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generator fuel pickup line
Hi folks. Wondering if someone on here has had this same problem. We have a 1996 Country Coach with about 175000 miles on it. A couple of years ago the generator wouldn’t run after the main tank was less than about a quarter full which I think is normal. However last year even after filling the tank I could not get the generator to run once I filled the fuel filter. It would start and run for about 30 seconds then quit. I checked the fuel lines and noticed the one running to the tank was pretty rough looking. I trimmed the fuel line back and put a splice in and everything worked fine. A year later and the the generator runs for a short time then dies. The generator will run fine if I put the fuel pickup line in a pail of diesel but the minute i hook the lines up I can see the water separator bowl has air bubbles in it. So i know that I have a compromised fuel line somewhere to the tank. The fuel line runs into the roof of the generator bay and I have torn half the coach apart trying to get to the fuel tank so I can either replace the entire fuel line. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.Thanks
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Without coach information in the signature line or in the body of the message no one can answer your questions. We need coach info.
Also a signature would be nice so we know who we are talking to.
Thanks
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Do you already have the “Service Manual” for your coach?
If you do, you can look at Section 3 “Fuel System” a few pages in will explain how to access the fuel tank and the fuel tank fittings. There should be 2 access panels. Removing the one on the passenger side of the coach might give you enough access to look at the location where the converter connected the generator fuel line into the fuel system.
If you don’t have a “Service Manual” yet go here and obtain all or part of the appropriate manual for your coach.
If you have already looked in the access panels, disregard all of the above.
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I have removed the second and 3rd bay appliances and the cover panels in the back of the bays. The 3rd bay is stainless sheeting that is bent and seal except for a 4 inch cover panel at the top. Removing it does not provide any access to the tank top. The second bay has 3 power boxes attached to the back panel. I removed the panel but there is no access to the tank from there. I fear that i may have to remove both the black and grey tanks to gain access. The coach is a 1995 Le Mirage. Kevin Cook
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Do you have Prevost OTR air conditioning or the Country Coach version. This is not a dig, I’m just trying to find a way to describe where to look.
This is a picture of the connection panel for an XL2. We are looking for the connection panel for your XL with rivets.
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Thanks.Sorry for not being more specific. No our bus doesn’t have over the road air. I don’t recall seeing a bolted panel like the one in the pic. However there is what looked like a patch in the second bay that looks like it may be glued on. Looks factory and i never thought to pull it off. I hope that’s where the connections are. Lot easier than pulling out the holding tanks which is where I thought it could be. I got the generator running by sliding some airline inside the fuel line. About 4 feet of it, not proper, I would like to replace the whole line.
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The first question that I should have asked was…is this a 40ft. or a 45ft. coach? In either case the access to the fuel tank connection panel should be on the inside wall of the bay directly in front of the fuel filler on the passenger side.
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Its a 40 ft Tim. Yesterday I went back to the bay just ahead of the filler door and found what Country Coach would call the access panel. It is about a 8 inch square plate that is screwed onto the back panel of the bay. After removing the screws and the filler tube and breather tube i was able to see that behind that small opening was indeed what i was searching for. I at a loss for a reason why Country Coach would consider such a small opening an “access”. I ended up using a cutting wheel and enlarged the opening enough to actually access the connections. I will have to make a cover to fill in the hole later. Try as I might I could not get the fuel supply line to pull through from the generator bay and I suspect that it got spray foamed in during construction. What i did is slide in some plastic grease line tubing inside of the fuel line which was quite a process. Only after lubing the plastic line with Synthetic oil was I able to get it to slide through. I hooked everything up , primed the filter and all is good. Thanks for the support. Kevin
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Glad it worked out.
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Kevin I’m awfully impressed. Good job!
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Thanks again. We have owned our bus “Willie”for 4 years now and are finding that owning an older bus and not having deep pockets is a very hands on experience. As well just the location of where we live makes it very difficult to find a good qualified repair shop to work on a conversion such as ours.I find that if we are going to pay someone to learn how to fix our bus then I might just as well learn myself. This forum has been a very helpful tool. Kevin
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I agree re cost of repairs and do most of my own work also. But if you think service is expensive, have you checked the payment on $2,000,000 for 15 years at 7%?…only $17,976.57 / month.
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Joel, nice example but combine that with the real cost of ownership.
On average a brand new coach depreciates at about $1,000 per day for the first three years or so. Everything else relating to ownership is chump change.
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I kept getting wet spot under fuel tank finely fingered it was only when we used gen set took the cover off it was loose return fitting at tank 1 min to fix 2 hours to find
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Misery loves company.
Later
bv
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Bliss requires no company at all.
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