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

After plowing 6" of snow off the driveway I installed a new starter on the engine. The plan is to head to FL next week. Yesterday the roads were all cleaned up from the snow on the weekend. Decided to go fuel it up, park it close to the garage doors so we could start loading up things that won't freeze. No, start, just a click. It's a brand new, 1 week old, 1000 CA, 800 CCA battery and the volt gauge dropped down to 9 when trying to start. Hit the AUX start switch to jump the house batteries over, same thing. Put in another fully charged battery, same thing.

So I pulled the starter yesterday, got a new one and put it in today. Started right up. So if there are no major snow storms next week we're back on track. Over 70" of snow here this winter and no warm days to melt it. I'm more than ready to get out here.

aboeck3 wrote:
Started "re-stocking" new coach. starting fromscratch putting everything in the right place (at least once). Planning next trip

Unless DW was in charge of stowage, everything will NOT be in the right place! :B

New faucet in the kitchen. Removing the old Moen was the hardest part. Took about an hour. Installing the new Delta took about 15 minutes.

Started "re-stocking" new coach. starting fromscratch putting everything in the right place (at least once). Planning next trip

FIRE UP wrote:
Well gents,
I just completed another project. My basement A/C unit was making one heck of a racket while running. It's been getting a tad worse as time went on. We have an '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the C-7 330HP CAT and, the basement A/Cs in those Winnies and Itascas have been know for this issue. What I did was remove the A/C unit, set it on some saw horses, alongside the coach and then, remove the top of the unit to find that, on the outside fan, (a squirlcage unit) they used a bronze bushing instead of a bearing.

Well, a trip to Graingers remedied that with a new, Pillow block sealed bearing. Much quieter now. While I had that A/C unit out, I gained access to some very important electrical components. As you'll see in the pics, they were in quite sad shape. What I found out was, they all had to do with the starting system of that CAT. And, they're impossible to get at, with that A/C unit, mounted in its cubby hole.

So, I took that whole system apart, cleaned all the cable ends and installed a new:

135 amp, automatic reset, circuit breaker
250 amp, Bussman, fuse holder
Remote start, solenoid/coil.

The big beast started pretty good before this work but, it spins over considerable better now. And, you'll see why in the pics. So, my point here is, if any of you have a similar situation, do get in there and take a look and see what kind of condition your system is in. It is impossible, on that coach, (and possibly many more of the same vintage, make and model) to do any service on that system, with the A/C unit in place.
Scott

Nice work. We had to pull ours last year to replace a compressor while in Mexico last year. NOT an easy job on the '02 32' Itasca with the Cummins.

Well gents,
I just completed another project. My basement A/C unit was making one heck of a racket while running. It's been getting a tad worse as time went on. We have an '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the C-7 330HP CAT and, the basement A/Cs in those Winnies and Itascas have been know for this issue. What I did was remove the A/C unit, set it on some saw horses, alongside the coach and then, remove the top of the unit to find that, on the outside fan, (a squirlcage unit) they used a bronze bushing instead of a bearing.

Well, a trip to Graingers remedied that with a new, Pillow block sealed bearing. Much quieter now. While I had that A/C unit out, I gained access to some very important electrical components. As you'll see in the pics, they were in quite sad shape. What I found out was, they all had to do with the starting system of that CAT. And, they're impossible to get at, with that A/C unit, mounted in its cubby hole.

So, I took that whole system apart, cleaned all the cable ends and installed a new:

135 amp, automatic reset, circuit breaker
250 amp, Bussman, fuse holder
Remote start, solenoid/coil.

The big beast started pretty good before this work but, it spins over considerable better now. And, you'll see why in the pics. So, my point here is, if any of you have a similar situation, do get in there and take a look and see what kind of condition your system is in. It is impossible, on that coach, (and possibly many more of the same vintage, make and model) to do any service on that system, with the A/C unit in place.
Scott

Trap wrote:
Washed and polished one wheel, will try and do one more today. Polishing Aluminum rims is not something I want to get done in one day. At this rate it will take me most of next week to get done;)

Trap,
Polishing rims IS a pain and, an art. I've been polishing aluminum since I was a pup. Yep, it does take time. I've done mine "On and off" the coach. It does make it considerable easier to do them off the coach but, getting them off, handling them, and re-installing them, without proper equipment, tools etc. is also a pain. But, in the end, you have nice looking wheels. Good luck.
Scott

Just finished repairing our Kwikee steps, (I accidently let the MH down on them too many times:S) and broke the side of the step right at the rivet. So instead of buying a new one I opted to weld the old one up, (Allen at Ziffel Welding in Valley Springs, Ca.)does nice work. In march we are gonna make the east coast run so I'm trying to get my ducks in a row. The weld job saved us over 300. bucks, of course I had to take it off, get it fixed and reinstall it. Not to hard a job.
Last year we woke up one morning with the coach leaning to the front right. Called the Mechanic and he changed out the right side height adjuster while I watched. Now the left side is hissing so I bought one that I will be changing out as soon as I move the coach and yeah I won't forget to block it up, (I'm skinny enough :B) -Rob

Finally going to register her today! at DMV!

I changed the fuel filter yesterday and ordered a new Racor ECO air filter. Need to also crawl under the coach and lube the U Joints and slip spline.