Help?No overdrive!
1997 Winnebago Aventurer Chevy 454 -back brakes fixed -left for Florida this morning -after crazy time at Detroit border (another story) Brakes started squealing again..same as before brake job...
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Just before this problem started to happen we lost our fuel pump. We were on a bridge in the central Keys. Took 5+ hours for a tow truck to come from Miami. He spent over 4 hours hammering and banging under the RV, on the side of the road in the dark, trying to drop the drive shaft. He finally said he had to put it back up because he couldn't get it totally down.
Towed us at a "hardly moving" speed up to Key Largo (police even pulled him over for going too slow):(
Had pump replaced.
Went back to Marathon, turned into drive of campground, RV died....we were stuck again...pump was defective.
Good Sam got an extremely large tow truck to come from Key West...long story short...he towed it (not lowering the shaft as it was only going about quarter of a mile into the campground) then he lowered it...but not enough....over $10,000 damage. (After a long battle, their insurance paid it all.)
Meanwhile, the first mechanic came, dropped the drive shaft, towed it to Key Largo. Replaced fuel pump.
We had all accident repairs done and headed for Canada...that is when the RV started this strange behaviour. We assumed it was the brakes.
So,we had the brakes done. But on our way back to Florida now we have the same problem (as I explained in first post).
We dislike driving at night, but we cannot take a chance during the day of getting in traffic stop and go. If we had known the problem was still with us, we would not have left for Florida.
After this long post, we are wondering if anyone thinks, or has an explanation for the problem being because of the drive shaft not being lowered before towing.
Any thoughts would be appreciated as we just have to get this fixed asap.
Just before this problem started to happen we lost our fuel pump. We were on a bridge in the central Keys. Took 5+ hours for a tow truck to come from Miami. He spent over 4 hours hammering and banging under the RV, on the side of the road in the dark, trying to drop the drive shaft. He finally said he had to put it back up because he couldn't get it totally down.
Towed us at a "hardly moving" speed up to Key Largo (police even pulled him over for going too slow):(
Had pump replaced.
Went back to Marathon, turned into drive of campground, RV died....we were stuck again...pump was defective.
Good Sam got an extremely large tow truck to come from Key West...long story short...he towed it (not lowering the shaft as it was only going about quarter of a mile into the campground) then he lowered it...but not enough....over $10,000 damage. (After a long battle, their insurance paid it all.)
Meanwhile, the first mechanic came, dropped the drive shaft, towed it to Key Largo. Replaced fuel pump.
We had all accident repairs done and headed for Canada...that is when the RV started this strange behaviour. We assumed it was the brakes.
So,we had the brakes done. But on our way back to Florida now we have the same problem (as I explained in first post).
We dislike driving at night, but we cannot take a chance during the day of getting in traffic stop and go. If we had known the problem was still with us, we would not have left for Florida.
After this long post, we are wondering if anyone thinks, or has an explanation for the problem being because of the drive shaft not being lowered before towing.
Any thoughts would be appreciated as we just have to get this fixed asap.
