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93 Vectra, 107,000 miles, Cummins 5.9
Traveling on interstate, got light wiffs of diesel fuel, decided that noone was close enough for us to smell their fuel, pulled onto ramp east end or Yuma to do a walk around, got to the back & had fuel spraying onto pavement, ran for the ignition key.
Opened the engine compartment, had wet fuel everywhere (luckly not on the exaust manifold), cranked the engine & got the fuel spray from the side of the secondary fuel filter. The almost new filted had developed a 1/2 inch split in the side of the filter. Used toad to find a NAPA store, I had the filter receipt for a change, they replaced filter as warantee & allowed me to return to their store & hose off coach compartment & toad.
An earler problem was engine overheating: I ended up with a recored oversized radiator & the experience of removing the radiator, after cooler, transmission cooler package four times. I also had an auxilary radiator fabricated & sized to fit behind the front grill along with the airconditioning condenser. I connected the auxiliary radiator to the heater hose with an inline heater hose valve that can be opened from the cockpit. When I put water through the auxiliary radiator the engine temp. will drop 15 degrees within seconds. The front radiator is getting fresh air plus I wired the front airconditioning fans so that I can turn them on if more air is needed.
I did all of the labor & designing myself. I can now have my radiator/cooler assembly out of my coach in 4 hours. The dollar cost to me was $530. The low cost was because the radiator shop made mistakes that forced me to do 3 of the four removals. The local RV dealer wanted $875 to just R&R the radiator without any repairs.
Traveling on interstate, got light wiffs of diesel fuel, decided that noone was close enough for us to smell their fuel, pulled onto ramp east end or Yuma to do a walk around, got to the back & had fuel spraying onto pavement, ran for the ignition key.
Opened the engine compartment, had wet fuel everywhere (luckly not on the exaust manifold), cranked the engine & got the fuel spray from the side of the secondary fuel filter. The almost new filted had developed a 1/2 inch split in the side of the filter. Used toad to find a NAPA store, I had the filter receipt for a change, they replaced filter as warantee & allowed me to return to their store & hose off coach compartment & toad.
An earler problem was engine overheating: I ended up with a recored oversized radiator & the experience of removing the radiator, after cooler, transmission cooler package four times. I also had an auxilary radiator fabricated & sized to fit behind the front grill along with the airconditioning condenser. I connected the auxiliary radiator to the heater hose with an inline heater hose valve that can be opened from the cockpit. When I put water through the auxiliary radiator the engine temp. will drop 15 degrees within seconds. The front radiator is getting fresh air plus I wired the front airconditioning fans so that I can turn them on if more air is needed.
I did all of the labor & designing myself. I can now have my radiator/cooler assembly out of my coach in 4 hours. The dollar cost to me was $530. The low cost was because the radiator shop made mistakes that forced me to do 3 of the four removals. The local RV dealer wanted $875 to just R&R the radiator without any repairs.
