Corey
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We have decided to stay here for another month and they are on our list of places to visit.
🙂
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Maybe I could just buy a shell and put a blow-up mattress and sleeping bags in it. Oh, and an ice cooler 🙂 Most people would never know if I didn’t invite anyone inside 🙂 Well, just thinking out loud…
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We lack horsepower when it comes to getting serious discounts because we do not have the numbers of fuel discount users pumping the gallons required to get someone’s attention.
If we had substantial participation in terms of the percentage of members signed up for the program and we who participate were pumping a lot of fuel using the program we would have the attention of fuel outlets.
Even a small truck fleet pumps a lot of fuel because the average truck is going to use about 20,000 gallons annually. I might use 2,000 gallons so we lack the volume of fuel usage that would allow Tom and I to flex our muscles and negotiate for substantially better discounts.
The key is not only signing up, but using the program so we can sit down at the negotiating table and do much better.
Having said that however fuel is not a big cost of ownership with depreciation being the biggest expense associated with ownership, especially on newer coaches.
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Are you sure oil is coming from tag and not the differential?
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There are a lot of coaches represented on this forum with an Aquahot and the 40,000 BTU heater from Webasto and I cannot recall anyone claiming a problem staying warm.
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Thanks, Jon. Looks good.
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The pressure valve in our water heater failed after just a few years. Found the water heater leaking upon arrival at ETLC and Jeff’s guy replaced it. Then a year or so later we were on the road, stopped at an Interstate rest stop, got out of the coach and there was a a steady stream of hot water pouring your from under the coach … coming out the pressure escape line.
I ordered a 75# valve off the Internet (can’t remember where). Carefully removed the flexible hose and then more carefully removed the valve with a large Crescent wrench; “righty tighty, lefty loosy”. The “old” valve which wasn’t that old had lots of lime on the inside. Put plumbers tape on the threads of the new one and screwed it in by hand. Final tighten with the wrench to get the discharge pointed in the right direction. Reconnected the discharge hose and we were good to go.
Biggest problem is reaching into the water bay to get at the water heater. If you have short arms its a reach. Not a difficult project in my book.
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Mine does the same thing. I’m actually headed to Marathon San Antonio the end of next week and will add this to my list. I’ll report back.
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Tom and Al,
which H3 LEDs did you use? Seems to be some choices out there….
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yes Sir, when I get a jam, i Google, youtube, and go to Forums, also talk to my Prevost regional Tech support.
Is that a problem
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I think those valves have an aluminum body and it corrodes easily so rebuilding is sometimes false economy. If the body is brass rebuilding is not out of the question but then it becomes an issue of how valuable your time is.
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I rebuilt three of my kickspace heaters a few weeks ago. They’re not Cadets, but I think they’re all built about the same. Mine have an auto-reset limit switch (looks like yours) wired in series with a thermal fuse. I think the thermal fuse is intended as the backup, since it is a one-use component. I bought new limit switches, but decided to reuse the old ones. My dead fans are what triggered the rebuilds.
After cleaning out 35 years of dust, I was able to reuse everything except the fan motors and blades. The metal blades were fine, but the new motors are slightly thicker, so I had to find blades with a flatter pitch to maintain clearance in the enclosure. I found it interesting that each heater was configured to use only two of the four heating elements (you can choose to use all four), so I effectively have two built-in spares in the unlikely event an element goes bad. All in, I have about $30 and an hour of my time in each one, not counting time spent finding the fans and motors.
The first photo shows a fan before the rebuild, with the thermal fuse under the white fabric to the right of the limit switch, which is under the cardboard. The second photo shows a different heater with two unused heating elements.
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Good old Newmar
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That magnum is good and as close as you can find for ease of installation…You will have to make up battery cables as the Magnum does not have any..
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Unless it takes you more than 2 years to get 5k miles, it would be a waste. Once every two years should be plenty unless you have a bad air compressor that is passing lots of oil. They part is cheap, so if you want to do it more often, it won’t hurt anything, but 5k seems pretty low to me….