What did you do to your Class A MH today???

Thought about starting to wax the motor home. But early spring (late winter?) temps - 23°F this morning with snow flakes in the air - persuaded me to put it off for another day. Geeze, our camping season begins May 4th for the first campout. Sigh....:R

Installed DC ceiling fan over bed. Makes DW feel at home. Just need to stain and varnish backer board. Next up wireless on/off/dimmer controller for awning LED light strip.

Took it to a Ford dealer for a recall fix on the transmission shift lever, then to my RV dealer for de-winterizing and pre-season check. All set now for the 2012 season, can't wait to get started.

This doesn’t sound like a big deal but I noticed when I was washing the MH my door window frame had a crack in it, So I went and got a new one no big deal un screw and screw back on right Ooono!!! When I unscrewed it everything came apart window both sides of the frame you would think that they would have some kind of clips to hold the window in on the frame. And then try to find some kind of molding to go on the outside fram.You defiantly need two people to do this job after using tape to hold the window on the inside frame and screw it back on only to find out the molding I got was no right for the job so next week end I will try to find out what molding to use and try again.

Installed my new EMS-HW50C Surge Protector today. I had to move the transfer switch to make room for the EMS box, so it was considerably more work than I had originally expected to do.

Hint: The output side of the EMS box is VERY tight due to the current sensors on the red and black output wires. So to make room to fit the white wire between the current sensors, cut the wires so that the white wire is about 1 inch longer than the red & black ones.

I also replaced the flush ball, seals, and clamp rings on my Sealand toilet. It now holds water in the bowl.

toomoxy wrote:
1. found out that my privacy fence gate only allows 1" on either side
to allow my RV to go through and that was with the mirrors in... AND .. my
husband driving...
Sooo got my handy guys to make a bigger gate with bracing $$

2. Found out my RV is heavy and sank several inches in my newer driveway.
Soooo called the local paving place who is coming to widen my drive to allow me to drive straight into the rear yard (was curved driveway) and also at the rear put in a gravel pad for it to park on. $$$

This is my first experience with any sort of trailer or RV...
Wow expensive...
Also realised that the zillion things I bought online over the winter for my RV... that now fill my
basement, will probably not all fit in my RV...LOL

I giggled reading this..the (wow expensive) part...now go fill'er up with gas !!
I fell over when I was done filling up...lol.:E

The good news: I think I finally tracked down the source of the squealing noise I had believed was a serpetine belt or fan bearing problem on my CAT C-7. I verified it wasn't the belt by removing it completely and the noise was still there.

The bad news: It sounds like the turbo and there seems to be excessive play in the turbine the blades. It took me 5 hours to remove it, but on the bright side I soaked all the rusty exhaust manifold bolts/nuts with PB Blaster (that stuff is great) and they all came out with breaking. I'm sure I will be in for sticker shock when I order a new turbo on Monday, but at least my labor rate is affordable. :)

Lou
05 Travel Supreme Envoy

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More bad news: Now that I have the turbo out, the tolerances appear to be within spec. I'm going to let the CAT dealer check it out to be sure, but this means I spent a lot of time under the MOHO and still haven't located the source of the noise. Once again, on the bright side I did learn a bunch of stuff about the operation of the turbo.

I'm leaning towards a transmission problem now and found a few internet hits related to a failing diverter valve causing noise similar to a belt squealing. Anyone have any experience with this?

Thx,

Lou

Installed new starter and re-attached the chassis ground wires. All finished and noticed I had forgot to install the cleaned ground wire from the starter mount to the chassis frame. To tired to go back and install it today. It stinks not being able to do my own work at a better pace. I also installed new wiper blades and a new cup holder to replace the broken one on the passenger side wall. I still need to change the oil and filter and clean up the ground mounted behind the suction fuel filter. A Spartan goof in my opinion. The wiring should not be hard to access.

After finally tiring of stepping over sleeping teenagers to make a pot of coffee in the morning I converted the bedroom from a double, to 2 twins & a rollaway trundel. Next week on South Padre, we'll find out if it was worth it.

Replaced the tranny filters and fluid (TranSynd).

Lou
05 Travel Supreme Envoy