What was your best DIY road side repair?
Here is mine. While traveling at night my alternator belt blew. I was able to get off the highway and into a parking lot. I don't have a toad and there was nothing around me that I could walk to....
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RLS7201 wrote:
While in Phoenix traffic I smelled hypoid rear end grease. The next morning, while in the campground, I pulled the RR hub and replaced the hub seal. O'reilly had the seal and the special socket to remove the hub nuts. Had to scrounge up two 5 gallon buckets. One to sit on and one to rotate the hub and rotor on to. The bucket caught all the grease.
Why all the talk about buying a battery charger when the alternator or belt fails on a MH? The Generator/converter will charge the chassis battery when the engine is running. Think about it. When the engine is running the isolator relay is engaged.
Richard
My MH was a 1993 Damon and the gen set did NOT charge any of the batteries. True story. From the day I got it, it never charged the house batteries or the chassis battery. That is the reason I had a 50 amp charger with me. Whenever I ran the gen set I would hook it up to the house batteries and charge them up. Because this was my first ever MH I did not know that this was abnormal. I thought every MH had the same issue of not charging when the gen set ran. Looking back I am not proud to say that I did not know but I am honest when I say it.
