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Here is my update so far. I was able to cut the bulkhead flush. After that it was easy. The bulkhead was pulled down from the top and twisted out of the miter joint. I can reinstall, no problem. It will look untouched. The evaporator fan is very hard to turn. I am waiting on the replacement motor. The coils will be cleaned when I remove them for the motor change.
John
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Well this next project was not fun. I have been wanting to do for a while.. The rear condensing unit gets it’s air from the bottom up the bus. My unit can be accessed by removing panels in the first bay. The coils attract crud, Lots of fans an blowers kicking stuff up. The problem I have with this is I like to blow coils out not in. I have a long blower made to blow radiators out.
to do this I need to gain access. half of the lid screws car covered up. I needed to remove the back wall of bay #2 right side. I had to remove all of my entertainment stuff first. Well Liberty did it again. The back wall was installed before some of the other panels, plus carpet was laid over the screw heads. Needless to say a new rear panel is needed.
Once access was gained to most of the condenser I was able to remove the top then the front panel of the condenser. Wow there is a lot of dust everywhere. I even found out why my aux fuel tank takes so long to fill. The vent was partly kinked.
Well I made a big mess blowing and vacuuming. I decided to make a frame and screen for the condensing coils. I can access it from a panel in the #1 bay. The frame is held on with Velcro. My thought is I can pull the screen and clean. Time will tell if it too restrictive. Y’all would not believe how nasty the unit was inside. With a clean fan on the evaporator I was getting a 24 degrees deference on heat. So far so good.
I have some other ideas if this is a future problem.
I cut the new panel and found matching carpet. I will post more photos as things go back together.
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This is not specific to John’s coach but a general comment. We always concentrate on bus mileage. What nobody has ever mentioned is there are a lot of low mileage coaches that have been used for full timing or parked in an RV park, used as a second home.
A lot of house problems could be the direct result of things just getting worn out, especially things like Cruisairs which are not fun to fix.
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Ah Liberty! Beautiful interiors and workmanship…But, doors behind doors and more doors and walls behind walls and things put in the most unlikely of places! Geo
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