What did you do to your Class A MH today???
This is always a fun thread to watch, so I thought I would start one here.
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Funny Story: Follow up to my "Low Coolant" light sensor repair.
I was working on the surge tank for the coolant. I found a sensor with 3 wires on 1 terminal and 1 on the other. Called Spartan Chassis and ordered a new one. It came yesterday. It had a different plug-in connector. Contacted Spartan again (they are very nice to work with) after a lot of searching for the orginal diagrams of my coach and head scracthing about why there would be 3 wires, they made me up a pig tail connector because it appeared my wiring had changed from the orginal by the previous owner.
I made some jumper wires to test the new sensor while I was waiting for the wiring harness to be shipped. No joy, the light stayed on and I thought, "this isn't good, it's not the sensor, I must have a problem with the wiring." When your coach is 40 ft long it is no easy task to trace down wiring connections.
Then I decided to call the previous owner (should have done this first)- he said that he remembers there was a plug in the tank - he had put this sensor in. It was for an extra fan he installed to keep the engine cool. I said, "Oh! (light bulb comes on .) I am working on the wrong sensor!" Went back to the coach and looked. Sure enough, hidden behind a divider bar on the right side of the same tank was the correct sensor. Had I not called him I would have been off tracking down a wiring connection problem thatn didn't exist. He saved me a ton of work and frustration!
Moral: It is very easy to get off on a tangent when working on these things. I am glad I can laugh about it later. The day I can't will be the day I sell the MH!
I was working on the surge tank for the coolant. I found a sensor with 3 wires on 1 terminal and 1 on the other. Called Spartan Chassis and ordered a new one. It came yesterday. It had a different plug-in connector. Contacted Spartan again (they are very nice to work with) after a lot of searching for the orginal diagrams of my coach and head scracthing about why there would be 3 wires, they made me up a pig tail connector because it appeared my wiring had changed from the orginal by the previous owner.
I made some jumper wires to test the new sensor while I was waiting for the wiring harness to be shipped. No joy, the light stayed on and I thought, "this isn't good, it's not the sensor, I must have a problem with the wiring." When your coach is 40 ft long it is no easy task to trace down wiring connections.
Then I decided to call the previous owner (should have done this first)- he said that he remembers there was a plug in the tank - he had put this sensor in. It was for an extra fan he installed to keep the engine cool. I said, "Oh! (light bulb comes on .) I am working on the wrong sensor!" Went back to the coach and looked. Sure enough, hidden behind a divider bar on the right side of the same tank was the correct sensor. Had I not called him I would have been off tracking down a wiring connection problem thatn didn't exist. He saved me a ton of work and frustration!
Moral: It is very easy to get off on a tangent when working on these things. I am glad I can laugh about it later. The day I can't will be the day I sell the MH!
