What Did You Do To Your Class B Today ?

Drove my van to work all of last week. It did great and a good conversation piece with my co-workers.

We replaced the black tank valve because it was leaking. Oh man - what a job! :E

I had replaced the gray tank valve on our trailer a couple years ago - that was a total piece of cake compared to this...

Washed and waxed it. Must say it still looks like new. :)

We're in the middle of our fall trip season - got it a little messy when it rained on our way to MD. Gotta start the next trip with a clean buggy!

I had to charge the battery, it had set for a week with no action so I charged it up and got it ready to go camping.

Beautiful day here and it's been 9 weeks since we last took out our coach, so we gave it a run to the east end of the island and exercised the generator. The good news is that after having a check engine EGR code reset it did not return. While we were out we put a tarp on the floor and used the van to pick up a peach and apple tree for the garden. I also did a recall task by adding extra brackets to the floor of the cabinet over the cab.

Dave

Discovered on our last trip that the overhead cabinet doors have screws that go all the way through. The way they were discovered was we decided to roll a days worth of clothes up and stuff a weeks worth in the overheads so we could just pull out everything to get dressed in the morning. I think the first day my shirt got snagged on a screw. Got through the rest of the week with no more rips by being extra careful. The idea worked well accept for the exposed sharp pointed obstacles. So now I have thin strips of wood above each cabinet to use up the extra screw length. Can't imagine why I never noticed the screws before.

Second project was a dripping Shurflow faucet when running. Didn't look repairable so was planning to replace. In doing a search online I found that Shurflow has a online chat service for repairs. After I posted the model number and that it was leaking at one of the joints and wondered if it was repairable, they asked a bunch of dumb questions like when did I service the hoses and what RV I had, I finally got forwarded to someone to answer my question as soon as I gave them my credit card number, I left. Found a comment in one of the reviews of the product that there was an o-ring in the joint that was leaking that you could get to by pulling harder. Figured worse case it would break and I would have to replace it. Came apart and I found replacement o-rings at Lowe's 10 for $2.50 that with a little silicon grease fixed the drip. Maybe just the grease would have fixed it.

The rest of my B projects for now are longer term but I hope to get to before our next long trip but are only niceties, not priorities.

Can’t beat a “MacGyver” fix. :b

Dave

Shake down went wonderful. Everything in '11' worked great....there was one problem on the way home it,rained and the drivers side windshield wiper worked fine going up but when going down the wiper blade would jump and not wipe the rain off. After getting home we discovered the arm was bent just enough to cause the blade to jump and not wipe the rain off. A couple Cresent wrenches is all it took to bend the wiper arm back to where it was supposed to be and now just waiting for the next rain shower.

We are getting our New to US Roadtrek ready for a shake down 3 day camp out to make sure everything works so when we head to RI, MA, NH, ME and some of VT trip. This will be our first trip in a 22 foot MH. Wife says it drives like a Pick-up.

Taking a ride and adding biocide and a gallon of fuel to wash it down before finally parking in my new barn I noticed the check engine light came on. Took the coach to my local guy and he read a stuck EGR. He reset it and I made it home without a recurrence. If it happens on the next 6 week exercise trip I’ll have him fix it but hopefully it won’t happen until I get near my Mercedes dealer in Florida next winter where I can get warranty service!

Dave