Walter
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Okay, my brain got the best of me .
I went out the the shop, disconnected and pinned the ride height valve in the neutral position (5/32 drill bit works great for this). Then lowered the coach with the level low system and waited about an hour and the front end did not raise. This pretty much proves one or both of the 3 way valves are stuck or have failed.
It makes me feel good to be confident that is what it is.
Of course, they are mounted in a place that requires some contortion to get to.
So, when they get here tomorrow, I will feel good when I am done. But most likely sore… lol
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Well Hell!
We sleep in truck stops all the time! I walk my 4 chis by myself while Butch fuels up the beast. NOW I’M BEYOND FREAKED OUT!
We both have our CHL licenses so I guess I’m gonna have to start carrying my sig nightmare sidearm when I do this from now on.
Butch is a big scary looking guy that can do a lot of harm, but if he is blind sided he can’t do anything. He just told me to quit reading this thread. LOL.
Killer Chis
Butch The BMF Bus Driver!!
HaHa!
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Nice job on the slide show Cory, looks like everyone had a good time. Lets make that an annual event and fill the place up.
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James’ tool is a 3.5 hp electric motor, flex shaft with buffing wheel on the end, lots of rouge, tons of experience and lots of time. I have seen this in operation and late in the day when the panel was shiny, the worker was black.
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Yes, as Jon said. They allow air to go into the pipe but are not supposed to allow air to come OUT of the pipe. They are a solution to the problem of running pipes to the roof.
The original ones had a spring and a flat piece of rubber. But the new ones were just a rubber flap. The 26$ ones you can’t actually see how they operate.
If you stick it to your mouth (a new one please!) and blow you can’t blow out of it. I think they have to be sort of delicate for them to really work effectively. Probably why if not made right they don’t work.
I still don’t really get how the cheaper one didn’t stop the flow of air out of the grey tank when I tested them with the fantastic fan. But maybe they have manufacturing problems. I only blew into 1 of them. I don’t know which one. But installed 3.
Walt
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You poor people who are tethered to your wireless devices have my pity.
First because you don’t have the balls to turn it off when you prefer to not be disturbed for fear you will miss an important phone call or text, and because you haven’t yet learned if someone cannot talk to you immediately the world will still continue to rotate.
Doesn’t anyone remember what it was like before mobile phones? How did we ever manage to get along? Cell phones have become a substitute for planning ahead.
And just to show my complete dislike for how cell phones have screwed us up, I was doing errands this morning and on a narrow two lane road a lady came at me from the other direction. In one hand (her left) she was holding a cigarette near what must have been a slightly open window. The palm of her other hand was resting on the top of the steering wheel and with a finger that was not holding the cell phone she was entering a number or texting. Everything would have been peachy keen except she happened to be on my side of the road. Judging from her expression when she realized she was about to have her Subaru come face to face with 7600 pounds of pickup truck I believe she soiled her pants. But she kept on texting.
After that scare I reached for my Geritol.
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I have an upgrade from Verizon comming this year and he can have my iPhone 6. We can all watch the dance.
Comes complete with the Wally World parking app and the Loves truck stop app. Oh and an app for locating dump stations. -
Walt
Now you know what a Waygo (that’s how it’s pronounced) board is. Very good, you got further than most.
Leon can tell you what 39D powers.
Later
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We had an awning ripped from the coach while we were sitting inside on a sunny previously windy day.
The wind came in the form of a sudden burst, no warning and it did a lot of damage to ours and a couple of other coaches. It first ripped the arms from the lower attachment points, and the diagonal support on the forward end was jammed up between the roof and the air horns. I couldn’t get out of the coach before the whole thing was over. When I got outside four guys walking by were hanging on the awning trying to keep it from beating the coach to death.
We got it rolled up, arms removed and lashed to the roof with wire coat hangars and anything else I could find to secure it until we got to ZipDee from Colorado Springs.
My point is it can happen before anyone can react so depending on an auto retraction system can result in damage to the coach because the roll up time is far greater than the few seconds it took for our awning to be ripped from the coach. The cantilevered armless awnings which we have now are rarely deployed unless we are sitting right there and the winds are non existent. I am afraid if we encountered similar winds to our incdent structural damage would result.
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On our 2003 Marathon XLII there are 3 locations where the vents are. There are a total of 4 vents Inside the bust – with a single “tank” vent on the roof.
The cabinet under the Galley Sink there is 1. Looks like this: (you can see the vent in way back in there)
In the Toilet room cabinet there is 1:
And, the vanity sink cabinet:
Now, the fourth vent (for the washing machine) is accessed through the Vanity Cabinet… I already did the work and closed it up (stupidly) before I took a picture BUT….
Look about 7 o’Clock in the picture – see that nylon strap loop? You pull on that and that panel comes out and you’ll see the 4th vent for the washing machine. You will have to remove the rectangular panel in the back there first (on mine I did – you might not) If you put on your X-Ray vision glasses – you’ll see the vent it in the picture behind that panel. If you don’t have them handy… trust that this is where it was on our bus.
Changing them out was actually pretty easy… just took a while to find that 4th one behind that panel there and pony up for the big money 26$ pieces of plastic.
Walt
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Jon
I am eading that the slide in 2001 and 2002 were troublesome. What are your thougths? Any years to stay away from?
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I wondered the same thing as Mark points out. Why would you want those things to be so shiny when driving?
And then when you park the coach at a RV park or resort and put those covers/boots from Camping World on the wiper blades (and the mirrors), no one can see the bright, shiny stainless anyway.
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Steve,
We lived in the western NY snow belt and during the winters I ran our coach all over doing trade shows. It would often be covered with all the crud put on the roads, and there were times I wasn’t able to get it cleaned immediately because of sub freezing temps and no warm place available to wash it and flush it clean.
The stainless took a real beating, including getting discolored as you decribe. The wheels suffered even more than the skin.
I never had to rebuff the coach, and the rust colored stains on the skin and the while corrosion on the wheels were easily dealt with. When I could wash the coach I flushed the salt and sand grit from the coach with a lot of water and dried it immediately. When the weather turned warm with each washing the stains disappeared, but I never allowed water to dry on the skin. If I did I ended up with white water spots so for me the bottom line was to wash the coach and dry before the water could dry from the sun on the skin. Eventually all winter stains went away. If I had to, such as in hot summer sun I often could only wash and dry sections of the coach at a time. I think drying the coach was a very gently form of buffing.
The wheels I had to buff occasionally. I attacked them with a 1/3 HP buffing wheel with a flexible shaft and white rouge. Between buffing I used every metal polish known to man and learned there were no silver bullets. The aluminum wheels got a hazy white finish over time and a couple of times per year I had to rebuff them. The reason I would not do the skin is because unlike the wheels buffing the skin needs to be done correctly or the skin will end up buckling and look lousy. The wheels can tolerate abuse from the buffer because their thickness is going to prevent distortion from the heat of buffing.
Some have suggested a water and white vinegar mix will clean stains from the stainless skin. I never tried that, but it might work. I would test it on hidden or small spots before using it on the entire coach.
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Buddy, that’s not a hurdle…Still miss things about our CC. Geo.
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Brett, you are missing my point. We are talking about keeping the coach out of elements when not in use. Certainly not saying do use the coach for the fear of sun shinning on it while driving down the road. And no I do not enjoy ownership more than traveling in my coach.
Bill S.