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

Winterized the new beast, changed oil with only 4000 km on it. Need to retire and use it now as it's winter berth is right outside my kitchen window teasing us everytime we look out.

Did the CHF last week and today added a Roadmaster Steering Stabilizer. We took a test drive and what a differance in handeling. Heading to FL for the Thanksgiving holiday in a couple of weeks
Bob

Used rig for the last time this year two weeks ago and neither slide would work.Kinda ruined a wk/end. got it home and couldn't find a blown fuse and
manual didn't show much. Sent off an email to Gulfstream and they sent me a couple printouts of my electrical compartment. Determined there is no control power as if a fuse has blown but can not find it as no fuses are bad in either chassis,lighting or coach panel. I do have a positive and negative pair for power seats not used that are fed by a 15 amp mini breaker from coach panel.
the driver seat has a safety slide switch that feeds both slides power and it is dead also. I found the wire at said seat switch that feeds slide buttons and
slides work fine now. I'm gonna induce a milliamp signal to other wire and try and find it in fuse compartment. I checked ALL fuses and all are good to look at and none are Id'd as slide power. After all that I did get it winterized and topped off batteries, took 1/2 gallon of distilled too. on edit I'm using power seat hot lead for slide control power.

Moved it one state closer to our border crossing to Mexico: Albuquerque NM. Here three nights.

Just got back from a long weekend trip to Williamsburg, Va yesterday. Getting ready to tailgate at Happy Valley this weekend. Three more home games and then put her away for a couple months before going to Florida in February for a couple weeks. Having issues getting the wife's car on the new tow dolly. Will work on ramps this week.

Took mine to get inspected, filled it up getting ready for an upcoming trip

Hhg

Removed the window behind the couch. Have several fogged up thermopane windows. Tomorrow I'll tear it apart, clean and reseal it. Did the passenger seat window last week. This one will be a little easier. It's a slider and only the sliding half has fogged up.

BigRabbitMan wrote:

Trackrig wrote:
To Toomoxy concerning the Bauer eletronic door lock.

In your posting on 10/24/13 you offered to send people a video of the lock. I tried to PM you, but your setup won't accept a PM. Please send me the video when you have time.

trackrig@gmail.com

Thanks,

Bill

See thise videos Electric lock videos

Sent you the video… but here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GfY_cNG7Lg

Put the cover on for a long winter's sleep. :( On the bright side, started shopping for some new ski boots. :B

Lou
05 Travel Supreme Envoy

Over the weekend I had to perform a major service on our coach before putting her to bed for the next couple of months. My wife loves fall but I have come to hate it because it means the end of our RVing season for a few months. COME ON SPRING!!!!

Anyway, I changed the oil, oil filter, coolant filter, primary and secondary fuel filters along with both the serpentine belt and the A/C v-belt. I noticed that the serpentine belt tenstioner pulley sounded a bit dry so I replaced the tensioner. I am 100% sold on the Roadmaster S-Series chassis but I think they could have done a better job on the assembly line routing air lines. Over the past 6 years now of owning this coach I have re-routed and repaired multiple air lines going to air bags. I thought I had taken care of all of them a few years ago when I decided to look at ALL of them after repairing /replacing about the third one. I was wrong. They had routed the air lines for the two rearmost airbags on the front suspension right behind the shock. This not only pinched the air lines but they were ran around sharp edges of steel brackets. I decided to remove the shock and re-route them behind with some frame clamps to support the lines. I also greased all of the steering components along with the brake slack adjusters, s-cams and driveshaft slip joint/u-joints. I then serviced the wet hubs on the steer and tag axles.

While I was changing the oil I decided to add a Fumoto drain valve as they are much easier for draining oil. I installed one on out last coach but for some reason never got around to adding one on our Dynasty.

Here is the Fumoto valve after receiving it the other day.


Fumoto valve installed in the Cummins ISL oil pan after draining all 28 qts. of oil.


Oil filter and coolant filter replaced.


This is where I cannot for the life of me figure out why Roadmaster decided to mount the air dryer. It is just inside the left framerail slightly behind the left tag axle tire/wheel. I have found it much easier to service this desiccant cartridge by removing the tag axle tire/wheel on the left side and removing two of the bolts fastening the drier to the frame, swinging the assembly downward slightly, replacing the cartidge and then pivoting it back into place and resecuring it. When I say easy what I meas is less of a PITA, it is still far from easy. This alone took almost two hours to complete.

View of the air dryer from under the coach.


View with tire/wheel removed and the two top bolts removed allowing the dryer to pivot down slightly.



Cartidge removed. Be certain to clean the seating surface very good to prevent air leaks and also replace the o-ring with the new one supplied with the new desiccant cartidge.


New cartidge installed and the air dryer bolted back into its original position.


Torquing the tag wheel/tire back on. Torque is @ 475 ft/lbs.


New belt tensioner with new serpentine belt. I replaced the belts when we first purchased the coach back in 2007 but I thought it was time to replace them again. We have only put 40k miles in it in the past six seasons but I would much rather change these at home vs. on the side of the road.


New belts installed.
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Belt tension set to spec for the A/C v-belt.


Toolcart. Holy cow it is amazing how many tools you can drag out for a simple job like replacing belts.