Andy
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We have a full size, house style, 120volt Amana side by side refrigerator in our motorhome. The M/H is 16 years old and I presume the refrigerator is original, hence 16 years old.
The model number is SBD2054E.
Any suggestions on trying to trouble shoot why it isn’t cooling? When I flip the “Refrigerator” breaker I can hear a fan start and run. I think this is a fan because when I turn the breaker on it draws only about 1 amp.
Before I call a technician in to rouble shoot it, is there anything I can do to try to figure out what the problem is? The refrigerator is raised up off the floor about 6″ so I have to build a platform just for the tech to pull it out to look at it; its built into the cabinetry.
Tom mentioned replacing the defrost timer, thermostat and defrost heating element. I presume the problem is NOT any of those three devices since the “fan” seems to run. If the thermostat is bad, I presume the fan would not go on. I might be wrong.
Tom … do you know if the refrigerator you replaced is the same model as mine? If so, I’m encouraged that there is an almost identical replacement available at Sears if I have to go that route. I presume the only way to replace the refrigerator is to go out the pax window as even without doors and interior parts the refrigerator won’t go through the side door.
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Mine is a Fluke, however I see no reason to worry a lot about accuracy except repeatability.
To answer Tim’s question….after we have driven a while our tires heat up. On a hot summer day I will see around 135 degrees on all tires give or take a few degrees. If I see a tire whose temp is significantly out of that range such as 150 then I suspect that tire has low air pressure. We all have found if our tires are inflated based on the pressures required for the load carried tire temps are going to be consistent. There is no quicker way to find a tire with a pressure issue because almost as fast as you can walk you can read temps.
I shoot the temps on the wheel as close to the center as possible. If any of those are out of the range of the others then it is a clue there are wheel bearing issues or a brake is dragging.
The more a driver does that the easier it is to know exactly what temps to expect. Ambient temps will vary the readings but the consistency of readings will remain. I have measured tire temps around 80 degrees on cooler days and as high as 140 on hot days. Wheel temp readings will run much closer to ambient temp. So the accuracy of the readings is less important on a gun than the ability of the gun to consistently provide the same readings when the temps of the tires are the same.
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Ken: Very impressive slideshow and video covering your re-engine/trans project. What a task to take on. Is that the same DD engine our late 90’s and early 2000’s coaches? If not, what kind of hp/torque do you have?
Anyone who hasn’t taken the link in Ken’s signature and see his project should!
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We are on the road for the summer, but will post all the photos where they can be downloaded as soon as we get back home.
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Please do. My wife and I were planning on coming but the rain up here in Chattanooga put me behind on a few projects so we had to abort the trip.
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Vantare was completely lost. Seems like no one has been there long enough to remember how coaches were built “back then”. Records seem to have been lost over the years on the builds. My serial number nor the build sheet number that the coach was built by didn’t mean anything to them. Typical,,,LOL.
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I used levels on the floor of the bus in the galley, then adjusted the bubble to match.
I could name a few that are half a bubble off at all times….
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While I’m on the topic of “leveling” your coach, has anyone added an HWH Active Air System to their Prevost? Not sure if it’s even applicable, but I know they have been added to other bus type MH like Blue Bird.
I would paste in the URL, but I can’t figure out how …
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Straight from the source:
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Jeez…now Tom’s many last busses are internationally acclaimed !
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Butch & Dawn, there are plenty of collapsible aluminum ladders available. most of us carry one with us. You need a 12′ for an XL or a 14′ for an H. Ours folds down to about 32″X12″ and can be used as a step ladder or an extension ladder. Grizz is right…..depends how much HD you want and what you’re willing to spend. On our last coach we updated the tv’s and used HD receivers which gave a slight picture improvement, but mainly for the functions ie. pause,DVR etc and ran everything from the in-motion sat. This time around we went with the Direct TV Traveler dish and true HD. Got sick of having it in our homes and not the bus. We watch alot of sports though. You will only have HD when parked but will have SD when moving. The cost to us for 3 tvs (22,42&46″) LED Smart tvs, 3 Blue Ray dvds, 3 Direct TV receivers and the Wineguard Traveler along with audio upgrades incl dash radio, new 10″ monitor and passenger Nav screen and sound bar and bass unit for outside tv was about 12K. We spend about 65% of our time in the bus so to us it was $ well spent. Geo.
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Good suggestion. I went to find stainless bolts when I was gathering materials and could only find them with phillips heads on them. I did use one of them on the bottom front where I could get a screwdriver on it. The rest are hex head and much easier to grab on to. Maybe I will get 20 years use out of this valve too. By then I will have forgotten how hard it was to remove and replace. Lol
Davy
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(in Jon’s case, 8 track tapes)
Hey Jon, why is it that when someone post something like this they use “admin” why not just put “TOM”
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If our dues revenue doesn’t increase hot dogs are going to seem like gourmet cooking. I thought for sure doubling the dues was going to work, but my math must be wrong.
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Crazy Horse is definitely on the list with Rushmore. Never seen either.